Website Archival Reasoning? / Looking to Contribute

Benjamin nystire at gmail.com
Sat Dec 14 20:11:56 PST 2019


Dirk, dives-share.appspot.com seems to be down. The page returns a 404
currently.

Benjamin

On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 at 17:36, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

> Hi Connor,
>
> I added you as an approved sender to the mailing list, so responses from
> you won't be held for moderation...
>
> On Dec 13, 2019, at 11:15 PM, Connor O'Shea <oshconn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was wondering why the subsurface-website repo has been archived? I was
> looking to start contributing there as I am more familiar with web-apps
> than desktop or mobile clients.
>
>
> The reason for archiving that repo is that I no longer use it to feed
> content into the website. Having a WordPress based website that is publicly
> accessible caused way too many hacking attacks.
> I am now maintaining the web content rather differently - it's not a great
> setup, but the result is a static web site that performs MUCH better and is
> by definition much harder to hack for attackers.
>
> Also, I am curious about the general direction of subsurface and whether
> there is any interest in having a webapp platform along with public/private
> logs (similar to https://en.divelogs.de/) given the data on subsurface
> cloud.
>
>
> Rainer Mohr, the maintainer of divelogs.de is a good friend of the
> Subsurface project and works with us closely. I always felt that there
> wasn't really any point in us duplicating all the amazing work that he has
> done there.
> We do have a way to access the cloud data via the web (
> cloud.subsurface-divelog.org) which is rather basic and could use some
> help - this is implemented through the export-html app that is part of the
> source tree.
> Also, there is dives-share.appspot.com which was build by a Subsurface
> contributor to allow you to share your dives in a different way...
>
> /D
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