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CoCalc: Collaborative Calculation in the Cloud
https://CoCalc.com
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Allow read-only access on a slow internet connection #3943

Open slel opened 5 years ago

slel commented 5 years ago

Could read-only access be offered on a slow internet connection?

Currently when CoCalc detects internet connection is too slow for proper operation, it does not let the user connect.

Instead, it could offer to connect in read-only mode, letting the user at least access files and download them for local use.

(At a research school in Cameroon, did not plan to demo CoCalc but hoped to be able to fetch some files to use them locally.)

haraldschilly commented 5 years ago

were you able to sign in and open a project?

my first thought is to add some additional static pages to cocalc, where you can sign in and see just your projects, click to start a project (to access it) and then browse the files.

The file-browser already exists. I.e. for a running project you can try it via an URL like https://cocalc.com/[project-id]/raw/