#indieweb 2021-08-28

2021-08-28 UTC
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christin Hi there, is anyone here?
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[jeremycherfas] Yes, popped in briefly to catch up.
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aaronpk Nobody here but us chickens
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christin Hi! I am *very* new indieweb. I'm trying to get set up on the wiki, but I think I might not know enough to be here. I have such basic questions and I'm finding I don't really understand the wiki pages that answer them.
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[jeremycherfas] Ask away.
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christin Ok, I just got on the wiki this morning by adding the IndieAuth plugin to my wordpress blog. The wiki my username appears to be "Christinwixson.com author admin" which seems not ideal. How would I fix that?
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GWG christin: There's a setting in the plugin to allow you to let a user use the root domain
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GWG Without it it uses the author url, assuming you are the admin user
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Zegnat Good morning IndieWeb!
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[jeremycherfas] Good morning zegnat
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christin This is where it gets embarrassing. In my wp admin (yes I'm the admin) I see a list of plugins, but I don't know what the phrase "in the plugin" means. They don't seem to be clickable. There's a "view details" link but there doesn't seem to be anything I can do there.
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christin I'm sorry. I know just enough to have a wordpress blog on a domain I got through DoOO. I'm a librarian with no coding or web developer background.
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GWG christin: We have a dedicated WordPress room for help as well. But under Indieweb then IndieAuth. If you don't have the Indieweb plugin installed, IndieAuth will be under settings
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GWG Morning, Zegnat, [jeremycherfas] Joining us for the session later?
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GWG christin: What is your site?
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GWG Nevermind, I see it in the scroll
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christin Settings!! Awesome, I wasn't looking there, I was just looking under Plugins. Thank you!
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GWG Anything we can do to help
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christin I think I found the setting you were referring to. Now my username appears as "Christinwixson.com" which is much better. Is there anyway to loose the ".com"?
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GWG You logged in with your domain...so that is your identity to the system.
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GWG The wiki shows the domain, equivalent of the user id, I don't think it's implemented a display name option
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christin Well I'll take it. Thanks so much for your help!
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GWG christin: If you are free Wednesday, we get together online every week
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GWG https://events.indieweb.org/2021/09/homebrew-website-club-the-americas-KTJy7nR6Xe8V
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christin That sounds great! I'm also really interested in the Gardens and Streams event. I started playing with TiddlyWiki in March and it's completely changed the way I work.
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GWG The last one was very well attended
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Zegnat GWG: I am hoping to attend tonight. I am leaving on a vacation abroad tomorrow though and currently packing, so just need to see how it turns out time wise.
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GWG Okay.
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[snarfed] heads up all, I'm starting to roll out a big Bridgy codebase overhaul. There shouldn't be many user visible changes, but please let me know if you see anything wrong over the next few days!
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[snarfed] Background: https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy/issues/1037
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Loqi [snarfed] #1037 Port from webapp2 to Flask
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capjamesg[d] snarfed++
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Loqi snarfed has 24 karma in this channel over the last year (50 in all channels)
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GWG Today's Event Zoom is On The Air early in case anyone wants to join in beforehand.
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GWG I'll leave it on for a bit.
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[chrisaldrich] christin++ For getting a username on the wiki set up. Welcome! Great to have another DoOO/OER/TiddlyWiki person here, much less a librarian from PSU!?! Do let us know if you have more questions.
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Loqi christin has 1 karma over the last year
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capjamesg[d] christin++
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Loqi christin has 2 karma over the last year
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capjamesg[d] Welcome to the community!
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capjamesg[d] We're always happy to answer questions!
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GWG 10 Minutes to Popup
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Zegnat GWG: I might try to join later, not looking too good for right now. You are recording if I miss it? Might make good material for when I am offline tomorrow
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GWG I will. Just waiting for our facilitator to arrive.
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GWG I'm suddenly worried he may not show.
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GWG Should have reminded him.
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aaronpk good morning
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GWG aaronpk: I was scared there for a moment.
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jamietanna Did we want to take a break soon? :) Split the 2 hour session in half?
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jamietanna Thanks all, that was a great session!
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[dmitshur] Indeed, IndieAuth 2021 Popup was fun, thanks!
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Zegnat Looking forward to checking up on it and seeing the usually flurry on the GitHub issues
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GWG Waiting for the download
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Zegnat And super sad I was unable to make it :(
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aaronpk we missed you!
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aaronpk definitely want your feedback on one issue in particular
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GWG I'm waiting for Zoom to finish processing
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Zegnat Well, I will be on a boat for over 12 hours tomorrow, so if there is any reading I should do and give feedback on, let me know :D I will try and download the VOD and take that one with me for the trip too
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GWG Zegnat: I will have it up tonight... it wasn't done processing so I went to eat dinner
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GWG Is there net on the boat?
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Zegnat I have had mixed experiences with their WiFi
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GWG Okay, will send a message in chat when it is uploaded
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Rattroupe What would it take to make the wiki use a profile scope to show nicer user names instead of domains?
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aaronpk The domain is the canonical username, it would be chaos if it allowed you to set arbitrary non-domain usernames as your wiki account
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Rattroupe christin's remarks earlier echoed a suspicion of mine that domains really aren't usernames
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Rattroupe I kind of waned to bring up that topic at the popup but thought it might be too disruptive
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Rattroupe I posted a longish rant on that topic at my blog https://blog.reiterate.app/software/2021/08/26/thoughts-on-indieauth-profile-urls/
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[fluffy] Yeah, this has been an ongoing concern of mine as well. I’m grateful that people were at least receptive to accepting the IndieAuth spec change that improved the authority requirements for multiple user pages on a single domain, at least.
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[fluffy] That was the intention behind https://github.com/indieweb/indieauth/pull/53 in any case.
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Loqi [fluffy-critter] #53 Add recommendation to verify matching authorization_endpoint
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[fluffy] @rattroupe BTW I didn’t see that you’d added specific support for profile scope. What fields did you end up settling on for the profile? I’ve been wanting to add that into Authl but I haven’t had anything that provides a profile to parse yet.
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[fluffy] although this is going into #indieweb-dev territory