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		hasenj on Nov 8, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Orange Forum – Web 1.0 style forum writte... Writing does not lock readers if you use the WAL feature (Write-Ahead Log, introduced in 2010) https://sqlite.org/wal.html > WAL provides more concurrency as readers do not block writers and a writer does not block readers. Reading and writing can proceed concurrently.

deafcalculus on Nov 8, 2017 [–]

Right. I meant it doesn't support concurrent writes.

zaarn on Nov 8, 2017 | [–]

On any personal website, that shouldn't be much of a problem, most blogs have only a few writes at a time

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