Like I said, I have no idea how far LW is from having a good API already. (Not all HTTP traffic is a proper API, but maybe it’s a well written site.) If an API already exists, so much the better; move on to step 2.
By “client” I mean the actual client-side content and code of the website, or a client application for non-browser implementations. Not the browser (or equivalently, the OS).
Error, if I understand correctly, seems to want the ability to modify the UX and add new clientside features, with different users (like Error) choosing different features, and without requiring the server to be changed, everyone to agree, and the people who can actually change the server to spend time on it. If this is indeed Error’s main motivation, I suggested that it might be more easily (almost unilaterally) achieved by writing a new client. The new client might be web-based or not; that’s unimportant to the argument.
Like I said, I have no idea how far LW is from having a good API already. (Not all HTTP traffic is a proper API, but maybe it’s a well written site.) If an API already exists, so much the better; move on to step 2.
By “client” I mean the actual client-side content and code of the website, or a client application for non-browser implementations. Not the browser (or equivalently, the OS).
Error, if I understand correctly, seems to want the ability to modify the UX and add new clientside features, with different users (like Error) choosing different features, and without requiring the server to be changed, everyone to agree, and the people who can actually change the server to spend time on it. If this is indeed Error’s main motivation, I suggested that it might be more easily (almost unilaterally) achieved by writing a new client. The new client might be web-based or not; that’s unimportant to the argument.