I think the "20th century" solution to letting many users in different locations run regexes would probably have been to write a cgi-bin script in Perl, and have users paste text into a box on an HTML form.
The results page generated by the script could have checkboxes to mark each suggestion as useful/not-useful/incorrect and a submit button, with this feedback saved in MySQL.
(I'm not sure whether this qualifies as "without ... services")
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Software in the 21st century: to check a bunch of regex on a text you need: Grafana, APIs, services. Really? I'm surprised there is no k8s in here. /s
I'll bite. How would you solve the following with the 20th century software without any API or services:
- regex rules are updated frequently (let's say weekly)
- the updates are available to hundreds if not thousands of users in different locations
- all of them have the latest ruleset
- all of them capable of sending feedback regarding how useful and correct the suggestions are
- said feedback is analyzed regularly and used to refine the ruleset
I think the "20th century" solution to letting many users in different locations run regexes would probably have been to write a cgi-bin script in Perl, and have users paste text into a box on an HTML form.
The results page generated by the script could have checkboxes to mark each suggestion as useful/not-useful/incorrect and a submit button, with this feedback saved in MySQL.
(I'm not sure whether this qualifies as "without ... services")
Early 21s century -- hopefully there is more to come :D