Hacker News Reader

Comment by colinmegill | Hacker News Reader

Feel free to DM me on twitter if you care to elaborate and want to discuss, this is strange and I'm not sure what you're referring to. The reason we're a registered 501c3 is that the overwhelming majority of the consulting services we provide around the world are done pro bono or at a loss. I'm not sure what provider you're referring to.

View on HN

The question is why your consulting services are necessary in the first place. Most Open Source Projects I know can be set up by anyone who is competent in the underlying technology. You explicitly warn people that they will be unable to set it up on their own and that they will need your services. You had years to simplify deployment and haven’t done so. Your Github is still lagging the version that you’re privately deploying. Can You point to logs of any recent deployment that scaled to 100s or 1000s of simultaneous users ? Somewhere else in this thread you claim that OSS software has a competitive advantage in the EU. Is this the reason you pretend that your software is OSS while in practice it is not ?

The software is entirely open source and multiple independent instances exist. Our main deployment at pol.is runs off the same docker containers available to the community.

While some time ago, here's an instance that scaled to 30,000+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yh2yKHUKU8

Wow, this is beyond ridiculous. This is the NGO I was involved with. It did not scale to 30,000 it failed miserably at merely dozens of simultaneous Users. The linked Video is the Exec who took responsibility for ordering Polis trying his best at PR Crisis Management. He was fired shortly afterwards. Apparently You don’t understand German, because in the video he is admitting the technical problems with polis. I‘m just amazed how anyone would point to that video, to tout the supposed strengths of their platform.

Interesting! This instance had thousands of concurrent users for a total of 33,000+ and was one of the larger instances of usage of the tech. There was no independent deployment of the technology in this case, so, that is inaccurate.

The instance failed at mere DOZENS of simultaneous users. Clients kept retrying and then there were thousands of requests of users who were unable to interact with the instance. I went though the logs in detail. It was a clusterfuck.

As an open source contributor, I submitted the code in 2020 that made it easier to get running with Polis. I find it quite frustrating that you're slandering the project with weird speculations and confusing factual accounts 3 years later, after other people put in the time to improve things. As far as I recall, you never entered a public space (issues, chat) to offer anything, even a formal bug report.

I can't understand why you didn't ask for help in the issue queue or chat. I'm sorry if you had a bad time, but your speculations are a funhouse mirror version of what I understood to be the case.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com