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CĂ´me Chilliet come at chilliet.eu
Wed Jan 6 21:36:04 GMT 2021
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Le mercredi 6 janvier 2021, 21:47:27 CET Alex // nytpu a Ă©crit :
I see no reason why your board server couldn't use a database (or a
non-gemtext file format) in the backend. It would probably make it a
lot easier when querying and parsing since you can use a custom
structure that suits your internal data format, then just render to
gemtext once you're done.
There is no reason other than it was what I was feeling like doing. I dislike setting up and using databases and I liked the idea of having something really simple, and as static as possible.But of course another implementation of the same specification could be built upon a database and even be fully dynamic.
The board should present a threaded view of messages
I have mixed feelings on threaded forums in general, but if you think
it's best it it's not the end of the world.
This is a presentation advice, but a board server may chose to list messages in an other way.
However, it would
/significantly/ simplify implementations if you just chronologically
grouped messages by post tag. You'd no longer have to query every
single tagged post and find the first link, instead just querying the
gemini feed page, saving lots of server time and bandwidth for both the
board hoster's server and the post author's server.
However, this non-threaded approach creates a problem. This is the only
situation I've come across so far that is actually limited by the gemini
feed's no timestamp limitation. Since conversations can happen in the
span of a day, it would make it hard to group them. This would be the
main reason I could think of for keeping the threaded design currently
proposed.
I like the idea of replying to a specific message of the thread, as we do on mailing list.
Maybe I should add the requirement that the post link to the board thread as well as the post it’s responding to. This would ease updating because you know exactly in which thread a message goes without searching in the thread.But I liked the simplicity of just linking to what you are anwsering.
CĂ´me