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> All the net needs is a standard API (non-disqus) which will allow people to discover How can a discovery API work? Please describe :- ) - What API endpoints
by KajMagnus 7y ago
> All the net needs is a standard API (non-disqus) which will allow people to discover
How can a discovery API work? Please describe :- )
- What API endpoints are needed and what would they do?
- How do they help with identifying good blogs?
- How do they help people discover blog posts they want to read, among all good blog posts?
- How can cheating, be prevented? (like, pretending one's blog post got 999 999 visits & "upvotes", to boost it's populartiy score)
I'm interested because I'm developing an open source Disqus alternative. (It's called Talkyard Blog Comments. There's also Commmento, also open source under active development.)
- HaoZeke 7y agoWell, the ideal API would have JS endpoints, since that's easiest to work with. I envisage a sort of client-side validation system, instead of a central server. Something like dat (https://dat.foundation https://dat.foundation). That would prevent cheating I guess. The idea is to not really aid discovery without having the current blog author endorse it. Either that or there might be a sort of voting system. What they want to read is something I would rather not work on. The discovery process should be for the site, not individual posts I guess. Talkyard is nice, I couldn't find Commento though..