Hey y'all, One of the ways I've stress tested the 9social design is to create simulated communities.
I wanted to see what the performance was like rendering large threads. These larger datasets have helped to evolve how the local index is structured. To get organic looking threads, I've been importing comments from Hacker News into the simulated communities. Here's a demo of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqhQmdPlXdo Ed On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 9:08 PM Eduardo Cavazos <[email protected]> wrote: > 9social is an experimental design for a decentralized social network. > It's based on plain text files and git. > > The client is a Plan 9 acme application. > Here's a demo of it: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6qVnlCjcAI > > The source code for the extremely brave and curious is at: > > https://github.com/dharmatech/9social > > The current codebase comes in at around 2700 lines of rc & awk code. > > I've had some folks ask me to share the code with them, > even in this early state, so that's why I'm sharing the code now. > > It really is for people who: > > - want to explore the design > - are curious about an acme application written in pure rc ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T39adcbae541d485c-Me933ef8d0f4221bee350ff17 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
