Re: Emacs for forums?

[tomas]

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On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 06:37:37PM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> Count me in as someone who would appreciate a non-native interface to
> forums.

Agreed. There's a war going on between the Web on the one side, which
wants me to "experience" a web site as a designer (and its Vulture --
uh Venture Capitalists) want me to "see" (and sometimes to hear)
it and me, on the other side, who just wants to get at its information
in the (for me) most convenient form possible. If I want an "experience",
I go to the movies, thankyouverymuch.

> In addition to wanting an interface better integrated with
> Usenet and email, some of the forum sites have annoying properties it
> would be nice to paper over.

Very politely put. Sometimes I feel the web site designers would
reach directly to my neurons if the current "HTML5" had an interface
(they call that "API") for that.

>                 Do any of these forum sites support
> REST-ish APIs? How do phone-based apps like Tapatalk communicate with
> these forum sites? Are they just glorified web scrapers?

I think the current situation is that they use "frameworks" which
integrate front-end and back-end more and more tightly. Still, there
is a limited offer of those frameworks and most of them are free,
thus I think there's a chance... yet. The next phase will be that
the whole front-end/back-end combo will be compiled as a huge
impenetrable Web Assembly mess. Then, our window will close.

Perhaps it opens again when some strange form of AI is capable of
reverse engineering that kind of abomination.

Sometimes I'm glad I'm old.

Cheers
- -- tomás
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