The Yacy installation includes a primitive blogging tool, allowing each peer to be its own host for text and media communications. Using a modified Yacy blog I share a quick video recording with you… Searching a personal collection of books:
http://141.98.154.239:8090/BlogComments.html?page=310
The link above shows Yacy’s blogging possibility. But it also shows a specific method for searching your own personal collection.
Yacy has the potential to circumvent censorship. Any Yacy peer can function as a blogging platform, making it possible to share content on any subject.
In the video, I was using a Yacy peer in Pakistan, while I was in the United States.
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That’s a nice feature I never used because I already have a blog probably!! ^^
What did you modified in the original “YaCy blog”?
If you where able to search in your personnal collection that’s mean that your collection is public, right? That would make sens for a blog!
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I think I found your blog written in French. Easy-to-use translators make it easier for me to understand the content, so a different language is not a barrier for us like it used to be.
The modifications made to the yacy blog include:
Removed administration links, which blog visitors do not need to access.
Fixed pagination so visitors can view each post in order.
Added audio and video players
But even without modifications, anyone running a Yacy peer could share content as a basic web page. Yacy functions as a web server by default.
Yes, my personal collection of books was made publicly available. If you prefer to search offline and keep your documents private, you could use Linux and the free tool called silver searcher.
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Don’t you want to write a short resume of using the blogs for yacy documentation? Maybe just a few paragraphs for beginners?
Yacy documentation is new to me. I just saw your recent post showing some edits you made.
Documentation improvement
If I contributed more on this topic, I might be inclined to record another video about the basic blog format, especially how to find each peer’s blog, because that probably would not be obvious to new users, and could post that video here on the YaCy Community forum. I’m not sure if there is any demand for this.
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