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 I am getting various responses to this like, "Looking forward to your twitter archive creator! What happens with my twitter data when I upload it to your service? How do you expect me to upload a multi-gigabyte zip file?" You don't know me very well. There is no upload at all. There's no service, no server. The data stays on your computer. Everything happens in the browser client :AngelDevil: We are all so trained to assume that "web application" means "a server does the work"! 9 comments
@Tijn I have this notice on the "make it yourself" tool that is not yet released. People are just making the assumptions from the text in my tweet about how I'm going to make a service @jonas I have! It's great but it requires you to run node.js, and do a bunch of other dev-type stuff. I wanted something that is 100% in a browser and just involves you uploading a file and unzipping it, which is possible even if you just have cPanel access @darius What if we want to post our Twitter archive as a searchable database online? @steventdennis the thing I am making is something you can upload to any web host. But I'm not going to set up a service to host other people's data @darius This made me think, because it's a thing that's currently impossible to prove to users, but what if browsers had an irreversible `navigator.disconnect()`, plus a UI indicator? @kosinus that would be neat! right now the only way a user has to prove it is to basically go into airplane mode before running the code and close the browser tab before reconnecting to the internet |
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@darius Maybe you can explain on the page your data isn't actually uploaded. The people at https://loudnesspenalty.com also do this for example :)