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A critical post about cohost's problems(blog.basementcommunity.com)
5 points by partly_cloudy 2y ago|0 comments
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Everything I personally do when hosting a website on a new server(blog.basementcommunity.com)
4 points by partly_cloudy 2y ago|1 comments
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by partly_cloudy 2y ago
> But what if you want to learn the basics of renting a virtual private server (VPS), spinning it up, and configuring it to run your website? Is learning the nitty-gritty of server setup obsolete these days? Maybe, but it's fun! So
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The most overlooked web accessibility issues(blog.basementcommunity.com)
2 points by partly_cloudy 3y ago|0 comments
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Password fields with max character counts(blog.basementcommunity.com)
1 points by partly_cloudy 3y ago|3 comments
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by partly_cloudy 3y ago
that's really interesting to hear. so you're saying people got fatigued once "Web 2.0" was becoming a thing? (not that Web 2.0 started with social media, but I think it blew up in the early 2000s at least).
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The internet is (a little) boring(blog.basementcommunity.com)
3 points by partly_cloudy 3y ago|5 comments
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by partly_cloudy 3y ago
"I think there seems to be a weird phenomenon going on right now, where a new online subculture is popping up, full of people who are burnt out on today's Internet and looking for ways to purge themselves of their online accounts,
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Nothing is more freeing than working on something that's yours(basementcommunity.bearblog.dev)
2 points by partly_cloudy 3y ago|0 comments
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by partly_cloudy 3y ago
it's a nod to https://somethingawful.com , which always put the people who were banned or put on timeout in a public list https://forums.somethingawful.com/banlist.php
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Show HN: basement community, an early-web inspired forum, 6 months later(basementcommunity.com)
6 points by partly_cloudy 3y ago|2 comments
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3 things you should stop doing when server-side rendering UI libs like React(basementcommunity.bearblog.dev)
1 points by partly_cloudy 3y ago|0 comments
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
"95% of the time I can just use the ORM to make simple queries in a easy to maintain way for your application. For the 5% of queries that are either complex or can't be easily represented via your ORM of choice, declare the expect
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
i am not! right now, i'm mostly just using it for performance monioring - how many MS are my queries taking and how long are my first-contentful paints on the front-end also for errors from the BE and FE
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
the denylist on the site is actually pretty quite simple. for now, it's just a list of chunks of words and the form validation will just compare the username against that list, where each chunk in the list if used as a regexp
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
who you callin old man i'm still in my 20s!
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
hey i'm the author of this site! going through comments now, but looks like i still need some work to do because all this traffic caused some slowdown :(. Looks like adding a caching layer is next.
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
hey sorry about that - you should be approved now and i went ahead and added a message for un-approved users so they'll know before they make a post
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
hey sorry about that - you should be approved now and i went ahead and added a message for un-approved users so they'll know before they make a post
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
hey i'd love to know more if you wouldn't mind helping! where exactly in the world are you located and in what ways are you seeing poor performance?
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
ok man
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
yeah he just had some stupid racist username
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
he had a racist ass username so i changed it
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
haha oh totallllyyy. i started writing the backend back in february of last year and i just had issue after issue, but overall super fun to solve the problems i'm also curious how you got into making a product around it
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
yep you need to be manually approved for now! you should be good to post now but let me know if you're still locked out
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
i just deployed a "account_enabled" feature so i'll manually approve new accounts coming in to post, but in the meantime you can make your account again
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
so annoying -_-
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
yeah looks like the lag got a little bad the past couple hours because i wasn't ready for the traffic. i'm going to looking into upgrading the hardware tonight. i was not ready for this HN post doing as well as it did.
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
thanks! yeah it's definitely not COMPLETELY true-to-form because i still do think a lot of modern design works for a reason, but i appreciate the words!
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by partly_cloudy 4y ago
sorry man. this guy won't leave the site alone and keeps posting really racist shit despite me continuing to block his IP addresses over and over.

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