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The objective is not to get viral. The website is for your loved ones to know what you are upto. It could be mode of checking up on you without texting or calli
by quaintdev 3y ago
The objective is not to get viral. The website is for your loved ones to know what you are upto. It could be mode of checking up on you without texting or calling you. It could just be a contact card or whatever you want it to be.
> also DNS updates don’t propagate fast enough to cope with you joining different Wi-Fi networks
True. But imagine if we had perfected this since 2009 we would have had a solution today. Same goes for other things.
- dave4420 3y agoDo not underestimate the chances of a video of your new kittens getting shared amongst tens of people. Or the impact that those uploads would have on your dodgy 3G connection. It makes sense to host stuff you want to share on sort of server in a data centre somewhere, even if you think of that server as basically a cache. And no, I would still have no internet access when I was in a train tunnel, even if there had been a big push behind this sort of hosting.
- haspoken 3y agoPerhaps a simple solution would be a hosting service that would provide a small, basic site for free. The owner could edit the site using phone friendly tools, and people could see the site regardless of the state of the phone. Hacker News has had discussion about a 1mb site that has offered free hosting. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=1mb.co https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=1mb.co https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=1mb.site https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=1mb.site