Tbh, I love minimal websites. This could be my nostalgia speaking, though. Nevertheless, small websites means less bandwidth requirements for our comrades with slow internet.
Plus, text-focused websites tend to be higher quality and actually have meaningful content.
I’m all for minimalism, but I don’t think that has to be at odds with the site looking nice and clean. Lemmy is a good example of a site that looks pretty minimal, but also looks nice visually.
Better and consistent styling would definitely help, but it would be nice to have good search, better navigation, etc. It’d be great to take all the content from marxists.org and shove it into a modern content management system.
I have wanted to make “mirrors” of Marxist websites and port them to different formats and protocols. I will keep this in mind. Sounds like a fun project.
I’m coming out of left field but if you have these tech skills you can probably help us at prolewiki instead.
The problem with MIA is they’re trots, and not only that but they actually edit texts they don’t like. They’ve admitted to it too and it was after finding this out that I started distancing myself from them. How can you trust anything you read on the MIA if you don’t have any other version to check it against?
They do have thousands of texts which you can’t readily find elsewhere, and I like reading in HTML format instead of always downloading a PDF that’s just a scan of a book (on PW we’re actually looking for a solution to turn our pages into PDFs for local storage + we have built-in dark mode). It helps that they’ve been doing this since the 90s.
But if it’s just a matter of having more texts then we can shine here as well with rarer books until we can eventually (maybe) catch up to their sheer volume of works. And to achieve that, we need people to upload texts, that would be dope. But if you have skills in webdev or design I assure you there’s definitely stuff to be done.
I’m not so much of a web dev, but I have a two year degree in Computer Information Systems, which is basically Computer Science (including GUI, web, and database development), though finding a job has been impossible for me, even in IT Support, thus I am going back to school to study Electrical Engineering. I run Gentoo Linux and have intermediate knowledge of the Linux ecosystem, hell even Windows now given my work experience. I’m sort of a jack of “many” trades in IT at this point, more or less, and I learn very quickly.
Nevertheless, I figured such a project would be a fun hobby project, but I have wanted to help out Marxist organizations and websites on their technological front as well. I am super busy, however, and it takes me months to even complete my own projects. I would probably be able to help on the side when I am doing college or potentially if and when I get a job that gives me more free time (hell, even PTO, being a contractor sucks). I already have a huge and growing backlog of projects I have been needing to do, but helping Marxist and tech documentation websites preserve their content has been a major concern of mine, especially in light of Google’s Web Environment Integrity API development.
Thank you for informing me about MIA. I had no idea they manipulated texts and are trots. I am definitely going to be wary of them now.
It’s because of trickery such as this that we decided that on the prolewiki library we would not edit texts from the original.
Note that Mastering Bolshevism seems to be the title marx2mao gave to these two speeches collected from Stalin, a more common title is indeed the one marxists.org uses.
Tbh, I love minimal websites. This could be my nostalgia speaking, though. Nevertheless, small websites means less bandwidth requirements for our comrades with slow internet.
Plus, text-focused websites tend to be higher quality and actually have meaningful content.
I’m all for minimalism, but I don’t think that has to be at odds with the site looking nice and clean. Lemmy is a good example of a site that looks pretty minimal, but also looks nice visually.
Maybe something like this? https://github.com/muxelplexer/marxists-org-dark-stylized
Better and consistent styling would definitely help, but it would be nice to have good search, better navigation, etc. It’d be great to take all the content from marxists.org and shove it into a modern content management system.
I have wanted to make “mirrors” of Marxist websites and port them to different formats and protocols. I will keep this in mind. Sounds like a fun project.
I’m coming out of left field but if you have these tech skills you can probably help us at prolewiki instead.
The problem with MIA is they’re trots, and not only that but they actually edit texts they don’t like. They’ve admitted to it too and it was after finding this out that I started distancing myself from them. How can you trust anything you read on the MIA if you don’t have any other version to check it against?
They do have thousands of texts which you can’t readily find elsewhere, and I like reading in HTML format instead of always downloading a PDF that’s just a scan of a book (on PW we’re actually looking for a solution to turn our pages into PDFs for local storage + we have built-in dark mode). It helps that they’ve been doing this since the 90s.
But if it’s just a matter of having more texts then we can shine here as well with rarer books until we can eventually (maybe) catch up to their sheer volume of works. And to achieve that, we need people to upload texts, that would be dope. But if you have skills in webdev or design I assure you there’s definitely stuff to be done.
I’m not so much of a web dev, but I have a two year degree in Computer Information Systems, which is basically Computer Science (including GUI, web, and database development), though finding a job has been impossible for me, even in IT Support, thus I am going back to school to study Electrical Engineering. I run Gentoo Linux and have intermediate knowledge of the Linux ecosystem, hell even Windows now given my work experience. I’m sort of a jack of “many” trades in IT at this point, more or less, and I learn very quickly.
Nevertheless, I figured such a project would be a fun hobby project, but I have wanted to help out Marxist organizations and websites on their technological front as well. I am super busy, however, and it takes me months to even complete my own projects. I would probably be able to help on the side when I am doing college or potentially if and when I get a job that gives me more free time (hell, even PTO, being a contractor sucks). I already have a huge and growing backlog of projects I have been needing to do, but helping Marxist and tech documentation websites preserve their content has been a major concern of mine, especially in light of Google’s Web Environment Integrity API development.
Thank you for informing me about MIA. I had no idea they manipulated texts and are trots. I am definitely going to be wary of them now.
I documented some of their edits here: https://hexbear.net/comment/3599050
It’s because of trickery such as this that we decided that on the prolewiki library we would not edit texts from the original.
Note that Mastering Bolshevism seems to be the title marx2mao gave to these two speeches collected from Stalin, a more common title is indeed the one marxists.org uses.
Anyway, you can request an account freely on prolewiki and then use it when you feel like it or when you have time. https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Special:RequestAccount