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Lowering Bandwidth Costs for Slash-based Sites

posted by janrinok on Wednesday March 12 2014, @07:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-was-doing-OK-until-it-mentioned-perl dept.

xyzzyyzzyx writes:

"Avantslash is touting a user hosted perl script that, if paired with any web browser with JavaScript, promises to shave crucial bytes off of the standard Slash-based experience, one of which is our very own SoylentNews. Audiences include those with very limited bandwidth, such as those in developing countries with only 2G mobile access or dialup."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by grub on Wednesday March 12 2014, @07:45PM

    by grub (3668) <soylentnews@grub.net> on Wednesday March 12 2014, @07:45PM (#15610)

    Just send out a SHA hash of the front page.
    For example "1ad65bfb0225ec69e82d5a632da603b2cd4ac77c" uses of far less data than does all those wordy headlines and summaries you currently use! Anyone who can't figure out how to back the page from the hash should just go back to that other site!

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by stderr on Wednesday March 12 2014, @07:54PM

    by stderr (11) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @07:54PM (#15613) Journal

    Anyone who can't figure out how to back the page from the hash should just go back to that other site!

    Lots of pages share the same SHA hash, so you wouldn't know which one is the right one...

    And that's the ONLY reason we're not just sending the SHA hash already.

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    • (Score: 5, Funny) by jt on Wednesday March 12 2014, @10:05PM

      by jt (2890) on Wednesday March 12 2014, @10:05PM (#15653)

      It's OK if you can't tell which page is which among those with identical SHA hash over at Slashdot; they'll be dupes anyway.

    • (Score: 1) by NezSez on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:44AM

      by NezSez (961) on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:44AM (#15699) Journal

      #think 50's era comic book
      "Shazam!"; now I'll save the kitty in the tree!

      #think 2014 metro
      "SHACollision!"; now find that story about the new Cosmos series b**aatch!

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