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grey @greytdepression9/12/2024, 3:34 PM

dante, personally @dante

jae @jkap9/12/2024, 2:36 PM

Anonymous User asked:

Accidentally sent the earlier ask early, my bad: what will happen to cohost's internals? (code, etc etc)
Are there any plans for open sourcing or archiving it?

we're currently discussing that. as has been mentioned previously, source code ownership will revert to our funder, colin, and myself. our funder has written more about their thoughts on open sourcing the codebase.

short answer: we're still deciding. we know we'll be open sourcing at least some components (including the HTML generator we're building right now that will operate on data exports and give you something actually useable) but we're undecided on the site as a whole.

i am personally of the opinion that the source code is the least valuable part of cohost (the post renderer being one of the few truly interesting parts). anyone can build a website. the hard part is operating it.

#ask jae anything

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iliana @iliana9/12/2024, 2:43 PM

one other thing that comes to mind is how y'all are doing home page feed generation, but if i'm recalling correctly that's just cached somewhere right? there's no magically-efficient SQL query running on every page load

jae @jkap9/12/2024, 2:44 PM

yeah it's just a big redis sorted set full of post IDs

jae @jkap9/12/2024, 2:47 PM

bookmarked tag feed is actually generated on the fly but it's also a fucking mess and secretly two queries with completely different performance characteristics that we switch between depending on how many posts total are in your bookmarked tags

iliana @iliana9/12/2024, 2:49 PM

between that and post pre-rendering (or pre-parsing into a reasonable syntax tree at least) that's about most of the optimization one needs i imagine

jae @jkap9/12/2024, 2:51 PM

pretty much! we pre-render and cache everything that's fixed regardless of user settings and do the rest on the fly.

kyle @-pegasus9/12/2024, 3:26 PM

I think it could take years for someone to from-scratch a site like that looks and acts like this. Your code has real value, both now and to any potential future successors

Maff @maff9/12/2024, 10:55 PM

the people asking for the code to be open sourced, or mocking y’all for the code being the collateral against the investments from your funder, seem a lot like the kind of people who would never care about it if it were open.
what are you gonna do with the code, run another website with it? that’s not going to automatically give you the same vibe as cohost, the same community, the same love and hope. if you want another website to look like cohost, the CSS is all there.

thanks for making cohost.

Zilchexo et al.@zlchxo9/13/2024, 7:54 AM

it's good code! i could name drop a few websites that have been around way longer and not gotten as far but I Shan't.....................

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