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I find the Technical Goals page particularly interesting and debatable: https://docs.tildes.net/technical-goals https://docs.tildes.net/technical-goals Accessi

I find the Technical Goals page particularly interesting and debatable: https://docs.tildes.net/technical-goals https://docs.tildes.net/technical-goals Accessibility and i18n aren't mentioned which is unfortunate.

Deimorz 8y ago
A lot of the docs pages are still very scattered and incomplete, but those are definitely things that I should add. Accessibility is definitely important to me, and luckily a lot of it comes naturally because I'm doing things in a very "old school" way like... actually using semantic, hand-written HTML instead of building it as an SPA that outputs unaccessible div-soup. I've done at least some checking to make sure it's decently accessible, but I know there's a lot more that I can do. I'm hoping to get some people involved that are more familiar with screen-readers and other assistive tech to help me figure out things I need to change. And of course, once it's open-sourced (should be in the next couple of weeks), if people want to help contribute accessibility improvements that would be hugely appreciated. As for i18n, it's not something I'm planning in the immediate future. Since one of the main goals on the site is keeping up quality, it's necessary for me to be able to understand what's going on in all the groups. However, it's definitely a possibility in the future, and the organization of the groups into a hierarchy some some interesting possibilities for it, where different languages could have their own separate group hierarchy.
- http-teapot 8y ago
  Thank you for taking the time to write this insightful answer. I really like your approach to this problem. I like the old-school and open not-for-profit approach. You are in for a tough ride and I look forward to hear more about it.
- wott 8y ago
  > However, it's definitely a possibility in the future, and the organization of the groups into a hierarchy some some interesting possibilities for it, where different languages could have their own separate group hierarchy. Finally a Reddit spin-off with a hierarchy! It should do marvels for discoverability, which is dreadful on flat Reddit-like sites. In my dreams, I'd like an even more Usenet-like system: * allow each base hierarchy to follow its own set of rules and govern its sub-groups; * a decentralised system, where each server is free to select which hierarchies it wants to relay or not. But anyway, even with a single server and single root system, having a hierarchy is already a big 'plus' in terms of organisation. And if someone really disagrees with the official tildes server governance, since the code is open-sourced, he can launch his own server with his own (disconnected) root hierarchy. PS: after writing this, I see that the decentralisation matter has a FAQ entry :-)

Deimorz 8y ago

A lot of the docs pages are still very scattered and incomplete, but those are definitely things that I should add. Accessibility is definitely important to me, and luckily a lot of it comes naturally because I'm doing things in a very "old school" way like... actually using semantic, hand-written HTML instead of building it as an SPA that outputs unaccessible div-soup. I've done at least some checking to make sure it's decently accessible, but I know there's a lot more that I can do. I'm hoping to get some people involved that are more familiar with screen-readers and other assistive tech to help me figure out things I need to change. And of course, once it's open-sourced (should be in the next couple of weeks), if people want to help contribute accessibility improvements that would be hugely appreciated. As for i18n, it's not something I'm planning in the immediate future. Since one of the main goals on the site is keeping up quality, it's necessary for me to be able to understand what's going on in all the groups. However, it's definitely a possibility in the future, and the organization of the groups into a hierarchy some some interesting possibilities for it, where different languages could have their own separate group hierarchy.

http-teapot 8y ago
Thank you for taking the time to write this insightful answer. I really like your approach to this problem. I like the old-school and open not-for-profit approach. You are in for a tough ride and I look forward to hear more about it.
wott 8y ago
> However, it's definitely a possibility in the future, and the organization of the groups into a hierarchy some some interesting possibilities for it, where different languages could have their own separate group hierarchy. Finally a Reddit spin-off with a hierarchy! It should do marvels for discoverability, which is dreadful on flat Reddit-like sites. In my dreams, I'd like an even more Usenet-like system: * allow each base hierarchy to follow its own set of rules and govern its sub-groups; * a decentralised system, where each server is free to select which hierarchies it wants to relay or not. But anyway, even with a single server and single root system, having a hierarchy is already a big 'plus' in terms of organisation. And if someone really disagrees with the official tildes server governance, since the code is open-sourced, he can launch his own server with his own (disconnected) root hierarchy. PS: after writing this, I see that the decentralisation matter has a FAQ entry :-)