I think these people are actually making some good points in this article ... https://medium.com/s/story/its-time-to-embrace-digital-nutrition-5371bd736cb
@LWFlouisa I myself, I know what they mean, though I don't think it's necessarily the term I would have chosen had the article been written by me.
I get the basic idea what they mean, I just wish Medium let me read the whole article.
@LWFlouisa I'm a paid member, unfortunately. And here's why I wish the IndieWeb was more prominent; imagine the amount of responses he'd get had the article been written on his own blog, instead of using a third party service as a courier for it?
@LWFlouisa Cheaper, in the long run when you don't have to pay a hosting company. I don't care that much for my ISP's terms of service. I'll break them in order to host at home until they physically shut me down.
@LWFlouisa debateable. I say that because most ISPs flip-flop regarding what they will allow. My friend wants to open port 80, but is afraid it will be blocked on any day.
@LWFlouisa You could also opt for a port redirect, which is often cheaper than hosting.
@LWFlouisa port redirect is when you forward out a nonstandard port, but somehow a third-party service does something to redirect it to 80, but the public hasn't the dangdest that you're using a nonstandard port. If you want to use something other than 80 for HTTP but want the search engines to find you, then you cannot use a nonstandard port without redirection.
Does port 80 tend to be blocked?
One thing I haven't figured out is how to host a Roguelike game on a website: I program games in Ruby, and short of IDEs, I haven't seen a way to really execute ruby terminal programs in the browser.
@LWFlouisa Whether port 80/443 are blocked, hard to tell; Comcast, at least, has this weird thing sometimes where they will keep it opened for a little while, and then block it for three months, then open it again. No one can make up their minds. drives admins like us nuts.
