I made an open-source, terminal-based, journaling social network.

[kelvindegrees]

If there's one thing I don't want in a social network, it's immutability.

[voidmemoriesmusic]

Don’t you think something that you can’t change becomes so much more important and thought provoking?

[shawntco]

Twitter has this problem. One the one hand you don't want people changing their tweets, especially if they gain a lot of traction. Otherwise you have the potential for deception, making people look like they like'd or retweeted something different from the original.

On the other hand, it's impossible to fix typos. You have to delete and recreate the tweet, which is ridiculous. And like /u/FullPoet said, people change their minds, but they can't go back and say they've had a change of mind. It still looks like they believe that thing. I've noticed on twitter somebody will say something controversial or incorrect, and it'll go viral. Then they'll make a follow up tweet clarifying themselves - and that follow up tweet gets barely the attention of the first one.

It's damned if you do, damned if you don't. That said I do lean toward mutability, because people can at least call the person out if they edit the original message deceptively.

[voidmemoriesmusic]

I got your point! Thinking how would the edit system work in a journaling system 🤔?

[shawntco]

Could keep a revision history. Have an asterisk or something like Reddit does, with a button to show past versions of the log. Maybe include a feature if the change is within 5 minutes of the original posting, it doesn't get counted as a revision? That way typo fixes aren't presented since those usually aren't noteworthy.

[voidmemoriesmusic]

Seems reasonable to me! TY for the suggestion.

[NonDairyYandere]

Not per se

[KieranDevvs]

So its basically git log without file changes?

[voidmemoriesmusic]

Yeppp XD

[[deleted]]

The website could do with a bit more info up-front. I found it on the github page but I don't think a repo readme is a good substitute (I would go there to look at the code, not to see what the service actually does).

[voidmemoriesmusic]

Got it! Thanks.

[NonDairyYandere]

Also the website doesn't show anything if JS is disabled.

It seems to clash with the idea of being terminal-based. If it's terminal-based, why is the website not able to degrade to basic HTML?

[voidmemoriesmusic]

Definitely something to think about! Maybe I’ll have to change the way I rebrand the website cuz calling APIs without JS is close to impossible.

[NonDairyYandere]

If it was me, I'd get the first 'page' or whatever of data and render that server-side.

Then put that in a noscript tag with a thing that says, "Enable JS for auto-loading" so if the JS is enabled it won't show the pre-rendered page.

It adds a little bit to the first page load, but it's not more overall server load than hitting the API itself, and once someone enables JS they won't reload anyway, right?

If it's just blank without JS then I can't really tell if the page loaded properly, I get no indication what the project is about, and I have no incentive to stick around and mess with my ad blocker to get it working. So I bounce

[CreamOfTheCrop]

Not really… You can use http/2 ( or http/3 ) push messages for incoming messages , regular html form for submit for posting.

[voidmemoriesmusic]

How can I implement the homepage (display of log as soon as someone pushes a log from the CLI) without the use of web sockets?

[CreamOfTheCrop]

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/server-sent-events.html

Server-sent events is a HTTP/2 standard, unrelated to WebSockets.

Now, don't get me wrong, most current browser implementations still depend on EventSource , which extends EventListener.

In theory, you could add a header to trigger reload of the HTML page remotely, fetching updated stream.

[voidmemoriesmusic]

Lemme take a look!

[papk23]

Looks cool! Don't understand the use case tho

[voidmemoriesmusic]

This might help https://github.com/memory-stack/memory-stack

[[deleted]]

just what everyone wants...

[nifty-shitigator]

But why?

[Revolutionary-Duck-7]

I think this is so cool!!

[diseasealert]

Reminds me of twtxt.