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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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Query params were not included when using the "/_/" prefix for farside
links. This extracts the logic for parsing query params into a function
that is then used for both /_/ and non-/_/ links.
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This adds a straightforward way of preserving Farside's redirecting
behavior in the user's browser history. That way if an instance becomes
unavailable between the 5 min scans, the user can opt to navigate back
one page and be taken to a new instance.
This is accomplished using a single line of JS, and could potentially
work as the default behavior of Farside (with the current default
behavior requiring a path prefix instead). This should be revisited down
the road when more people are using this service.
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