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  • Re: Friendbook Retro Clon

    From Knight Shadow@VERT/BONEYARD to Fae Empress on Sat Sep 19 21:19:00 2026
    I can kind of get it to work on Netscape 3.0 if I turn off Javascript,
    but the layout sucks. I haven't tried it on Lynx. I'd also be curious to know if it works
    on Arachne.

    Cool project! And I like the Tandy! :)

    Any reason why you are adverse to HTTPS? I wonder if anyone would sign up without it these days?

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  • From Fae Empress@VERT/INTRANIC to Knight Shadow on Sun Sep 20 17:24:41 2026
    I can kind of get it to work on Netscape 3.0 if I turn off Javascript, but the layout sucks. I haven't tried it on Lynx. I'd also be curious to know if it works
    on Arachne.

    Any reason why you are adverse to HTTPS? I wonder if anyone would sign up without it these days?

    Older browsers can't handle the encryption algos used today, heck, some even don't support anything other than port 80.

    As far as sign ups, I'm mostly doing the projects for my own entertainment/nostalgia.

    Cool project! And I like the Tandy! :)

    I wish it had an rs232 serial port so I could do some BBS'ing.

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  • From Knight Shadow@VERT/BONEYARD to Fae Empress on Sun Sep 20 21:36:00 2026
    Older browsers can't handle the encryption algos used today, heck, some even don't support anything other than port 80.
    Ok, I see now.

    As far as sign ups, I'm mostly doing the projects for my own entertainment/nostalgia.

    Got it, makes sense.

    I wish it had an rs232 serial port so I could do some BBS'ing.

    That would be cool. Do you have any other vintage computers/electronics? Sadly I have none anymore. My first computer was an Apple 2e, and I wish I still had that as well as the old PCs I had from the 80s. Cyberdecks seem fun so I might play with that.

    Your Tandy was cool because it was your childhood computer is that right? So cool you held onto it! But if you have any other fun things, let me know (or post on Friendbook :) )

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Fae Empress on Mon Sep 21 08:05:20 2026
    Fae Empress wrote to Knight Shadow <=-

    Older browsers can't handle the encryption algos used today, heck, some even don't support anything other than port 80.

    As far as sign ups, I'm mostly doing the projects for my own entertainment/nostalgia.

    I see both sides. I like the "encrypt everything to make it harder to
    encrypt the important stuff" angle, but I also serve lots of content
    that doesn't contain PCI, isn't sensitive, and I couldn't care less if
    it's not encrypted in transit - especially smolweb stuff like a blog
    I'm running on a tilde I joined.

    Although the tilde does have a SSL cert - that's one benefit of tildes
    - making it easier to encrypt by needing one cert only.




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