Gregory's Server@akkartik @ColinTheMathmo
Curious to see how you're going to do layout, I have some ideas for the fedidag thing that I'm not managing to try out because in either direction I either need to build my own layout algo at near-graphviz quality and make it also incremental, or find way to retrofit incremental-ity using some sort or "chunk detection" to group and lock subgraphs.
Either one is daunting to me at the moment since I just don't know enough graph theory I think...
@akkartik
If you want to try that, it shouldn't be hard to get a HN discussion into dag.s-ol.nu at all. I'm not sure if HN has a JSON API, but even scraping it you just need to assemble a bit of JSON in this schema:
https://git.s-ol.nu/fedidag/-/raw/370d1f7dc1873b4e52990a65fc2694f173593356/lib/graph.json
That can be done in JS in the client or it can be done in something else (e.g. Lua) and served by HTTP. That way you can make the "id" URIs real and proxy user information from HN without modifying the client as well.
@akkartik
If you want to try that, it shouldn't be hard to get a HN discussion into dag.s-ol.nu at all. I'm not sure if HN has a JSON API, but even scraping it you just need to assemble a bit of JSON in this schema:
https://git.s-ol.nu/fedidag/-/raw/370d1f7dc1873b4e52990a65fc2694f173593356/lib/graph.json