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water  ·  3568 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Reader

So why rewrite the website? I'm sure there are a lot of technical details, but being new here and loving it, I'm really curious to hear you expound on this. Would you please insomniasexx ?





insomniasexx  ·  3567 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Imagine you wrote a to-do list. A really intense one with EVERYTHING you need to do for the month and how to do it and where you go and all that good stuff. You spent a lot of time on this list and it's organized so it makes sense to you and it has instructions so you can do certain things.

Now imagine you left and someone else took that list, thought it was a nifty way to manage things, and started using it. But, this person has different things to do and a different way of doing things. So as they use that list, they start to cross things off and replace them with other things. They draw arrows. They make little boxes and write really tiny so it fits on the area available. They add things that you originally didn't need.

Now imagine that to do list is written in shit handwriting and the person now using it must also write in shit handwriting.

Now imagine that this person does this for 3 years. Arrows. Strikethrus. Additions. A different way of organizing things.

Now imagine this organized to do list is a metric fuckton of code that powers servers that power a website that a ton of people use.

Wouldn't you want to rewrite that shit, too?

:)

water  ·  3567 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would want to rewrite that shit

thanks :)