Whoogle is now eligible for Farside links. I haven't decided how I'd
like this implemented yet though. My idea is actually to refactor part
of Whoogle to work a bit better with this new "instance hopping"
paradigm -- namely, I'd like the config settings to be easily turned
into query params and appended to a farside link when a user's preferred
instance is blocked.
This introduces a number of new changes:
- Services are now inserted into redis with a prefix prepended to the
key name. This allows for easier filtering to get only live instances.
- The home page now uses an eex template for displaying all live
instances for every service, determined by the last update
- A "last_updated" field was added
- farside.ex was added to contain all functionality related to querying
for instances (WIP)
- Other improvements
Once a list of available URLs has been determined for a particular
service, the list is written as "service -> [list of instances]" to a
local redis connection. These can then be used in the greater routing
logic to pick a random instance from the list, or use a fallback
instance if none are determined to be available.
