Jeff Atwood on growing Discourse

Re:Jeff Atwood on growing Discourse by mnutt on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @11:16PM (#14252743)

War and Peace in HTML on Gutenberg is 12,000 paragraph tags, which is a lot but it's very easy to find forum threads with more than 12,000 posts. And each post is more than a paragraph tag, it's probably more like a dozen: the author name, an icon, the date, controls, etc.

Even Chrome on my i7 doesn't instantly respond when loading those Gutenburg URLs.

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Re:Jeff Atwood on growing Discourse by infogulch on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @09:54AM (#14255615)

The linked book is 3.9 MB. That you would have to reload every time a new post was appended to the end. This is a terrible counterexample.

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Re:Jeff Atwood on growing Discourse by mnutt on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @12:23PM (#14257227)

I'm not sure I understand the connection? My argument was that War and Peace sounds like an incredibly big thing to load because it took people a long time to read it in high school, but it's actually pretty simple, structure-wise, when compared to a discussion forum.

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Re:Jeff Atwood on growing Discourse by infogulch on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @12:27PM (#14257285)

I may have replied to the wrong parent. We are in agreement. :)

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