I haven’t, but I will absolutely look at this on the weekend! Thanks so much
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erlend_sh@lemmy.world 5 days ago
This sounds great!
Are you familiar with the local-first tenets? Seems like a natural fit for the local nature of your app:
carlnewton@feddit.uk 5 days ago
carlnewton@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Hey, I gave this a watch but their use of the word ‘local’ doesn’t match mine in this case. When I use the word local, I’m referring to a geographic area, or at least a server that represents a geographic area. It looks like when local-first talk about local, they’re referring to interaction on a device. It would be nice to be able to have habitat not require an internet connection to queue a post, this is a great idea and I’ll look into that, but their point on “it should still work on device if the remote server is down (or even disappears forever)” I don’t believe is possible when we’re building a community platform. Or, at least, if such a thing is possible, I wouldn’t know where to begin. I appreciate the heads-up though, I love that such a group exists.
erlend_sh@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah I get what you mean. What ‘works’ means in the context of local-first is flexible though. This might provide a useful framing: blog.jim-nielsen.com/…/offline-is-online-with-ext…
In any case, you’re definitely right to focus on your specific use case first without trying to fit it into any specific paradigm. I’m excited to follow Habitat’s progress!