While that would save you disk space, I think you'd end up more than making it up in bandwidth and CPU utilization. Every time someone visited the page the server would run to reddit and grab the posts you're looking at, then serve them to the user. Very quickly, a few terabytes of storage would become cheap compared to the bill you'd rack up doing all that extra processing to add some posts.
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iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years agoReasonable I think. Right now its still a small site.
That approach would start getting expensive if wolfballs became really big, and you'd have to pull and host TBs of data. But by that point, you'd probably also have a revenue plan to make the $$
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I was thinking that the code of the wolfballs.com itself would instruct the user's browser to fetch the content from Reddit, i.e. the bandwidth and compute come from the end user's browser, not from a central server.
It would be a very cheap and efficient way to mirror huge amounts of content from all public websites, like Reddit, Wikipedia, Youtube, Twitter.
Only Facebook can't be mirrored like this, because they gatekeep their content from anonymous internet - you need a Fbook account to see what's there.
Using my suggested method, you would have a minimal server usage, only to get any comments/votes that wolfball users have posted on the synced content.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
It would be a small amount if data. 99% of reddit is garbage. Its only the top post on specific sub's that would matter.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Aahhhh. Very clever my friend. Yeah, that would work for most subs like sports, movies etc
The subs I was mainly a member of where Coding subs. There, the reader would want access to all the posts not just the top ones, because almost all posts had some code snippets or techniques explained.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Honestly discord is pretty good for coding questions if stack over flow doesn't already have the answer. Stack over flow is the worst possible place to ask a question but it's not bad to read answers.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
yes for standard coding questions
Reddit hosts the cool stuff like experiments, demos, e.g. indie metaverse projects, DIY stuff, drones etc. Even though I am banned from Reddit, I still keep a feed from those subs. They are quite innovative
The only comparable place to find experimental things like this would be github.... which is now owned by Pedo Gates' Microsucks