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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 13:26:36 +1100
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Subject: Re: CouchDB site launch -- sharegrove
From: Nicholas Orr <nicholas.orr@zxgen.net>
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Ok I've used it and now I'm not seeing the point of this....

Yes if my friend is not in Facebook then I can use email...
However isn't that what email groups are for?

What is the end goal here that make sense for someone who all ready uses
facebook and can have private discussions with friends in facebook?

Also looking at the UI - conversations could get out of control and then I'd
have to scroll scroll scroll - at least with Google Wave they you have to
click on a discussion to view its contents.

Nick

2010/1/8 Adam Wolff <awolff@gmail.com>

> We've been working on a group communication app which uses CouchDB as the
> backend. It's called Sharegrove http://sharegrove.com and we couldn't have
> done it without couch!
>
> In addition to the CouchDB back-end, we've built a custom framework in Java
> and server-side Javascript (using Rhino) to handle authentication,
> application logic, and comet-y messaging. The unique thing about our
> framework is that the app is written almost entirely in Javascript, and
> portions of it are delivered directly to the browser. So couch is a perfect
> fit: in some cases we run the same function in our app that we do in the
> database!
>
> The biggest challenge we've faced with couch is the trouble it has with 2nd
> order relations. For instance, in order to figure out which of a user's
> groups have the most recent comments, we first fetch all the groups that
> the
> user belongs to, and then we get the update times via a POST request to a
> different view.
>
> But overall couch is awesome, and I also want to say thanks for all the
> help
> we've gotten from this list. We're starting to see traffic pick up on our
> site, but our CPU utilization remains almost nil. I'll hope to see some of
> you on http://sharegrove.com!
>
> Best,
> Adam Wolff
>

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