[wtf_is_up]

It's quite easy to write webapps using Go's std lib. The rules allow for 3rd party database drivers. It's also easy to deploy to something like GAE or an amazon micro instance.

> Seems like quite a bit of work

That's why it's called a challenge.

I think the last challenge sounded more difficult because the problem was much more unique.

This challenge is more practical because you will be doing very common things like consuming REST APIs, writing HTTP handlers, routing, templating, optional database, etc. Most of this is doable by importing net/http and html/template and reading some basic tutorials [1].

[1] https://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/

[Vendan]

As a comparison though, the first 2 challenges took about 200~300 lines of code. This challenge looks like more then 2000~3000. It literally is asking for enough that it made me say "Screw that, I'd rather work on my own projects" rather then "Hey, that looks like it'd be interesting". I could see a photo-mosaic challenge by itself, without all the cruft of logins and such, but this seems like massive feature creep compared to previous challenges.

Edit: Oh, and on top of all that, it's supposed to be deployed on a server... Seriously, screw that, I'm not paying hosting costs for a crappy contest like this.

[nefasti]

I guess you could make your point without being rude? Just move along if you don't like it, but respect the authors.