Noticed BBJ has a web-viewable interface

Just, a thing I had noticed when I went looking tilde.team over to try finding an appealing entry point for
friends to have a bit of a lifeboat given how ... unfriendly the larger web has gotten. It's there that I 
noticed BBJ has a web interface. I'm assuming this is read-only?

At the same time...

I dunno if it'd be better to try getting a lemmy instance up that has a more general focus than tilde.news,
or to try giving BBJ a web interface for writing posts. One of those cases of 'I want to try giving the
people I want to migrate something that won't scare them off, but i don't know if that would break things.'

Well there's always phpbbs LOL

Pardon? And.... can we not do the whole 'lol' thing? I get that you think it's
funny, but can we not act like we're fourteen and it's 1997 again? Please?

Request denied

In other words... lol no

I came here specifically because this is not the WWW and because there is somewhat
of a barrier-to-entry, mostly of taste. I generally dislike the idea of this
being mirrored in the surface web.

Where'd you find info on the web interface? I couldn't see it on their github or docs.

I am actually kind of happy this is NOT exposed to the web, since it makes brigading/trolling a bunch harder than visiting a website. Even your interaction with ~say there, we at least know that ~say was logged into the tilde instance rather than just some truly random web person.

I applaud the effort of trying to migrate people though! It's tough and we have a whole generation now who has never experienced the web outside of social media... Hell, there's a huge portion who don't even use computers...

By web interface I imagine you're talking about bbj.tildeverse.org
To be honest most of the time I'm reading over there.

I confess that if it wasn't read-only I would participate more.
Sometimes I'm active reader but don't reply for months.

As much as I like the Terminal I lack time to ssh into something,
or I just got lazy over the years.

Have yourself some friction:
  On the importance of fricion:
  <https://blog.darylsun.page/2025/01/23/se-5-indieweb-carnival-january-2025>

Interestingly enough, this URL doesn't show up on the web interface.

Let me post other URLs to see what happens:

1. https://tildeverse.org
2. https://bbj.tildeverse.org
3. https://tilde.club
4. https://blog.darylsun.page/2025/01/23/se-5-indieweb-carnival-january-2025

Never knew this. This proves that the BBJ is shared, however.

thanks for including the actual web address!

i have made a fully functional web client for bbj... its still in testing. but I am replying from my client right now.   Should be setup at a tilde.club URL eventually.  Will post when it is offered.  I will most likely keep the registration functionality disabled even though it does support registering as well.

Just to add it's live on https://bbj.tilde.club/

I think the fact that anything posted here is immediately visible on the
web should be stated more prominently someplace in the BBJ login
process. While there is no true privacy on the Internet, it's a little
disconcerting to discover that anything posted here is instantly available
to web scrapers around the world.

I would much prefer it if there were some kind of authentication
protecting the web interface.

I agree with you - I've been posting here expecting it to be private to the people authenticated only...

#13 been viewable on the web for like 7 years. its nothing new.

It's new if someone just signed up for the service.

Exactly.

I just wonder what the reasoning is? SEO?