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Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021) by tshaddox on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @08:04PM (#30094602)
I agree that Ars Technica seems like a very CDN-friendly workload. I'm curious what those features were that you couldn't ship because of the CDN. It's gotta just be ads, right?
Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021) by mrkurt on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @08:26PM (#30094848)
No, the opposite actually. When the ad market fell apart we launched a paid subscriber program. It immediately turned us into an app that cared about a smaller number of high value users. Almost everything we wanted to add was for those folks - personalization and collaboration features, mostly.

Ads have never been fun to build around.