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djc / awmy

arewemeetingyet.com: help communicate meeting times to timezone-challenged participants
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[Question] Are any of these features in scope #23

Open patcon opened 6 years ago

patcon commented 6 years ago

Hi there! This is a really awesome little tool!

I've build a small landing page for entry into our own meetings, to help make ensure folks in our community know what they are consenting to on arrival at a video meeting: https://edgi-video-call-landing-page.herokuapp.com (click the sample link to see the page itself)

It's nothing fancy (which is good). But it's unfortunately very single-purpose. I was wondering whether you might be open to discussion on add two features to yours that would allow us to start using the same codebase :)

As I see it, two thing would works:

  1. a linked button to enter the meeting
  2. a place for description, accepting markdown

Curious your thoughts. Thanks again for the awesome tool!

djc commented 6 years ago

Hey, thanks for the kind words!

As you may or may not know, AWMY is completely stateless: all the information on a page is contained in the URL that you browse to. I don't really want to change that, either: I think the way it works is exactly right. This probably makes your second request a bit harder to do in a nice way, though.

On the other hand, the first request could probably be done, by having an optional query argument that passes in a URL for the button to point to. That would still make the URLs substantially longer, though, and therefore harder to read/follow/understand.

patcon commented 6 years ago

ah ok, gotcha! What about compressing a longer optional description into base64? Yes, less terse urls for those who use them, but it the flags are optional...? :)

I mean, I can always fork, it's just less exciting to be working on something on my own

djc commented 6 years ago

Yeah, that's probably the best way forward. Do you want to implement something like this yourself?