The New AuraGem Ask
AuraGem Ask's overhaul is about 95% complete, but it's done enough to announce publicly!
AuraGem Ask is basically like Stack Exchange, but for Gemini. You can post questions within specific topics, people can post answers to those questions. Users can upvote answers they like, and the person who posted the question will (in the future) be able to select their preferred answer.
Aside from UI tweaks and the switch from Firebird to Postgresql, I've updated the creation of questions and answers so you can add multiple text segments. All posts also now start as drafts, allowing you to write your post before having it published. These features were very much influenced by how Bubble/BBS works, with some tweaks to improve usability.
Jun 30 · 7 days ago · 👍 cthulhu, bluesman, sbr
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Two issues (at least one)
- It seems user names aren’t checked, maybe not a problem but it lets me use the same username with different certs
- Currently I am unable to actually ask a question, tried in the scroll topic from two different browsers both via normal text and titan and it didn’t save either (the question body didn’t populate), only the title.
🚀 clseibold [OP] · Jun 30 at 05:58:
@sbr Thanks! I know what the problem is. I'm fixing it now.
🚀 clseibold [OP] · Jun 30 at 06:08:
@sbr Okay, the second issue has been fixed! I'll get the first issue fixed soon.
🚀 clseibold [OP] · Jun 30 at 06:15:
@sbr The first issue has now been fixed. Because your question was made with your second user, I have moved your first certificate to your second user, and deleted your first user. Both of your certificates will now login to the same user (the second user you created).
Thanks again for testing the capsule!
Looks like `Edit Text` and `Edit Title` both edit the title still.
Ah, it works via Titan, that changed the body.
As an aside, I find it a bit strange to use ~ask for this application. There is no rule perse but ~ has historically only been used for individual user accounts, rather than an application.
Another question, does the server do some sort of redirect when you load an ask topic? It seems to half load the page and then load something different.
🚀 clseibold [OP] · Jun 30 at 09:13:
@sbr Nope, no redirect is happening.
Where are you seeing a non-titan edit text? There's only "Edit segment" and "Edit title". Edit Text shouldn't exist.
I use "~" because some clients, like lagrange, put a link at the very top of the page to go directly to that path, like a user root, rather than the domain root. It makes it easier for people to go to the ask root without accidentally going to the domain root, basically. I use this to circumvent needing subdomains or a new domain, neither of which I can get right now.
gemini://auragem.ddns.net/~ask/7/4/addtitle
gemini://auragem.ddns.net/~ask/7/4/edit/addtext
These are the links avaiable when you edit or create a new question, they both change the title. Maybe thats intentional? I'd have thought the second is to edit the body.
Re domains, you can use subdomains as cname's to auragem.ddns.net? Unless you don't control any domains, I think I have a random domain I purchased and have no plans for that I can setup / transfer to you.
tilde.ink ?
ask.tilde.ink
search.tilde.ink
etc?
🚀 clseibold [OP] · Jun 30 at 09:31:
@sbr the addtext link should add a new text segment (much like in BBS/Bubble). I've just tested, and that's what it does for me.
Btw, I've just fixed a bug when creating answers. They now redirect to the edit page correctly.
🚀 clseibold [OP] · Jun 30 at 09:38:
@sbr The only time the title should be changed from body text is when you are *first* creating your question, you click "Add Text", which goes to the /create/text link, and you insert a level-1 heading linetype inside the body, and that creates a new question with the title and a text segment of your body excluding the level-1 heading. Otherwise, the title should never change from adding text segments.
Tried a new post and “edit text” is working!
Btw, I setup
ask/search/repo/github/music/twitch/youtube/chat/pub.tilde.ink to point to auragem.ddns.net so they will track your dynamic IP.
Feel free to ignore but this will allow you to use sub domains instead of ~ if you fancy. I don’t know why I bought this domain and don’t have any plans for it so happy if it can do something.
You can setup a single cert to work with all subdomains to simplify the use, I do this for my domains 8by3.net/org/com are all served with a single cert.
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