I've been a little quiet past few days, I've been making progress on the backend of Member. Here's what I've been looking into.
Part of the Member roadmap is to have a personal desktop version of Member so that members can still write and read posts even if the Member website is banned in their jurisdictions o
r is forced to censor content because it is illegal in the jurisdiction of Member's servers.
This personal version requires a full node, so I intend to package BCH node software with
the Member server and client software. Most nodes require the full download of the blockchain (more than 100GB) to get started making them unsuitable for use with a personal version. H
owever BCHD has a 'fastsync' option that allows users to download a ~3GB file of recent BCH balances (a utxo commitment) and can be synced in a hour and requires only ~5GB of diskspace
to run.
So this is what the personal version of Member is likely to look like -
Server
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An SQL database
BCHD node, 5GB space required
Node.js Member server
Client
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Fat
javascript client
Possibly users will be able to set up a personal server in the cloud, and run the client app from their desktop or mobile device.
This is amazing! Looking forward to it. Hopefully we can get some help on the front end.
