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Why Sublevel? The project specs

3 pointsby lucianmarinalmost 11 years ago

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comexalmost 11 years ago
Don&#x27;t takes this as excessively negative, but -<p>&gt; No JavaScript. Sublevel works with JavaScript disabled.<p>Flipside is that it doesn&#x27;t support any nice JavaScript features such as live updating...<p>&gt; Sublevel is using design hacks to improve performance.<p>Huh?<p>&gt; Different than Twitter. Sublevel is not a clone of Twitter like App.net neither trying to reinvent the wheel. There&#x27;s no character limit, Sublevel is limited by design only.<p>Is &quot;Twitter with threading and no character limit&quot; so much less cloney than &quot;Twitter with a higher character limit, and theoretically a common platform for different apps and use cases&quot;?<p>&gt; No API. Sublevel doesn&#x27;t need an API, just better web browsers. Instead of an API, Sublevel will try to have an open database.<p>What&#x27;s the difference between an open database and an API?<p>In response to &quot;better web browsers&quot;, why should I have to use the UI you designed, rather than having a number of options to choose from, depending on taste? Even Twitter, as much as it&#x27;s cracked down on them in recent years, still has a large selection of clients for different browsers.