[ANN] Flounder - a Gemini site builder/host

[alex wennerberg]

On Sat Aug 15, 2020 at 11:35 AM PDT, Zach ☁︎ wrote:
> Hey alex,
>
> This looks super cool and almost exactly the kind of thing I’ve been
> meaning to build for my friends to use. Is there anywhere you’d
> particularly like help? I won’t pretend to be a rust expert (and def
> not a gemini expert), but I should be able to contribute here and there.

The Rust code is a little wonky -- I'm experimenting with writing a
little more "low-level" code than I usually would, not using an ORM,
relying less on libraries and frameworks, but I'd love some help. I put
together some GitHub issues. Side note -- I know GitHub is very
un-"small web", but I am not super happy with the alternatives yet, so
consider it a necessary evil for now.

> Also I’m wondering how flexible flounder could be– I’d love to
> modify it so anyone on the server could add + edit pages + folders
> anywhere on the server. Since it’d be used by a group of friends (who
> love + trust each other), you wouldn’t have to worry about people
> coming in destroying others’ stuff. More just a fun way to
> collaboratively build a site rather than being segregated into separate
> user folders.

I had actually thought about this! My idea was that you could share a
page with other users so that they could edit it. It's a great idea, but
I also want to take an extremely conservative approach to adding new
features. Something I may implement down the road. Thanks for the
suggestion.


> Let me know what you think, and obviously would be totally happy to
> implement that weirdness in a fork. Would love to jump in and contribute
> either way!
>
> Cheers,
> Zach