Hmm. I wonder what it’d take to create a no-ui, API-only, read-only mirror of LW data. For most uses, a few minute delay would cause no harm, and it could be scaled for this use independently of the rest of the site. If significant, it could be subscription-only—require auth and rate-limited based on a monthly fee (small, one hopes, to pay for the storage, bandwidth, and api compute).
I would need a first-sync (and resync/anti-entropy) mechanism, but could just poll the allRecentComments to stay mostly up-to-date, and turn this into a single-caller to the LW systems, rather than multiple.
Hmm. I wonder what it’d take to create a no-ui, API-only, read-only mirror of LW data. For most uses, a few minute delay would cause no harm, and it could be scaled for this use independently of the rest of the site. If significant, it could be subscription-only—require auth and rate-limited based on a monthly fee (small, one hopes, to pay for the storage, bandwidth, and api compute).
I would need a first-sync (and resync/anti-entropy) mechanism, but could just poll the allRecentComments to stay mostly up-to-date, and turn this into a single-caller to the LW systems, rather than multiple.