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That's the hard part about tools like this. They're too simple to be used for anything important, and as soon as the creator follows that path you end up in a s
by gkoberger 3mo ago
That's the hard part about tools like this. They're too simple to be used for anything important, and as soon as the creator follows that path you end up in a situation where it's too simple for anything complex and too complex for anything simple.
Amazing platforms like Glitch ran into this problem.
(Some did pull it off! Like how Vercel built a kingdom out of `now`.)
- bodhi_mind 3mo agoSolvable with reasonable defaults and putting most things behind an advanced section?
- micromacrofoot 3mo agono, it's just not solvable... you can only mitigate anything hosted free will inevitably be abused by scammers, you need constant vigilance just to stay a step ahead
- TimTheTinker 3mo ago> it's just not solvable Watch out, good hackers find those words incredibly motivating.
- micromacrofoot 3mo agoeven bad hackers know it's true
- bubblebeard 3mo agoThe more complex the more fragile. The simpler the solution the more robust. This, I feel, is an overall truth to software development. And simpler solutions, as far as I know, are usually the more useful ones.
- gkoberger 3mo agoNot necessarily! Linux is incredibly complex. AWS is incredibly complex. Next is incredibly complex. GitHub is incredibly complex. We need simple tools and we need complex tools. It's the middle ground that's hard to navigate.
- malfist 3mo agoWhen we're lucky, that complexity is mostly locked behind abstraction and you only occasionally have to care. Of course those you usually discover at 3AM on a Saturday
- NamlchakKhandro 3mo agoRepost with simplified English please
- abustamam 2mo ago> GitHub is incredibly complex I'm reading this a day after GitHub had a day-long outage on Actions. https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime/br0l2tvcx85d https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime/br0l2tvcx85d
- k3liutZu 3mo agoThere's complex and complicated. I think we can have complex things, but they can be simple (to use, to understand, to manage). But it is really hard to make a complex thing simple. The straightforward way is to make it complicated, and most items remain that way.