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Comment by franky47 | Hacker News Reader

I made a progress bar against the NoDeal counter-petition: https://brexit-petitions-count.now.sh

(Pending API availability)

That's actually really cool. Who needs parliament to vote for a second referendum? We can run our own mini referendum using the two petitions :)

Brexit petitions in realtime:

710,563 signed for remain - 65.81% #RevokeArticle50 371,020 signed for no deal - 34.17% #NoDeal

https://twitter.com/paulmaunders/status/1108684812414533632

That's a really terrible way to run a statistical study.

It seems the NoDeal-petition is much older. It ends in April, and the Remain-petition ends in August. According to the web site, petitions run for 6 months. So it certainly isn't a counter-petition.

They were started with different context, and the remainer petition might only have traction atm because it is new.

Anyway - yeah, let's just decide everything with online petitions. Totally legit.

Does your site cache the numbers? It could be really useful to take some of the load off the main petition's site, as people keep going there and refreshing the page which is overloading it.

It refreshes every 5 seconds, and uses the data from the petition JSON API (just add .json to a petition URL).

Do you store the results locally on your server so that it isn't making multiple requests for each visitor?

I've just been sharing your site URL around on Twitter quite a bit, but it seems to have broken it! If it doesn't have caching already, would be good to add it!

It relies on the JSON enpoints of the petition API to be up, and with all the load they are unstable at the moment.

nice! (minor nitpick: the numbers weren't visible in firefox and had to launch google-chrome to actually view the page).

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