rtheunissen

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by rtheunissen 11y ago
The company? I don't think they mind, as long as you're following their API rules [1], which I am. The community? Surprisingly disinterested. Not sure if I did something wrong. I thought they'd love it, but only got 2 points
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by rtheunissen 11y ago
Given the small amount of people that would use it (relative to the entire userbase), I don't think it would ever be on their roadmap. It would take many developer hours and constant maintenance, which wouldn't be worth it for the
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by rtheunissen 11y ago
> maybe you want to add some documentation/links to the proper Api documentation That's an excellent idea, added in http://git.io/vOOKi . > how to get a comments url A comment permalink is a strange combinati
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by rtheunissen 11y ago
You can still make full use of this. All you need is basic websocket support. The node client [1] is small, so wouldn't take long to port to Python or Go. [1] http://git.io/vOOZo
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How might they achieve that?
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by rtheunissen 11y ago
Yeah, Ken is very talented. I'll extend your appreciation.
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by rtheunissen 11y ago
That's a very cool idea. An unintended side-effect of rockets could be that it reduces the load on reddit's server. My theory is that there are N bots that rely on monitoring new content, and they're all polling for the sam
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by rtheunissen 11y ago
Yup, every second. There's roughly ~30 models created per second on average.
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by rtheunissen 11y ago
It's not against the rules of reddit, and the allowed request rate is enough to grab everything even during busy periods. You're right that it relies on a central service that's polling reddit. I've done all I can to mak
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Show HN: Rockets – Reddit and websockets(github.com)
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