A Use Case for Port Boundaries in Front End Development

Web Annotations are what we need right now. Let people write and scribble all over webpages and share with other people in an open, vendor-neutral format. Choose who you trust, from journalists to organizations to neighbors to experts to conspiracy theorists. Let commentaries and interpretations appear overlaid on government websites and documents, Wikipedia, opinion pieces, social media, Archive.org, anything and everything. Let it be out of the hands of the content hosts.

wdbm•2h ago

How would this compare to hypothes.is?

walterbell•14m ago

  Many applications, from LibreOffice, Logseq to video players could all benefit from having social functions to compete with centralised solutions like Notion, YouTube etc. Expecting each of these to implement servers for comments and annotations is not realistic. However with a self-hosted annotation server, these apps would only need to implement one integration and users would only need to be connected to a single server.

Does Hypothes.is have a self-hosting option? https://web.hypothes.is/sales/

> Our premium solutions combine the power of social annotation with seamless integrations, enhanced controls, and advanced security. Select your industry, then complete the short form for a demo and pricing. A member of our Partnerships Team will be in touch within 24 hours.

staz•1h ago

I'm kind of confused, I'm interested by the idea but there doesn't seems to be a link to source code, or download, or some kind of live server? Is it just a concept?

edit: Just saw the url path is called "design-pitch-ann"