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Why would you want open source for this? Do you want to spend the time to deploy your own instance just to have the exact same result?
by nickwoodhams 14y ago
Why would you want open source for this? Do you want to spend the time to deploy your own instance just to have the exact same result?
- sp332 14y agoTo learn from it; so that more than one person can work on improving it; just in case I don't trust the submitter to serve code to my visitors.
- nickwoodhams 14y agoYeah, that makes sense. What would give you the confidence necessary to have someone else/Nathan Cahill host the server?
- muellerwolfram 14y agoyes i would. to implement the whole thing, instead of only this little jquery snippet shouldn't take much longer. but then i'm not dependent on someone elses server being up/fast.
- nickwoodhams 14y agoThat makes sense. Maybe it will go open source in the future. It doesn't look like Nathan has a revenue model for this so he may be open to that.
- gcmartinelli 14y agoIf everyone could implement their own scrapper they would be able to follow robots.txt guidelines/limits, but HN servers might take a big blow it it gets popular.
- muellerwolfram 14y agoto counter myself... i've recently seen a couple of blogs move to github pages, where something like this would be quite handy
- progrock 14y agoYou'd hope it was optimally done client side, and then hosting would be moot.