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Re:OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application f... by contravariant on Monday August 14, 2023 @07:28PM (#37128164)
I think I get what you're saying but I have some difficulty moving past the fact that you're claiming it doesn't need to be a website because it would be sufficient if it was a bunch of hosted markup documents that link to each other.

We really f'ed up the web didn't we?

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Re:OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application f... by monetus on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @01:37AM (#37130582)
"If you want to get posh, have it use Jekyll"
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Re:OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application f... by Lutger on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @02:39AM (#37130921)
The irony is too fine to get lost here, even though explaining it is a mood killer.

Its funny I also missed it on first reading, which tells me have far this has gone.

The web, internet, www, etc literally was a bunch of markup documents linking to each other. That is what a website was. Its even in the name of its language: Hyper Text Markup Language.

Wouldn't it be funny if browsers started rendering markdown and we got to re-create the original simplicity (and ambiguity) of the web this way.

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Re:OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application f... by walterbell on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @08:01PM (#37140993)
> Wouldn't it be funny if browsers started rendering markdown and we got to re-create the original simplicity (and ambiguity) of the web this way.

We can start with browser plugins for rendering markdown.

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Re:OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application f... by monetus on Saturday August 19, 2023 @06:10PM (#37193820)
Analyzing a laugh is like dissecting something in biology - it is dead before you start, and not many people want to do it. But yeah, I've bookmarked https://wiby.me/surprise recently, and it has been a good time-waster.
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