Their solution is graphql, but I believe that the backend should have data for each component ready.
Example social network.
/api/pagedata/FrontPage
returns a big ass query result, all posts with comments, comment count and reactions, all the data you would ever want in your front page.
/api/pagedata/UserProfilePage
returns all the relevant data regarding the user's profile page.
Yes, if you change or extend a certain page, you will have to change the backend query. If you have 2 different teams for frontend and backend that's not straightforward, so there should be something where the frontend team writes the detailed expected json response and the backend team transforms that into queries.
Or, let's be real, the queries get generated.
One could even imagine a middleware that translates expected json to graphql queries.
Why not directly graphql? Because it's a major pain in the ass, because of relay. Graphql is Facebook. And instead of having the simple structure you can easily query, they added this stupid node relay structure which makes everything overly complicated.
I could imagine a Go backend or Rust where you have a comment with the expected JSON, and you type go generate and boom generated queries with search and pagination.
I don't know who decided it was right to flag you into oblivion, but GraphQL is unrelated to this.
You don't always have full control over the backend. You may depend on another team, or maybe even access a public API.
React was (and still is) good at that, but with suspense, it's as if they forgot that a Web-App may want to do more than just "take stuff from server and show".
Now it's also 3 videos in 90 days you have to publish in order to be eligible for monetization.
So you can't have passive income at YouTube, you have to create a new video each month.
3000 watched hours or 3 million shorts views lol.
They want only the cream.
But dethroning the king would need an ad delivery solution, which in turn requires an affordable payment solution.
And you would need to keep it civil, because now, if you're in the EU are liable for what people upload.
And then, thanks to the DSA, you have to monitor "wrong speak".
How is anyone supposed to bring up a competitor with those blockers?
TBH HN is a milder Reddit but it flows on the same river.
Whenever you create an unpopular post your karma goes down. I have no adblocked the karma display because I will not be judged for my posts.
Should I get shadow banned I'll create a new account.
Why HN? Being an old Isonews member I like the orange.
And even if the quality has degraded there are still some interesting posts here.
I'm also not a "slashdot" I'm a "hacker", well I don't call myself hacker but commonly hacker is synonymous for creator, developer, entrepreneur.
Slashdot never mattered in my world. The internet is a tool, a means to and end, not the center of my life.
I don't even remember when I first stumbled upon HN. Was it on Google+?
I miss Google+ and the spirit and people it had. I felt right at home.
Unlike Facebook where is never really fit in. A platform for consumers and their producers but more consumers who have no clue about the creative spirit. How I despise Facebook. Then Google+ became more like it instead of continuing with doing its own thing. The final UI changes made it as terrible as Facebook.
The post was the main attraction and comments and discussions were no longer wanted.
And when it died there was Reddit which was and still is the worst Troll-infested... platform of stupid.
And there was HN, which I always viewed as being too much ivory tower/first world problems, but compared it has the most interesting topics.
Twitter then is a platform for the permanently "how dare you" crowd. Someone always has something to bitch about. And while many seem to like it, I never could, smartphone stupidity.
And HN then, old school, low effort design. Not the best input methods. But interesting enough and more positive than reading mainstream news, which in the last 2 years and nowadays especially is unbearable.
That's also why I strongly react when I see a propaganda post for either side of the war, which doesn't really concern me. Idc about it. It's all lies anyway. What's the relevance for a IT tech news site? None.
Ok if it gets IT techy but a ship sinking? idgaf.
If you ask me, the Ukraine is being used so the "west" can sell weapons. 1000 million € loan and more from Germany alone... anyhow not on topic.
HN without karma would be an improvement. I will not change my ways or truth just because someone with a larger pot thinks they have more power or the right to judge.
Why is there no Google+ replacement? A social network for devs, artists, businessmen, but not big businesses, where you can stay up to date on the latest in tech and directly talk to people without having to "friend" them and where you're not judged and censored via "karma". Not owned by big tech. Where the focus in on discussion and meeting people and not POST BIG comment small but all equal.
I hear you.
I'm self taught.
I was always the go to guy when there was a problem.
I had no one I could ask.
Teachers asked me.
But no one hired me.
So I became self employed.
I wonder how much better I would've done if I actually went studying and had a mentor.
But I was always on the frontier, always.
I also fixed so many bad student projects, aka where someone would hire a student for cheap and the student would abandon the project and I had to step in to finish it.
Ah well it is what it is.
Nowadays I feel like an outsider, probably because I am. Still being self employed but my projects crashed and income is way below sustainable.
So either create something new, but I'm getting old and tired and bored, or find a job, but I'm too used to the comfort of working when I feel like it and not being on a clock.
Anyhow I digress and if I had a proper teacher in my young years, how much better could I have done. I'd imagine an increased learning speed of factor at least 5 if not 10. Also not studying means not knowing the language e.g. log(o) or w/e. I never knew what "scalar" meant when I read it, but I knew without having a label "scalar". etc etc
A cruiser is distracted by an unmanned drone and then taken out by one or more guided missiles, resulting in the most significant loss of a naval vessel in decades. War is technology, more so than the work most of us do.
The novelty factor IS important. Back in the 90s/00s techies were relatively rare. Being tech-oriented, generally smart but also socially awkward and introverted is an interesting mix - you derive identity and pride from the things that make you special.
Was this the reason I loved tech? No, that's the reason I DID tech. The reason I loved tech is because I believed that tech will make our lives exponentially better. And up to a certain point, it did...
Very true, will be interesting to see what happens when the tools needed to game this system are those that start the conversation about mental health from a young age
Example social network.
returns a big ass query result, all posts with comments, comment count and reactions, all the data you would ever want in your front page. returns all the relevant data regarding the user's profile page.Yes, if you change or extend a certain page, you will have to change the backend query. If you have 2 different teams for frontend and backend that's not straightforward, so there should be something where the frontend team writes the detailed expected json response and the backend team transforms that into queries. Or, let's be real, the queries get generated. One could even imagine a middleware that translates expected json to graphql queries.
Why not directly graphql? Because it's a major pain in the ass, because of relay. Graphql is Facebook. And instead of having the simple structure you can easily query, they added this stupid node relay structure which makes everything overly complicated.
I could imagine a Go backend or Rust where you have a comment with the expected JSON, and you type go generate and boom generated queries with search and pagination.