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Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

#11

Looks nice. Is there any reason to use getopt over flag in Go? How do you find the experience with sr.ht?

I prefer getopt because it's more succinct and more standardized.

I made sr.ht :) I can't give you an unbiased opinion, but naturally I think it's quite nice given that I designed it explicitly to suit my needs. Check out the marketing page for some more details:

https://sourcehut.org

Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

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post #8

ah, what's old is new again. i can't wait to get my 1999 on! =) the subtitle is a little more informative: "A webring for static site generators." i'm glad to see this kind of the movement toward self-deplatforming. i wonder how comments are both attributable and decentralized? i'm not a fan of comments being blog posts themselves (which would be one solution to this), as they're often "less formal" than a post and s…

We're doing this in the IndieWeb community, an example: https://jeena.net/comments/1045

The background technology: https://indieweb.org/Webmention

The rather unsuccessful try to do a indiewebring: https://indieweb.org/indiewebring

Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

#15
What do everyone use for feed reader !? My old phone used to have a built in feed reader. And my old browser also used to have a feed reader. Looked on Google play and there where very little to choose from. Thinking of creating my own feed reader ... Or have "blogging" moved over to "Youtubing" and the occasional podcast !?

Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

#16

Looks nice. Is there any reason to use getopt over flag in Go? How do you find the experience with sr.ht?

> Is there any reason to use getopt over flag in Go?

Its parser follows the POSIX utility syntax guidelines and behaves like most POSIX tools. The flag parser on the other hand is simpler, but can lead to some surprises if you are used to getopt-like parsing.

Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

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post #14

Very cool! Since I already have my feeds sitting locally in my feed reader's db, it'd be cool if I could just pipe that out to Openring somehow.

Hmmm oh I suppose if I just exposed my feed reader's aggregated feed as an rss feed over a local http server, I could just point Openring at that! I might try to whip that together this afternoon! (I use newsboat in case anyone else is interested in such a thing.)

Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

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post #18
post #14

Very cool! Since I already have my feeds sitting locally in my feed reader's db, it'd be cool if I could just pipe that out to Openring somehow.

Hmmm oh I suppose if I just exposed my feed reader's aggregated feed as an rss feed over a local http server, I could just point Openring at that! I might try to whip that together this afternoon! (I use newsboat in case anyone else is interested in such a thing.)

Actually, I'm afraid this won't work (but I would be interested in seeing if you could write a patch for it). Openring is designed to only use up to one article from each feed, to keep the set of links diverse.

Re: Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

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post #8

ah, what's old is new again. i can't wait to get my 1999 on! =) the subtitle is a little more informative: "A webring for static site generators." i'm glad to see this kind of the movement toward self-deplatforming. i wonder how comments are both attributable and decentralized? i'm not a fan of comments being blog posts themselves (which would be one solution to this), as they're often "less formal" than a post and s…

To be fair, lots of people (certainly I) think we took a series of wrong turns on the information superhighway in the 2000s, toward a dangerous level of centralization, so...maybe looking backward is good.
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