Re: Finding user profiles on a Social Net

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Simon Tennant <simon@buddycloud.com> wrote:

> I really don't think this matters: each federated social network will have
> a different use case.
>
> Webfinger works well when you control the entire stack / have everything
> running on one box.
>
> In our experience, customers installing buddycloud instances have a
> marketing firm looking after their "shop-window"/example.com website and
> a dev-ops team installing buddycloud software. The dev-ops wouldn't want
> the outside webfirm touching their DNS and the webfirm wouldn't want to be
> minding to not touch a .hosts-meta on the hosting platform.
>
> So in buddycloud's case DNS makes more sense. There's no right way or
> wrong way: just use what works for your own project and document it well.
>
>
 Absolutely, in fact I didn't mean to invalidate the DNS approach, I was
just making the case that there's no one right way and different people
have different requirements, limitations in infrastructure, and comfort
zones.