For sure, but just to clarify, are you proposing this should be part of the Saint Maker project? Like an app, or just a page on the website?

Very nice! I'll update links on the website and other places!

Very cool, will have to check it out!

I like this, it's part of the conversation I often have with people in the confessional, trying to figure out something concrete that can be changed to make it just a little more difficult to commit that sin in the future. And it reminds me we still need to figure out how to encrypt Saint Maker files, so I might try to sink some time into that research this week.

Just an app, not a part of the SaintMaker

Alright 👍 do you want me to mark the task as complete or will you do that when you finish updating the links?

I also have a prayer that we can possibly add to the prayerbook; it's Saint John Henry Newmans "mission of my life" prayer

God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. 
I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work. I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it if I do but keep His commandments. 
Therefore, I will trust Him, whatever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him, in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him. If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. 
He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about. He may take away my friends. He may throw me among strangers. He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me. Still, He knows what He is about.

I marked it complete, but when I checked the website it's still pointing to the old url, even though the pull request went through and the site was redeployed. I'm wondering if that's just the cached version of the site on my browser though. Will have to test some more.

Found my error, which might just be a new thing Cloudflare is doing, but changes are pushed into a preview build, which needs to be approved to go live. I can definitely see the wisdom in such an approach, though it seems like overkill in our case. I need to find another hosting provider, if anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears.

Do you mean like add it as a pre-populated prayer? But regardless, a very cool prayer, I've prayed it often.

Ooooo, idea: we should use the wayback machine and see if we can find what the old CatholicCulture website reviews looked like!

Found it! https://web.archive.org/web/20040722012451/http://www.catholicculture.org/sites/sites.cfm

I'm going to be merging in some changes to the examination of conscience tomorrow but it shouldn't interrupt anything

And it's merged. It adds the "Amends" feature to the examination of conscience; when you click on the "Show Selected" button a text field is included below the selected sins so that you can spell out what you are going to do to ensure you don't commit that sin again https://saintmaker.canny.io/quest-board/p/add-amendments-feature-to-eoc

Very nice! I love it!

I've been taking July off but it's starting to come to an end, once August starts I'm going to be resuming work. I'm going to be starting with the counter habits, I've been running into a few situations where this feature would be helpful https://saintmaker.canny.io/quest-board/p/add-counter-habits-to-habit-mod

I like it!

# Saint Maker Social Network This is something I've been pondering for at least the last 6 months. So long ago, I can't even find my original notes since I switched note-taking software since then. But I had a few goals in mind: 1. Non-addictive, slow, thoughtful. 2. As p2p and offline-first as possible. 3. No servers for us to run. Goal number 1 seems best served by some type of blogging platform. It should be designed to promote long form content. Number 2 and 3 is where things get difficult, and why I spent so much time thinking and researching. True p2p is not possible at this time, a p2-Internet-2p (p2i2p from now on) is the best we can do without digging in to some difficult to use protocols. But p2i2p is easy enough, it's what we're all used to. Offline-first also shouldn't be too difficult, it's how we've designed the rest of the PWA. No servers that we are running (beyond the hosting we're paying for) is what really held me up. What I came up with is something I think is simple and practical enough it should work, but also has a bit of a bar to entry.

We could re-use the ui for the Prayer Book. But instead of adding prayers, you'd add urls of git repositories housing logs written in Markdown or HTML or maybe even just TXT. This would populate the "prayers" with those logs, allowing you to collect logs from various people in one place. In the background, it seems the only functions necessary is git, and something for rendering the files. Adding a repo url is prompting a git clone, we'll need a refresh button to trigger a git fetch, and then something to render whatever types of files we indicate as the standard. To write a log, just need to start an account on Github or Gitlab or whatever, start a repo, and literally just have one log file that can be added to whenever you want to post. I'm no dev, so I don't know that this is possible within a PWA, but from what I've read it seems possible, and the amount of dependancies should be pretty low. And this will definitely be an exclusive sort of social network. Needing to start and host a git repository somewhere will definitely not make it easy for grandma to join. However, this is just a start, and honestly, putting together some sort of webapp to host text-only repos with a simple front end that grandma could use, would be easy and cheap. And it does check all the boxes: text-only will foster creativity and keep addictivness low, it is p2i2p for sure, offline-first for sure, and we don't have to run anything for it to work. If anyone has any feedback, I'm all ears.

Update on looking into best practices for security and privacy for the PWA: I did a link dump of resources I found on the Canny task. Upshot was: it is possible to encrypt everything stored locally via a password. Possible vulnerability is limited to on-device attacks, as well as server side. From what I saw during research, man in the middle attacks are thwarted by https. So I definitely think its a good idea to start looking into encryption methods that would make sense for how our pwa is designed. There are a few mentioned in some of the articles. I don't think I've got enough knowledge to do that research, but I'll definitely keep on the lookout for more resources.

Had some more time to think about pivoting toward an actual mobile app. I am still interested in the prospect of using something like Flutter to make an app that would work cross-platform, as long as we don't descend into dependency hell. Something interesting occurred to me: begin by making the app a mini browser, so that the present PWA could still work inside it. That way we lose nothing that's already been made, it'll still be easy to add more apps. Of course I say this not knowing if that is even possible. But if not, I think we need to have a discussion about how to build an application is such a way that mods/apps can be added in a decentralized way. I think that's what made the PWA such a useful thing.

Hmmmm, so we wouldn't build a browser but just the initial version of the mobile/flutter app would include a webframe. That way you would still have access to the website and we'd gradually rebuild the mods for mobile one by one while still having access to the web version. Once everything is ported over we'd remove the webframe and "sunset" the website (we wouldn't shut it down, its not costing us anything, we'd just stop referring people to it)

Sweet! But that still brings up the problem of making it easy for people to add their own mods easily. Is that something that's possible? I haven't really seen other mobile applications that include easy mod import and export. I know it's ultimately a security risk, but I think it was the biggest strength of the PWA.

Found a Bitcoin Lightning wallet that runs as a PWA, figure it might be useful to look at if we ever want to revisit the idea of securing the PWA (since the wallet has to handle a keypair in order to work): https://github.com/MutinyWallet/

Tasks have 99% been migrated from the Canny to the forum; for some strange reason though, the post for the saint maker social task redirects to the yunohost login page though and because of that I wasn't able to complete the migration of it https://techpriesthub.xyz/fluxbb/viewtopic.php?id=26

Thanks for doing that! The link seems to have fixed itself, not sure why, but it did that the first time I clicked it as well.

How do we want to mark tasks in the forum as done? Just add a reply saying they are done?

(reason for asking: just finished adding the Saint Maker Forum as a mod to the pwa)

You can edit any post you've made, so I guess edit the subject to read: "COMPLETED: Saint Maker Social" or something like that. Should probably add a comment to it explaining how you completed it.

Just did what I suggested on this task: https://techpriesthub.xyz/fluxbb/viewtopic.php?id=14 for an example