[GNUnet-developers] How does the history works in the pubsub service

[Mildred Ki'Lya]

Hello all,

I spent some time on the psycd channel, but I have no really nice IRC client to 
use and telnet, it's just telnet. Well, I wanted to ask a question and I 
believe mailing lists are better for that.

I'm interested in what the gnunet pubsub service does, in particular the place 
history. Is it just a history gathered by the pubsub service? Is it 
synchronized across the network? Can I get the history of past messages of a 
place before I joined (as guest or owner)? If so, how is the history stored in 
the network. As a user of the pubsub service, and owner of a place, can I store 
the history of that place somewhere safe and be sure that's is shared across 
the network?

I was hacking a bit around rust (learning the language) and gnunet-rs bindings. 
I have a basic webserver that prints the peer id (very useful, isn't it?)

I had a few ideas about what I wanted to do:

- A blog software, probably something that Secushare wants to do in the end. A 
blog is going to be a place owned by the auther. Then comes the questyion above 
of how the history is going to be kept.

- A web server that serves files from gnunet-fs. When the file is updated on 
gnunet-fs, the web server would download the new copy and server the new files. 
Goal: have the webserver running on a server unattended and update the files 
from my laptop. Use gnunet for the synchronization.