as for "Search in the age of slack", I totally missed that if we are going to do anything dynamic-ish and automagic for the front pages, that pulling a few entries from the mailing lists would probably help. Similarly the search engine should also incorporate lists.bufferbloat.net content.
At the distributed web conference last week, I was stunned by a sea-change in interactions, everybody posted their twitter handles, instead of email addresses, and were interacting over slack (rather than irc) or federating via matrix.org. I do not know to what extent the old and new can be federated together.... The new front page looks good on a handheld but is not particularly useful. I'd move make-wifi-fast to the top and make it a link, in particular. The opening day of that conference is up on youtube with talks by mitchel baker, vint cerf, tim berners-lee, and cory doctorow, all worthwhile... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yth7O6yeZRE Doctorow's talk (about 5 hours in) was particularly inspiring. I wish I'd got a lightning talk in, as "TCP 101" and the effects of bufferbloat on edge-distributed content seems to have been missed by the new guard. http://blog.dshr.org/2016/04/brewster-kahles-distributed-web-proposal.html In terms of other bleeding edge distribution concepts there's things like ipfs. _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat