I should probably say something here since we're discussing Lucid Fried
Eggs.
First of all, I'm very glad that you're enjoying Lucid and memes.net.
Don't put too much stock in the codebase. It's pretty amateurish. You could
rewrite something much better with minimal effort.
Lucid Fried Eggs was originally created as a proof of concept. I did it on
my Christmas vacation a couple years ago. I haven't really made any changes
since.
Release early/often is a good mantra.
I still recommend the GPL for all software.
I suggest you borrow the structured links from Lucid, the ranking system and
semi-automatic softlinks from everything2, the chronological history from
weblogs, the universal purple anchors from bootstrap.org, the graphical
layout from TouchGraph, the WAP interface from ToughtStream, the personal
"views" from your own design document, the document abstraction layer from
NODAL.
Make it modular. Borrow libraries and abstraction layers wherever possible.
Make it secure for those who want accreditation (people seem to want
userlogins). Make it anonymous for those who require privacy.
If possible, make it webspider friendly. URL's like
http://www.memes.net/node_title will get indexed better than
http://www.memes.net/index.php?request=displaypage&nodeID=1
Make it simple to use. ( pasted URLS should be detected as links. linebreaks
should be detected as < br >'s )
Links must be reciprocal! Make inter-site two-way links as easy to create as
intra-site links
If possible, implement site-site replication of popular nodes, similar to
the Freenet design goals.
Above all, make it ridiculously easy to install. That will encourage
everyone to try it out on their system, ensuring a broad userbase.
Have you put together a design document? I know this fits in with everything
the OHS has been working towards, but it would be nice to have a concrete
reference or single whitepaper.
...Steve
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