Re: Not always online capsules



On 21 September 2021 18:10:45 BST, nervuri <nervuri@disroot.org> wrote:
>On Tue, 2021-09-21, Alice wrote:
>>Are there any protocols that could be used with (say) Gemini for 
capsules that are not always online ?
>
>A more feasible idea is for Gemini and Gopher clients to keep local
>archives of visited pages, so that they can be accessed when servers are down
[...]
>
>To echo some other suggestions:
>- with something like geminitrack, you can save entire capsules in
>  gempub format for offline reading;
>- resilience against servers going down is one of the main goals of IPFS

Archiving or caching capsule content are both good approaches to making 
the content available when the capsule is down.

But that's only one part of the problem. One thing it doesn't do is tell 
new users "hey, this capsule is offline right now, but it will be back tomorrow".

My assumption, when I follow a link and I just get an error message, is 
that the capsule is dead, and the project abandoned. I assume an always-on 
internet. I'm wondering how we can change this assumption, and make it ok 
for capsules not to always be online.

:-)
Alice

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