ssb-ngi-pointer to demonstrate the outcome of the work done by the SSB NGI Pointer team during 2020 and 2021. The SSB NGI Pointer team is no longer active because we completed our grant project.
8K demo is an example SSB application made for the svendsolar event running purely in the browser using ssb-browser-core. The aim of the application is to showcase some of the things we have been building during the ngi pointer grant.
You can try a live demo.
8K demo works by allowing users to create their own applications and share these together with the data to other users connected to the same room. The name 8k comes from the message size limit, meaning applications can be no larger than 8192 bytes and demo refers to the golden demoscene days were packing a ton of stuff into a tiny file was an art in itself.
8K demo uses meta feeds to store information in different feeds. By doing so allowing for partial replication by selectively downloading the feeds of a peer you are interested in. By default a few feeds are created denoted by their feedpurpose:
- 8K/applications, for storing the actual applications
- 8K/chat, for data related to the default chat application
- replication, for communication about what feeds you know about similar to ssb-friends
Each application should create a feed to store the data related to the application.
The apps folder contains a few sample applications one can use for inspiration.