7 | | == Plain GNU Social == |
8 | | Just a custom theme |
9 | | |
10 | | Pros: |
11 | | - updates and maintenance easy since we are working straight from |
12 | | upstream |
13 | | - all GS features work as designed, e.g. polls, groups etc |
14 | | Cons: |
15 | | - no auto-updates |
16 | | |
17 | | == GNU Social + meteor == |
18 | | |
19 | | Pros: |
20 | | - we are still pretty close to upstream, just using meteor service |
21 | | in addition |
22 | | - auto-updating UI |
23 | | - GS features such as polls etc should work |
24 | | Cons: |
25 | | - some users don't like auto-updating, and some claimed it to be a |
26 | | bit "messy" (see quitter discussion above) |
27 | | - having the additional meteor service has some extra maintenance |
28 | | overhead, although from my own experience setting it up for dev.social it doesn't seem so bad |
29 | | |
30 | | === tech notes === |
31 | | Some helpful links from @vinz |
32 | | |
33 | | http://www.verbosity.ca/statusnet-identica-ostatus-microblogging/getting-real-time-updates-statusnet |
34 | | |
35 | | http://whird.jpope.org/my-statusnet-meteor-and-realtime-setup/ |
36 | | |
37 | | https://github.com/vinzv/gnusocial/tree/master/meteor |
38 | | |
39 | | == GNU Social + qvitter plugin == |
40 | | I'm not very familiar with the details of this one. |
41 | | |
42 | | Pros: |
43 | | - nice-looking interface which reminds of Twitter (easy to attract |
44 | | user of that service) |
45 | | - it handles auto-updates in a manner which some people prefer to |
46 | | meteor, i.e. it just displays e.g. "3 new posts" instead of |
47 | | disrupting the time-line |
48 | | - from discussions with @hannes2peer@quitter.se I have the |
49 | | understanding that auto-updates are just the JavaScript client |
50 | | polling, so no additional service (such as meteor) is needed |
51 | | |
52 | | Cons: |
53 | | - AFAIK the qvitter UI does not yet implement all GNU Social |
54 | | features, and at least on Quitter.se you sometimes have to |
55 | | fall-back to the old UI, this is ugly and confusing for new users |
56 | | |
57 | | == GNU Social + chimo's updater == |
58 | | |
59 | | chimo says it's experimental and not well tested |
60 | | |
61 | | https://github.com/chimo/gs-wsRealtime |
62 | | |
63 | | Pros: |
64 | | - looks like a really neat WebSockets-based system, i.e. real-time, |
65 | | not polling |
66 | | |
67 | | Cons: |
68 | | - setup and dependencies looks pretty heavy (although I'm not very |
69 | | familiar with PHP dependency management) |
70 | | - "Ratchet doesn't support SSL. One work-around is to use nginx to |
71 | | proxy those requests." |