I’m a programmer, but mostly C in my job. I’ve played with PHP5 (yeah, a long time ago), dabbled in HTML5 when it was new, touched upon some ancient version of Javascript, etc. etc. I have done bare-bone system administrator work but only enough for test instances.

My web-knowledge is therefore lacking. So I’m seeking the discussion with more experienced peers (especially in web and/or administrator sides) to brainstorm this idea. I’m probably not going to ever implement this idea, but… I feel like discussion may help me solidify the work needed to build future communities.

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Lets say I want to make a Competitive Tetris community akin to HardDrop.com. Among the most important features of Tetris is the Web-Application “Fumen” Javascript application, created by Japanese programmers.

The web-gui isn’t the most intuitive, but you all can demo it here: https://harddrop.com/fumen/ . The code has all sorts of Japanese comments that I can’t read, but presumably with enough copy/paste and effort, I could get it off of Github (or whever it originated from) and copy/paste it into my own server somehow.

When the HardDrop forums were open, people would discuss Tetris Strategies by crafting them on a Fumen, and then discussing them. I made such a post long ago here, on the TKI3 strategy if you want to see it: https://harddrop.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7889

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Now lets say I want to import my old Fumen for my own discussion purposes, somewhere in Lemmy. What’s the best way to present it?

I’m assuming I’ll need:

1. Copying the Fumen renderer into my own Javascript/HTML

2. A friendly administrator who is willing to give me Javascript-import (or hosting the Javascript locally on the server). This presumably would be myself making my own server, but alternatively another admin who is aligned with me could do this too.

3. Ideally a local copy of Fumen running. (I wouldn’t want to hammer HardDrop’s webGUI too hard)

4. Some kind of Lemmy plugin that allows people to post text of the form: (v115@BhilFeAtglR4Beg0RpBtR4Ceg0RpAtzhAeh0JeAgWW?AURVSASYNuEw488AQr78AwKY5DkoBAAvhBtsuAAlsBzgQ4I?eR4CeRpwhBeglQ4CeRpwhAeAtglFewhBthlEewhAtKeAAPX?AS1STAS4kcDnoo2AMoo2AQieeEFcxCA), which coincides with the Fumen I wrote. Upon recognizing a string of this form (or maybe of form: [[fumen@v115…]]), render such a Fumen inline with the post.

5. Obviously, it would only render correctly on my “local instance” with my “local users”. Assume this is sufficient for my personal community. But if anyone can think of how this can be solved “Cross-Lemmy”, I’d also be interested in that. Are there ways to maybe… make a “Trusted Bot” running on someone else’s instance that has permissions from the administrator to publish an iframe? Is there a way to do this without pissing off all the security-minded webfolks?

6. Is a <video> renderer an option? Can I publish a mp4 file that has frame-by-frame rendering of a Fumen to other instances that don’t have a Javascript-fumen of their own. I know other groups publish .gif files but <video> has more standard options to different users (play, rewind, etc. etc.). I don’t know how widespread a frame-by-frame video render is across frontends (Android, iPhone, Firefox, Chrome, Edge) is however.

I’m not sure if the Tetris community is in a state where this is worthwhile pushing. But I can see “future video games”, especially competitive ones, needing other online GUIs, calculators, and other such web-application support to help discussion.

Any web-experts out there wanna muse on this subject with me?