Re:On Bushido, launch apps from github repos
by jerome_etienne on Sunday April 03, 2011 @12:16PM
(#2403046)
if so, maybe you can cache the 'top apps', thus people can see what is it about ?
Hi I'm working with sgrove on the project. We had considered an app cacheing or reuse approach for dealing with this influx of traffic, however we wanted every one to have a fresh install experience.
We very well could have directed you to an existing unclaimed install of a popular app and saved the resources of spinning up another. We felt that this could be messy as you might end up on an app that somebody had polluted with test/demo data and settings.
We cache dependencies for popular apps.
Re:On Bushido, launch apps from github repos
by jerome_etienne on Sunday April 03, 2011 @12:45PM
(#2403139)
i understand your goal. but realize that current experience is "frozen at 8%"... not a super first impression either.
just suggesting to improve the hn post consequences
Yes, I put in some rate limiting for the launchers, and it appears to have gotten backed up a bit. I'll see what I can do, but we're in a private beta right now, so I'm more inclined to work on the stuff our regular users are bringing up and worry about hn-scale later :)
That said, shoot me an email, [email protected], and I'll get you into the beta if you'd like, with access to the docs. Though honestly, so far the main support method has been through chat/im/email/skype with me or my cofounder, and we generally take notes from those conversations and turn that into docs.