The Overflow Offline project

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Post by donutshop » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 1:13 PM UTC

The Overflow Offline project
stackoverflow.blog

Re: The Overflow Offline project

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Post by 7373737373 » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 2:01 PM UTC

This is great! Too many services today become completely unusable when they encounter technical problems, are hacked or are just lost over time. Having an easily accessible offline copy is always reassuring, showing that their survivability does not depend on just a few people and the projects are fundamentally about the information, not an organization.

Re: The Overflow Offline project

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Post by cee_el123 » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 2:13 PM UTC

This is a amazing dose of humility.

Re: The Overflow Offline project

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Post by gragundier » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 2:15 PM UTC

I've always wondered if we could force web apps into some sort of "default" offline mode with like some offline://url.here . Very cool of overflow.

Re: The Overflow Offline project

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Post by throwoutway » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 2:31 PM UTC

gragundier wrote: post #4

I've always wondered if we could force web apps into some sort of "default" offline mode with like some offline://url.here . Very cool of overflow.

I like this idea; I wonder if there's a way to get Firefox to support this via the settings. There's already support for file:/// ftp:// etc

Re: The Overflow Offline project

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Post by xd1936 » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 2:31 PM UTC

Love this. Reminds me of the other Kiwix projects to make MediaWiki services like Wikipedia available offline[1]. The entirety of English Wikipedia is ~50GB of text and ~100GB of images.

1. https://wiki.kiwix.org/

Re: The Overflow Offline project

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Post by jokoon » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 2:34 PM UTC

I already downloaded documentations, like the python api, or the cpp preference website as a pdf or html archive.

I don't know if it's available for html or js or css, or opengl.

Re: The Overflow Offline project

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Post by sytse » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 2:36 PM UTC

You can also run FreeCodeCamp locally https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp/blob/main/docs/...

And I funded to work to run that on an Android phone https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=space.atrailin...

Re: The Overflow Offline project

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Post by throwoutway » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 2:36 PM UTC

This is awesome! At first I thought this only supported Stack Overflow and not the other 170+ StackExchange forums, but it looks like it does (or will?). From the blog:

> “We built the Sotoki (Stack Overflow to Kiwix) scraper in such a way that it can capture each and every one of the 180 Stack Exchange websites.”

Unclear to me if "can" means "does" or "will soon" or just "could"

Re: The Overflow Offline project

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Post by jhgkjhlkhjkljk » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 2:41 PM UTC

I assume this is so people can train AI on it. It's just hard to say that outright because some people don't like the idea.