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145 points yathern | 2 comments | 03 Apr 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.414s | source

Hey HN! I posted this on April 1st when it launched, and though it didn't get traction here, it was a minor hit on reddit! Now that we've got a few thousand monkeys under our belt, wanted to give it another shot here!

Happy to talk about the technical details of running the site - using supabase/postgres and constantly putting out fires from the traffic.

1. chewmieser ◴[03 Apr 25 21:48 UTC] No.43575876[source]▶
That’s fun!

Couple of things I would suggest:

Maybe get rid of 1-2 character words in the word counter? Seems easy for it to hit things like i or ie etc. I would love to see a counter that ignores those at least

Also the report card section on the Shakespeare progress panel wasn’t scrollable on iOS.

Neat either way!

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2. yathern ◴[03 Apr 25 22:13 UTC] No.43576112[source]▶
> Maybe get rid of 1-2 character words in the word counter? Seems easy for it to hit things like i or ie etc. I would love to see a counter that ignores those at least

I'm considering that as well, if only to calm my database down a bit

> Also the report card section on the Shakespeare progress panel wasn’t scrollable on iOS.

Second time I've heard that! I have no iOS devices so I can't fix it too easily, but I'll take another look.