Alice lia at loveisanalogue.info
Tue Sep 21 19:10:41 BST 2021
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On 21 September 2021 18:10:45 BST, nervuri <nervuri at 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