#indieweb 2023-09-18

2023-09-18 UTC
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MentallyRetired
Been a minute.
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codepoet
how's everyone doing tonight?
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f​ratis
doing great! brought here by a post on HN about EWC/Indieweb: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37548975
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Loqi
[preview] [zerojames] Homebrew Website Club
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[tantek]
amazing and welcome!
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[tantek]
capjamesg++ for posting to HN and inviting folks
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Loqi
capjamesg has 26 karma in this channel over the last year (124 in all channels)
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codepoet
same @ hacker news
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c​apjamesg
Welcome, codepoet and frank[d] !
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c​apjamesg
codepoet I was up until 1:30am my time reviewing the HN page and saying hi to people 😄 How are you doing?
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c​apjamesg
frank[d] codepoet Do you have personal websites?
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codepoet
I dont, unfortunately
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codepoet
I ahve some personal domains but nothin on them. spend all my time on client sites or work :(
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c​odepoet
this may be easier.
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tyil
depends on whom you're trying to make it easier for
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f​ratis
capjamesg[d]: I do! https://ft.io
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f​ratis
Built with a static site generator called lektor
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f​ratis
It’s not super popular, but it had momentum when I first started using it, it works great, and I have fun extending it, so we’re now married for life
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f​ratis
I grew up on AOL Hometown, Angelfire, and Geocities. So many GIFs. So many tiled backgrounds. It was a beautiful (ugly) time
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f​ratis
I had a proper personal blog in high school, first powered by custom CMSes I’d do in an afternoon in PHP (riddled with SQL injection vulns), then eventually B2, which I believe was a predecessor to Wordpress
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Loqi
hey IWDiscord, we try to keep jargon (site generator, static site generator, PHP) out of this channel to make it more inviting to newcomers, can you move this to #indieweb-dev?
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f​ratis
#indieweb-dev for follow ups
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c​odepoet
tyil: Very true. I used IRC for 20+ years, still never found an interface I liked. 😂
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f​ratis
[edit] capjamesg[d]: I do! https://ft.io
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c​apjamesg
codepoet[d] Have you tried chat.sr.ht? I really like it.
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c​odepoet
I havent. I tend to stay away from web clients. I just found "The Lounge" which has a really nice interface, but is also a web client.
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f​ratis
Are there IRC clients that support integrations w any of the logging platforms to maintain history when you’re offline?
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f​ratis
Biggest issue w IRC for me is not retaining message history, especially when you miss something because you’re offline
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c​apjamesg
chat.sr.ht retains your own messages which is nice.
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c​apjamesg
Maybe other web clients do too.
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tyil
codepoet: but discord is just a webclient too, but a proprietary one on a closed platform
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f​ratis
capjamesg[d] how do I get access to #indieweb-chat
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c​apjamesg
frank[d] Do you see a message that says you can't post, or can you not join?
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f​ratis
Seeing just: "You do not have permission to view the message history of #indieweb-chat "
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c​apjamesg
Oh yes! That is intentional.
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c​apjamesg
New community members can't see the previous scrollback in #indieweb-chat , but you should be able to see messages posted after you joined.
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f​ratis
ah ok
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[tantek]
what is Lektor
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Loqi
Lektor a CMS generating static files, written in Python https://indieweb.org/Lektor
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[tantek]
neat, updated the dfn, added links and a See Also.
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[tantek]
fratis, if you're still using Lektor, can you add yourself to the list here? https://indieweb.org/Lektor#IndieWeb_Examples
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f​ratis
capjamesg[d]: I've been seeing the little white dot in Discord on #indieweb-chat, but when I click the channel name, it's still blank
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f​ratis
Makes me think there have been posts in there since I joined, but I'm still unable to see them
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f​ratis
Ope just saw my first one
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[catgirlinspace]
c​apjamesg what's the point of view message history being disabled on discord?
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aaronpk
it's only the chat channel that has no history https://indieweb.org/discuss#chat
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[catgirlinspace]
ah, wasnt aware of that
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cptaffe
codepoet: if you use a bouncer like ZNC, it’ll retain messages for your clients
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[tantek]
Are those tips/tools documented in /IRC ? Better to do that then link to the section of that page with the advice
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gRegor
Re: https://chat.indieweb.org/2023-09-18#t1695045050297000, all our channels except chat are logged on chat.indieweb.org, pretty nice interface and search there too.
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Loqi
[preview] [IWDiscord] <f​ratis#0> Biggest issue w IRC for me is not retaining message history, especially when you miss something because you’re offline