How to write imageboard

Hello,
I found out that kusaba x is pretty old shit. What's this whole think about generating html files? Can't it be done simply by sql queries every time and do it with some ajax? How would you write it?

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Read >>4 again.

Aside from that, the tiny websites that no one cares about are not worth optimizing anything for. You could shit out the worst, most security-flaw-laden code in the world, and chances are very good nobody will ever notice or care.

It's when that one-in-a-hundred-thousand site actually stumbles by sheer accident on the right combination of timing, innovation, and a good initial userbase, and popularity starts going up, that you really need to put any of this into consideration at all. Before that, don't waste your time.

And as a final note, no website ever materialized out of nowhere with a strong userbase. Everything came from somewhere else; the "if you build it they will come" mentality that plagues these very same shitty 4chan-clone imageboards is pathetic. You create a site because you already have users who are interested in it, not the other way around.