Saidit is now the second-largest reddit alternative in the world after voat

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[–]go1dfish 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Oh wow so you've changed quite a bit about the backend then.

There is no python code at all, backend is totally new from scratch with only the HTML/CSS from reddit used.

My host provides DDOS protection but I still run cloudflare in front mostly for convenience.

Cloudflare's cacheing is active somewhat on the data requests I mentioned earlier as well. https://nab.cx doesn't use server side rendering, even if both my vm's go down it will still be readable (it's hosted entirely on openstack-swift)

Cloudflare is definitely a tradeoff and something the users of notabug are often critical of. It's been worth it in my case as well but I can certainly understand the criticisms of it.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Wow impressive about the backend. How many man-hours do you think it took you to get the new backend working?

[–]go1dfish 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

First version I got running in a week maybe 20 hours, but have been doing 10 hours or so a week on it in the year since.

Still not very feature complete, but making progress

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Impressive.