although I agree that it helps, I don't see completely correct to leave the nick definition to the source .txt. It could be wrong from the start or outdated with the time.

I'd rather prefer to get it from the mentioned .txt nick metadata (could be cached for performance). So my vote would to make it mandatory to follow <a href="/timeline/profile?url=url">@name</a> but only using that name/nick if the URL doesn't contain another nick. A main advantage is that when the destination URL changes the nick, it'll be automagically updated in the thread view (as happens with some other microblogging platforms, following the Jakob's Law)

word of the thay, prosoal Is it a typo of Proposal right? =P (Genuinely asking)

nice! would you mind elaborating a bit? Is that the scientific method? I couldn't find anything related when I searched for it.

Django channels are cool! I had the chance to make a online gaming framework with Channels and Django Rest and was a great experience.

I'm looking forward to doing something in Django LiveView soon.

and going back to a handle you could input in your client to look for the user/file, like @nick@domain.tls I think Webfinger is the way to go. It has enough information to know where to find that nick's URL.

@prologic does that webfinger fork made by darch work OK with yarn as it is now? (I've never used it, so I'm researching about it) https://darch.dk/.well-known/webfinger/

Oh no! Wife and I agreed on hibernate until January, just visiting relatives but avoiding any kind of shopping. I tried buying something like 2 or 3 days ago and it's insane :o

Good luck! :)

I'm just having a similar issue with a podcast I just uploaded on Castopod (which supports ActivityPub).

My first thought was creating a subdomain with the name of the podcast mordiscos.eapl.me

Then I watched that the software allows many podcasts in the same domain, so I had to pick a handle: https://mordiscos.eapl.me/@podcast

So now I have @podcast@mordiscos.eapl.me when this one is 'more correct' @mordiscos@podcast.eapl.me or it could even be @mordiscos.eapl.me I wasn't aware of all that when I setup Castopod (documentation might improve a lot, IMO)

My point here is that it's something important to think from the start, otherwise is painful to change if it's already being used like that.

my 2 cents here... I agree on displaying a short @nick.

We could hover on the nick to see the full detail which could be @nick@domain.tls or the full URL Also it could be a display option in Preferences in case your account starts showing many collisions.

The disambiguation for collisions is the .txt URL and the nick inside it, right ?

BTW I'm watching that darch has already worked on that, interesting https://github.com/sorenpeter/timeline/blob/main/_webfinger-endpoint/.well-known/webfinger/index.php

hey!

I think we could discuss on implementation details like URLs and Handles.

@nick@eapl.me (Masto/Yarn style) vs @nick.eapl.me and @eapl.me (Bsky style)

I see, for example, that yarn shows my account as @eapl.me@eapl.me which looks 'weird' although it's not wrong since my domain and my nick are the same. Honestly I like more the Bsky approach as in https://bsky.app/profile/eapl.me for @eapl.me, as when you look for https://eapl.me, it's my home page.

Also, I didn't get it completely if you are also proposing a URL standard using subdomains, like https://nick.domain.tls. I only want to point out that these are more difficult to handle from shared hostings, so I'd prefer to also allow https://domain.tls/nick/

after thinking and researching about it, yep, I agree that WebFinger is a good idea.

For example reading here: https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial I wasn't considering some scenarios, like multiple accounts for a single domain (See 'How can I set and manage multiple subdomain handles?' in the link above)

since twtxt is based on text files, I think you can consider @domain.tld as an alias of http://domain.com/twtxt.txt (or https://domain.com/tw.txt, among other combinations in the wild).

Or perhaps you can use DNS TXT records? Although I think that's a bit more complicated for some environments and users, I'd go with looking for a default /tw*.txt

haha, that's gold xD.

#randomMemory I remember when I was starting to code, like 30 years ago, not understanding why my Basic file didn't run when I renamed it to .exe

And nowadays, I've seen a few Go apps in a single executable, so twtxt.exe could be a thing, he!

well, the extension helps to know the file format as in .txt and .html, perhaps .twt, he!

Want to help improve the shoddy code?

Hehe, although it isn't a fancy language PHP has improved a lot since the old PHP 5 days ¯_(ツ)_/¯ It's 3 to 5 times slower than Go, so I think that's not too bad

My bad! My editor was set to use 4 spaces instead of a tab... Making twts by hand is hard =P

Also I'm thinking on adding support for If-Modified-Since since it'll improve the refreshing process 🤔

Hey! I tried running Timeline on my server with the default PHP version (8.3) and it's giving me a few errors https://eapl.me/timeline/ I should be sending a PR soon to fix it ;)

Thanks @lyse! I'm replying here https://text.eapl.mx/reply-to-lyse-about-twtxt

Damn, it's certainly broken. Thank you for letting me know! I'm editing my .txt file by hand, and it seems WinSCP editor doesn't support that character and replaced them all =/

Hehe, thank you guys, I'm still alive :)