Daily Descent

site spec

the site collects posts from a network of writers. each writer has a dat archive that contains a writer.json file, described below. the list of writers is found in the site's staff.json file

staff.json

{
	"staff": [{
			"name": "cblgh",
			"dat": "dat://7f2ef715c36b6cd226102192ba220c73384c32e4beb49601fb3f5bba4719e0c5"
		},
		{
			"name": "neauoire",
			"dat": "dat://2f21e3c122ef0f2555d3a99497710cd875c7b0383f998a2d37c02c042d598485"
		}
	]
}

staff writer format

each staff writer has a feed of posts, an array, according to the following format

writer.json

{
	"posts": [{
		"timestamp": 1507846216271,
		"link": "dat://beakerbrowser.com",
		"title": "BeakerBrowser 0.8 is here",
		"short": "The long-awaited beaker 0.8 has arrived!etcetcetc ",
		"tags": ["beaker", "dat", "browsers"],
		"long": "BeakerBrowser, the only browser with dat protocol support as of now, has landed their 0.8 version which contains many new features and p2p ideas.[...]",
		"media": "/path/to/media || choose_random"
	}]
}

cross-posting to rotonde

posting to a rotonde account can be done by a bot that reads the posts by each author in writers.json. the bot then posts the link, the short desc and the media.

staff guidelines

i think wikitribune has a good idea on how to manage something like this

• How to write
• Style guide