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Re:Decentralised social network built on top of email by jaipilot747 on Monday July 16, 2012 @12:59AM (#4249370)
Storage space is not really a big problem with most major mail services offering >5 GB, but I wonder where all the static content would be stored, and how it gets updated when there is a change (eg. user profile picture). Surely, one wouldn't store those outside the mailbox?
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Re:Decentralised social network built on top of email by icebraining on Monday July 16, 2012 @08:21AM (#4250381)
Why not just send them as an attachment to a "Profile Picture Changed" event message? Then clients can delete the old attachments when they get the new.
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Re:Decentralised social network built on top of email by jasonlingx on Monday July 16, 2012 @01:08AM (#4249398)
They could integrate with the storage / media service provider of your choice i.e. Dropbox, iCloud, YouTube, Flickr... Etc!
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