Changes to @PicoPub - ssb-pub.picodevelopment.nl

A late morning back in Illustrator.

Now that I got a little bit of time on my hands to make some changes, develop some small things and just not think about work for a few hours (deadlines suck); I've decided to make @PicoPub - ssb-pub.picodevelopment.nl read only starting today. Even though I'm happy to host it, the pub isn't a viable solution to its original purpose anymore.

The purpose of this pub was to invite and welcome new butts into a neat corner of the SSB network and so it did! But being online for little under two years now; the Database is getting out of hand.
It is quite manageable from a data-perspective, but new people trying out Scuttlebutt and onboarding themselves using the pub were faced with an incredible amount of data to sync down. This caused ssb-clients to freeze for long amounts of time. Which let's be honest is not the experience I'd wish upon anyone, let alone people having their very first experience with this network. Thousands of people relying on a central point for their communications wasn't really the spirit of SSB either.

That doesn't mean that I'm no longer passionate about inviting and welcoming new people on board of this network though, the funky little Marvin character that I drew up as one of my first experiences with digital illustrations will live on as a Room!

Rooms allow new and old people on this network to connect to other people, much like my pub would. But instead of having a bartender with gossip; people entering the room will need to connect with each other and sync up when others are around.

Check out my full PSA over on Picopub's onboarding site and connect to PicoRoom if you feel like it ;)

I put an EOL date for the pub on the onboarding site, I haven't made up my mind if I really pull the plug or maybe just scale it down a bit. We'll see where the road goes from here!

to @andrestaltz, thanks a lot for putting all the work you've done so far on rooms as well as the plugins to connect to them present in my favorite SSB clients!

@Hendrik Peter Awesome! I look forward to your room having many people online. I suppose you don't mind if I share invites with select people here and there?

I liked the customizations you made to the onboarding site, such as background. One note about AGPL hygiene though, you have to publish the modified source, preferably linking to it from the onboarding site.

Hey @andrestaltz, go ahead with sharing!
Thanks for pointing me to the AXPL info. I'm branching out in my fork, so "all changes" are visible in a single diff-page. I'll make sure to update the footer with correct info ASAP.