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   Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 09:54:41 JST Alex Gleason

   Working on pulling in servers dynamically. ?

   It’s just hitting the /api/v1/instance endpoint for each of them to return data.

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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 10:32:31 JST Alex Gleason

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     • Salastil

     @Salastil I can put in just a list of domain names, and it automatically generates the page by crawling those domains and generating metadata.

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     Salastil (salastil@pleroma.salastil.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 10:32:32 JST Salastil

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     @alex Meaning it adds relays as it discovers unknown servers or is this just a "pump the primer" thing for new instances?
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 10:33:35 JST Alex Gleason

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     • Tassoman

     @tassoman Better?

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     Tassoman (tassoman@orwell.fun)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 10:33:37 JST Tassoman

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     You're missing the moar important ?
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     nekobit (nekofag@rdrama.cc)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 10:34:23 JST nekobit

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     @alex shouldn't you store these in the database? A json file is going to get difficult to parse later on.
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     Salastil (salastil@pleroma.salastil.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 10:34:30 JST Salastil

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     @alex Oh this is a thing for soapbox website to give you options for servers running Rebased/Soapbox.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 10:35:03 JST Alex Gleason

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     • nekobit

     @nekofag There is no database. This is almost exactly the thing https://joinmastodon.org/servers is doing.

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     shrimps! (animeirl@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 10:37:28 JST shrimps!

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     it'll be exactly the same to parse
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     LurkPerry (lurkperry@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 10:38:10 JST LurkPerry

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     @alex They should smoke weed and join Gleasonator
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 10:38:23 JST Alex Gleason

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     • LurkPerry

     @LurkPerry It’s green for a reason.

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     nekobit (nekofag@rdrama.cc)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 10:40:25 JST nekobit

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     @alex Oh, this is for the main Soapbox website? i get it now.
     
     I'd still cache the info tbh, you're sending IPs to these servers for anyone that visits the website.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 10:57:35 JST Alex Gleason

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     • nekobit

     @nekofag It’s a static site generated with Next.js. It fetches all that info at build time then generates the page. I can create a schedule in GitLab CI to rebuild it periodically.

     The only thing I haven’t sorted out yet is dealing with remote images. I could proxy them, but I kinda want to figure out how to download them at build time and just add to the build.

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     nekobit (nekofag@rdrama.cc)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 10:57:57 JST nekobit

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     @alex Yeah i realize that, i thought it was soapbox-be
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     nekobit (nekofag@rdrama.cc)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jan-2023 11:02:42 JST nekobit

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     • shrimps!
     @animeirl @alex Well for one, I misinterpreted him, I thought this was like some represented server info for the Soapbox backend.
     
     Second of all, No it's not. With JSON data, you read the whole file into buffer, or rather a javascript string, then you parse it. This is in fact how it works on. With SQLite, you open a file (tell the OS that you want to use it) and then read it. Look at the Chromium JSON parser (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/base/+/refs/heads/main/json/json_parser.h) and confirm this, it's O(n) time for reading the data. Obviously, JSON wasn't made for this at all.
     
     With SQLite3, the file is opened, but it only reads out the pieces of information that it needs before leaving.