Xenthys's comments

On: Hive: A Globally-Distributed Key/Value Store [pdf]

[Xenthys]

If you have a bucket with this warning, it isn't using Hive yet but the old backend that had scalability issues… which is why Hive is replacing it!

On: Why Reactiflux, Vue Land, Yarn, and other open source communities use Discord

[Xenthys]

It's been posted in some Discord servers, which is where I come from, I don't think sharing the link with communities is forbidden, is it?

[lambda → Xenthys]

There are two reasons you might want to share the link to an HN discussion: if there is interesting discussion going on, or if you want to encourage people to upvote it.

In this case, there is no discussion about the article, just about the upvote brigade. So the only reason for sharing the link to the HN discussion would be to get people to upvote it.

[_eht → lambda]

Oh stop with the elitist act and maybe actually contribute to the discussion.

[minimaxir → Xenthys]

Yes it is. There's no reason to draw attention to a fresh HN submission other than to draw upvotes.

[shados → minimaxir]

Unlike a company where an employee just posted an HN, the majority of people in a discord community might not even know Hacker News is a thing, nevermind knowing someone posted something interesting on it.

[minimaxir → shados]

If it was a few hours after the submission was made, with plenty of discussion in the comments, sure. But not a few minutes after.

[_eht → minimaxir]

!remindme to check with the upvote police before sharing articles.

On: DomIRC – An IRC network for all domain name owners and their communities

[Xenthys]

Obviously I'm on DomIRC, but also on freenode like probably a lot of us.

I mainly hang in ##france, #bfnt, #botters, #codebottle and #freenode related channels, among a lot of others channels but the list is way too long ;)

On: DomIRC – An IRC network for all domain name owners and their communities

[Xenthys]

Well, it is controlled by a non-profit organization already funded by something else.

There are no profits created by this network, so even if it does not work well, we will not lose money.

About the organization itself, it has others activities maintaining it alive.

As the President of Blackfields Network, the parent organization of DomIRC, I swear we will maintain this network as long as we exist.

[xj9 → Xenthys]

That's the problem with federated systems: we (users) have to rely on the promises and whims of our system operators to have access.

I don't trust or distrust you, I wish I didn't have to decide.

[Xenthys → xj9]

Yeah, I have experienced that as well and I get your point, that's mainly why we have created a whole structure and registered an organization, even if we can never predict what will happen next we can always do our best to get the odds in our favour.

Unfortunately, the best alternative would probably be the P2P way, with something like https://matrix.org/ which also seems to be nice.

[erlehmann_ → Xenthys]

You can host your own XMPP server today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP

On: DomIRC – An IRC network for all domain name owners and their communities

[Xenthys]

To clear that up a bit, you can register a channel like #domain.tld only if you control the DNS zone of the said domain, and you can't get op in a primary channel without registering it first.

[zokier → Xenthys]

Well, that is definitely one way of approaching the lack of federation in IRC

[Xenthys → zokier]

Yeah. In fact, there is a lot of networks but they are made because people want to experiment and operate a server then they wonder what they could use it for. Here, well, we had a goal and IRC was a solution, as once you have your channel you just have to add an iframe on your website and tadam, a fully functioning live webchat with permissions! ;)