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Comment · 3 months ago
This should be the top comment, especially since organic search has been lost. Not to be overly critical because Codepen was great in its time, but it's now on individual websites to upgrade their search game if they want to stay relevant and useful.

Edit: Just noticed that logging in is now required for search. I'm sure this is an attempt to prevent AI scraping, etc., but it's a big mistake IMHO. While I have an account, I don't log in much and tend to abandon sites that require log in. Among nerds, I'm probably not the only one like this.

Comment · 11 months ago
Hey, the bottom line is the project looks promising and I'm sure it's a lot of hard work. That said, because time is limited, for now I'll have to pass on spinning it up for the reasons mentioned. I took a look at the shell script, and it just seems like a helpful wrapper (with cleanup) over a manual install. I didn't mean to say it's about the amount of containers. All of those services take up a lot of resources, especially compared to the alternatives.

For example, Openwebui can be run with just a sqlite database and a backend. Why is nginx needed, or Minio on a single machine with a nice local file system? But I also understand it takes more work to support multiple service configurations so please accept the criticism as constructive (and it's more a general observation of what I've noticed over the past few years).

Comment · 11 months ago
Side question: It looks interesting but what's with the trend of open source projects providing such bloated installs? The recommended getting started with docker (which first recommends cloning a 350mb repo) seems to assume you need to scale to 100s+ users. At a glance, in their default docker compose I counted no less than 12 containers including nginx, redis and minio. I can't imagine any of these are necessary to run an app on a single localhost machine.

I understand they're trying to attract enterprisy customers, but even some of those are probably going to want to try it out first. Would be nice to have an easy minimal install option that doesn't require a deep dive into the project to figure out.

Comment · 1 year ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
The evidence is tell me how many tech companies, especially startups, have a large ratio of over 40s? If age discrimination were better enforced, the OP might have a very different (and more fair) market to try your experiment. Until that happens, the OPs observation that they are under compensated vs. other workers of a similar skill set would be where I'd put my money.
Comment · 1 year ago
Sounds like you have an inordinate amount of faith in the market to decide what's fair.

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