Readit Newscheeseblubber commented on Launch HN: Quetzal (YC S24) – Stripe for Internationalization · Posted by u/jthompson4004
Would be cool to see the Quetzal website internationalized itself and see what it looks like in different languages.
cheeseblubber commented on Show HN: Linen.team – A lightweight, thread-first Slack alternative · Posted by u/cheeseblubber
I have no words to describe how bad is the ! and @ distinctions: it means you give control of your notification to other people. I can see it abused 100 different ways (and if you do build for large teams, and don't expect abuse, then you're either never been on any large enough service, or never talked with anyone in a minority group).
! basically functions like @ in Slack and chat applications. The only difference in Linen is that we give you an @mention so that it doesn't necessarily need to send a push.
cheeseblubber commented on Show HN: Linen.team – A lightweight, thread-first Slack alternative · Posted by u/cheeseblubber
> 400 KB
Can/will you maintain this devotion to optimization when shipping a a desktop client? If it could not be Electron, that would be great.
I love the differentiation between ! and @. There are many times when I want to inform a group without bothering them.
We actually tried shipping a desktop client with Tauri and Rust. It helped with initial bundle size but performance and resource consumption was kind of similar. We also ran in to issues with the api’s being bit limiting. Most likely we’ll revisit the desktop client with Tauri but depending on how mature the api is we may have to resort to electron.
Our bundle size has actually only gotten smaller since we’ve shipped our first version. We know it will gradually grow but we try to be disciplined in not using too many external dependencies
cheeseblubber commented on Show HN: Linen.team – A lightweight, thread-first Slack alternative · Posted by u/cheeseblubber
To be clear, this is not a dig, but I love that we're basically coming full-circle back to email, just without any of the decentralization and inter-tennant interoperability that comes natively to email.
All we need now is for someone to give every Linen user an externally accessible handle that allows cross-tenant invites or 'thread sharing' and we'll have officially closed the loop.
Thanks! Linen is secretly email in disguise. We have played around with syncing with email clients which would let you manage all your messages and notifications from one client.
cheeseblubber commented on Show HN: Linen.team – A lightweight, thread-first Slack alternative · Posted by u/cheeseblubber
Any tests done on scaling? How’s the search? Maybe because of the nature of slack but I use advanced filters very frequently to find old messages.
We've actually done test on scaling. This is a fork of Linen.dev which had community of up to 50k members. So we've tested this well. Search is an on going feature we are working on. We're going to enhance it with more embedding like search functionality.