馃懡 martin

It's Friday! Anyone got anything interesting planned for the weekend?

8 months ago 路 馃憤 cobradile94, radarsonar

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馃懡 ethereal

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. :/ 路 8 months ago

馃懡 ethereal

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 路 8 months ago

馃懡 marginalia

@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. 路 8 months ago

馃懡 tskaalgard

@ethereal I believe someone has already attempted this, but I don't remember where... 路 8 months ago

馃懡 ethereal

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. 路 8 months ago

馃懡 tskaalgard

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 路 8 months ago