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It's Friday! Anyone got anything interesting planned for the weekend?
2 years ago · 👍 cobradile94, radarsonar
I actually got a small proof of concept working, with state persistence just by saving to local files, and I looked into hosting it on a free tier at some cloud hosting.
Unfortunately all free tiers assume some kind of external database. :/ · 2 years ago
I also thought about saving state in the URL, but ultimately decided against, because:
It means that state is never persisted. (Except for bookmarks, I guess)
Without serverside state, user->user interacation is not possible · 2 years ago
@ethereal Don't know if this helps, but I had an idea a while back of encoding a "game" state in an URL, basically base64-encoded bit fields. Not particularly difficult to set up the encoding and decoding, and state-mutation can be through by redirects. This effectively getting around the need for keeping any state on the server. · 2 years ago
@ethereal I believe someone has already attempted this, but I don't remember where... · 2 years ago
Not really planned per se, but this whole social network site you set up got me wanting to make a simple interactive server for gemini.
Something like a MUD or something.
"You are in a dark room, you see an exit to the east and the weest"
"> Go east"
That kind of thing. · 2 years ago
Saturday I work, then we have D&D with some friends, then Sunday I work, then we have dinner with my sister. Nothing too exciting :p · 2 years ago