#indiewebcamp 2014-08-12

2014-08-12 UTC
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finchd
top of the "worst customer service" list 5 years running
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tantek.com
created /webhost (+25) "r"
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tantek.com
created /Comcast (+895) "stub with info from cuibonobo from IRC"
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tantek
finchd - interesting, could you add that (especially if you have citations) to http://indiewebcamp.com/Comcast ?
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tantek
perhaps add a new "Criticism" section with details
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finchd
tantek: afraid my participation will have to wait. looks like I need a domain and indieauth? Hopefully I can start next week after classes are out :p
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tantek
finchd - yes! go get a domain for sure!
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tantek
lots of people here will gladly help with setup questions
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tantek
Homebrew Website Club this week!
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tantek
hahah
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tantek
apparently this Wednesday is also the 9th birthday of Barcamp
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@EdwardTufte
@kevinmarks ~says "Now we have insanely high dpi screens, everything in books now works." [And ET says "smartest thing said about my work."]
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tantek
KevinMarks++ you win :)
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Loqi
KevinMarks has 45 karma
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tantek
where was your original tweet KevinMarks ?
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@kevinmarks
@EdwardTufte now we have these insanely high dpi screens, everything in your first book works again
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KevinMarks_
Seriously, The hairlines and stuff from Visual Display of Quantitative Information is begging to be done in SVG
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KevinMarks_
has anyone done text size changes based on upvote/downvote replies (twitter does a bit in personal timelines)
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KevinMarks_
that and high dpi screens could be fun.
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tantek
KevinMarks: sure. take any (even SVG) image and put it in the sparkline template :)
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KevinMarks_
em-based layouts and sparklines are a natural fit
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KevinMarks_
or am I supposed to use rem now?
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KartikPrabhu
KevinMarks_ : em for text IMO
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KevinMarks_
needs to be a bit smarter about colliding labels
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kylewm.com
edited /chicken (+752) "add detail for this stub"
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KartikPrabhu
KevinMarks_ : also for music sparklines see The Session eg: http://thesession.org/members/1659 and adactio's post http://adactio.com/journal/5941/ :)
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KevinMarks_
s/enat/neat/
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@kyle_wm
@mattl Wow! Welcome to the inner circle!! I added you to http://indiewebcamp.com/chicken :)
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KartikPrabhu
I have been musing about sparklines to show how much I post in some tag/category
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mattl.us
created /User:Mattl.us (+677) "Created page with "I'm Matt Lee, one of the folks behind behind Foo Communications, a company/experiment in music and social media, including Libre.fm, a new social media platform that offers music...""
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tantek
welcome mattl!
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mattl.us
uploaded /File:mattl.jpg "CC-BY-SA."
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tantek
hmm - perhaps we need to update the upload page to make the license hardcoded to CC0 - since everything on the wiki already requires it?
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KartikPrabhu
and make it conspicuous so people don't upload anything they don't want to be CC0
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mattl
CC0 is fine with me i guess ;)
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mattl.us
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KartikPrabhu
mattl: mattl.us gives a 404
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mattl
KartikPrabhu: it does?
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mattl
what does the domain resolve to?
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KartikPrabhu
it redirects to http://foocorp.org/projects/social/ which then 404s i guess
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tantek
fascinating that it worked with IndieAuth then
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mattl
oh, huh... www.mattl.us does that
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mattl
let me fix that.
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mattl
KartikPrabhu: try now? http://www.mattl.us/?
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mattl
did i mistype it as www.mattl.us somewhere, or did you just type that?
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tantek
oh dear we now have 3 people posting chicken posts
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KartikPrabhu
mattl: I just used the thing in your User page on the wiki, assuming that was the domain name
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tantek
goes to get dinner
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mattl
tantek: did we make you hungry?
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techlifeweb
WordPress users...I think I understand, and have set up correctly, doing replies from my site. But how can I do that and not have the post that gets created as part of the public list of post and RSS feed?
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snarfed
techlifeweb: one way is to assign replies a category or tag, then exclude that from your front page and feed with http://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-category-excluder/
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KartikPrabhu
techlifeweb: snarfed: is it not possible to exclude by post-type or something?
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snarfed
KartikPrabhu: sure, there are plugins that do that too
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tantek.com
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techlifeweb
snarfed: KartikPrabhu: thanks. Looks like what I was looking for.
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@envisionitnm
@zaftigbabe Let us know if you need help getting a site up. We've done a few indieweb bookstore sites for folks in NM.
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aaronpk
quiet night
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ben_thatmustbeme
good morning
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aaronpk
morning
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ben_thatmustbeme
hit and sunk my battleship
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aaronpk
ben_thatmustbeme++
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Loqi
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ben_thatmustbeme
so perhaps someone can point me at the best direction for this. I want to set it up so people can use indieauth to log in to my site. I can use indieauth.com to do that as I remember correct?
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aaronpk
ben_thatmustbeme: yes. see: https://indieauth.com/developers
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ben_thatmustbeme
everything i'm finding is just setting up my rel=me links so i can log in, or setting up to authorize posting
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ben_thatmustbeme
aaronpk++ just what i was looking for
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Loqi
aaronpk has 527 karma
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jonnybarnes
ben_thatmustbeme: I believe so, but they'll need rel=me links on their site
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jonnybarnes
can Loqi tell me how much karma I have?
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ben_thatmustbeme
yes, but i forget how
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aaronpk
!karma jonnybarnes
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Loqi
jonnybarnes has 2 karma
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jonnybarnes
(I know its something like 2, not 527!!
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ben_thatmustbeme
aaronpk, i feel foolish. I missed that top bar completely on indieauth.com I was looking all over the page below the title for that link
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aaronpk
kind of makes a good case against top nav
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aaronpk
actually I should probably add a section in the middle next to "How to set up indieauth" for developers
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aaronpk
like instead of the "community" block
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ben_thatmustbeme
that would be good, i feel like thats one of the nicest features.
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ben_thatmustbeme
I'm going to start work soon on friending other indieweb sites, and grouping them to give access to personal contact info.
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aaronpk
sweet!
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ben_thatmustbeme
i.e. login and you can view my phone number if you were given permissions for that, etc
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aaronpk
yeah very cool!
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aralbalkan.com
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aaronpk
oh wonderful! aral RSVPd on the wiki!
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Loqi
does a happy dance!
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barnabywalters
we really need to push IWC UK a bit more now it’s getting close
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aaronpk
it's very close, didn't realize
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aralbalkan.com
edited /2014/UK/Guest_List (+67) "/* Creators */ Minor clarification"
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barnabywalters
aaronpk: you and caseorganic will be missed :(
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aaronpk
indeed
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aaronpk
sorry to not be able to make it out this time
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barnabywalters
aaronpk: no worries :)
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jonnybarnes
gah I can't sign a tag with git, stupid using latest software
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@aral
So, who else is coming to @indiewebcamp Brighton? There’s currently an embarrassing all-white-male list of “creators” http://indiewebcamp.com/2014/UK/Guest_List#Creators
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@BarnabyWalters
RT @aral: So, who else is coming to @indiewebcamp Brighton? There’s currently an embarrassing all-white-male list of “creators” http://t.co…
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aaronpk
what really?
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@aral
…Just signed up and really looking forward to hopefully attending but will have to drop out if that doesn’t change.
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@Miss_Hunting
RT @aral: So, who else is coming to @indiewebcamp Brighton? There’s currently an embarrassing all-white-male list of “creators” http://t.co…
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barnabywalters
the scare quotes might be a little over the top, but I agree with his message. IWC UK isn’t very diverse
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aaronpk
did you see his followup?
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barnabywalters
and personally I have no idea how to fix that
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@emmajanehw
@aral I don’t really understand from that site why I’d want to come. Maybe that’s part of it? Mostly an insider’s club ATM? @indiewebcamp
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aaronpk
well today should be interesting
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@aral
@emmajanehw Common criticism (one that I’ve made myself and that I’ve heard from others at @indiewebcamp)—how do you suggest they improve?
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barnabywalters
hopefully we can get some good feedback/data on how the wiki homepage and 2014/UK pages come across, and make improvements
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@aral
@emmajanehw (And thanks for your feedback, I’m sure the organisers will appreciate it.) +@indiewebcamp
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@emmajanehw
@aral BarCamps are *intensely* difficult to promote to an outsider as they’re generally about the ppl. @indiewebcamp
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@aral
RT @fruitingbodies: Reach out to the folk at @SheSaysBrighton or @300SecondsBTN for some suggestions perhaps? +@indiewebcamp
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@emmajanehw
@aral Currently the top level page talks about the “what” but not the “who”. @indiewebcamp
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@aral
RT @emmajanehw: @aral BarCamps are *intensely* difficult to promote to an outsider as they’re generally about the ppl. @indiewebcamp
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@Digiterium
RT @aral: So, who else is coming to @indiewebcamp Brighton? There’s currently an embarrassing all-white-male list of “creators” http://t.co…
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@aral
RT @emmajanehw: @aral Currently the top level page talks about the “what” but not the “who”. @indiewebcamp
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@aral
@emmajanehw Good call — so focus on the people. Focus on the importance inclusivity/diversity… make it a primary element? +@indiewebcamp
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aaronpk
ARGH UTF8
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@emmajanehw
@aral The categories are foreign to me. I don’t really understand what a Creator vs. a Blogger vs. an Apprentice is. @indiewebcamp
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@BarnabyWalters
@aral @emmajanehw I personally am disappointed with the lack of diversity at Indiewebcamp UK but have… http://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/4X_Fg2/
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@brandalisms
RT @aral: So, who else is coming to @indiewebcamp Brighton? There’s currently an embarrassing all-white-male list of “creators” http://t.co…
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@aral
@aaronpk That’s great to see/hear. What can we do to make the Brighton one better? Some good responses coming in :) +@indiewebcamp
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@laurakalbag
@aral I want to sign up, but I don’t want to put links to my social networks on my homepage. So I’m a bit stuck… @indiewebcamp
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@emmajanehw
@aral So I looked for something which looked like “me”, or described “me”, but I just found it to be about a diff community. @indiewebcamp
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@aral
@emmajanehw I’ve found the stratification to be a huge barrier of entry (literally). Made @laurakalbag not go to first one.+@indiewebcamp
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@SEOTipsnTricks
RT @aral: So, who else is coming to @indiewebcamp Brighton? There’s currently an embarrassing all-white-male list of “creators” http://t.co…
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@aral
RT @laurakalbag: @aral I want to sign up, but I don’t want to put links to my social networks on my homepage. So I’m a bit stuck… @indieweb
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@emmajanehw
@aral Currently authoring a book on Git, and working as a Technical PM. This doesn’t fit into any of the cats. @indiewebcamp
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@laurakalbag
@aral actually. I should have read the instructions. I can use quiet <link rel= in the <head> :) @indiewebcamp
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@aral
RT @laurakalbag: @aral actually. I should have read the instructions. I can use quiet <link rel= in the <head> :) @indiewebcamp
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@ShaneHudson
@laurakalbag you really should come. I think if you sign up as a 'blogger' it gets around that restriction. @aral @indiewebcamp
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@emmajanehw
@aral e.g. if there were a category for “owns more than a dozen domain names, all of which are just ideas” … ;) @indiewebcamp
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@laurakalbag
@ShaneHudson I want to, and I’m a bloomin’ creator, so I’m jumping through the hurdles ;) @aral @indiewebcamp
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aaronpk
omg this thread
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@emmajanehw
@aral under “Apprentice” it also says I have to find someone to add me. How? Again: insider club feeling. @indiewebcamp
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@AmyStephen
@aral It's so innovative it feels like you have to be really special and accomplished to attend. @emmajanehw @laurakalbag @indiewebcamp
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@AmyStephen
@aral Also, virtual participation could help build involvement IRL the next year for women. @emmajanehw @laurakalbag @indiewebcamp
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@laurakalbag
@ShaneHudson aw, just realised I can’t go (and neither can @aral) as it’s my parents’ 30th wedding anniversary party @indiewebcamp
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@aral
RT @anoemi: @aral have you met @mozzadrella? She's done some work specifically around participation at unconferences. :) +@indiewebcamp
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@laurakalbag
@ShaneHudson @aral @indiewebcamp though we could do the Sunday, if we’re not just going to be late to the party…
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@mozzadrella
@aral @indiewebcamp nice to meet you--if I can help with language, design or activities, let's chat.
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@aral
@laurakalbag Oh, just saw, it’s Saturday — could have sworn it was on the Sunday when I signed up :(+@ShaneHudson @indiewebcamp
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@aral
@mozzadrella Excellent :) I’m not helping organise this one but I’m sure the folks at @indiewebcamp would be delighted to.
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aaronparecki.com
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@awoods
Just realized I missed @indiewebcamp Portland. If you're near Brighton, UK, you should go in Sept 6th. Don't be like me. don't miss it!
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barnabywalters
opinions on some sort of indicator on RSVP rows for saying “I’m looking for an apprentice”?
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barnabywalters
it might make people feel more comfortable about asking
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aaronpk
interesting idea
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barnabywalters
currently rewording the apprentice instruction text
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waterpigs.co.uk
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aaronpk
tommorris: adactio: have you guys sorted out sponsorship for IWCUK? I only see ClearLeft listed as a sponsor on the site right now
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adactio
aaronpk: No sponsorship yet, but we don't really need any if everyone's happy nipping out to get their own lunch.
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barnabywalters
adactio: if the food festival is on again, personally I insist on nipping out to get my own lunch :)
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aaronpk
yeah lunch is usually the big cost
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aaronpk
it's usually a good idea to have coffee on site though
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tommorris
is a big fan of bagelman.co.uk ;-)
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aaronpk
also it's been nice having a light breakfast
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aaronpk
anyway Esri can cover coffee in the morning if someone can coordinate it!
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@BarnabyWalters
Want to come to @indiewebcampUK but not sure if you’re a “creator”? Say hello, I want to help! Eith… http://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/4X_G2t/
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aaronpk
barnabywalters: lol your autolinker matched "co.uk" in your email address
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barnabywalters
aaronpk: NO IT DIDN’T PROVE IT
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tommorris
aaronpk: that'd be pretty cool. ;-)
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barnabywalters
(yes, it’s bad. but I barely ever post email addresses, so meh)
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@Becky_Faith
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aaronpk
tommorris: if you find a coffee shop that can lend you a vaccuum pot I can reimburse you for it
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@aral
@bouncingdan Done :) +@indiewebcamp (That should go to the IRC room also afaik.)
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@bouncingdan
@aral I can't go (+am all-white-male) but I look at that page and I don't really understand what it is and what category I'd sign up as.
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aaronpk
so general feedback on the guest list page is that the categories are confusing people and/or making them apprehensive
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barnabywalters
yep, it‘s not clear from the guest list page how the event works, or what the categories are
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aaronpk
interesting side effect of splitting the guest list to its own page
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aaronpk
probably need a better header on top
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barnabywalters
maybe the categories are simply an unnecessary weirdness
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barnabywalters
IME they never actually affect people’s participation in the event
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aaronpk
I do find it odd that there isn't a clearly obvious way to get to the main event page from the guest list page
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barnabywalters
they’re really only there to avoid trolls and spammers
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aaronpk
barnabywalters: good point re: participation
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barnabywalters
I wonder if people are looking at the categories and thinking that if they go as a “blogger” or whatever they’ll be treated differently
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barnabywalters
maybe simply removing the names of the categories would be the best move
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barnabywalters
and say there are three ways of RSVPing
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barnabywalters
rather than implying that how you RSVP affects your participation in the event
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barnabywalters
because really, that’s the truth
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aaronpk
yeah that makes sense
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barnabywalters
okay, I’ll take that as a founder-green-light to change the page :)
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aaronpk
we can always make more changes later, it's a wiki after all
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barnabywalters
ugh mediawiki table syntax
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aaronpk
heh, so bad
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gRegor`
I like the idea of changing the participation levels somehow.
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gRegor`
Discussed it a bit with tantek before /2014 and how the descriptions were a bit intimidating to my girlfriend Amanda.
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aaronpk
so this is the main reason for the distinction http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2014-06-26/line/1403799649000
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@jkphl
RT @aral: So, who else is coming to @indiewebcamp Brighton? There’s currently an embarrassing all-white-male list of “creators” http://t.co…
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gRegor`
Yeah
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aaronpk
so whatever changes we make need to keep that in mind
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adactio
I think the categories on the page for signing up to Indie Web Camp is putting people off. And saying that it's to put off trolls and spammers feels like premature optimisation. If a simplified sign-up page results in trolls showing up, I'll just kick 'em out. Done.
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aaronpk
adactio: I hear you, but it's not quite premature optimisation, as demonstrated by many other events
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adactio
aaronpk: but not this event. Past performance is no indicator of future behaviour in a different city in a different country.
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barnabywalters
we don’t need the categorisation to keep the anti-spam effect
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aaronpk
I do think dropping the creator/apprentice distinction is a good start
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barnabywalters
nor the descriptions
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aaronpk
there is probably a better way of saying "if you have your own website come on in!"
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gRegor`
Perhaps adding "writer" to creator would be good
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cuibonobo
for what it's worth, i had come to interpret "creator" as someone that was making indieweb software platforms and/or libraries and sharing them with others
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aaronpk
heh yeah I can see how it would look like that
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gRegor`
Like kyle said, "i'm in favor of anything we can do to be more welcoming to writers, designers, artists etc." http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2014-06-26#t1403799911000
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aaronpk
also an effect of the community maturing
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aaronpk
at the beginning there weren't any indieweb platforms/libraries, so creator was less ambiguous
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gRegor`
Perhaps the criteria could be more simple: domain owner, I-want-to-be-a-domain-owner. :)
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aaronpk
yeah, that is the end goal anyway
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aaronpk
"I have my own website" "I want my own website"
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gRegor`
I like that.
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cuibonobo
yeah i think that's more useful and accomodating
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aaronpk
that also filters out people who don't want their own website in a relatively friendly way
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gRegor`
It's simple and doesn't have the subtleties that "creator" does
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aaronpk
(I really wish I could finally fix these stupid UTF8 errors on my site)
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waterpigs.co.uk
edited /2014/UK/Guest_List () "(-783) re-worded to de-emphasise differences between categories, simplified to have a personal site/want a personal site"
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barnabywalters
^^^^ made a bunch of changes, feedback/revisions appreciated
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@aaronpk
@bouncingdan Would two categories "I have my own website" and "I want my own website" be clearer? /cc @aral ... http://aaronparecki.com/replies/2014/08/12/4/indiewebcamp
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@benwerd
Getting lots of great feedback from this video, bringing #indieweb to #edtech. https://www.youtube.com/ Educators, we want to hear from you.
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kylewm
barnabywalters++ on the guest list templates, keep going :)
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Loqi
barnabywalters has 53 karma
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barnabywalters
I suppose next step is to actually reorder all the people on the page
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kylewm
like, unify Creators / Bloggers / Apprentices into one list of Guests
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barnabywalters
time to BREAK DOWN SOME HIERARCHY
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barnabywalters
flatten all the things
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barnabywalters
at least the attendee templates make the syntaax bearable — who put those together?
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kylewm
gRegornobacktick++
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Loqi
gRegornobacktick has 8 karma
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kylewm
(I think)
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gRegor`
aaronpk: I thought you had fixed the UTF8 by specifying UTF-8 in the htmlentities() function and similar?
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aaronpk
i sure thought so
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waterpigs.co.uk
edited /2014/UK/Guest_List (-465) "flattened all the hierarchies — everyone’s in the same list now"
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gRegor`
Yeah, that was me.
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barnabywalters
gRegornobacktick++
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Loqi
gRegornobacktick has 9 karma
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aaronpk
gRegor`: oh I wonder... maybe I live-patched it on the server and it never made it into the git repo
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gRegor`
"you’re still very welcome!" is nice on the guest list
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gRegor`
Sorta like Loqi's backtick regex. ;) jk
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aaronpk
oh shit
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Loqi
lolz
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aaronpk
that's totally what happened
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jonnybarnes
barnabywalters: the actual email address linked in http://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/4X_G2t/ has a random uppercase Y in it
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barnabywalters
jonnybarnes: this is true. thanks, fixing!
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aaronpk
hotfixes--
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Loqi
hotfixes has -1 karma
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aaronpk
cowboycoding--
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Loqi
cowboycoding has -1 karma
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aaronpk
tantek is up. he just favorited one of my tweets from that thread ;)
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gRegor`
hotfixes -> hotmesses
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barnabywalters
aaronpk: either that or his Tantek-bot Topical Tweet Favouriting script is running
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gRegor`
haha
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Loqi
hehe
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Loqi
Welcome, indie-visitor! Set your nickname by typing /nick yourname
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@emmajanehw
@awolftune My point remains: a conference without a published *content* schedule is really difficult to promote. cc @aral @indiewebcamp
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@emmajanehw
@awolftune As far as I know, @indiewebcamp doesn’t use BarCamp. I’m an old dog, with old terms. Apologies. +@aral
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@kevinmarks
@emmajanehw @awolftune @aral hm. @indiewebcamp has a clear goal - help you have your own website and learn from others already doing so
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barnabywalters
perhaps linking to schedules from previous IWCs would help people to get a better idea of what participating is like?
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@emmajanehw
@kevinmarks “goal” and “help” are not used in that context on home page or event summary page. cc @awolftune @aral @indiewebcamp
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@awolftune
@emmajanehw @aral @indiewebcamp I think "unconference" is good and in common use. Community Leadership Summit is an unconference…
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waterpigs.co.uk
edited /2014/UK (+90) "/* IndieWebCampUK 2014 */ linked to 2013/UK"
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KevinMarks
so should I add something to that effect to the IWC brighton page?
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aaronpk
KevinMarks: yeah that's a great idea
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ben_thatmustbeme
is #indiechat logged at all?
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barnabywalters
ben_thatmustbeme: nope
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KevinMarks
only by individuals
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aaronpk
not publicly, only on peopel's computers
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waterpigs.co.uk
edited /2014/UK/Guest_List (+93) "linked to main event page, added link to IWC 2013 for people curious about how the event is structured"
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ben_thatmustbeme
should probably catch this chat up on the convo. For history's sake
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KevinMarks
hm, being on the train using spotty shared mobile tethering is not a good way to edit the wiki
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aaronpk
this is true
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barnabywalters
okay I’m done making improvements to 2014/UK and ./Guest_List for the moment
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barnabywalters
hopefully that addresses at least some of the feedback
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aaronpk
thanks barnabywalters!!
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ben_thatmustbeme
so the question is, should I be advertising #indiewebcamp to friends and other coders or not. I know you said you want to avoid the unproductive nonsense that comes from a larger group
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aaronpk
its not necessarily the size that makes it unproductive
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ben_thatmustbeme
I'm just worried if we do too much it will just be a flood of new people asking for help
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KevinMarks
I'll wait until I'm somewhere more stable
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KevinMarks
so, from indiechat - we don't want to keep the group small (except for venue restrictions)
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barnabywalters
ben_thatmustbeme: yes yes yes please do evangelise indieweb to anyone you think is interested!
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barnabywalters
we love helping new people!
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KevinMarks
we do want to keep it focused on people practically building their own sites
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KevinMarks
previously that DID mean coders
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KevinMarks
now the tools are more mature it can be authors, bloggers etc.
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KevinMarks
if known is accepting signups by then it could potentially be very broad
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KevinMarks
I'm guessing it is a bit early for known
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ben_thatmustbeme
that would be my first question though. Pointing people to a service where they can set up their own.
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barnabywalters
switching locations, bbiab
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aaronpk
so our /Getting_Started page is supposed to address this, but it is probably quite lacking at the moment
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ben_thatmustbeme
I felt quite locked in when I tried to use Wordpress templates and plugins, but there really aren't that many easy to use options out there. (I am expecting big things from Known)
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ben_thatmustbeme
the getting_started is still more technical than many care to look at. Few people want to even know what microformats is. They just want the neat stuff thats on top
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aaronpk
yes, it was written in like 2011 before there were any tools
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gRegor`
This reminds me, I need to get back to work on my updates to /getting_started
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aaronpk
please :)
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gRegor`
Making the headings all actions, like "get a personal domain" Moving some unnecessary extra stuff to later.
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gRegor`
Like I don't think 'bonus: buy a short domain" should be in there.
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ben_thatmustbeme
I like that, making all the titles calls to action
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gRegor`
Added in direct links to indiewebify.me validators
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ben_thatmustbeme
my hope is to have the microformats bit disappear as all the projects we would list already have microformats built in
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ben_thatmustbeme
and ideally the authorship info would be part of that as well
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tantek
good morning #indiewebcamp! things seem pretty quiet this morning ;)
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ben_thatmustbeme
good morning
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ben_thatmustbeme
they were just starting to pick up a little
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kylewm
whistles and looks around furtively
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tantek
reads backwards in the log
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tantek
everyone here knows why "unconference" is a poor term, poor framing right?
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tantek
and why "Barcamp" actually does work? (has only scaled worldwide to more cities than any other "conference" by any other name)
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aaronpk
i'm not really interested in debating whether barcamp is a good term to use. also we don't really call this a barcamp anywhere.
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ben_thatmustbeme
two reasons i can think of, one people like bars (though i don't since i don't drink) and two, its hard to define something as NOT something else
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tantek
ben_thatmustbeme: yes, that latter one in particular
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tantek
it's the "don't think of an elephant" problem
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tantek
framing 101
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ben_thatmustbeme
unconferance could mean next to anything that isn't a conference.
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ben_thatmustbeme
i use meetup when i explain it to some, but that makes it sound so much smaller
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tantek
ben_thatmustbeme: the irony is that most self-labeled "unconferences" are still conferences, and still *charge* admission
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tantek
the term is quite polluted with a lot of negative behaviors
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tantek
whereas "Barcamp" has actually fended off most of that kind of nonsense and kept its integrity
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tantek
as of tomorrow, for 9 years
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tantek
aaronpk - we've called IndieWebCamp a mix between a Barcamp and a Devcamp in places in the past
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tantek
because those terms do have meanings to people and set certain positive creative-centric expectations
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tantek
the method we use of intros, empty session grid, scheduling, note taking and capturing on the wiki - all of that is from Barcamp
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tantek
we added the selfdogfood demos bit at the start (post-intro, pre-session-scheduling)
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tantek
and the "what did you build" demos are very much from Devcamps
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aaronpk
so it's definitely a unique combination of different aspects of paast events
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ben_thatmustbeme
its the fact that i know IWC Cambridge is fast approaching is what has got me going to work again on openblog. I want to have something worth showing
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tantek
it is. but it's still ~50% Barcamp, 40% Devcamp, ~10% new additions
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tantek
if purely by what happens during what timeslots
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aaronpk
sure. I just think it's fine to say "here's this thing, it looks like this" rather than saying ~50% Barcamp, 40% Devcamp
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tantek
plus, LOTs of people have been to Barcamps
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tantek
so saying "Barcamp-style" evokes plenty of expectations, description, framing
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tantek
without having to say " it looks like this … (insert paragraph)"
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tantek
what is what?
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aaronpk
anyway more productively, what do you think about the changes to the guest list? http://indiewebcamp.com/2014/UK/Guest_List
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tantek
aaronpk, barnabywalters looks great!
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barnabywalters
tantek: thanks
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tantek
The separate "Bloggers" category failed IMO in practice, despite being introduced this past April to attempt to appeal to the broader set of "just bloggers" in NYC and following IndieWebCamps.
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tantek
Only ONE of the bloggers that we reached out to actually showed up at IndieWebCampNYC
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barnabywalters
IMO like acknowledging bloggers as creators rather than making a new category is a positive change
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tantek
ALL the other outspoken bloggers who wring their hands about the "web we lost" blah blah blah - none of the showed up. Or even responded.
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tantek
They're big on complaining on their blogs, but put zero energy into being constructive. In any way. Whether showing up. Or offering resources / how-tos for going independent. Or anything.
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tantek
The only person that did show up was Paul Ford (@ftrain)
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tantek
s/person/blogger
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Loqi
tantek meant to say: The only blogger that did show up was Paul Ford (@ftrain)
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tantek
and that was after both IndieWebCamp organizers (myself and Jeremy Zilar) explicitly personally reached out to him
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tantek
(we explicitly personally reached out to other bloggers too, but lots couldn't come for various reasons)
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tantek
barnabywalters: I think the larger difference in approach is what adactio is talking about
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tantek
we haven't (yet) in the UK, or in Brighton seen the problem of "too many talkers"
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tantek
so it's reasonable to say, hey let's try making the barriers lower *here*, in *Brighton*, in the *UK* and see what happens.
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tantek
in practice, the past two years we didn't say no to anyone who actually bothered to show up in person
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tantek
nor did we have to kick anyone out
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tantek
(I have had to kick people out of BarCamps and ScienceHackDay for being disruptive, but those are different stories)
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tantek
(disruptive meaning really excessive stuff like getting drunk, or creepily bothering people, or both)
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@laurakalbag
@aral I want to sign up, but I don’t want to put links to my social networks on my homepage. So I’m a bit stuck… @indiewebcamp
(twitter.com/_/status/499219224322404353)
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aaronpk
she figured it out
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tantek
gRegor`: see later follow-ups
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tantek
and I thought *I* was behind ;)
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gRegor`
:)
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tantek
barnabywalters: I really like the "I have my own website" - "I want my own website" split
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tantek
that's really good
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barnabywalters
credit goes to gRegor`
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barnabywalters
I just pressed the buttons
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tantek
gRegor`: awesome
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gRegor`
er, aaronpk.
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gRegor`
I had the kludgy "domain owner" "I want to be a domain owner" :)
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tantek
you guys may have been influenced by some clever prior art / analysis here, do you know of or remember "Have Hay?" "Need Hay?"
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gRegor`
aaronpk put it in human words
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barnabywalters
tantek: er, nope
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gRegor`
Doesn't ring a bell.
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aaronpk
I've heard of "Got milk?"
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gRegor`
I grew up in the country though, so have had hay. :)
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kylewm
ew, milk sharing
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tantek
it's something that Jeff Veen spoke about for several years back in the mid 2000s
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aaronpk
barnabywalters: lol yes like that, very similar, but not quite
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tantek
and pointed out how awesomely simple and self-directed that navigation / user-choice design was
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@scottros
@editer but this specific thing you're seeing is just a clumsy byproduct of some early-stage indieweb software I'm using
(twitter.com/_/status/499258579061186561)
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aaronpk
needhay.asp havehay.asp
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barnabywalters
hah, that’s cool
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tantek
designed by the USDA Farm Service Agency
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tantek
classic "undesign" ;)
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@Editer
RT @scottros: @editer but this specific thing you're seeing is just a clumsy byproduct of some early-stage indieweb software I'm using
(twitter.com/_/status/499258749329346560)
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@Editer
I Favorited @scottros's latest work so I could find it to read later, but now the article says I Liked it. Is that the official meaning now?
(twitter.com/_/status/499255709960523776)
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@Editer
Did I miss a discussion? @scottros @twitter If Favorites now have the specific "Like" meaning then I can't use them the way I want to.
(twitter.com/_/status/499256940661583875)
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aaronpk
interesting
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tantek
what if we unintentionally cause the collapse of "Favorite" and "Like" to mean the same thing?
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tantek
is that good or bad?
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gRegor`
I think it's kinda bad.
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aaronpk
the neutral thing to do is to call each thing what it is in each silo
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gRegor`
I definitely prefer "favorite"
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aaronpk
so if someone favorites on twitter, show it as a "favorite"
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tantek
gRegor`: prefer "favorite" for what?
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aaronpk
if someone likes it on facebook, call it "like"
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tantek
perhaps we should ask the people that POSSE to both
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gRegor`
I prefer to "favorite" things than "like" things.
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aaronpk
gRegor`: it's not really about what you want in this case :)
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ben_thatmustbeme
i was toying with the idea of "like" for a post, "favorite" for a page/site
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gRegor`
I do currently display the silo-appropriate term in my interactions and "likes this on Facebook" or "favorited this on Twitter"
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tantek
gRegor`: based on how many more people "like" things e.g. on FB/Instagram vs. "favorite" them e.g. on Twitter, you may be an exception there ;)
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ben_thatmustbeme
too many terms once you start throwing in "+1" it too
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aaronpk
gRegor`: cool, yeah that seems like an appropriate thing to do (display the silo-appropriate term)
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tantek
btw the "Need Hay" "Have Hay" from those mid 2000s talks inspired the top of this: http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-examples-in-wild
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gRegor`
Sorry, was talking more generally. I don't think the silo's usage of the terms should be collapsed to one or the other.
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tantek
gRegor`: always? or only sometimes?
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tantek
e.g. I see no problem with collapsing "+1" with like
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gRegor`
Meaning: I don't think we should take all the Facebook likes we get, and Twitter favorites, and display them in one section as "likes" or "favorites"
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tantek
gRegor`: sounds like a personal site choice / preference
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tantek
whether to lump them into one big facepile or not
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aaronpk
tantek: not if it affects readers
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aaronpk
er, people who are reading
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aaronpk
like @Editer who was clearly taken off-guard
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tantek
what did he think favorite meant?
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gRegor`
Sure it's a choice. It's our own site! :) I think it's a poor one to make, though.
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tantek
ah "could find it to read later"
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gRegor`
+1 is a decent corollary to like though, sure
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aaronpk
yes, definitely not "like"
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tantek
right, "Favorite" is ambiguous, and people use it like "like", or people use it like "bookmark"
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aaronpk
so scott showing his "favorite" as a "like" is like putting words into his mouth
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gRegor`
Yeah, that's why I prefer the more flexible "favorite" action. I favorite things to read later, that make me laugh, or as a "prop" to the author, etc.
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tantek
gRegor`: more flexible but seemingly more heavy weight (fewer people do it)
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aaronpk
is now seriously considering splitting up "favorite" and "like" on his site
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tantek
than like
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gRegor`
Fewer people favorite tweets? Really?
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aaronpk
or... maybe I can not call it anything and keep them in one pile
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tantek
I just switched from "Favorite" to "Like" in my webactions
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gRegor`
Fewer than what?
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tantek
gRegor`: oh definitely, than "like"
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aaronpk
I already don't show the bridgy text "___ favorited this", I just show faces next to a star
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tantek
a like is considered more of an ephemeral throwaway
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aaronpk
according to who?
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tantek
people don't seem to have any need to "conserve" them.
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aaronpk
facebook makes your likes relatively permanenty
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aaronpk
and explicitly uses them as endorsements
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tantek
aaronpk - talking about posts
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tantek
rather than pages
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tantek
and comments etc.
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tantek
same on IG
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kylewm
if they are different actions on silos, does that mean they need different mf2 markup for us to send them?
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tantek
lots more likes for posts
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aaronpk
(and lots of likes for comments on posts!)
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tantek
right
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tantek
kylewm: when someone comes up with a compelling use-case, sure
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gRegor`
kylewm: That's kind of been in my mind as I would prefer to "favorite" someone's post than "like" it, but the mf2 is "like"
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tantek
gRegor`: you could start experimenting with u-favorite-of if you like ;)
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gRegor`
doesn't even have u-like-of yet :)
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kylewm
tantek: I publish 'u-bookmark's ... here https://kylewm.com/bookmarks
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aaronpk
gRegor`: oh now I remember why I live-patched my site, cause the problem only exists on my server, not my local copy
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gRegor`
I'll stick with keeping it simple. "like" is definitely the momentum on indieweb sites currently
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gRegor`
Ahh, newer local PHP version?
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tantek
and that momentum is carried from the same momentum on silos
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gRegor`
Presuming by "silos" you mean Facebook and Instagram only.
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gRegor`
Since Twitter doesn't have a "like"
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tantek
gRegor`: nope, I mean them all
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gRegor`
Er, strike the "only"
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tantek
FB and IG likes greatly out number Twitter favorites
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gRegor`
Probably based on number of users.
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gRegor`
I don't know how we can measure this
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tantek
gRegor`: pick a method, any method. I'd challenge you to find a method where you find more favorites.
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gRegor`
What's your method for saying they greatly outnumber favorites?
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tantek
both maximums I've seen and frequency
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KevinMarks
socially like is an assumed action, fave has a different valence
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tantek
people like the smalles of things on FB, minor comments
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kylewm
Instgram == like? or favorite? i alwasy thought they were just hearts...
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tantek
most utterances on FB get likes
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tantek
most tweets do not get faves
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tantek
how about that?
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gRegor`
maximums?
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KevinMarks
most *human* utterances get likes
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KevinMarks
liking bot content can be harmful
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gRegor`
I've interpreted IG heart as "like", kylewm
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tantek
KevinMarks: my POSSE posts get more likes on FB than faves on Twitter
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tantek
despite having *more* Twitter followers than FB followers
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KevinMarks
yes, I'd expect that
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tantek
this is my point - the difference is so drastic that good luck finding *any* metric that shows more favorites than likes
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tantek
gRegor`: nothing to interpret. IG calls it *Like* in the UI.
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KevinMarks
maybe Ellen's selfie
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gRegor`
obviously doesn't use IG much :)
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gRegor`
sees it now
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KevinMarks
photo likes vs text likes would be interesting to compare
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KevinMarks
I suspect twitter gets more retweets than FB gets shares per unit, but I don't have data on it
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tantek
KevinMarks or compare IG photo likes vs. Flickr photo favorites. IG crushed Flickr in this a long time ago. Even more than when Flickr was popular.
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tantek
I suspect more retweets as well, as a "retweet" seems a "lighter-weight" action than a "share"
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tantek
or what FB calls a "share"
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tantek
I'd also suspect more Tumblr "reblogs" than FB "shares" for the same reasons
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kylewm
tantek: Flickr favorites are/were more weighty though, they create a curated stream that people actualyl looked at
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@drewSaysGoVeg
@brendan__ryan I'm very excited about the WPL maker space! Stoked that you're into indieweb too. :)
(twitter.com/_/status/499263933887160321)
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tantek
kylewm - so do Flickr faves
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tantek
s/Flickr/Twitter
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Loqi
tantek meant to say: kylewm - so do Twitter faves
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kylewm
tantek: oh! i never use them that way but i'm sure you're right
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@brendan__ryan
@drewSaysGoVeg thx, i'd love to make indieweb development a focal point of the space.
(twitter.com/_/status/499264349115281408)
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aaronpk
oh dear I wonder what that looks like
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tantek
which used to even have an atom feed
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kylewm
what is WPL?
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gRegor`
kylewm: Worcester Public Library, looks like
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@drewSaysGoVeg
@brendan__ryan Rad! I heard @caseorganic talk about indieweb stuff in SF a few months ago. Very inspiring.
(twitter.com/_/status/499265260113510400)
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kylewm
ohh, IWC Cambridge just in time
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aaronpk
SO MUCH EXCITING THINGS HAPPENING
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tantek
KevinMarks - I find aaronpk's favorites far more interesting and about more topics.
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tantek
ironically, aaropnk's favorites are *more diverse* ;)
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KevinMarks
right, I meant anil is consciously making a stream
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tantek
s/aaropnk's/aaronpk
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Loqi
tantek meant to say: ironically, aaronpk favorites are *more diverse* ;)
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KevinMarks
mine are a mix as I also use it as a flag to pipe things to pinboard for reading later
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aaronpk
I often favorite things that I don't quite want to post myself
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aaronpk
also I often treat it as a lighter "retweet"
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aaronpk
working under the assumption that these favorites will eventually be published in a feed on my site
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KevinMarks
there is the "hate fav" too
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tantek
I've begun treating faves on Twitter like "likes"
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tantek
giving them more freely
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tantek
feels good, less cognitive load
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kylewm
hahah "hate fave"
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kylewm
that's the thing where i'm "hate browsing" someone's feed and accidentally click fave?
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KevinMarks
did your heads melt at that?
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tantek
bf;dr
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ben_thatmustbeme
anyone want to take a sec to help me test that login works on my site now
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kylewm
buzzfeed is the Godwin's law of IRC
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ben_thatmustbeme
ben.thatmustbe.me
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kylewm
ben_thatmustbeme: yes
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KevinMarks
I take things like that as user interaction reports
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ben_thatmustbeme
just want to make sure it works for someone other than me, login doesn't do anything yet, but at least i know it works
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KevinMarks
I can try
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kylewm
ben_thatmustbeme: I got "Signed in as https://kylewm.com" looks like it worked
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ben_thatmustbeme
thanks kylewm
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KevinMarks
url ben?
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aaronpk
ben_thatmustbeme: I just signed in no problem
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ben_thatmustbeme
next bit is to add people to a friends list and allow them additional access
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aaronpk
tantek: heh yeah my twitter favorites list is interesting
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aaronpk
I wonder what it says about me
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KevinMarks
do I need ogg any more or can I just do webm and mp4?
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Loqi
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@SheSaysBrighton
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@Natalie91231732
RT @aral: So, who else is coming to @indiewebcamp Brighton? There’s currently an embarrassing all-white-male list of “creators” http://t.co…
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tommorris
publishes a long-ish camera review with photos: http://tommorris.org/posts/9064
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@kevinmarks
@mollycrabapple there are some #indieweb tools that might fit that space @withknown for example
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cuibonobo
looking at that Molly Crabapple conversation
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@darrylayo
@mollycrabapple Time for my quarterly invocation of the fact that I miss live journal.
(twitter.com/_/status/499275524817309696)
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@thekateblack
@mollycrabapple @darrylayo Same. The first social media site. Graduated filters. I met some of my best friends on LJ.
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@lucyswope
@thekateblack @mollycrabapple @darrylayo long or short form, supported different media, privacy filters and groups, nested replies. sigh.
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@jasonpgignac
@mollycrabapple YES! Web life needs a place to talk about things you are still trying to understand. To signal "I am ready to listen."
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kylewm
Livejournal got sooooo much stuff right
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cuibonobo
LiveJournal was kind of waning by the time i became aware of it. i wanted to post those tweets here to see if anyone here liked it too, and why
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@annkempster
@aral @emmajanehw if @indiewebcamp want any help finding more speakers, I'm sure some members of @300_seconds and @AdasList could help
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KevinMarks
LJ got most of this stuff right a decade ago
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aaronpk
heh "speakers"
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KevinMarks
but ended up siloed as sixapart failed to port intereop across it's 4 silos
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kylewm
cuibonobo: it had straightforward per-post privacy settings that people actually used, and neat ways to agregate posts by community ... so it was a pretty good place for e.g. fan communities that have migrated to tumblr
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kylewm
the privacy settings promoted deeper conversation than i think we generally see on social media
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cuibonobo
kylewm: could i open an account today and check out some of that stuff? or has it changed?
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kylewm
cuibonobo: hmm, not sure, i think it's all still there but pretty quiet
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aaronpk
welcome aral!
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aral
Hey folks, just wanted to pop and say that the guest list is looking way more approachable :)
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aaronpk
glad to hear it!
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aral
Hey Aaron :)
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aaronpk
we were listening to all the feedback on twitter this morning
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aral
Yeah, I just read through the logs
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aral
Sorry for pushing a metric tonne of tweets in here but hey, I’m kind of a blunt instrument like that — happy to see that it was helpful :)
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aaronpk
it's effective! provided the needed push to finally make the change
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barnabywalters
aral: no, thanks! it was super useful
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aral
I love that there is only one class of person — it just feels way more welcoming. I really hope this will lead to a more diverse signup. And we got quite a bit of attention in various parts today so that should help.
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aral
Anyway, I have to dash (to work on my blog engine, no less… which I hope to finally be able to show off at the event). Bummed that we can only make the Sunday apparently as we have a family event on Sat. Take care / chat soon :)
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aaronpk
will be great to see you there! (even if I only see you virtually!)
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aral
Yeah, saw that, Aaron… better than nothing :) ’night ’night from Brighton
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barnabywalters
aral: goodnight :)
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Loqi
goodnight!
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cuibonobo
checking out LiveJournal. interesting that the heart icon on a post means "Add to memories"
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kylewm
heh, mixed metaphors
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cuibonobo
so it seems more weighty than a 'like' or even a 'favorite'
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emmak
cuibonobo: i miss livejournal too. i was upset when my lj friends left for myspace and facebook
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cuibonobo
emmak: was it just "trendyness"? or do you think they switched because of a particular feature that was missing in LJ?
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emmak
you're probably asking the wrong person since i stubbornly refused to join any more social media sites after trying out friendster and watching it flop
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gRegor`
Noticing instagram now using i.instagram.com in links. Wonder why.
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cuibonobo
i've been messing around with LJ trying to get stuff to show up in the 'Friends Feed', but no dice. seems broken.
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emmak
the friends feed just shows posts of users you have friended, right? at least that's how it worked back when i used it
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kylewm
thinking about a "who?" section to IWC event descriptions, any thoughts on this? "This event is open to anyone who creates content or tools for their own website, or wants to start (we'd love to help!). All levels of technical expertise are welcome."
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kylewm
actually, I am not sure if https://twitter.com/emmajanehw/status/499218683945037824 refers to the top level page / or /2014/UK, and also not sure if it means "who is it for?" or "who is behind it?"
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@emmajanehw
@aral Currently the top level page talks about the “what” but not the “who”. @indiewebcamp
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tantek
kylewm: did you only quit for a while?
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tantek
I think we have another page for that?
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tantek
oh no we decided to keep it all there
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tantek
"publicly "quit" posting on or using (at all) various silos, either with intended permanence, or temporarily"
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tantek
kylewm: how long did your GH silo quit last?
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@bretolius
@brennannovak @oscargodson Every time you git pull from github, you are getting off github. Thats the magic!
(twitter.com/_/status/483482412345593856)
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cuibonobo
kylewm: do you have a specific reason for un-quitting GH?
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cuibonobo
personally, i would have exactly 0 contributions to open-source projects if it weren't for github. looking at, for example, google code i'm always like, wat
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tantek
cuibonobo: I think even google is like wat re: googlecode.
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cuibonobo
trac? gerrit? nope and nope. i wouldn't dare touch them.
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rascul
kylewm you can host your own git stuff and posse to github
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cuibonobo
GH offers such a friendly interface, plus in-browser editing meant i could make tiny typo corrections without having to clone an entire repo
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rascul
cuibonobo yeah that stuff can be nice, but isn't exclusive to github
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cuibonobo
rascul: i tried gitlab because it seemed most similar to what i liked about GH, but the memory requirements meant i would need to upgrade my VPS
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tantek
also a fan of in-browser editing
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rascul
i'm not really sure what sort of solutions exist if you want to self host and have in browser editing
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rascul
that never interested me much in general
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tantek
rascul - MediaWiki ;)
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rascul
i mean, for git repos
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tantek
rascul, git is just backend plumbing ;)
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tantek
is still waiting for someone to swap out MySQL in MediaWiki with git.
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rascul
sure, but my opinion still stands
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rascul
when i interact with git repos it's almost exclusively via command line
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tantek
and for me, almost exclusively via web UI or GUI app.
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rascul
different people, different opinions and ways of doing things :)
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kylewm
rascul: that is what I do with a few projects http://git.kylewm.com/ ... a post-receive hook pushes them to github
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cuibonobo
re: gitlab, i was in the situation where there was a tangible cost (the extra hosting $$) to an intangible benefit, i.e. "owning your data"
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rascul
kylewm you might be interested in cgit
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rascul
as the web interface i mean
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aaronpk
cuibonobo: I have a similar feeling re: gitlab, except that I have a bunch of private stuff that would cost me more $$ to put on github
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cuibonobo
and it didn't even have as many interface features (which is what i'm attracted to on GH)
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rascul
another option for posse to github, 'git remote add github git@github.com:user/repo' then 'git push github'
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rascul
it's effectively the same thing, easier to setup, but it's an extra step to do
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kylewm
rascul: thanks I'll check out cgit ... gitweb was ... not fun to set up
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rascul
tantek good idea
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cuibonobo
aaronpk: that's fair! the per-private-repo pricing on GH is definitely one of the pain points
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rascul
kylewm cgit can be picky to setup, but i might be able to help if you decide to do it
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cuibonobo
but i *still* like it better than, say, bitbucket
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rascul
i find the ui much better with cgit than gitweb
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kylewm
did anything become of gitorious?
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rascul
gitorious is still around and alive
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tantek
what is gitorius?
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rascul
https://gitorious.org/ "Git hosting and collaboration software that you can install yourself"
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kylewm
tantek: it's not so much that I quit for a while, it's that my silo quit wasn't very effective. since i posse redwind to github and contribute to bridgy on github, it's by far the most complete picture of "me" as a open source developer
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tantek
kylewm: interesting - that's useful to know too
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kylewm
I just never hear gitorious as an alternative to gitlab, etc.
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rascul
it's not as feature packed
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rascul
iirc, anyway, but it still can be used as an alternative
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cuibonobo
kylewm: "it's by far the most complete picture of "me" as a open source developer" <-- so much this
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tantek
kylewm: perhaps add that to /GitHub#Why ?
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rascul
kylewm btw https://git.rascul.io running cgit
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tantek
documenting why we use silos is just as useful as why not
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cuibonobo
and i actually wish that *wasn't* so, because my goal with my own website is to have it be the most complete picture of myself as a person
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kylewm
cuibonobo: yes exactly!
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cuibonobo
but GH is just sooo good. hah
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aaronpk
has an open issue to add a "code" section to his website, ironically on github https://github.com/aaronpk/p3k/issues/38
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tantek.com
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rascul
my goal is for all my git stuff to be on git.rascul.io then some of the things that others are more likely to use will make it to github
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tantek
what is gitorius?
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rascul
tantek could just add it to the list in /git instead of a new stub page
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Loqi
Gitorious is git hosting and collaboration software that you can install as an alternative to GitHub http://indiewebcamp.com/gitorius
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rascul
but then there's not the fancy dfn thing
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tantek
that's why
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cuibonobo
what is gitorious?
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Loqi
Gitorious is git hosting and collaboration software that you can install as an alternative to GitHub http://indiewebcamp.com/gitorious
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aaronpk
weird? lol
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cuibonobo
no it's just that i thought tantek mispelled it as 'gitorius'
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cuibonobo
but Loqi still gave the definition
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Loqi
who, me?
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aaronpk
MW search must be fuzzy matching
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aaronpk
oh he made a redirect
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cuibonobo
aaronpk: nope. two separate pages
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cuibonobo
you right
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cuibonobo
ok this is confusing
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aaronpk
MW serves the content from both URLs
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cuibonobo
ok i finally got it. black magic
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cuibonobo
rascul: i was checking out your cgit installation. i'm curious about how / whether you track issues?
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rascul
cuibonobo i have nothing for that at this time
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rascul
git.rascul.io is just the repos, but i plan do expand on that in the future
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rascul
oh it was already listed heh
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cuibonobo
rascul: now that i think about it, issue tracking is important because it collects my notes / progress about a project in a single place, but maybe my own site posts can fill that gap
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rascul
cuibonobo there are issue tracking solutions you can self host
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rascul
bugzilla being the easy example that everybody knows, but there's a plethora of them
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tantek
I thought trac was something you installed yourself on your own site?
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tantek
to do issue tracking and a wiki
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cuibonobo
but it's so... ugly
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rascul
trac is quite powerful but can be a real chore to setup and maintain, and is really for a single project
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rascul
trac is also deprecated in favor of apache bloodhound, trac development has stopped and apache has taken control
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rascul
redmine can be a good alternative to something like trac, it can be easier on setup/maintenance and has native multiple project support
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kylewm
bugzilla is sorta the polar opposite of GH issues, instead of title+description+tags, it has every option under the sun including both "priority" and "severity" (wtf)
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rascul
it was just the first thing that came to mind
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kylewm
yeah, definitely belongs in the list... i use it daily
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kylewm
but it is ugly :)
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rascul
it's also not very newbie friendly compared to github issues
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cuibonobo
was gonna try the apache bloodhound demo but it seems like it's down
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KartikPrabhu
just caught up on logs
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KartikPrabhu
very surprised at people being wary of "labels" in IWC event pages
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tantek
what is trac?
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tantek
what is bloodhound?
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kylewm
KartikPrabhu: you mean Creator, Blogger, Apprentice?
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KartikPrabhu
kylewm: yeah
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tantek
KartikPrabhu: I'm surprised too
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@kartik_prabhu
If a lowly physicist can just walk into @indiewebcamp and call himself a ‘creator’, then anyone working on the Web surely can! #indieweb
(twitter.com/_/status/499314196769566720)
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tantek
and I wonder if it's a US vs. UK thing
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KartikPrabhu
well there you go ^^
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@bear
RT @kartik_prabhu: If a lowly physicist can just walk into @indiewebcamp and call himself a ‘creator’, then anyone working on the Web surel…
(twitter.com/_/status/499314334334722048)
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tantek
in the US we don't take such labels/hieararchy as seriously as labels / notions of class in the UK
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tantek
so perhaps labels incite more sensitivity in the UK?
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tantek
as does hierarchy?
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KartikPrabhu
might be...
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kylewm
the point that brought it home for me is that barnaby said the different categories make it seem like you'll be treated differently at the event
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kylewm
like there are different tracks for bloggers or something
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tantek
interesting
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KartikPrabhu
is that bad?
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tantek
KartikPrabhu: well, it's potentially divisive, which is bad
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kylewm
well, mostly because it's incorrect :)
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KartikPrabhu
do people expect to be doing the same thing regardless of their skill set?
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tantek
KartikPrabhu: we're all likely to be doing different things / goals, so why deliberately publicly split people on just that axis?
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KartikPrabhu
because it is one axis. an obvious one. can you do stuff on your own, or do you need more help to get this setup
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KartikPrabhu
why is there a stigma to not knowing some obscure technical stuff.
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KartikPrabhu
you don't know. ok show up and learn
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aaronpk
i once set up trac, actually twice. it was totaly worth it before github existed
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aaronpk
actually i had 3 instances running
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kylewm
the cool thing to me is that, the small intentional barrier to entry is still there, it's just not the *primary* thing on the page
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KartikPrabhu
does not understand all this people stuff anyway. thank fully gRegor` is handling PR for HWC-Chicago ;)
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KartikPrabhu
does all the @references count towards twitter 140-limit?
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rascul
aaronpk i've ran trac many times, in some cases i did some trickery to get multiple project stuff
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rascul
github did seem to replace trac in many cases
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rascul
aaronpk have you used redmine?
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aaronpk
briefly i believe
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rascul
it's pretty good, i was using it for awhile after trac development stopped
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rascul
well not really stopped i guess, but stopped progressing anyway, which is what caused apache's fork
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aaronpk
huh, haven't been following that
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rascul
redmine is ruby
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kylewm
!tell benwerd could you create a HWC event + FB copy pretty please?
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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KartikPrabhu
kylewm: start posting indie-events! :P
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tantek
KartikPrabhu: hey, you start posting indie-events, e.g. for Chicago :P ;)
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KartikPrabhu
tantek: doesn't feel like a priority for me to do that for just one event I'd ever post :P Thinking hard about reading- highlights/bookmarks at the moment though
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tantek
KartikPrabhu: you mean the event you'd post every two weeks? ;)
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tantek
to be fair it's on my list too, below other stuff: http://indiewebcamp.com/Falcon#event_posts
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KartikPrabhu
tantek: well I still don't know if it is one recurring event or many individual events
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gRegor`
is more likely to have events up before KartikPrabhu
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KartikPrabhu
well there you go!
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gRegor`
I didn't know I was te PR guy though. Haha
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tantek
KartikPrabhu: there is no such thing as a recurring event, things always change.
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gRegor`
s/te/the/
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Loqi
gRegor` meant to say: I didn't know I was the PR guy though. Haha
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tantek
there is an illusion of many similar events that appear to be "recurring" but in practice the illusion is shattered.
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KartikPrabhu
gRegor`: you wear many hats
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aaronpk
this is why calagator.org does not let you create recurring events
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aaronpk
you can "clone" one event to a later date
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KartikPrabhu
tantek: from a UX perspective it would be useful to have recurring events. I would like to get e notification/alarm of HWC everytime it happens. I'd hate for me to explicitly tell that every 2 weeks
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gRegor`
I can see a use case down the line for a system that automatically creates events on a recurring basis, but each would be an individual event.
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gRegor`
For now I'm just going to set up individual events manually though.
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KartikPrabhu
so can I get updates to HWC everytime it happens?
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gRegor`
Meaning read an events feed? Sure
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KartikPrabhu
gRegor`: but i only want updates to HWC not some random party you throw
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gRegor`
Yeah
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gRegor`
I suppose if I implemented tags
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gRegor`
But again, this is all "down the line" stuff for me.
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gRegor`
I'd rather post events manually and be able to display RSVPs first
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KartikPrabhu
sure. but that is what I mean by having recurring events might be useful even for readers
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gRegor`
I feel like the "recurring" part of this is plumbing.
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gRegor`
How do you suggest getting HWC events but not others?
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gRegor`
It seems you could read the whole feed and parse by name, or a category
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aaronpk
tags++
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Loqi
tags has 2 karma
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gRegor`
Or the publisher could make feeds filterable by tags
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gRegor`
Other options?
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gRegor`
I say that "recurring" seems like plumbing, because in the options I just listed, it doesn't matter whether I'm posting events manually each two weeks, or a script is doing it for me on a recurring basis. They're all events in a feed.
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tantek
When you subscribe, filter by tag or simple name of event like gmail filters
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gRegor`
Heading out to see Guardians of the Galaxy. Back later.
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gRegor`
I think that's the best solution so far, too, tantek
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tantek
But worry about just posting indie events first
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tantek
Then worry about subscribing to them.
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gRegor`
Yep.
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tantek
recurrence is a social construct, not technical nor mechanical
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KartikPrabhu
tantek: re: recurrence = social. exactly! that is why it is importantto at least provide recurrence as a UI construct
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aaronpk
i still think calagator made the right call on this
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aaronpk
easy to clone an event, but no technical solution to recurrence
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KartikPrabhu
is now storing quotes/highlights from Web reading in text files to be made into marginalia posts soon
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KartikPrabhu
aaronpk: yeah that is a good solution
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tantek
KartikPrabhu: No on UI construct, because that's technical
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tantek
Cloning events makes sense though
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tantek
aaronpk: Does calagator provide any provenance of the cloning?
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KartikPrabhu
hmm will argue this point again when readers become more wide spread and people start subscribing to events
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tantek
"This event is part of a series of events. The previous one was here. The next one is here."
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aaronpk
tantek: no I don't believe so
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aaronpk
i've been using tags for that
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aaronpk
oh hey they launched my suggested change!
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aaronpk
non-query string URLs for tags
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tantek
Seems like cloning could automatically add such links to both events
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aaronpk
agreed
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KartikPrabhu
URL question: I have been using URLs like https://kartikprabhu.com/articles/tag=web for tags. Is there a case for the tag/web pattern?
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aaronpk
= don't really belong in paths
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aaronpk
that's a query string thing
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KartikPrabhu
aaronpk: is that a "moral" stance on something about = not allowed in URLs?
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KartikPrabhu
moral = of principle
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aaronpk
esthetic :)
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rascul
could be confusing, because often there could be something similar, /?tag=web
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KartikPrabhu
if i do tag/web then I feel I should have a page corresponding to just tag/ in which I have nothing to put
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rascul
list tags on tag/
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aaronpk
a list of your tags!
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KartikPrabhu
that is not helpful IMO. no one goes looking for just a list of tags without any content on a page
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KartikPrabhu
content = posts
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rascul
sometimes i do
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rascul
and sometimes it leads me to interesting posts i wouldn't have noticed otherwise
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KartikPrabhu
well I already have a list of tags below every "archive/stream/feed" page
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@grove
Cool to see the team @withknown pivot to the edu market. #indieweb #matter3
(twitter.com/_/status/499340594645577728)
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