xenogon
@xenogon@sunny.garden  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

So I'm having a very large, very slow clearout.

I want to get rid of my stuff with minimal use of evil corporate platforms so I'm trying out listing it on my own website.

My sale site is here: https://epic-attic.co.uk

I've got about 35 items listed so far, maybe 100 or so more to come, once I've taken photos and so on.

This is a real #smallweb project! You have to email me to buy/claim stuff there's no checkout and no tracking or scripts of any sort. EDIT( I just remembered there is one js script to run the image gallery, but it is entirely local and doesn't send or request data anywhere.)

I think we need a hashtag for selling and giving away stuff in the UK (for non business stuff)

What about #SecondHandUK ?

I thought ukForSale initially but that sounds like a political statement.

Is anyone else selling off their excess stuff in the UK? Should we start a #webring?

#ForSale #freecycle#fleamarket #flohmarkt
xenogon
@xenogon@sunny.garden  ·  activity timestamp last week

I listed another 10 or so items and the index is looking long and random.

I'm thinking I need some sort of categorisation scheme, or maybe a built in search function. But I want to keep the site as static as possible.

If I do categories and generate an index file for each category that's doable in a static paradigm, as long as there's only a few categories. But - it's very difficult deciding what the categories should be.

I could do tags and show only listings with a user selected tag but that would require php. I've done it before but I'd rather not.

Is there a way to do a site search that doesn't use any external servers?