9% not accurate answers, for Gemini 3. (I think that's a lot!)

> legacy WP blog ... users should be able to ...

(What's your blog about?)

How big is your repo, if I may ask?

Personally I store vendored dependencies in a submodule, where I can squash history, if it grows too large.

Also, 4) Simpler to `git diff` the changes, when you have the source locally already :- )

[1] https://scalacenter.github.io/scalafix/

Q&A demo: https://insightful.demo.talkyard.io/-6/asking-for-help-in-it...

If you want to self-host, I'd love feedback on the new installation instructions!

Installation repo: https://github.com/debiki/talkyard-prod-one/tree/ty-prod-one... — upcoming new version (feedback welcome). Docker Compose on Debian/Ubuntu.

Source code: https://github.com/debiki/talkyard, AGPL. React, Scala, Postgres.

Biz model: SaaS + Enterprise edition.

Backstory: Inspired by angry people saying silly things in debate programs on Swedish TV. I thought they needed time to think, before they spoke. But they couldn't stay in the TV studio for hours and days. They needed a place online where they could share their thoughts, later when done thinking. There wasn't any good software for this, so I started coding. (This was long ago.)

No investors (instead, independent, based out of Europe/Sweden). Hand coded.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46411161

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> showing some CORS error

In my case, I found it annoying when cookies gradually stopped working, and eventually I had to make the software use custom HTTP headers instead of cookies.

> Seems that mostly spammers comment

The more interesting the contents of the blog is, the more real humans will like it and post comments? (if they can find it)

But a "Our company posts something each day, even if nothing has happened" blog, or AI fluff, attracts only spammers?

If we (humans) make confident guesses, but are wrong — then, others will look at us disappointedly, thinking "oh s/he doesn't know what s/he is talking about, I'm going to trust them a bit less hereafter". And we'll tend to feel shame and want to withdraw.

That's a pretty strong punishment, for being confidently wrong? Not that odd, then, that humans say "I'm not sure" more often than AIs?

They apparently didn't read the article, or didn't understand i, or disregard from it. (Why, why, why?)

And they fail to realize that they don't know what they are talking about, nevertheless keep talking. Similar to an over confident AI.

On a discussion about hallucinating AIs, the humans start hallucinating.

> Though I would suggest a general revision of the copy on this page, and removing all the "later" features.

Now done — all "Later: ..." features are gone, and I did a general revision of the copy on the pricing pages, based on what you wrote, and based on Gemini's and ChatGPT's feedback (when I copy-pasted the HTML into the AI chats — they had many pages feedback).

> These days LLMs can also be helpful with this

They were amazingly helpful. Thanks for suggesting! I'll ask them to review the whole website, like you suggested, some time later too.

Thanks, good to know. (Will fix)

> a lot of asterisks and clarifications that might confuse users

Yes! People email and ask about the pricing more often than I thought.

> It's also mentioned that a credit card is not needed for the trial, but then you will email users about how to pay. Maybe this should be clarified on this page?

Hmm. Yes, there could be something about "if you want to continue after the free trial".

> It seems that you're not a native English speaker

That's right

> but I would suggest hiring someone who is, and has experience in writing technical documentation to revise your entire site, so that it can have a more professional appearance. These days LLMs can also be helpful with this

Ok :- ) First, all the LLMs, then a human I guess.

Thanks for all the ideas. Sorry for the late (8 days) reply.

Just started reading The E-Myth Revisited, hopefully that, plus the sleepiness problem being mostly gone, can put things in better order.

Me too :- ) I'm thinking that if something gets 10 upvotes, and sth else get 10 upvotes and 10 disagree votes, then more often it's the latter that's more interesting to read?

There's also an Unwanted vote, for things that are too off-topic or rude etc, similar to how downvotes work here at HN.

Slashdot's vote system I like too :- ) (Maybe the vote system could be pluggable in the distant future.) — There's also half implemented Do-It votes and Do-Not votes, for ideas and upcoming Joint Decision topic types.

> commets ... and the links under "Old plans" return 404

Oh, thanks! Hadn't noticed. They work from here: www.talkyard.io/pricing (the www subdomain), but from the blog-comments and education subdomains, all those "Old plans" links are broken. (So I'll need to point the links to the www subdomain.)

> I would suggest a general revision of the copy on this page,

The pricing page? If you want & have time to write a bit more, that'd be interesting.

(Or if you're too short of time, I guess I can ask someone who works with UX & pricing)

> and removing all the "later" features.

Hmm, someone else has mentioned this too. Maybe there can be a "Show-later" checkbox, default un-ticked.

Thanks for the thoughts & feedback!

There's SaaS hosting. Long term (2027+ ?), the idea is that inactive blogs (those that don't get comments) pay 1? 2? EUR / month. Then, one wouldn't need to feel stressed up about having an inactive blog — it'd cost about the same as the domain name.

Previously on HN: (as you can see, I've been working on this for a while — had another job in between, and, sleepiness health problems, making things take longer, plus, being generally clueless in the beginning)

- Show HN: New embedded comments, open-source, new features, alt to Disqus and Talk, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15242630 (1 comment, 2017)

- New open source Disqus alternative: Debiki Embedded Comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7205878 (9 comments, 2014)

- Show HN: A better discussion system. For blogs, forums, perhaps sites like HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4823103 (7 comments, 2012)

Biz model isn't really blog comments — instead, it's forum software and B2B (the software works for forums too). But blogs are fun :-) and I need blog comments myself, so much to write about. Made in Sweden. No ads, no tracking.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43959932

Points: 23

# Comments: 5

And support for Scala in [web frameworks for Java].

Still on Scala 2.13, so don't know what 3.* I'd want, more than what already exist

They're based out of Sweden, and offer bandwidth in Mbit/s, rather than GB/month (as per their pricing page, https://glesys.com/vps/pricing)

(At least ChatGPT lists Sweden as one of 10 countries with indigenous fighter jet programs.)

GGGP:

> They haven’t been in a war since 1814

Geography plays a role too I'd think. In a way, located in an icy corner of the world (rather than f.ex. in central Europe)