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The top level ideas could be rendered as turbo frames of ideas#show.

For large discussions, wouldn’t that flood the server with requests?

I could have a separate route at /ideas/:id/isolated which renders only the idea without any parents or children. And then a discussion could render a bunch of deeply nested turbo frames loading that route.

The thread contains a suggested solution: use authenticated do … blocks in routes.rb instead of before_action :authenticate_user! in controllers.

It’s probably a good idea to do this anyway to avoid divulging the existence of routes that unauthenticated users don’t need to know exist. (They will get a 404 instead of a 401.)

The thread contains a suggested solution: use authenticated do … blocks in routes.rb instead of before_action :authenticate_user! in controllers.

JS modules are always deferred and unusable until the page is fully loaded. As a result, comment buttons and gutters won’t work while ideas are still streaming onto the page.

Incompatible with Devise authentication: https://github.com/heartcombo/devise/issues/2332

Feature idea: pay people to address criticisms (either revise an idea and check off criticisms or counter-criticize).

This page used to take ~3.5 seconds to load. Now it renders within 600ms :)

‘Veritula’ is a difficult name, people don’t know how to spell or pronounce it. They can’t easily remember it.

‘Renaissance’ isn’t exactly easy to spell either.

The following commits should address this:

• 3af3966 Clarify in title that someone revised an idea (rather than originated idea)

  The HTML title now says ‘Idea x revised by…’

• 6c70cea Underneath idea, indicate that someone revised an idea (rather than submitted it)

  It says ‘Dennis Hackethal, 1 day ago’ for new ideas, ‘Dennis Hackethal revised 1 day ago’ for revisions

• d20d386 Explain that users can revise each others’ ideas

  As part of the alert on the revision page, when the user is about to revise someone else’s idea.

• c5748e3 Turn ‘revise’ link into ‘revise their idea’ when it’s someone else’s idea

  Underneath each idea.

• e0fbd41 List user under each revision in version history

  So that each version is clearly attributed to the corresponding user.

• 06d3241 List contributors at top of version history

  Comma-separated list to see all contributors at a glance. Eg see here

Changing the view logic so that the controller can stream each deeply nested idea separately sounds non-trivial. It’s not clear to me how to do that currently. It may be possible someday if I adjust Hiccdown to allow the use of enumerators or something like that.

I could use ActionController::Live to stream top-level ideas to the page one by one. Instant page load.

Changing the view logic so that the controller can stream each deeply nested idea separately sounds non-trivial. It’s not clear to me how to do that currently, It may be possible someday if I adjust Hiccdown to allow the use of enumerators or something like that.

Complex, requires non-trivial scroll listeners correlated to deeply nested ideas.

Just saw this app that lets you play ambient sounds at home: https://x.com/mirdhaaakanksha/status/1983238682154021218

Idea: ‘Return to Reason’, ‘RR’

Idea: ‘The Second Renaissance’, ‘2nd Renaissance’, ‘2R’ for short.

‘Veritula’ is a difficult name, people don’t know how to pronounce it. They usually can’t remember it.

Replacing a raw SQL query in Idea.tree with a standard ActiveRecord query solves this issue.

I’ve since been able to reproduce the issue after all. Running a raw SQL query in Idea.tree in combination with the inclusion of the Live module seems to mess with Rails’s reloader.

After resetting my working directory and beginning to implement streams a second time, I can no longer reproduce this issue, despite reasonable attempts to reproduce it.

A slow developer experience will slow down all further development, including bug fixes and feature rollouts, which hurts UX as well.

Fast UX is more important than fast developer experience.