@<mckinley https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt> "(#momapxa) @prologic I'm trying to make a static local mirror of MDN Web Docs. It's all free information on GitHub, but the whole system is extremely complicated. <tinfoil-hat>I think it's so they can sell more MDN plus subscriptions, making people use their **terrible** MDN Offline system that uses the local storage of your browser.</tinfoil-hat> At this point, I'm willing to run a local dev server and just save each generated page and its dependencies. I really only need it to run JavaScript so it can request the browser compatibility JSON. It's but the MDN server, annoyingly, transforms it. Once the BCD data is rendered statically, I should be able to remove the references to the JavaScript. That will solve another issue I'm having where the JavaScript is constantly trying to download `/api/v1/whoami`, which seemingly has no purpose aside from user tracking."

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 07:27 Z (2 years ago)

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m trying to make a static local mirror of MDN Web Docs. It’s all free information on GitHub, but the whole system is extremely complicated.

<tinfoil-hat>I think it’s so they can sell more MDN plus subscriptions, making people use their terrible MDN Offline system that uses the local storage of your browser.</tinfoil-hat>

At this point, I’m willing to run a local dev server and just save each generated page and its dependencies.

I really only need it to run JavaScript so it can request the browser compatibility JSON. It’s https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data but the MDN server, annoyingly, transforms it.

Once the BCD data is rendered statically, I should be able to remove the references to the JavaScript.

That will solve another issue I’m having where the JavaScript is constantly trying to download /api/v1/whoami, which seemingly has no purpose aside from user tracking.

#kia5hca