[Satire] NodeBB Rust Rewrite: Is Rust the Future of Web Development?

fbmac

https://wibble.fbmac.net/nodebb-rust-rewrite

julian

Interesting... I don't think I got the memo about this one.

cagatay

we can think of it as

DownPW

ha ha fake news power

fbmac

@julian I guess you have your hands full with the rebranding to worry about it

https://wibble.fbmac.net/nodebb

julian

@fbmac I slapped a satire tag on your topic just to curb any potential confusion

brazzerstop

Is this news generated by AI? Looks realistic, the first article made me start searching info about RUST language

fbmac

@brazzerstop it autogenerates stuff based on whatever you type in the url, with gpt3, but the rust one I cheated rewriting with gpt 4 and updating the database directly

julian

NodeB(yo)B

fbmac

@julian said in Do the developers have other jobs?:

This project is a labour of love from the entire team. We don't yet make enough to support ourselves purely with NodeBB

Impressive growth since that post

https://wibble.fbmac.net/nodebb-ipo-valued-3-billion

julian

@fbmac any chance you can add a robots.txt to that site so it isn't crawled by Google?

Call me someone with no sense of humour

fbmac

It's far from google thinking it's relevant enough to show it, unless you put "wibble" together in your search, and yet it isn't in the first results, but I can remove it manually if you insist. Would you ask to remove all mentions of nodebb, just the IPO or some subset of it?

This is what google got served when it asked for a robots.txt:

https://wibble.fbmac.net/robots.txt

fbmac

@julian ok, all nodebb links gone, if you delete this thread nobody will ever know that nodebb currently runs on rust and about the IPO

julian

Thanks, of course anyone's free to publish anything anywhere, but I do appreciate you removing the links

fbmac

@julian Hi, I implemented this complicated and advanced features that is a robots.txt now. Do you still want me to disallow anything with nodebb on the URL? This thread appears on google before my article if you search for "wibble nodebb" for me, so you probably would want to move/delete it if you really hate those articles

julian

@fbmac I don't really hate the articles, it's just not clear that it's satire but I do not have control over what other people do with their websites.