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by kentnl 5778 days ago
Mostly negative personal experiences.

But that aside, saying "its everywhere" is in my opinion the /poorest/ argument in favor of anything technical.

MySQL has their slogan as being the "Most popular Open Source database", which, by comparison to PostgreSQL's slogan "The most advanced Open Source database", awful.

If you're popular AND good, thats fine, but being popular alone is a poor metric.
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mattl 5778 days ago
I'm not making the argument from a technical perspective, but from a cultural one. Culturally, this stuff works best if there are bazillions of instances out there, not thirty.

PHP offers that, and I don't think I can name anything else that I can say that about.

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Joeboy 5778 days ago
IMO if this thing is worth anything the value is in the protocols, not the code. I hope you're envisaging other implementations.

On vaguely which subject, is there some documentation of the protocols anywhere? I had a quick look on the site and couldn't see anything like that.

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mattl 5777 days ago
http://ostatus.org/sites/default/files/ostatus-1.0-draft-1-s...
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ebiester 5778 days ago
That depends. Are you running it on a shared host? PHP is one of the few you can guarantee to be there. That makes it cheap to run a small instance.
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