#ChrisAldrichDoes that mean you've been building GWG?
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#ChrisAldrichI've spent part of the day going through some old data stores and importing content into my site. Feels good to own a bigger piece of my web.
#ChrisAldrichGWG: I know you've made a bunch of changes in post kinds since the last release, but were you still doing some major refactoring?
#ChrisAldrichI was looking at some of the code to make some small fixes, but it looked more differently than the last time I'd looked at it a few months ago.
#GWGI've been working on a post for the Make WordPress Core blog trying to get interest in improving the pingback display.
#GWGChrisAldrich: I have a lot of refactoring ideas.
#GWGWill summarize, but if I get too technical, we may want to move to the -dev room
#ChrisAldrichare you sticking with pingback/trackback on that post, or are you injecting some webmention goodness into it? It's a pretty big platform you could use to garner support. :)
#GWGWordPress 4.6 enhanced the optional registration of meta. I wanted to experiment with that in regards to MF2 meta.
#ChrisAldrichI heard you mentioned they put in some useful small changes, but hadn't looked into any of it yet myself.
#GWGChrisAldrich: I mention Webmentions as a protocol that offers several mprovements over pingbacks, but my advocacy is for display improvements. And I'd be trying to make it so they could be used by both.
#ChrisAldrichYou've overseeing maintenance of both pingbacks/trackbacks now right?
#GWGChrisAldrich: I am the component maintainer. I have a lot of stuff I couldn't get into 4.6 related to it that improves overall infrastructure and several that benefit webmentions as well.
#GWGYes. And it was proposed for WordPress 10 years ago
#ChrisAldrichI've actually created a custom page to put those onto my site to give them a place to go (http://boffosocko.com/mentions/). I didn't want to display them on my home page (like kevinmarks.com for example)
#AngeloGl1just wanted to grab you while you're in the chat -- your /blog's h-entries e-content includes all the social media buttons and is bloating the crawl data massively
#GWGChrisAldrich: pfefferle is often busy? That is why I have my own experimental plugin to play with these ideas, but still contribute the more mature ideas to the more stable one.
#ChrisAldrichpfefferle just merged a small rewrite I did to hopefully help the webmention form plugin make sense to "outsiders"
#ChrisAldrichIs your experimental version on github?
#GWGI feel guilty pressing him. The experimental solution allows me to test my ideas, even self-dogfood them.
#GWGI've gone back to it because I needed a break from other things.
#GWGI really would like to get some things fixed and deploy it to my live site.
#ChrisAldrichAngelo: Thanks, but I'm aware, and have a few "internal" bug fixes to change it. Some of them are dependent on other community-based code that needs to be fixed too.
#GWGWebmentions and More includes Semantic Linkbacks and a Webmention Form
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#KevinMarksI could maybe put them elsewhere, though the sidebar on desktop works
#ChrisAldrichKevinMarks, I also noticed you had a section about "friends" that is pushed under those Twitter @'s that disappears because there are so many of them.
#ChrisAldrichKevinMarks, I contemplated leaving mine on the front page, but I analogized them to having a bloated blogroll show up in a sidebar on every page.
#ChrisAldrichGWG, I've been in the midst of setting up a more robust test site for doing such things, but I've been a bit more focused on my personal site the past few weeks.
#GWGI am setting up two test sites on my test server. I want them to be able to webmention each other.
#ChrisAldrichDid anything useful come out of the push on jeffjarvis? I would have hoped his captive students would find it very interesting.
#GWGaaronpk: There are only 4 registrations on the NYC2 page. Are there any more from Tito?
#ChrisAldrich"Webmentions and More" replaces Webmentions and Semantic Linkbacks? and then adds on top of them?
#GWGChrisAldrich: Yes. So basically I get to experiment with both. Inside the plugin, the files are still independent.
#ChrisAldrichaaronpk, speaking of camps, you mentioned you were sitting on IWC stickers/t-shirts, can you give me a price for a shirt or two and a bunch of stickers with shipping. It'd be nice to have some to help promote LA when I attend some other related upcoming camps.
#GWGChrisAldrich: What else would you want in the webmention plugin, out of curiosity?
#ChrisAldrichI'm hard pressed to think of what else should be in webmention plugin. For most users, out of the box it seems fairly robust.
#ChrisAldrichMost of my issues generally seem to be more theme-based with how webmentions are output, things like facepiling likes/favorites in the manner of your commentwalker concept.
#ChrisAldrichI also just noticed that for some reason I hadn't been following it in github...
#ChrisAldrichI've also recently been getting some mixed webmention comments from brid.gy. Generally I've been fixing them manually, but I need to spend some time sorting out what's actually causing the issue. I suspect it's happening on the WordPress side, and it's only about 1 in every 20 webmentions, so it hasn't been horrible.
#ChrisAldrichThere are some interesting thoughts in the webmention plugin issue queue, but many don't apply to my typical set up.
#GWGChrisAldrich: My goal is to keep iterating till it is robust enough to stand up to anything.
#GWGIt would have to be if Core might adopt it someday
#ChrisAldrichI have been working on some stuff to own all of my past Twitter data (and actually display it). Toward that end, having webmentions for custom post types could be useful, and I could see broader need for that in the broader WP community.
#ChrisAldrichGWG: In your mind, where does webmention rank in comparison for pingbacks/trackbacks in terms of that type of robustness?
#GWGThe protocol or the current WordPress implementation?
#ChrisAldrichI hadn't thought about it from the bigger perspective, but now that you mention it, both...
#GWGWebmention attempts to answer a lot of the issues with the previous protocols.
#GWGI spent a good percentage of the spring looking at them all.
#ChrisAldrichI've spent some time reading through the webmention parts and picking apart the WP implementation, though I've far from mastered it all. I've not looked at any of the pingback/trackback specs and suspect I may never get there.
#GWGTrackback puts the power of display into the hands of the sender.
#ChrisAldrichThough I do suspect your knowledge of all three will very likely be the tipping point for the broader WP community accepting webmention.
#GWGPingbacks switched it to having the receiver decide on the display.
#ChrisAldrichYou notion of improving pingbacks/trackbacks in a way to make room for webmentions seems like a strong idea though.
#ChrisAldrichHow many themes actually take advantage of displaying pingbacks? I don't think many really do in a worthwhile way do they? At least I haven't seen it in my experience.
#GWGWell, that is why I'm trying to focus on the visual.
#aaronpkGWG quite a few Tito registrations actually! I'll send you some info tokorrow
#GWGaaronpk: Thank you. I'd like to know the count.
#ChrisAldrichThe way webmentions show up as a default in most themes is the way I've always thought that pingbacks/trackbacks should.
#aaronpkChrisAldrich I will figure out shirts and stickers tomorrow too, thanks for the reminder
#ChrisAldrichaaronpk: Thanks! DrupalCamp and WordCamp LA are both just around the corner, and being a walking billboard will help a lot.
#GWGI have to have my post peer reviewed before I'm allowed to post it though.
#ChrisAldrichGWG: I'd love to see what you've written before you send it out.
#ChrisAldrichIf they'll let you finish it out with a "Looking toward the future" section that allows you to wax poetic about how webmentions might be a way to combine the best of the prior two specs in a more robust way, that would be supremely cool.
#GWGChrisAldrich: I need to have it reviewed by another component maintainer.
#ChrisAldrichI've run into some interesting folks over the past few months who are generally indieweb favorable, but I've yet to see any of them adopt it directly. I'm stalking a few folks for the upcoming LA WordCamp to buttonhole them to see if we can't get some additional help.
#ChrisAldrichHey, they sound like good friends to have. I only noticed because I was recently thinking of re-engineering my own blogroll/following with XFN, etc.
#ChrisAldrichWhat are you using for displaying the tweets? It seems like I've seen that interface/set up before somewhere when experimenting, but don't recall where now.
#cmalyet another gray day of racist French people comparing veiled women to Nazis while actual nazis get closer to the power and terrorize the local population, HOW ARE YOU?
#tantekThat I understand. I've spent way too many hours tweaking details of my Syndication to Twitter code.
#tantek(and once I support displaying webmentions, I'll have to do more tweaking, e.g. will likely switch from PSCs to always having PSLs on my POSSE tweets)
#tantekGWG, I am behind on #Indieweb, #indieweb-dev archives for the past two weeks.
#tantekWhat would you say are the 1-5 most important indieweb things that happened in the past two weeks?
#tantekI have the impression that events that highlight key speakers/participants tend to draw more people, and get people who got tickets to show up more
#GWGGWG is a tremendous pain in the rear...but in a good way.
#tantekGWG is a diligent and thorough WordPress developer who is optimistic about the future of the independent web, and interoperating across platforms.
#GWGI am preparing to demo Webmentions using two test WordPress sites that I launched on subdomains
#GWGI am trying to figure out what to make the h-cards.
#tantekGWG, you could pick two (in)famous historical letter correspondents
#tantek(two famous people that wrote each other letters many years ago, where the back/forth was documented)