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Re:Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing ... by ppezaris on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:58PM (#25060847)
Cool concept. In a world that's getting increasingly connected what are the main use-cases?

I ask because the dev tool that our company creates occasionally (okay, very rarely) gets a question about offline mode, and when I prod, it's usually just out of curiosity, not because they actually need it in real life.

Re:Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing ... by jaggirs on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @01:10PM (#25060967)
The coolest part I think is that you have a copy of all these websites on disk, which means you can run a full text search on all the websites you visited (or on their html, technically).

Browsers'history sucks. I don't know if this project does this, but I would absolutely love to be able to do SQL queries on my browsing history.

I have 'lost' many websites I remember visiting, but for which I didn't remember anything in the title.

Also, obviously, websites change sometimes, and the web archive might not have cached the website you visited. Although from what I can tell, this project doesn't version websites, it just caches the latest, so you would probably just overwrite the previous version accidentally.

Re:Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing ... by reaperducer on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:11PM (#25061734)
In a world that's getting increasingly connected what are the main use-cases?

Increasingly ≠ totally.

Even though I'm a developer, pre-pandemic I would have to spend a day or three offline several times a year while working. This would be useful for that.

I know an IT guy who works in mines. He loves anything that works offline.

Re:Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing ... by lxgr on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @01:06PM (#25060932)
This seems to geared towars "content goes down" scenarios, rather than "reader is temporarily offline".

It's a concern I have every time I find a particularly interesting independently hosted blog post or article.

The Internet Archive goes a long way towards making me worry about this less, though. (Let's just hope they don't go away!)

Re:Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing ... by graderjs on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:35AM (#25070942)
It's both. Not great for suddenly offline, as you need it on all the time and it is slow. But if you can plan it like, you're going in a mine, or spaceship or airplane, or the bush, or an alien attack or whatever... and you need offline to keep reading, then this works.

You can have archives from x day or x week or whatever, organized yourself, versioned with git, as you like, to save web content through version changes, removal or vanishing.