Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

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."

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Lowering Bandwidth Costs for Slash-based Sites | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 58 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 1) by goodie on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:58PM

    by goodie (1877) on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:58PM (#15833) Journal

    I see... Maybe there is a way for SN to set up something on the side that consumes the data and skins separately from the main code while the mobile version only allows reading articles and comments? I admit that i have never looked at the SN codebase so if is all Perl from the late 90's it may not really have an api that we can call so to speak...

    Hey if we move toward a complete rewrite maybe this could be a good starting point to slowly build the new code up...

  • (Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Friday March 14 2014, @12:15AM

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Friday March 14 2014, @12:15AM (#16136) Journal

    If we move toward a complete rewrite maybe this could be a good starting point to slowly build the new code up.

    Bryan's Pipedot is a completely new, modern rewrite of what Slashcode does [pipedot.org] but I don't believe it uses Perl. Once that is more mature, it may make sense for that code to be the base of a new SN (or whatever name we use).