eser.org is a website where you type in the topic you want to chat about, and you chat about that topic with other people.
"topical chat"
I also wrote a search engine that will reccomend similar topics. So, if you typed python, it could have reccomended 'software design'. However, this only works when there are chat topics for the search engine to parse. However, there are none now because the site is only a few hours old. Major problem.
Second major problem is that people are asking for a list of active chat topics on the front page. A top-level-index of sorts. Something like reddit, I suppose. I wanted to avoid doing this because I felt it would clutter up the homepage. However, it sounds like it is the right thing to do.
So, job #1: add a list of active chat topics to the homepage.
Yeah I think if you did a "top topics" or some such thing that would really help. It'd get some activity going at least. I like the idea of "topical chat" though so I'll keep checking back.
It turns out that a large percentage of people who visited eser.org were getting error 500's.
I just now fixed this bug.
I had written my own single-process event-driven HTTP server using Linux epoll, and my code improperly handled a boundary case where the HTTP request header was split up amongst more than one read operation from the open socket.
Specifically, if the code did not see a \r\n\r\n within the first chunk of bytes it read from the socket, that specific client connection would hang and go unanswered. The front-end load balancer would see this and report an error 500 to the client, which is what people were seeing.
I should have tested this more thoroughly, but the whole thing is only a few days old since conception. Hopefully, I've got all of the major bugs out of it ;)
eser.org is a website where you type in the topic you want to chat about, and you chat about that topic with other people.
"topical chat"
I also wrote a search engine that will reccomend similar topics. So, if you typed python, it could have reccomended 'software design'. However, this only works when there are chat topics for the search engine to parse. However, there are none now because the site is only a few hours old. Major problem.
Second major problem is that people are asking for a list of active chat topics on the front page. A top-level-index of sorts. Something like reddit, I suppose. I wanted to avoid doing this because I felt it would clutter up the homepage. However, it sounds like it is the right thing to do.
So, job #1: add a list of active chat topics to the homepage.