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Lowering Bandwidth Costs for Slash-based Sites

posted by janrinok on Wednesday March 12 2014, @11:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-was-doing-OK-until-it-mentioned-perl dept.

xyzzyyzzyx writes:

"Avantslash is touting a user hosted perl script that, if paired with any web browser with JavaScript, promises to shave crucial bytes off of the standard Slash-based experience, one of which is our very own SoylentNews. Audiences include those with very limited bandwidth, such as those in developing countries with only 2G mobile access or dialup."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by everdred on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:12AM

    by everdred (110) on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:12AM (#15625) Journal

    You can play with it here: http://soylitenews.org/ [soylitenews.org]

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:39AM (#15634)

    I actually like your comment layouts better than the SoylentNews version. It lets you see more postings by default instead of having to click the links to view each of them. Pick this format up SoylentNews!!!!!

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by everdred on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:49AM

      by everdred (110) on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:49AM (#15638) Journal
      Cool! But just to be clear, the software isn't "mine." I just bought a domain and set up an instance of Avantslash [avantslash.org] that you're free to use.

      • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday March 13 2014, @03:20AM

        by Reziac (2489) on Thursday March 13 2014, @03:20AM (#15669) Homepage

        Nice to have if the need arises, thanks!

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by drgibbon on Thursday March 13 2014, @05:53AM

      by drgibbon (74) on Thursday March 13 2014, @05:53AM (#15720) Journal

      It already exists. Just register an account and change your display mode setting [soylentnews.org] to "Nested". But yeah, I think nested would be a better default.

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      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 13 2014, @09:36PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 13 2014, @09:36PM (#16091)

        I always use nested too (and browse at -1 for what it's worth).

        • (Score: 1) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday March 14 2014, @08:10AM

          by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 14 2014, @08:10AM (#16217) Journal

          Same here, it's the only true way :)

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  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:48AM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:48AM (#15636)

    Thanks, it's quite nice.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Ken_g6 on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:51AM

    by Ken_g6 (3706) on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:51AM (#15641)

    Hm, haven't I seen this before? A site that leaves a huge blank space at the side of the screen? Either shows full comments or hides them completely, but doesn't show comment headlines?

    Fsck Soylent Beta!

  • (Score: 1) by zafiro17 on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:21PM

    by zafiro17 (234) on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:21PM (#15813) Homepage

    Many, many thanks! I hope you leave the site up - it's very useful. I happen to like the layout better than I do the original, and I'm hugely grateful for the savings in bandwidth. This is going to be the first page I visit, and I'll go to Soy directly if I need to comment.

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