Can we have the continuation of maid software by ditching maid cards?
>gets banned from both here and the archives
>too small to contain useful code
>well can be easily poisoned if someone uses it for illegal stuff
I imagine it would be fine if we used something like github or gitlab, or someone hosts a new git site instead

>>105904564 (OP)
It might make sense to expand maid cards into a full VCS and then have that hosted somewhere offsite so it is beyond the reach of janitors. Or, maybe to change the distribution method to use Bittorrent or something. The problem is that the 4Chan jannies and desuarchive jannies really hate the format. The solution could be as simple as just not using 4Chan as the primary means of transmission.

>>105904794
There's still the problem of they being too opaque, unorganized and small
I don't think the textual ones were banned since they were basically OCR, but an image can't hold much more than 200 lines

>>105904877
The text only, janny friendly ones were awful. I was able to fit libmaid in one, but it was about 100k pixels tall and wouldn't post on 4Chan. Not useful for sharing anything substantial. The original ones don't actually have a cap, and are limited to 4MB to fit in maidposts on the board. If the transmission format was changed though, to bittorrent or something, then the maid sticker part of the image would not be needed, and no data would need to be written to an image. You could just serialize all of it to some single compressed file and transmit that via bittorrent. Storing data in images was just a way to make them shareable on 4chan without needing a third-party service, or to host your own VCS server.

>>105904969
I'm not sure if sharing torrents here would work, specially since torrents reveal the user IP
I personally don't mind github, since it gets more visibility and it's easier for people to use

>>105905027
>torrents reveal the user IP
Some other protocol could be used. Maybe a variant of GNUtella? We have the opportunity to shape maidcard and make these kinds of architectural calls.
>I personally don't mind github, since it gets more visibility and it's easier for people to use
The problem with github is that it requires you to give your personal information and enter into a one-sided legal agreement with a multinational, billion dollar corporation that hates you. Nobody should have to do that to share computer science experiments.

>>105904969
How about ligatures for common character sequences so it's still readable plaintext but not apl-tier

>>105905241
This could work. The problem is that you would have to do it at scale to get significant compression results, and if you are making these replacements at scale then human readability will vanish and you're basically just reinventing LZW.

>>105905206
You just need an email really, 2FA doesn't need a phone number as you may think
The problem is that we are in an analysis paralysis just because of ideological stuff, we dont have the maidpower to fight the world