Matthias1

I love browsing Hacker News by new.

It might be worth mentioning that Khan Academy's main CS course has been based on an in-browser Processing.js environment, since even before P5 existed.

What gives you the impression this would be costly? It should fit easily in a FaunaDB free plan, with Netlify or Vercel (also free) for serverless functions if you need logic.

When you're doing cross-platform development like this for the web, you're going to have a "least common denominator" that you have to design for. Safari is that least common denominator right now only because Microsoft switched to using Chromium. But if Apple switched Safari to use Chromium, then Firefox would be the least common denominator and supporting Firefox would suddenly seem like a burden.

It's fine to criticize Safari and encourage Apple to do better in the space, since Apple isn't super incentivized to improve Safari. But this narrative that always targets the browser with the smallest feature-set at any given time will only stop when all browsers are Chromium based. (At which point they'll start complaining about other browsers using a Chromium version that's slightly behind Chrome.)

Sorry, I went to make a search without the extension installed (because I did try) and I got hit with a full screen error message saying I needed to install the extension.

My mistake was obviously typing in the search bar at the top of the screen. I should have edited the address in the address bar manually. If you don’t have the extension installed, the search bar serves only to take you to an ad to install it.

A UI element that appear to be a search box but is actually an ad for your extension, I would characterize as user hostile design.

Google’s practices, if you don’t agree with them, doesn’t mean that you can do whatever you want because you’re the little guy. Offering an extension is fine. But disabling searching if the extension isn’t installed is not helpful.

In my opinion, the fact that all your extension does is change the setting is worse, not better. It's purely a user-hostile choice.

> Discord is nearly infinitely better in the sense that they have any tooling at all, but it's still considerably far behind

Could you expand on this a bit?

A lot of this thread seems to be coming down to opinions. Are there specific moderation features that Discord lacks?

From the article:

> That’s extremely similar to the MacBook Pro and Monterey issues I’ve read this week—except I’m still running Big Sur.

Is there a source for Jekyll being no longer maintained? Jekyll might not be in active development anymore, but I’d rather use something that’s finished than something like VitePress that has “WIP” in its title.

Go for a while only reading, not commenting, and make up your mind.

Are you affiliated with rsync.net, competing with BackBlaze? Is the major difference with rsync.net that they charge per GB?

I’m very impressed with what you’ve discussed here. I think there’s a real market for no-code website builders that are user-friendly.

How do you justify charging $144/year for a static site? Carrd.co offers similar features and charges $19/year for their Pro plan. Serving a static site is basically free. If your editor itself is that valuable, why not sell the editor as a software package and let me take my built site files and host them anywhere?

Is it possible to do anything? A bit of a rough on boarding experience if I can’t see anything and can’t move or touch anything.