Does this have some use case that the Perseus Digital Library doesn't already serve?

I was wondering the same thing —Perseus has been around since _1987_ & seems to have more features? I guess this is a bit more attractively laid out…

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thaumasiotes 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Note that Perseus considers itself end-of-life; there is an analogous project that's supposed to have succeeded it, but I don't remember what project that is.

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milkcrate 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It's called Scaife[1] and it's borderline unusable. Slows to an absolute crawl on my ~2020 machine within a few minutes, and the viewing experience is very uncomfortable. I'd be really surprised if people preferred it to Perseus.

[1]: https://scaife.perseus.org/

	▲	panagathon 13 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah, it's awful. I can't believe how much of a downgrade it is from the old Perseus Hopper.
	▲	equalbeforegod 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Agreed. Scaife supporters are delusional. What should actually be done, and what OP should do, is take the Perseus website and make it so it doesn't 503 all the time (it is incredibly unreliable). Then, FOIA the State of California for the pay-to-play data which the UC Irvine-based TLG hoarders are withholding from the public (it is a publicly funded project...) so that the corpus can be meaningfully extended and built upon. The 1990's tier html vibe of Perseus is to its great advantage.

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cwnyth 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is it not just Perseus with a wrapper?