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[stavros]

It's personal preference, some people will prefer Beaker, we personally liked the "drag some files to a folder and that's it" UX.

By the way, I'll mention this here because it isn't evident on the Hearth page right now: You can get your own username on Eternum for free, and it will redirect to the latest hash that Hearth publishes (i.e. the latest version of your website) automatically.

You can do this even if you don't use Hearth (we have an API for it), here's an example with my username:

https://www.eternum.io/user/stavros/

[lucideer → stavros]

> we personally liked the "drag some files to a folder and that's it" UX.

Beaker does this...

In terms of getting a free username on a HTTP website, https://hashbase.io/

Disclaimer: I haven't used Hearth, so I can't compare, but Beaker doesn't seem like it could be much easier.

[super_trooper → lucideer]

Am I missing something? Beaker requires you to use their browser? Not really apples to apples

[lucideer → super_trooper]

Beaker is a browser that supports http:// and dat:// - you can:

- use Beaker to publish/"host" dat:// websites (as you can use Hearth to publish ipfs websites)

- use Beaker or any dat:// client to browse dat:// websites

- use any browser to browse dat:// websites via http through hashbase.io (similar to eternum.io)

[_npki → lucideer]

On the cli side, you can also browse/explore dat content with https://github.com/millette/dat-shell

[mirimir → lucideer]

OK, but IPFS sites are just HTTP/S via a gateway. So any browser works. Indeed, there are IPFS gateways on Tor onion services.

[zaarn → mirimir]

The last point mentioned has that too, hashbase.io is a HTTPS gateway for dat://

[stavros → lucideer]

Oh I see, thanks. I'm not very familiar with Dat/Beaker, but I'll try it out some more, as I missed that mechanic.

[lucideer → stavros]

Quick demo if you don't want to install: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwLaEyKGc90

[bmcusick → stavros]

That website gave me a good chuckle. Was that your actual website from back when, or did you just "take inspiration" from the old days?

[stavros → bmcusick]

Haha, no, I just made that yesterday as a quick test of the redirection functionality (it uses bootstrap), although I did also find my actual old website from when I was 16:

https://anonymoussoftware.stavros.io/

Ahh, iframes and tables, so cutting edge :)

[cabalamat → stavros]

> we personally liked the "drag some files to a folder and that's it" UX.

How much extra work would it have been to add a "drag some files to a folder and run publish_website" interface, for Linux and Windows users? Hardly any, given that the functionality is already there.

Not only that, it would make the system more easily scriptable. For example, it is probably easier on MacOS to get a Makefile to run an executable than to drag files to a folder.

[salvar → cabalamat]

> For example, it is probably easier on MacOS to get a Makefile to run an executable than to drag files to a folder.

Easier for whom?

[cabalamat → salvar]

The person writing the makefile. Make can easily run executables. Getting it to simulate GUI movements is, I expect, possible, but harder to do.