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I agree, websites are the wrong tool. What I'm envisioning is a desktop or phone app where you author posts and comments and read other people's posts and comm
by phyzome 8y ago
I agree, websites are the wrong tool.
What I'm envisioning is a desktop or phone app where you author posts and comments and read other people's posts and comments. The information is stored locally, but published out via a dumb server, with end-to-end encryption. Essentially, the server becomes an async dumb pipe (can just use WebDAV for this) or optionally a synchronous dumb pipe (if you add in a streaming protocol for notifications, such as websockets).
The software could also push up a static website made of any public posts, I suppose. :-)
I feel quite strongly that most users would benefit from their own device being the system of record for their posts, with the server functioning as coordination point and secondarily as an emergency backup.
(I'll be posting in more detail about this if you follow my blog's feed.)
- chriswarbo 8y agoAh, when you said "private" I thought you meant something that wouldn't be shared with anyone (e.g. a personal diary). You're right that some other solution would be better for "private but shared" content (although it would likely be tricky w.r.t. both security and psychological/social aspects like getting people to follow good practices to prevent leaks).
- phyzome 8y agoOops, yes, that was definitely less than clear. :-)