| I haven't looked into it for a couple years, I was initially very excited about the concept. TLDR: Unless the user experience/accessibility/hosting experience is improved, I just couldn't suggest anyone use it. Last time I really dug in the user interface and accessibility concerns were not great. I understand the idea was more about the data handling, and that anyone could produce something based off the framework but I had all sorts of issues with the login tokens/usability. (ie, if you logged in with the wrong cert it didn't have an easy way to clear it, and would 'log in' to an error page. ect. ) as far as I can tell, each pod/data host can run different versions of solid, so your experience may vary between them. You can self host as well. I'd have to dig in again to see if things have gotten better, but I don't have time at the moment.
on quick look, some of my data sites are no longer working. oh! link says it was shut down in oct. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-solid/2020Oct/00... That said, the community was pretty nice and willing to answer questions. Maybe things have improved? I was hoping that maybe they'd start using DAT as well, because it seemed like it might be nice to dovetail with some of the beakerbrowser/distributed web stuff going on. re @pfrazee |
Things are still fairly confusing for new users though. And some how tos I wrote down from then no longer work. Which is not the worst thing, as some of the tutorials required you to hover over and wait to be able to edit things.
Much easier to look at though. ymmv
for historical/hysterical reference, I uploaded my old solid adventuress file, it is not up to date, and some of the css is not always showing the right colors, ect.
but you can see some of the directions I was looking into then: https://pod.inrupt.com/metahari/public/solidnotes/SolidAdven...