Worked on understanding webpack. I know I am dicking around with a lot of tools, but in the end I think the increased productivity will be worth it. I understand it pretty well, and it beats everything else that I've seen. It works kind of like java compilation, in that when you require one file from another, it will automatically build the dependency. Also looked into using lbry as a backend. I'm somewhat skeptical of it for my use case, since it seems to be built around serving static files (ie videos and images). Since captain dirgo is going to be dynamic in that comments are added whenever anyone wants to, I don't think it would work well. I was thinking about the project last night. Below are some notes, but with the caveat that these are only ideas and I'm not committed to implementing them: - I think it should have a blockchain, so there is a consistent state between all peers. But I don't think it needs mining or a coin. It will have lightweight clients and heavyweight clients, and servers (also heavy weights) - Heavyweights can read and provide any part of the blockchain - Merkle tree backing - Servers compute final state. (This comment voted up/down, blocked, etc.) And can be queried for state. - Users can choose to trust the servers they want. - So captaindirgo.com would be a server. - Hopefully other people will want to be servers. Websites can also be servers. Benefits would be to draw traffic to their website. This would make captaindirgo harder to kill, because you'd have to kill all the servers. (Also a server doesn't have to have a website, it could be spun up by anybody) - Servers could also vouch for users, using email verification, captchas, etc. If a user trusts a particular server, comments vouched by that server would float to the top. This way servers can eliminate spam, but not in a way where they are able to censor the network. - Servers could also validate keys with user names. So, a user could have a specific icon next to it indicating that a server has vouched for it (much like a twitter blue check, but each server has their own icon and users could choose which ones they trust). - Blocked messages can be stored as just their hash, so that an illegal message, such as a dox or call for violence, can be removed from the blockchain by a particular server (this won't prevent other servers from keeping the data, however).