Sunshine
Consumer and social
social network
SHOW HN2019
2points
9comments
#2,155of 2,195 in 2019
Top 99%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Performance: 0 for, 3 against
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What HN said
Objections
Profile picture is fetched twice, wasting resources
From 3 comments
How come the profile picture fetcher fetches the profile picture twice every time, instead of just one?
kseistrup on HNIt seems to fetch the profile picture twice every 15 minutes. No cache, no If-Modified-Since.
kseistrup on HNWell, when you have read the image once to get the info then you already have the file and can “output it”. To fetch it again is just a waste of resources.
kseistrup on HN
Images not cached well by the server, so clients refetch them
From 1 comment
But that header is valid per client that is using sunshine.social, isn't that so? That means that every client that looks at my profile will fetch the image at least once. The…
kseistrup on HN
Questions
Why is the profile picture fetched twice?
From 1 comment
How come the profile picture fetcher fetches the profile picture twice every time, instead of just one?
kseistrup on HN