jman <[email protected]> writes: >> Could you elaborate about user experience? Which specific aspects are >> you referring to? > > Just what is stated in my previous comment: instances of these frontends are > often down (like > Christian Moe says), some tend to be behind POH ("Proof of Human", so to > speak) challenges like > Anubis which are a hinder (but a necessary evil). In my opinion, nothing > kills the user experience > like having to fiddle and jump through hoops to get to a video.
I think Anubis is totally fine. codeberg, AFAIR, is using it. As for instances being down, we can automate detecting working instance using, for example, https://api.invidious.io/. Combined with the idea to use github:/reddit:/youtube: links, it should make maintenance minimal. >> Hmm. [gothub] looks totally fine to me. Not much different from github if I >> am just interested to see what the project is in read-only mode. > > gothub proxies are *totally* insufficient for anything else than looking at > the README of the > project (and again, what Christian said). I expect a GiHub proxy to at least > show issues and pull > requests. Fair. I think there is a feature request on the gothub repo about this. > I think that if RMS feels this is an issue worth solving, I have an idea: > maybe RMS could ask the > FSF to provide some sysadmins resources, deploy and maintain these frontends > under *.gnu.org and > keep them up 24/7/365. I am afraid that it will not really solve problems with stability. *.gnu.org infra is already under stress. We even had a request recently to get rid of links to gnu.org CSS because gnu.org was down, hindering loading online Org manual. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode maintainer, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
