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Create a web interface to access content from browser

Open MurzNN opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

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Clear and concise description of the problem

The app is great, but when it comes to sharing content with others, it becomes useless!

Why do I need to force users to install the app, just to share with them some content pages? They just refuse this suggestion, instead of installing and registering.

And even for me, when I'm on another computer (eg on a colleague's laptop in the office) and want to get some information from my account, I have to install the app to their computer?

Suggested solution

To resolve this issue, please provide a web interface to access shared content from any browsers, like Notion, Skiff, and other projects do.

Alternative

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MurzNN avatar Mar 26 '24 04:03 MurzNN

I see two ways to interpret this:

  • manage cryptography and networking in the browser, like implementing a full Anytype frontend. This suggestion has been understandably rejected previously.

  • have your computer running and sharing an Anytype space over HTTP in the LAN. This would probably be possible to implement using the upcoming new REST API as well, if upstream doesn't want to maintain it.

    A way to run a server/peer which does this would be amazing to, for example, share documentation on an intranet. Maybe the "Publish to Web" feature can be used for this.

The cons with this is that you lose end-to-end encryption and authentication/ACL. How would you manage edits? They'd show up as coming from your account.

axelkar avatar May 24 '25 07:05 axelkar