[Freedombox-discuss] blogging in the FB (was Re: Roadmap Brainstorming)

Lorenzo lorenzo at usucapio.net
Fri Mar 18 08:05:14 UTC 2011


Il 18/03/2011 01:40, Les Orchard ha scritto:
> On 3/17/11 7:04 PM, ian at churchkey.org wrote:
>> On 03/17/2011 06:40 PM, Les Orchard wrote:
>>> OpenID provider?
>> There's a nice wordpress plugin for that if we're building blogging in.
>
> FWIW, if blogging is built in - or some form of web publishing - it 
> should be something that doesn't necessarily rely on exposing an 
> always-on PHP server to the world. That is, maybe not Wordpress but 
> something like Jekyll that produces plain static HTML pages.
>
I completely agree: when possible the "active" behavior of webpages 
should be implemented in JS (client side). In general however I think 
that as most services as possible should be accessible only to 
authenticated users. This would cut significantly the possibility of 
hacking random fb with a worm.
> That content could be hosted from the box itself, from a bucket on 
> Amazon S3, a US$1/mo web host, and/or even shipped around to 
> content-addressable mirrors.
I agree that this is the way to go for world-readable content. I believe 
however that if i want to publish blog posts that only my friends can 
read or share with them some pictures publishing to a third-party is not 
an option. In this case the FB could play a role.

> One way or another, the content could be assembled on the FB but 
> hosted elsewhere, accounting for issues of incoming traffic 
> overwhelming a residential cable modem or intermittent connectivity to 
> the box in general.

I guess you really have a lot of friends :) I think that in a normal 
setup there would be not more than one concurrent user of the 
freedombox. I believe this because as I was saying above I think content 
published by the FB should be accessible to a small number of 
authenticated people.

Lorenzo



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