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This is a good idea but badly implemented, there is no persistence between browser sessions. Clearly they should be using the document.location.hash to store the compressed db then you also get undo via back...

Also with no LLM or chat based ui it's a hard pass from me.

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Yeah without the data being added to a blockchain to automatically sync to my multiple devices, I'mma say no to this.

I think it's really not benefitting from some quantum algorithms that exist, so I'm out.

Needs a WASM rewrite now that SQLite support is official. Otherwise little sense to consider this for production.

I assume the WASM rewrite would be via Rust. I think the extra runtime safety would dramatically increase the effectiveness of TabDB.

If it’s not federated then you’re literally supporting genocide in the Levant. The only ethical choice is to spin up a TadBD instance.

It's not blazingly fast. I'm out.

Where can I buy cloud storage with it?

I’m can’t believe that nobody said this but I can’t run this bare metal on my raspberry pi pico. It not being a single header C89 with no dependencies to the stdlib makes it a hard pass for me

It's a cool project but I wouldn't use a blockchain for this. Federation is the new hotness, and it's way better, for reasons. So yes, I won't use this until they allow me to federate my browser tabs.

You just need it to send an email on every update with the full db contents and then set up another browser elsewhere to read the emails and update their tabs and you'll have state of the art federated database replication.

That's right, blockchain = old and busted.

Buc Nasty, what can I say about that blockchain that hasn't already been said about Afghanistan? It is bombed out and depleted...

> federate my browser tabs

The entire Pocket business plan

Would benefit from the addition of a message queue and son server less functions

but it's already server less...

No, this is local first, and a great example of it. Although it's missing its serverless edge functions for collaborative multiplayer support.

Needs to find a way to pay AWS

Calling the AWS donation API in the background now fulfills that requirement without degrading your app's performance.

Unless it scales horizontally and vertically, which it apparently doesn't, that's a no me as well dawg.

It currently scales diagonally and convexicaly but cylindrically scaling is being worked at.

I call this fake news, browsers have had the ability to scale vertically and horizontally for ages and obviously TDB fully supports it as well. It even boasts experimental support for multi monitor setup (although some glitches are to be expected)

You can get vertical scaling by installing the tree tabs extension.

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