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Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

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Re: Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

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Post by susam »

superkuh wrote: post #50

It would be cool if the javascript were re-written a bit to only use standard long existing javascript features so one didn't have to run a modern corporate browser to use the "wander" functionality. It did not work in my browser even with JS enabled.

Sorry to know it did not work in your browser and thank you for reporting the problem here. If someone is able to reproduce it and share details either here or at https://codeberg.org/susam/wander/issues>, especially which JavaScript features are not working, I would be happy to update the code.

I am aware that I have used a number of relatively modern features. For example, I suspect `for ... of` might be one, and perhaps `Element.append()` (instead of `Node.appendChild()`) could also be an issue. Unfortunately, I do not have old browsers to test this reliably, so any help in identifying the exact constructs or functions causing problems would be very appreciated.

Re: Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

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Post by collabs »

I love the idea. One small thing - Ran into a problem almost immediately

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Nightly Can’t Open This Page

To protect your security, drkhsh.at will not allow Nightly to display the page if another site has embedded it. To see this page, you need to open it in a new window.

Re: Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

#65

Post by efskap »

Balinares wrote: post #44
susam wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

17 + 11 URLs from https://dahlstrand.net/wander/wander.js + 26 URLs from https://www.siddharthagolu.com/wander/wander.js that I link to from the above link. So 54 URLs so far. The number of URLs grow as more people add this tool to their website and add each other as neighbours. The tool is capable of discovering neighbouring consoles and showing URLs from there.

Did we just reinvent webrings 25 years later? :) (Not a diss. Webrings were cool.)

They're cool, but centralized and, well, a ring. I like how this is a decentralized graph, the next step in their evolution.

Re: Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

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Post by neuroelectron »

collabs wrote: post #64

I love the idea. One small thing - Ran into a problem almost immediately -- Nightly Can’t Open This Page To protect your security, drkhsh.at will not allow Nightly to display the page if another site has embedded it. To see this page, you need to open it in a new window.

My problem is I didn't understand what this was, refreshed the page and lost what i was reading to the ether.

Re: Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

#67

Post by pibaker »

I hope platforms like these find a way to attract people outside tech circles. I looked at around a dozen recommended sites and only two of them isn't the personal website of someone who works in tech and writes mostly about tech, which gets boring rather quickly.

There is a world of non-tech bloggers writing stuffs about history, culture and nature who would likely never learn about this project simply because they are not in the right social spaces. I hope there is a way to have them in the ecosystem too.

Re: Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

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Post by susam »

collabs wrote: post #64

I love the idea. One small thing - Ran into a problem almost immediately -- Nightly Can’t Open This Page To protect your security, drkhsh.at will not allow Nightly to display the page if another site has embedded it. To see this page, you need to open it in a new window.

The drkhsh.at website does not allow itself to be embedded in another website:

  $ curl -sSI https://drkhsh.at/ | grep -i frame
  x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
The problem appears to be that someone in the community added this website to their console even though it wouldn't load successfully.

See also a similar discussion here: https://codeberg.org/susam/wander/issues/3

There is also a note in the project README requesting console owners to be mindful of this while adding links: https://codeberg.org/susam/wander#caution

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