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Creating zites

Cloning zites

Let's start with creating a blog for you. Visit ZeroHello, download ZeroBlog if you haven't downloaded it yet, hover it, and press the epsilon. A menu appears:

  • To favourites
  • Update
  • Check files
  • Pause
  • Clone
  • Delete

Press Clone. Your new blog appears. That's practically all about cloning.

Changing ZeroBlog

You can change blog title, description, etc. by hovering them and pressing a pencil to the left.

Now, let's post something. Press Add new post. Edit post title, content and press Sign & Publish new content button in the bottom. When you sign data, content.json is changed. When you publish content, you send other peers that have your zite a new version, they send them to other peers, etc.

But now nobody except you have this zite. So, things become difficult.

Downloading and updating zites

When you download a zite, ZeroNet opens your peer list and chooses those which already have this zite. For example, your second computer, which doesn't know about your first computer, wants to download your zite. How to connect these computers?

...Via trackers. All peers often connect to trackers in Internet and tell them: we are on this IP and have these zites: .... So, the first computer tells some tracker about a new zite, and the second computer asks this tracker about anybody having this zite. Easy-peasy.

One more word about trackers. You need a static IP or Tor connection to share zites with other peers if these peers don't accept your zite update (for example, they don't have this zite at all).

Proxies

Anybody can connect to your blog while there is a running computer (serving your zite). But you probably want to shutdown it at night. So it's a good idea to have a computer always working.

Fortunately, there are such computers: ZeroNet proxies. 0net.io is one of them. You should use them as you use local ZeroNet. On proxies, ZeroTalk address is https://0net.io/1TaLkFrMwvbNsooF4ioKAY9EuxTBTjipT

When your blog is ready, visit https://0net.io/{zite public key}/. You can get public key from address bar: http://127.0.0.1:43110/{zite public key}/.

Available proxies (August 2020):

.bit addresses

Every zite can be accessed via public key (e.g. 1TaLkFrMwvbNsooF4ioKAY9EuxTBTjipT for ZeroTalk). Hosting such zites takes no price. But you probably don't think 1TaLkFrMwvbNsooF4ioKAY9EuxTBTjipT is a nice address what if you could have zerotalk.com?

...In fact, you can do that via Namecoin. Namecoin is based on blockchain. If you want to register .bit address (for price), you should download a Namecoin client and make a .bit address there (only .bit suffix is supported).

If you don't want to host a Namecoin client and host the whole blockchain, you can use online services to host domains, such as Dotbit.me and Peername.

As majority has Namecoin plugin enabled, you can access ZeroTalk via http://127.0.0.1:43110/Talk.ZeroNetwork.bit/.

You can check registered .bit addresses at ZeroName.

Homework

Try to clone ZeroTalk and make your own zite.

Todo: technical clonning explanation