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Alert on changes to dynamic website w/ option to inspect #749

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hsanjuan opened this issue Aug 21, 2019 · 4 comments
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Alert on changes to dynamic website w/ option to inspect #749

hsanjuan opened this issue Aug 21, 2019 · 4 comments
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effort/days Estimated to take multiple days, but less than a week exp/intermediate Prior experience is likely helpful kind/enhancement A net-new feature or improvement to an existing feature need/analysis Needs further analysis before proceeding P2 Medium: Good to have, but can wait until someone steps up status/inactive No significant work in the previous month topic/design-content Content design, writing, information architecture topic/design-ux UX strategy, research, not solely visual design topic/design-visual Visual design ONLY, not part of a larger UX effort

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hsanjuan commented Aug 21, 2019 •
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Following up on https://twitter.com/momack28/status/1164120864503320576

Every time a dynamic ipfs-website (ipns or dnslink) is loaded through companion, companion could write down the resolved CID (in local storage) so that it is able to show a historical list of "known CIDs" for a given ipns or dnslink record, letting the user inspect "diffs" between the versions if requested to...
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cc. @momack2

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Stallman's mode: a warning showing "This website changed since the last time you visited it, would you like to inspect the changes?"

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momack2 commented Aug 21, 2019

coooooool! +1

This could be a nice entry point to pin the updated version as well! Having a UI on websites I visit to pin the contents to my local node for offline viewing, so I only have to load the diff each time // could choose to just view the version I already have cached would be really really useful!

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lidel commented Aug 22, 2019

I like the idea of tracking previously visited versions.
Companion could provide UI with options for:

  • storing specific snapshots in well-known MFS paths for easy access
    (MFS, because low level pin API is not use-friendly)
  • enabling periodical check and preload of future versions (cohosting + offline uses)

FYSA we are discussing a very light, MFS-based scheme for cohosting snapshots of IPNS and DNSLink websites. Spec draft at ipfs-shipyard/cohosting#2

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@jessicaschilling jessicaschilling changed the title [Feature] Allow diff-ing changes to websites Alert on changes to dynamic website w/ option to inspect Apr 7, 2020
@jessicaschilling jessicaschilling added exp/intermediate Prior experience is likely helpful effort/days Estimated to take multiple days, but less than a week kind/enhancement A net-new feature or improvement to an existing feature need/analysis Needs further analysis before proceeding P2 Medium: Good to have, but can wait until someone steps up status/inactive No significant work in the previous month topic/design-content Content design, writing, information architecture topic/design-ux UX strategy, research, not solely visual design topic/design-visual Visual design ONLY, not part of a larger UX effort labels Apr 7, 2020
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