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Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by EmilioMartinez »

userbinator wrote: post #27
chris_f wrote: post #2

When I picture it in my head I think of the early web as more of a library. Over time it has transitioned into a shopping mall. If I continue with this thought exercise, a lot of the big indoor shopping malls around me have been knocked down and replaced with standalone outdoor stores (walled gardens?). I'm not sure where things are going next.

It's still mostly a library, except with commissioned salespeople everywhere and books full of vapid content that scream, fly at you from the shelves, and turn their pages as you try to read them.

Don't forget the infinite pages books that expand as you read them. Until you drop them that is, and have to start again.

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by livatlantis »

kickscondor wrote: post #12

If you're interested in recent innovations on this front: (rather than just retreading the same Web as before) * Beaker ( https://beakerbrowser.com ) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release - and it has some exciting features. Particularly the built-in editor, meaning you can edit, serve and read your pages all from the browser. (Blogging in Beaker is as simple as visiting: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed52…

Wow, thanks for this list of things to check out. This is exactly the sort of thing I was hoping we'd be talking about and share.

I downloaded and am playing with fraidyc.at and am so far really liking the idea -- the whole idea made more sense after watching your video and then actually testing it. Thanks for making it.

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by mariobox »

kickscondor wrote: post #12

If you're interested in recent innovations on this front: (rather than just retreading the same Web as before) * Beaker ( https://beakerbrowser.com ) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release - and it has some exciting features. Particularly the built-in editor, meaning you can edit, serve and read your pages all from the browser. (Blogging in Beaker is as simple as visiting: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed52…

Thank you. I'll bookmark those sites. I was familiar with Beaker but not the others.

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by kickscondor »

mariobox wrote: post #113
kickscondor wrote: post #12

If you're interested in recent innovations on this front: (rather than just retreading the same Web as before) * Beaker ( https://beakerbrowser.com ) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release - and it has some exciting features. Particularly the built-in editor, meaning you can edit, serve and read your pages all from the browser. (Blogging in Beaker is as simple as visiting: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed52…

Thank you. I'll bookmark those sites. I was familiar with Beaker but not the others.

Really glad this was helpful. And it’s really cool you took the time to say thanks.

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by kickscondor »

livatlantis wrote: post #112
kickscondor wrote: post #12

If you're interested in recent innovations on this front: (rather than just retreading the same Web as before) * Beaker ( https://beakerbrowser.com ) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release - and it has some exciting features. Particularly the built-in editor, meaning you can edit, serve and read your pages all from the browser. (Blogging in Beaker is as simple as visiting: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed52…

Wow, thanks for this list of things to check out. This is exactly the sort of thing I was hoping we'd be talking about and share. I downloaded and am playing with fraidyc.at and am so far really liking the idea -- the whole idea made more sense after watching your video and then actually testing it. Thanks for making it.

Oh hey! Really honored you took the time. I love that your blog has has had some attention these past few days. You write very thorough articles and I love that you have a somewhat quirky design, Parimal. It’s classic!

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by [deleted] »

pixxel wrote: post #109
kickscondor wrote: post #12

If you're interested in recent innovations on this front: (rather than just retreading the same Web as before) * Beaker ( https://beakerbrowser.com ) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release - and it has some exciting features. Particularly the built-in editor, meaning you can edit, serve and read your pages all from the browser. (Blogging in Beaker is as simple as visiting: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed52…

What a wonderful post. I’ll be checking out the links when I’m at my desk. Many thanks.

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Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by pixxel »

kickscondor wrote: post #12

If you're interested in recent innovations on this front: (rather than just retreading the same Web as before) * Beaker ( https://beakerbrowser.com ) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release - and it has some exciting features. Particularly the built-in editor, meaning you can edit, serve and read your pages all from the browser. (Blogging in Beaker is as simple as visiting: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed52…

Hey – Installed Fraidycat (FC) and tested with DaringFireball (DF) feed. I see it shows the DF title and links to whatever 3rd party link DF is reporting on.

Title: The Unicorns Fell Into a Ditch

Link: bloomberg article

In this example the title is pretty much meaningless so I need DF's take on the topic before I make a decision to go off and visit Bloomberg. My existing RSS feed provides DF's blog content (text).

So I just wanted to understand whether I'm missing something here, or in fact FC is doing exactly what you designed it to do; title and link to 3rd party page only. Pretty much like how Hacker News (HN) operates?

Prehaps it's just the way I personally navigate. I never click on HN titles to go to 3rd party links. I always hit the comments first. The top comments usually give me a good overview before I decide to vist the 3rd party page.

Probably FC isn't intended for me, but I just wanted to sure I'm not missing something, because I'm genuinely excited to use. Regardless, many thanks for making FC.

P.S. I love the retro look of you personal site and FC's home page.

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by pixxel »

pixxel wrote: post #118
kickscondor wrote: post #12

If you're interested in recent innovations on this front: (rather than just retreading the same Web as before) * Beaker ( https://beakerbrowser.com ) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release - and it has some exciting features. Particularly the built-in editor, meaning you can edit, serve and read your pages all from the browser. (Blogging in Beaker is as simple as visiting: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed52…

Hey – Installed Fraidycat (FC) and tested with DaringFireball (DF) feed. I see it shows the DF title and links to whatever 3rd party link DF is reporting on. Title: The Unicorns Fell Into a Ditch Link: bloomberg article In this example the title is pretty much meaningless so I need DF's take on the topic before I make a decision to go off and visit Bloomberg. My existing RSS feed provides DF's blog content (text). So…

Also BTW, I joined Fish yesterday. Today I went to login and I couldn't. My password/email was definitely correct. So I tried resetting. When adding a new password the error message kept telling me that my new passwords didn't match.

I used a special character (&) in my password. I removed the ampersand and was able to reset password, and log back in.

Sorry if this isn't the correct channel for bugs (feel free to redirect me).

Cheers.

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by kickscondor »

pixxel wrote: post #118
kickscondor wrote: post #12

If you're interested in recent innovations on this front: (rather than just retreading the same Web as before) * Beaker ( https://beakerbrowser.com ) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release - and it has some exciting features. Particularly the built-in editor, meaning you can edit, serve and read your pages all from the browser. (Blogging in Beaker is as simple as visiting: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed52…

Hey – Installed Fraidycat (FC) and tested with DaringFireball (DF) feed. I see it shows the DF title and links to whatever 3rd party link DF is reporting on. Title: The Unicorns Fell Into a Ditch Link: bloomberg article In this example the title is pretty much meaningless so I need DF's take on the topic before I make a decision to go off and visit Bloomberg. My existing RSS feed provides DF's blog content (text). So…

That's cool - thanks Pixxel! So Fraidycat literally just grabs the title and link from each post in the feed - so it has to do with how DF formats its feed. It appears that the JSON feed works correctly tho: https://daringfireball.net/feeds/json

Also, there is a redesign underway that will give richer post view: https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/30

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