Hats off, guys. I can’t even imagine how hard it must have been for you guys to keep kbin.social up and running since yesterday.
As a recent refugee from Reddit, I promise to wind down my use of Reddit until such a time as/if when they get rid of their API restrictions. I promise to play my part towards the newly forming community here and create content for the community at large.
Early adoption of new tech usually requires a couple things from users, in my experience. Patience, and a willingness to contribute in whatever way you can. If Kbin, Lemmy et al can get an influx of users that bring at least one of these two things, we’ll go far.
That, and @ernest will need some kind of support from many of us.
….and the fact that you’re even showing appreciation is a huge step in the right direction.
I don’t understand why all fediverse CMS written in php.
If authors used go/rust/java it should handle lots of users much easier.
Imo tools that has purpose to serve thousands of concurrent users should consider energy efficiency.Fediverse servers are written in all kinds of languages. Mastodon is in Ruby (using Rails), Pleroma, Akkoma, and Bonfire in Elixir, GoToSocial is in Go, Misskey and Calckey in typescript (using Node). Whatever works!
PHP is fine. Lets not forget it’s been used by the likes of Facebook, Wikipedia etc. which are much bigger websites then Kbin.
Kinda. PHP is fine for web workloads. Don’t forget Facebook tried to move off PHP and wrote Hack/HHVM because of the performance. It just happens that PHP 7 was faster.
I’ve not looked at the codebase, but there are probably some routines (search) that could be done faster outside pure PHP/Postgres.
The dev seems to have done a pretty good job with this though, performance issues are likely server load more than the stack. Not sure what he’s running this on…
@rgb_leds_are_love Kbin uses Symfony so it can scale as much as it needs to. Ernest knows what he is doing.
@symfonystation Yes, I don’t think php is the problem here. It’s rather about devops matters, in which I am completely inept. But I have already sought help, I just need a little more time.
