Maybe a heretical opinion, but why use continuations here at all? Their drawbacks aren't worth it in a simple app like news.yc. Use URL parameters, like /news?skip=30 for paging. Make the "reply" link lead to /item?id=12345 , it already has a reply box.
In my own apps I give a lot of thought to URL design. And yeah, don't explain, I do know about closure/cont-based web frameworks - used to be a contributor to Borges back in the day, then wrote my own one ;-)
I can totally agree with you here cousin_it. I've noticed this problem a few times on the main user-facing [more] link at the bottom of the news listings and I don't see any reason for it. From what I've seen/read/advocated it's best to use continuations for the backend things such as the admin pages, but keep all of the forward-facing pages as continuations-free as possible in order to avoid just these types of problems. As a user of the site, I should be able to bookmark any page I desire and return to find it still exists rather than the continuation has timed out and I lost a list of really great articles that I was hoping to read.
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Maybe a heretical opinion, but why use continuations here at all? Their drawbacks aren't worth it in a simple app like news.yc. Use URL parameters, like /news?skip=30 for paging. Make the "reply" link lead to /item?id=12345 , it already has a reply box.
In my own apps I give a lot of thought to URL design. And yeah, don't explain, I do know about closure/cont-based web frameworks - used to be a contributor to Borges back in the day, then wrote my own one ;-)
I can totally agree with you here cousin_it. I've noticed this problem a few times on the main user-facing [more] link at the bottom of the news listings and I don't see any reason for it. From what I've seen/read/advocated it's best to use continuations for the backend things such as the admin pages, but keep all of the forward-facing pages as continuations-free as possible in order to avoid just these types of problems. As a user of the site, I should be able to bookmark any page I desire and return to find it still exists rather than the continuation has timed out and I lost a list of really great articles that I was hoping to read.