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Sorry, I have no idea what you mean. DrRacket is a binary you download and run on your desktop. What parts of Racket are "cower[ing] behind Cloudflare"?

jbclements 4y ago
I think the poster is referring to racket-lang.org, which is served through cloudflare. But wait! I have a solution. If you want the web site content locally, the whole thing is built from the public repo at `https://github.com/racket/racket-lang-org https://github.com/racket/racket-lang-org`. The readme contains instructions for building it locally. The CSS on the local blog posts probably won't render correctly, but if you're reading the text, that probably won't bother you.
- nonrandomstring 4y ago
  Exactly this. I actually just pulled the whole source tree and built it for FreeBSD this morning. What I'm really referring to is the community. Especially for things like forums and docs that need only be read-only. The fixation with Cloudflare bewilders me. Surely most technically minded people know it's a mixed blessing that offers as many ills as advantages? With respects, I don't really want a conversation about the merits and madness of Cloudflare. Been there and done that. I'm simply pointing out, in case any Racket community people are here, that small details like this can have a serious impact on the uptake and enjoyment of something valuable.
  - samth 4y ago
    From the Racket website maintainer side, CloudFlare provides us both with a free CDN as well as free https in front of the S3 buckets that comprise the web site. Unfortunately, S3 and other AWS costs are real and Cloudflare provides a high quality and free service. I will note that we don't host our forums ourselves so those should not be affected.
    - nonrandomstring 4y ago
      Appreciate that you've noted my niggle Sam.
      - samth 4y ago
        You can also visit http://www.racket-lang.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ http://www.racket-lang.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.co... (and similar urls) which will not use cloudflare.
nonrandomstring 4y ago
The domain racket-lang.org is entirely behind the Cloudflare estate. Obviously there is no single locus for a language as such, but racket-lang.org dominates the search results and carries the most up to date documentation under the subdomain docs.racket-lang.org. It is also listed as the Official Website on wikipedia.org.
- skrishnamurthi 4y ago
  Thanks for the clarification.

jbclements 4y ago

I think the poster is referring to racket-lang.org, which is served through cloudflare. But wait! I have a solution. If you want the web site content locally, the whole thing is built from the public repo at `https://github.com/racket/racket-lang-org https://github.com/racket/racket-lang-org`. The readme contains instructions for building it locally. The CSS on the local blog posts probably won't render correctly, but if you're reading the text, that probably won't bother you.

nonrandomstring 4y ago
Exactly this. I actually just pulled the whole source tree and built it for FreeBSD this morning. What I'm really referring to is the community. Especially for things like forums and docs that need only be read-only. The fixation with Cloudflare bewilders me. Surely most technically minded people know it's a mixed blessing that offers as many ills as advantages? With respects, I don't really want a conversation about the merits and madness of Cloudflare. Been there and done that. I'm simply pointing out, in case any Racket community people are here, that small details like this can have a serious impact on the uptake and enjoyment of something valuable.
- samth 4y ago
  From the Racket website maintainer side, CloudFlare provides us both with a free CDN as well as free https in front of the S3 buckets that comprise the web site. Unfortunately, S3 and other AWS costs are real and Cloudflare provides a high quality and free service. I will note that we don't host our forums ourselves so those should not be affected.
  - nonrandomstring 4y ago
    Appreciate that you've noted my niggle Sam.
    - samth 4y ago
      You can also visit http://www.racket-lang.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ http://www.racket-lang.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.co... (and similar urls) which will not use cloudflare.

nonrandomstring 4y ago

The domain racket-lang.org is entirely behind the Cloudflare estate. Obviously there is no single locus for a language as such, but racket-lang.org dominates the search results and carries the most up to date documentation under the subdomain docs.racket-lang.org. It is also listed as the Official Website on wikipedia.org.

skrishnamurthi 4y ago
Thanks for the clarification.