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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,
Am Dienstag, den 14.06.2016, 11:39 +0100 schrieb Alan Bell:
> If you are looking for the one true branded social platform at one
> URL 
> and with all humans of the world on it, and you want the Ubuntu phone
> to 
> support it then you are doing it wrong. The whole webapp approach
> based 
> on Url patterns seems to be doing it wrong. it supports single url 
> instances of software as a service platforms. We have a lens that
> works 
> for bbc.co.uk, a webapp that works for gmail.com etc, they are built
> to 
> work with fixed fully qualified domain names owned by other people.
> What would be cool is having the webapp architecture work so that
> you 
> can build a webapp for "elgg instances" so you can go to 
> https://elgg.org/ and install elgg on your Ubuntu server for your
> tennis 
> club or school or software community and we have a client for the
> Ubuntu 
> phone that works well with software on your Ubuntu server. Not a
> client 
> on your Ubuntu phone that works OK with a specific proprietary SaaS 
> platform that hates freedom.

right, you would just have a snappy cloud instance (or your rpi at home
running snappy) that has the backend server as a snap to provide you
what you need, including full notification support etc in a safe, self
hosted way ...

ciao
	oli

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