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Oh it needs a total boings by everyone counter!

by jonplackett 11mo ago

dmje 11mo ago
Total boing heatmap!
- gregsadetsky 11mo ago
  I considered it for a minute, but then I remembered https://xkcd.com/1138/ https://xkcd.com/1138/ .. ha. but let me know if you have other thoughts about this
  - dmje 11mo ago
    ha :-)
  - apgwoz 11mo ago
    Heatmap based on coordinates of the start of the boing!
    - gregsadetsky 11mo ago
      ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh wow I'm dumb. working on it EDIT: done! deploying. wow ok that was a really good idea.
      - dmje 11mo ago
        amazing <3
gregsadetsky 11mo ago
alright, I implemented a world boing counter :-) thanks for the great idea
- doubleorseven 11mo ago
  maybe also de-boing the boining now that it's calling the server. i think the js script pasted here will show you it's needed
  - gregsadetsky 11mo ago
    there's rate limiting so the script posted in this thread actually mostly hits 429s :-) but yeah, great pointer
- kentiko 11mo ago
  Nice, could you share how you implemented it?
  - gregsadetsky 11mo ago
    Flask + SQLite in WAL mode. In-memory ip address rate limiting. Hosted and deployed on a ~$20 EC2 server using the open source tool I've been working on, https://disco.cloud/ https://disco.cloud/ We were at ~120 requests/second earlier and it took it on, no sweat.
    - jonplackett 11mo ago
      May be worth sending your boings in batches!
- jonplackett 11mo ago
  Amazing! The numbers are insane already! What is the average boing per user?
  - gregsadetsky 11mo ago
    Ooh, great question! I don’t record IPs so can’t say unfortunately.
  - efilife 11mo ago