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It's not clear what we're doing on the landing page. What is the subdomain? A subdomain of your domain? I'm assuming that, but I don't know... What will happe

It's not clear what we're doing on the landing page. What is the subdomain? A subdomain of your domain? I'm assuming that, but I don't know... What will happen when we connect our dropbox? Is that even what the submit button does? Just some thoughts... great work otherwise!

azylman 15y ago
This. I was really confused as to what was happening.
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iradik 15y ago
If you enter "foo" it will create foo.80cols.com for you and create a folder in your Dropbox called Apps/webcache/foo.80cols.com and host it. If you enter "www.yourdomain.com" it will work too, though you need to setup a DNS CNAME record and point it at 80cols.com. Clicking sunlit links whatever domain you enter to a folder in your Dropbox account called Apps/webcache/www.yourdomain.com/ Then whatever you put in that folder will be automatically synced to webcache and hosted within a minute. As you update the folder it will sync within a minute. Unfortunately Dropbox does not have a push API so I have to poll Dropbox to check if your files changed. Otherwise it would be faster. Dropbox has an rss even feed but it's not really designed for programmatic access and I would need to ask the user to provide it. Supposedly an events API is coming; that would be very cool.
dangrossman 15y ago
iradik replied to your comment but his reply is [dead], FYI.
- iradik 15y ago
  Why is it dead?
  - pg 15y ago
    You submitted two identical comments. When that happens the second is automatically killed. But meanwhile you noticed and deleted the first. I just unkilled the second.
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iradik 15y ago
Trying again... If you enter "foo" it will create foo.80cols.com for you and create a folder in your Dropbox called Apps/webcache/foo.80cols.com and host it. If you enter "www.yourdomain.com" it will work too, though you need to setup a DNS CNAME record and point it at 80cols.com. Clicking sunlit links whatever domain you enter to a folder in your Dropbox account called Apps/webcache/www.yourdomain.com/ Then whatever you put in that folder will be automatically synced to webcache and hosted within a minute. As you update the folder it will sync within a minute. Unfortunately Dropbox does not have a push API so I have to poll Dropbox to check if your files changed. Otherwise it would be faster. Dropbox has an rss even feed but it's not really designed for programmatic access and I would need to ask the user to provide it. Supposedly an events API is coming; that would be very cool.

azylman 15y ago

This. I was really confused as to what was happening.

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iradik 15y ago

If you enter "foo" it will create foo.80cols.com for you and create a folder in your Dropbox called Apps/webcache/foo.80cols.com and host it. If you enter "www.yourdomain.com" it will work too, though you need to setup a DNS CNAME record and point it at 80cols.com. Clicking sunlit links whatever domain you enter to a folder in your Dropbox account called Apps/webcache/www.yourdomain.com/ Then whatever you put in that folder will be automatically synced to webcache and hosted within a minute. As you update the folder it will sync within a minute. Unfortunately Dropbox does not have a push API so I have to poll Dropbox to check if your files changed. Otherwise it would be faster. Dropbox has an rss even feed but it's not really designed for programmatic access and I would need to ask the user to provide it. Supposedly an events API is coming; that would be very cool.

dangrossman 15y ago

iradik replied to your comment but his reply is [dead], FYI.

iradik 15y ago
Why is it dead?
- pg 15y ago
  You submitted two identical comments. When that happens the second is automatically killed. But meanwhile you noticed and deleted the first. I just unkilled the second.
- deleted 15y ago
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iradik 15y ago

Trying again... If you enter "foo" it will create foo.80cols.com for you and create a folder in your Dropbox called Apps/webcache/foo.80cols.com and host it. If you enter "www.yourdomain.com" it will work too, though you need to setup a DNS CNAME record and point it at 80cols.com. Clicking sunlit links whatever domain you enter to a folder in your Dropbox account called Apps/webcache/www.yourdomain.com/ Then whatever you put in that folder will be automatically synced to webcache and hosted within a minute. As you update the folder it will sync within a minute. Unfortunately Dropbox does not have a push API so I have to poll Dropbox to check if your files changed. Otherwise it would be faster. Dropbox has an rss even feed but it's not really designed for programmatic access and I would need to ask the user to provide it. Supposedly an events API is coming; that would be very cool.