Use solid as export option

[Otto-AA]

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• Is this a bug or suggestion?: Suggestion
• Version (click on help icon in footer): 3.6.2
• Context - Web app, Chrome extension or both?: Web app

I recently heard about the solid project, which from my point of view would fit together with this application. The idea of solid is to decouple the application and data storage, which is done by providing a common storage place ("Pods") to which the application is granted read/write access.

For the webmaker app this could be used to provide an online decentralized storage option. The implementation should be rather easy, because the server part is handled by the pods, and there is a simple API for reading/writing data to the pods. I myself haven't got much experience with solid though.

[chinchang]

Looks really interesting! I'll check it out.

[Otto-AA]

Are you still considering this?

The solid integration part should be fairly simple. One call to a function for opening a login popup and then the user is logged (I think some weeks only due to security concerns). Then one/two calls to get the preferred data storage place and finally one for uploading and one for downloading. I can also help you with that part if you want.

[Otto-AA]

Note: If we want it to make it interoperable with other apps we would likely need to upload the files separately and probably have some standard config file which others could also make use of. But that's not necessary to use solid.