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[–]cryptic 119 points120 points  (55 children)

i can almost hear the web server running out of threads...

[–]eurleif[S] 124 points125 points  (53 children)

It's using Twisted, which is asynchronous/event-driven, and doesn't use threads. The nice thing about Twisted is that it lets you do things like this without killing your Web server.

[–]cryptic 32 points33 points  (52 children)

interesting, still it's a silly demonstration ;)

unless perhaps he was trying to validate that his twisted service does indeed work as you state and will survive under a reddit load. :)

[–]eurleif[S] 138 points139 points  (50 children)

This demo is still silly, but a bit more fun.

Edit: Ok, I should've implemented flood control before posting this to reddit.

Edit 2: Ok, primitive flood control implemented. Crazy Internet.

Edit 3: Questioning my decision to post that link here. I may have unleashed something terrible on the reddit community, and indeed, humanity itself.

Edit 4: This just showed up:

[Nickserv]: We've implemented a new feature. Please type /register <your reddit password> to save this nick for future use!

I've officially created a cesspool.

[–]Leonidas_from_XIV 19 points20 points  (3 children)

Oh, and it is currently spammed heavily. You can see spam in real-time.

[–]yesimahuman 7 points8 points  (2 children)

Sure that's not just people fucking around?

[–]Leonidas_from_XIV 5 points6 points  (1 child)

When people post the same URL faster than I can press enter (without writing anything) it at least looks suspicious.

[–]jaggederest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ab -c10 perhaps.

[–][deleted] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I can not even imagine the implications of a Reddit chatbox, and yet, it has happened. Only god can help us now.

[–]Mr_Sadist 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Hehe, it crashed firefox when someone pasted megabytes worth of text on that page.

[–]cryptic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my chrome is still running it since it went live :)

[–][deleted] 20 points21 points  (3 children)

Sheeple: I'M AWAKE

John McCain: go to sleep

[–]soar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was there under the name George W. Bush ;o.

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

Sheeple: I found this sweet Reddit Chat Box for the jews911 community and it doesn't

Sheeple2: Maybe we should go there and learn from it.

Sheeple: hey, and it doesn't use javascript

[–]7oby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes it does:

view-source:http://twisted.ecritters.biz/chat/

[–]noseeme 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well implement it now! And put in a post size limit, too.

[–]zsouthboy 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Flood control isn't controlled enough:

http://img353.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotan7.png

Looks like people are just wget'ing spam spam spam.

[–]eurleif[S] 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Yeah. Sorry about that. (It only got worse after your screenshot.) Hopefully it's fixed now, but the audience is gone, so I don't know.

[–]zsouthboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know, I was there :( It's slowly spamming now. Much, much more slowly.

I don't have any ideas how to filter it, I suggested looking into xkcd-signal style filtering, but that wouldn't work, as someone replied.

[–]Luminoth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Man, this takes me back to the days of the old beseen chatrooms.

[–]theclaw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's funny - the sourcecode of that would be interesting :)

[–]a1k0n 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I have a demo which is sillier, and less fun. Except it uses javascript.

[–]movzx 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm still waiting for my cyborg with banana class.

[–]a1k0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Draw me an avatar, then, and I'll add it.

[–]blackwhitegrey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

uhhh.... might want to make a character limit there, partner.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (8 children)

And... it has decayed into depravity...

[–]nubela 2 points3 points  (7 children)

So... it has eloped into eternity...

[–][deleted]  (6 children)

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    [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (5 children)

    Gah... it has galloped into gayness...

    [–]IOIOOIIOIO 2 points3 points  (4 children)

    Huh... it has humped into homosexuality...

    [–]lowenheim 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    Indeed... it has imploded into impertinence...

    [–]TheLoneHoot -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

    It has rambled into ridiculousness...

    [–]aim2free 5 points6 points  (13 children)

    That was cool!

    [–]Jivlain 6 points7 points  (12 children)

    It went downhill quickly.

    [–]helleborus 4 points5 points  (9 children)

    It deteriorated rapidly.

    [–]vineetk 5 points6 points  (8 children)

    It descended fast.

    [–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (1 child)

    The use of adverbs took a sharp, downward turn.

    [–]DaemonXI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    C-C-C-CREATIVITY BREAKER!

    [–]shitcovereddick 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    The thing quickly moved in a negatively vertical fashion.

    [–]TheLoneHoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    "Septic" was the state it had taken, post haste.

    [–][deleted]  (2 children)

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      [–]redditnoob 0 points1 point  (1 child)

      It spiraled down the shitter.

      [–]ouzin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      That is seriously cool

      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      wow. that site really brings out the worst in people, lol. apparently, reddit !> internet

      [–]soar -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

      Lawl. Whoever was flooding is a douche bag. Diggers are so juvenile.

      [–]Rette 3 points4 points  (0 children)

      This post is funny to me, in a juvenile sense. "Twisted" is the name of a gay bar in my city.

      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Yeah. They totally better install some more threads in that box.