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<title>farside/services/services.go, branch main</title>
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<title>Add environment variable to set services path</title>
<updated>2026-02-09T15:09:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julian Hurst</name>
<email>ark@mansus.space</email>
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<published>2026-02-09T15:04:47+00:00</published>
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Adds the FARSIDE_SERVICES_DIR environment variable to set the folder to
create/read the services.json file from.
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Adds the FARSIDE_SERVICES_DIR environment variable to set the folder to
create/read the services.json file from.
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<entry>
<title>Change base link for services json</title>
<updated>2025-05-27T17:34:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Busby</name>
<email>contact@benbusby.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-27T17:34:05+00:00</published>
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The sourcehut link is (rightfully) blocking unauthenticated requests, so
using the github link is more reliable.
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The sourcehut link is (rightfully) blocking unauthenticated requests, so
using the github link is more reliable.
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<title>Allow skipping instance checks for particular services</title>
<updated>2025-02-26T00:21:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Busby</name>
<email>contact@benbusby.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-26T00:21:05+00:00</published>
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Services like searxng don't need to have instance checks performed since
the nightly cron task filters out the instances already.
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Services like searxng don't need to have instance checks performed since
the nightly cron task filters out the instances already.
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<title>Rewrite project, add daily update of services list</title>
<updated>2025-01-21T20:46:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Busby</name>
<email>contact@benbusby.com</email>
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<published>2025-01-21T20:46:29+00:00</published>
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The project was rewritten from Elixir to Go, primarily because:

- I don't write Elixir anymore and don't want to maintain a project in a
  language I no longer write
- I already write Go for other projects, including my day job, so it's
  a safer bet for a project that I want to maintain long term
- Go allows me to build portable executables that will make it easier
  for others to run farside on their own machines

The Go version of Farsside also has a built in task to fetch the latest
services{-full}.json file from the repo and ingest it, which makes
running a farside server a lot simpler.

It also automatically fetches the latest instance state from
https://farside.link unless configured as a primary farside node, which
will allow others to use farside without increasing traffic to all
instances that are queried by farside (just to the farside node itself).
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The project was rewritten from Elixir to Go, primarily because:

- I don't write Elixir anymore and don't want to maintain a project in a
  language I no longer write
- I already write Go for other projects, including my day job, so it's
  a safer bet for a project that I want to maintain long term
- Go allows me to build portable executables that will make it easier
  for others to run farside on their own machines

The Go version of Farsside also has a built in task to fetch the latest
services{-full}.json file from the repo and ingest it, which makes
running a farside server a lot simpler.

It also automatically fetches the latest instance state from
https://farside.link unless configured as a primary farside node, which
will allow others to use farside without increasing traffic to all
instances that are queried by farside (just to the farside node itself).
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