Suggestion: Endorse http://infogalactic.com/ as the approved wiki of SaidIt

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[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (45 children)

I don't know what any of that means. I have been consumed by SaidIt and yet to learn Mastodon stuff.

Maybe start a /s/SaidItDecentralization sub to discuss and develop all decent options openly. I'd start by proposing stuff to M7D3 for their approval. If they don't understand it then you can develop your pitch or come up with others. If they understand it they can approve it and you can code it for them to implement. They have their own lives and priorities and will implement stuff in time. The SaidIt logo was done in late January, maybe into February and in only got added a few days ago.

Sure and steady as she goes.

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (44 children)

Oops; I didn't mean to write that jargon. I was actually asking for your opinion on the UX of it, but didn't really actually ask that.

Do you think it would be OK to have URLs looking like this?

https://saidit.net/e/saidit.net/s/Saidit/comments/lid/suggestion_endorse_httpinfo…

(though obviously with the ability to write other site names there instead of saidit.net!)

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (43 children)

I don't know what a UX is.

I love the idea of using more than just /s/link. I've been saying almost since arriving that we could have a whole shortcut system, as on Wikipedia, where for example LV:link would take you to the Latvian Wikipedia. InfoGalactic I think has a WP:link.

I'd hope to see thinks like:

  • /r/Reddit
  • /wp/Wikipedia
  • /ws/WikiSpooks
  • /ig/InfoGalactic
  • /yt/YouTube
  • /ddg/DuckDuckGo

And so on. One thing I just came up with, excepting the Reddit standard, is the idea that 2 or 3 letters means off-site. In this way the single letter could be exclusively for SaidIt purposes. For example, maybe /w/Topic could be a shortcut substitute for /s/Topic/wiki/ (regardless of an external sister wiki), or in the future maybe there will be something like /b/Books, /i/Images, /m/Music, or /v/Video. And say in the future, maybe I'll wear them down enough to start their own MediaWiki-based sister-site. This whole /123/thing could be developed in a sub and people could submit their requests for the SaidIt equivalent of DuckDuckGo !bangs.

As for your /e/ I don't know what the "e" means. External?

I don't know what you mean okay if they look like that. Looks aren't critical. It looks confusing and redundant. I'd need to know what the purpose for so much extra stuff to approve it.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

UX is User eXperience. It's like UI but more, it means the whole flow of using the product, it is easy or is it stressful, surprises or intuitive, etc.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You'd think I'd know that having delved into that dating back to the SoftImage flow in 1996 or so and being keen on ergonomics.

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (40 children)

The purpose is that, ultimately, you can use your Saidit account to read and post on any Saidit-like site, or Mastodon instance, or Prismo instance…

I also think it looks redundant and confusing, but I can't think of a better way of doing it.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (39 children)

I don't know what Prismo is. There are a lot of them.

I like the purpose.

Why configure it so that:

https://saidit.net/e/Saidit/comments/lid/suggestion_endorse_httpinfo…

Automatically implies something like:

https://saidit.net/e/saidit.net/s/Saidit/comments/lid/suggestion_endorse_httpinfo…

And just have the /e/ and /s/ essentially equivalent on local SaidIt and mean whatever elsewhere?

e = Everything? External? Excelsior?

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (38 children)

We've already got /s/ for that purpose, and since it's possible to make a sub called /s/saidit.net that URL scheme is (sadly) not feasible.

A possible alternative to having that /e/ scheme is having a longish hex string. I don't like the idea of that, though.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (37 children)

Your first sentence makes no sense to me.

I don't know why you're reinventing the wheel, again, again, again.

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (36 children)

… Ok.

Imagine that we have two completely different websites. One of them is saidit.org. The other is saidit.net. You can access saidit.org from saidit.net with the URL:

https://saidit.net/e/saidit.org/

and the other way around with:

https://saidit.org/e/saidit.net/

Do you think that there's a better way of doing this?

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (35 children)

How about:

https://saidit.net/org/

and

https://saidit.org/net/

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (34 children)

The whole point of decentralisation is that anyone can set a new Saidit up and it'll almost seamlessly connect to the others, so there's no reliance on a central entity like m7d3. How would this scale to, e.g. wizzwizz4sepicawesomesaiditclone.freedomains.website?