Tangent project: "Good 3G" Apps

[leeoniya]

I created an organization [1] to demonstrate how fast web apps can be [when written properly] to dispel the myth that locked-in, privacy-invading native apps provide vastly better experiences on mobile.

The high-level plan is to recreate some useful apps using domvm that are not only faster, but functionally richer and work well on old hardware and slow connections. The only requirement is to be running the latest version of any modern HTML5 browser.

• Use the latest available HTML5 features as needed (Service Workers, web sockets, WebRTC, localStorage, touch & gestures, CSS transforms/transitions, CSS flexbox/grid, full screen apis)
• No generic, bloated frameworks (bootstrap, react)
• Minimize payloads & number of requests (1x html, 1x js, 1x css, 1x icon font, images as needed)
• Maximize utility
• Offline support (maybe)
• Communicate over REST/JSON apis (maybe CORS)
• Secure by default: TLS, HTTP2 or QUIC
• No third-party domain trackers, no CDNs, no external scripts

There are many apps that can be (re)written. But my first mission is to create an email client that's functionally better and faster than Gmail [2], possibly integrating Google's own CORS apis [3].

If anyone is interested in helping out, let me know.

@lawrence-dol @yosbelms @grumpi @tamasnet @iamjohnlong @jaetask

[1] https://github.com/good-3g-apps
[2] Good-3G/email#1
[3] https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/javascript/features/cors

[leeoniya]

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[tropperstyle]

I see these links are 404. Were there any further thoughts into this project, or any plans on an official website or brand?

What are some next steps?

[leeoniya]

I see these links are 404.

Ah, Github did redirect them but only for a while. I renamed the org slightly:

https://github.com/Good-3G/email

What are some next steps to leveling up the audience?

I have a good chunk fleshed out but haven't touched it for a couple weeks. The main problem is that i'm working on my own corpus of emails which obviously cannot be pushed public. I would like to have some uniform collection of raw emails with attachments, inline assets, threads, etc that can be made public so that all contributors can work on the same dataset. Sadly, such a dataset is hard to come by. There are some here [1] and here [2] but their contents are rather bland/shitty and a bunch of stuff/headers are stripped out.

Getting a high quality, common mbox dataset would be good.

BTW, i have good3g.io

[1] https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets
[2] https://github.com/benhamner/hillary-clinton-emails

[lawrence-dol]

@leeoniya : I suggest enabling discussions and moving this to a discussion.