tayevnge <tayevnge at posteo.net> wrote: > Hello, Hi! > Please help me understand viability of creating simple form-based apps > like message boards, job offer boards, etc on Gemini. I'm going to quickly cover what I think are the best solutions to these two applications. Message boards *can* be done on Gemini. Short-form message boards, somewhat like Twitter, with short message sizes, can definitely be done. For example, you may have a 'post' page where the user provides plain-text input as the post to be made, and the server redirects them to the newly created post. Gemini provides and strongly recommends TLS client certificates for authentication, so I suggest that the server distributes a cert to the user when they sign up. But you can't do things like notifications. Long-form message boards which require different input formats, file and image uploads, notifications, etc. are much, much better to implement as mailing lists. All you need on top of a standard mailing list server is a way to neatly present that information (i.e. to view topics/mails), and that can be on Gemini easily. A job offer board could be implemented as a Gemini server which lists jobs and an e-mail address to receive e-mails from potential employees. I don't think that giving users actual accounts and verifying that they're human and stuff is a good idea - leave that up to the hiring companies. It would be pretty neat to have a free gemsite (?) listing job offers from FOSS companies. ~aravk | ~nothien
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