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😀 Tom Uh oh. Someone is giving a run for his money. Hey.Cafe is trending on HN. Some interesting ideas including paying to unlock a longer status.
🏒 Lucian Marin Reminds me of the mistake I made when I renamed Sublevel to Sub.Cafe. Paying for a premium domain isn't ideal. Also, scaling is an issue for media rich sites.
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😀 Tom , did you let sublevel.net expire? It no longer redirects.
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🏒 Lucian Marin Yes. Change your bookmarks.
😀 Tom Darn gravity. Why did Isaac Newton have to invent it and ruin it for the rest of us?
🏒 Lucian Marin Then we wouldn't have "sublevel".
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Seth Kontny Hello sublevel smk\
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Seb Tiying up my social networks, trying to disappear from the internet, I came across this site. I last posted here years ago, nice to see it's stil here!
Burensasub Welcome back! This used to be known as Sublevel and then shut down for a while. It was brought back as Sublevel several months ago (I think it's been that long I'm losing track of time, lol)
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đŸĸ Xia How can this site (sublevel) be so fast. I mean < 50ms even for the 45 threads view? Just wow! Would love to see a technical write-up, stack, DB structure, caching etc. I really find the speed very impressive
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🤔 David In a previous post he stated that it runs using Falcon and some WSGI (I'm guessing uWSGI -> edit: nope, gunicorn) on a high-compute Vultr instance. Link for reference: subreply.com/lucia...
🏒 Lucian Marin There's no caching layer because it will hide slowdowns. Once you don't have that you tend to focus on performance at all layers of the stack from template rendering to writing speedy SQL queries.
đŸ’Ŗ Zoid So what's the backstory here? Where did subreply come from and where is it going? I'm quite enjoying this.
🕹ī¸ Andrew Subreply used to be Sublevel. There were profile pictures and stuff but it was still minimalist. Had a more intimate feel than facebook/twitter/etc. which has carried over
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🤔 John Welcome HN readers! has made a nice little community here. You may have seen this site as Sublevel or Dubfi in the past.
đŸ”ē Erno Hopearuoho This is the third iteration? What have been the main differences between Dubfi -> Sublevel -> Subreply?
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🤔 John Welcome HN readers! has made a nice little community here. You may have seen this site as Sublevel or Dubfi in the past.
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đŸ”ē Erno Hopearuoho This is the third iteration? What have been the main differences between Dubfi -> Sublevel -> Subreply?
😀 Tom Front page of Hacker News, nice.
🤔 John I found sublevel through HN a few years ago, hopefully front page brings in just the right number of new users...
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đŸ”ģ Trinity found an old article about subreply (originally sublevel apparently): web.archive.org/we... - today's site looks far better than the archived sublevel.net
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đŸĒ Danilo no multiline paragraphs? let's see if that's right.
😀 Tom Unfortunately. Sublevel used to support it. , can we bring that back?
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đŸĒ Danilo yeah! I thought this site was new. It turns out to be years old?
😀 Tom The idea is years old. The creator has morphed it into different versions over the years, migrating the comments. I joined when it was just sublevel.net
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Billy oh wow, sublevel is back. quite a surprise to get an email today.
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🕹ī¸ Andrew I was actually thinking about sublevel the other day when I saw the return email in my inbox. Hello!
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🏒 Lucian Marin Hi again, Andrew! What games do you play? That's good emoji choice.
🙄 Doug Belshaw Hey everyone, been a while since I was on Sublevel, but I got an email and here I am...
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Benscarb You're not the only one, I have little bells going off in my head about it!