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Nice to see this here today. A number of hosts the article mentions are on the startpage of lookit, a finger client I've been building: happynetbox, plan.cat, t
by jonathandeamer 1mo ago
Nice to see this here today. A number of hosts the article mentions are on the startpage of lookit, a finger client I've been building: happynetbox, plan.cat, thebackupbox's finger webring, etc.
The start page exists because finger has no discovery layer. finger @host lists users. lookit makes that list selectable, so you can wander a server instead of querying one address at a time.
I just released a v0.2 beta, feedback welcome: https://github.com/jonathandeamer/lookit/releases/tag/v0.2.0-beta.2 https://github.com/jonathandeamer/lookit/releases/tag/v0.2.0...
- andros 1mo agoGreat work! Perhaps a global database or a parallel project like a search engine focused on fingering is needed. The sources are scattered, and clients like yours would greatly benefit from that. I'd also like to mention that if you have Emacs, I also have my own client: https://git.andros.dev/andros/efinger.el https://git.andros.dev/andros/efinger.el
- jonathandeamer 1mo ago"The Charted Public Fingerverse" does a pretty good job at this! https://640kb.neocities.org/fingerverse/ https://640kb.neocities.org/fingerverse/ Was definitely an inspiration for lookit. And yes, a search engine would be cool!
- andros 1mo agoWow! Thank you!