Re:My First Impressions of Web3
by clippablematt on Saturday January 08, 2022 @07:00AM
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It requires a change in mindset from “efficiency first” to “robust first”.
That’s a tough learning curve for trad web devs, the best web3 dev I know comes from aerospace engineering where resilience and redundancy are part of the process.
But ultimately succeeding in making something that can live in the sometimes hostile environment on chain means you make something that can last and is reliable. There can be awkward UX issues with that though.
Relying on stable gas fees won’t work because the network has to have a priority list when it’s busy, so those willing to pay more will be prioritised and you’ll be stuck. If you want to inherit the properties of the chain that are why you would build on it in the first place then you have to work to those constraints.
In conventional web wasn't the same war fought as 'net neutrality' ?
All packets are equal.
Pardon me if I am wrong, I don't understand web3 or crypto much but what you describe looks like a capitalist version of Internet where processing of every request depends on one's ability to pay. If this is the future, history has already taught us that it is bound to fail.
Re:My First Impressions of Web3
by mattwilsonn888 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @01:25PM
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Strong claim and no evidence.
Re:My First Impressions of Web3
by sovietmudkipz on Saturday January 08, 2022 @12:21AM
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Wow. I was thinking about making a game and saving player state in a similar way to what caused the gas prices to spike for everyone. I'm floored by the ramifications. My stomach feels very queasy with OP's article, and now yours.
I’m actively building multichain NFT marketplace https://RareGems.io — your domain name resonates well :)
I tried to document some of the challenges here:
https://chriszhu12.medium.com/the-challenges-of-building-on-...
But basically: I built an app that relied on mostly stable gas fees. A single app on polygon spiked the fees over 10x in the past few days, and so large swaths of it have to be rebuilt.
The promise of web3 was software that was not controlled by any centralized company. But it seems like any new project sharing a chain can effectively DDoS what you've built.
This is effectively an anti-network effect. Inevitably, you'd have to start centralizing part of your application to avoid gas fees altogether to hedge this risk.