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1. pinkmu+Hc[view] [source] 2026-02-02 02:06:23
>>rebane+(OP)
Please fix the loading issue and I’ll return! I think you don’t need to pull all the data at initialization, you could lazily grab a couple from each category and just keep doing it as people scroll.
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2. rebane+Fg[view] [source] 2026-02-02 02:48:22
>>pinkmu+Hc
The loading issue is just a hug of death, the site's currently getting multiple visitors per second, and that requires more than a gigabit of bandwidth to handle.

I sort of need to pull all the data at the initialization because I need to map out how every post affects every other - the links between posts are what take up majority of the storage, not the text inside the posts. It's also kind of the only way to preserve privacy.

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3. goodmy+th[view] [source] 2026-02-02 02:55:41
>>rebane+Fg
I feel very strongly that you should be able to serve hundreds or thousands of requests at gbps speeds.

Why are you serving so much data personally instead of just reformatting theirs?

Even if you're serving it locally...I mean a regular 100mbit line should easily support tens or hundreds of text users...

What am I missing?

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4. rebane+Xh[view] [source] 2026-02-02 03:01:31
>>goodmy+th
> Why are you serving so much data personally instead of just reformatting theirs?

Because then you only need to download 40MB of data and do minimal processing. If you were to take the dumps off of Wikimedia, you would need to download 400MB of data and do processing on that data that would take minutes of time.

And also it's kind of rude to hotlink a half a gig of data on someone else's site.

> What am I missing?

40MB per second is 320mbps, so even 3 visitors per second maxes out a gigabit connection.

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5. lazide+3j[view] [source] 2026-02-02 03:09:47
>>rebane+Xh
Why not…. Load it on demand?
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6. goodmy+pj[view] [source] 2026-02-02 03:13:22
>>lazide+3j
That's my point. So confused. Got a ton of users clicking off because of this.
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7. fgfarb+Fr[view] [source] 2026-02-02 04:47:53
>>goodmy+pj
The point you're missing is that this website is actually a submarine ad for the domain, xikipedia.org, which the owner is probably trying to sell.
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8. rebane+Ks[view] [source] 2026-02-02 04:57:42
>>fgfarb+Fr
That's a very silly claim considering I bought the domain the same day I released the project. I'm sure whoever would've been interested in buying the domain could've already swept it up for 10 bucks before me.
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9. stavro+GZ[view] [source] 2026-02-02 11:01:16
>>rebane+Ks
It's blocked for me :( I think it must have been a typosquatted domain before.
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