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From: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: screenshot of the web interface to the GNU Guix package manager
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 16:22:46 +0200
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ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:
>
>> knxrby@onionmail.info writes:
>>
>>> On https://git.dthompson.us/guix-web.git/blob/HEAD:/README.md
>>>
>>> there is a dead link to
>>> http://media.dthompson.us/mgoblin_media/media_entries/20/Screenshot_f=
rom_2014-08-13_180724.png
>>>
>>> - so no visible screenshot of the web interface to the GNU Guix packa=
ge
>>> manager here...
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a screenshot maybe?  Thx!
>>
>> You can see a running instance of Guix web at
>> <http://guix.mdc-berlin.de>.
>>
>> It runs a slightly modified version of Dave=E2=80=99s code.
>>
>> ~~ Ricardo
>>
>
> A good number of people have pointed out to me that our /packages page
> crashes their browser or in general is really uncomfortable to load.
> The impression would be better if we provided something which might not
> be 100% done but at least does not crash/hang systems.
> What's in the way to use guix-web instead of the listing we have?
> Perfectionism and/or a lack of time?

I seem to remember that it would have to be hosted elsewhere because all
GNU pages are static and managed in CVS.

~~ Ricardo