Some readers on http://refactorcamp.org mastodon flagged an interesting but difficult UI problem with my blogchains format. They’d like to be able to follow along like Netflix, picking up where they last left off. If they’ve only read 7/10 parts, part 8 should be their view.
Done server side, cookie-based management is janky (expiration timing and cross-device persistence mess) and more stable stateful user accounts for all readers is a nightmare for both publishers and readers (and both are GDPR nightmares; I don’t want to manage users)
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Client side is far cleaner. Not email. Email is push. Not RSS. That’s also push. Though both have queuing of unreads, it is not quite what you want. You want it factored by “show” and pick up where you left off. Need new streaming style UX. Not unread-buffer style.
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@ykgoon@warrenellis@tomcritchlow Might not be a solvable problem. We may be at a QWERTY-like bad equilibrium with blogs, but worth laying this out in case someone wants to use this to own the future of blogging.Show this thread
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Hmm. Are you still doing personal consulting, or is that edged out by full-time work? I'd be happy to trade an hour or two, I think this should be pretty easy to do just client-side (keep views in localstorage and add a button at the top saying "continue from episode 8" maybe)
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I am, but very limited bandwidth for the moment, and I find barter generally works poorly for me. If pure client side is the answer, I’d rather pay someone to do it. Probably the people who wrote the series plugin I use is the right person since they can maintain.
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