About 20 days ago, I had made a blog post about an idea I had for a better federated search engine model.

It didn’t take much time for it to develop into a thing I am fixated on.

I am putting the code out, its not ready or working, but it is something I am really happy to make and has filled my time with joy designing.

My current plan is the following:

1. Get the basic web-ring creation process down
2. Get scraping jobs functional
3. Provide a basic query system
4. Implement basic user accounts
5. Implement basic federation
6. Implement basic moderation

Once I am done with the core features that I have in mind, I will start working on adding more features and quality of life improvements.

Some features I want to work on to make this software more enticing to administrators:

1. The ability to customize what is publicly accessible.
2. The ability to edit the pages HTML style on the fly, without having to recompile.
3. Containers for easy deployment.

In regards to application design, I am taking pages from my book in developing Android applications, along with cherry-picking from projects @nutomic@lemmy.ml made.

1. MVC design, with static pages to provide the fastest loading experience for users
2. Bootstrap to make the pages responsive for any device
3. Diesel to abstract database interaction and migration.
4. Handlebars for view templating
5. Axum as the HTTP core

Hopefully these design decisions make my application as debt free as possible.

If you have any advice or suggestion, please do give, I want to know how I can do better or avoid common pitfalls for newcomers!

If you have criticisms, please be constructive and have empathy towards the fact of me doing this because it makes me happy.