wheresalice / gotwtxt

A Go implementation of twtxt - decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
MIT License
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Hey 👋 #1

Open prologic opened 2 years ago

prologic commented 2 years ago

Hey 👋 I'm James Mills / prologic, founder of the Yarn.social social media microblogging platform based on and around Twtxt 🥳

Sorry for the Issue, I sometimes trawl the web looking for all things Twtxt to engage with the growing community 👌 I also couldn't find any other way to teach out to you! Your website is offline 😢

Anyway, I just wanted to say, this is awesome to see another new client! 🥳 Have you also seen this one by quite?. You may be able to draw inspiration from this (I contributed some fixes and improvements to it last year).

One thing I notice your client (maybe still early WIP?) is missing is the notation of a cache and any capability to actually fetch feeds you're following.

I would also encourage you to have a read of our Twtxt docs and extensions; especially on Twt Subjects and Twt Hash(es) which are an important part of how we've come together (quite a number of us now) to form these updated specs/extensions (that are also backwards compatible) and actually make for a useful/interesting "social" experience whilst still being based on a simple twtxt.txt file 👌

Anyway. nice to see this! Have fun! 🤗

wheresalice commented 2 years ago

Hello, and thanks for getting in touch!

This is definitely a toy project for me, and might be fairly slow going at times, hence the releases being flagged as pre-releases. But it is already functional (and I've just added http caching, though I suspect most servers won't support that well)

I'd not seen the version by quite, I was basing a lot of my inspiration off of this bash version initially, but I may look at some other clients.

I'll have a look at your docs and extensions at some point, probably once I'm a little more happy with some of the basics.

prologic commented 2 years ago

and I've just added http caching, though I suspect most servers won't support that well

What do you mean by this? 🤔