rspeer/dominiate — Issue #18: Ability to save strategies from the Web
Author: rspeer
Created: 2011-10-17 07:46:38+00:00
State: open
Labels: feature

Clearly, Dominiate would be more pleasant to use if you could save strategies to the Internet, retrieve them, and link to them.

I rather like the fact that Dominiate runs without a server (besides GitHub's web server). To be able to save strategies, then, we need an external place we can save to.

My current thought is to use our Wiki on GitHub to store strategies, which requires only a GitHub account (no particular permissions). I've figured out how to automatically generate Wiki posts where the user just needs to click "save". This would require people to have GitHub accounts to save things, though, which may be a mental barrier to entry.

gist.github.com allows anonymous posts, but then the URL you get is an arbitrary number, so you'd have to hold onto that number to save the strategy. I just had a wacky idea involving sending the resulting URL to TinyURL and giving it a name again. One problem with that is that you couldn't revise a strategy under the same name.

And I suppose a system that let you alter existing strategies, completely anonymously, would be vulnerable to griefing.

Any other ideas?