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Thu Jan 28 15:59:30 GMT 2021
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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 thesetwo 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 providesplain-text input as the post to be made, and the server redirects themto the newly created post. Gemini provides and strongly recommends TLSclient certificates for authentication, so I suggest that the serverdistributes a cert to the user when they sign up. But you can't dothings like notifications.
Long-form message boards which require different input formats, file andimage uploads, notifications, etc. are much, much better to implement asmailing lists. All you need on top of a standard mailing list server isa 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 listsjobs and an e-mail address to receive e-mails from potential employees.I don't think that giving users actual accounts and verifying thatthey're human and stuff is a good idea - leave that up to the hiringcompanies. It would be pretty neat to have a free gemsite (?) listingjob offers from FOSS companies.
~aravk | ~nothien