#indieweb 2025-10-24

2025-10-24 UTC
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Buddy Hello
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Buddy :)
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greeter greetings Buddy
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Buddy What are the most active times on here?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "most active times on here" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "most active times on here is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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greeter that i don't know. i only joined here the other day
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kbmonkey Hi, it's my first time here, and I'm just sending out a friendly greeting to everyone. o/
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capjamesg Welcome!
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srazkvt welcome
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[KevinMarks] it's most active when europe and US overlap, so in about 5 hours from now
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kbmonkey Thanks!
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kbmonkey I saw the "active times" on the website, thought I'd chance it. I'm at +11 TZ and will be fast asleep in 3 hours :)
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capjamesg Haha there are still plenty of people in Europe here!
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capjamesg (which is to say that there are people online right now / earlier)
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kbmonkey So I'm browsing domain names and I'm a bit underwhelmed by the choices (and overwhelmed by the prices). Is the .me TLD a good choice for personal home pages on the indieweb?
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capjamesg knmonkey There is some advice and a lot of links on https://indieweb.org/top-level_domain to explore.
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capjamesg [edit] knmonkey There is some advice and a lot of links on https://indieweb.org/top-level_domain to explore.
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capjamesg Your choice of TLD is up to you. I chose .blog because I see my website as a blog.
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capjamesg Cost is certainly a factor. I pay ~$30 / year for my domain, but you can pay ~$10 / year for a domain or maybe less depending on which TLD and domain name you choose.
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kbmonkey Thanks capjamesg, that is good advice!
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capjamesg Happy to help 🙌
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crystalwoohoo capjamesg[d] i just wanted to let you know I love your lil cat image on your blog, your list of website ideas, and I love that you left "pointless" out of your latest blog post title.
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capjamesg crystalwoohoo[d] Thank you!
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Loqi 😄
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capjamesg Do you have a personal website? I'd love to check it out if you do!
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crystalwoohoo capjamesg[d]: I'll share it soon. I've had the domain a while but I'm tearing it apart like a bad lego creation currently lol
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crystalwoohoo But thank you 🙂
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capjamesg Good luck with your building!
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crystalwoohoo capjamesg[d]: Thanks! Finding this community has really lit a fire for me, and I'm really excited about it again. I used to write on Squidoo before it went defunct, and at that point, I didn't want to put content on anything I didn't own. Then things kinda went off track for a while.
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crystalwoohoo I had the viewpoint, but just didn't know about this community till recently
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jbcrn What are your tips on implementing microformats on an already existing site? Even though I have an h-card on my index, it's hidden due to design reasons (/ page in my site is a landing page)
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capjamesg crystalwoohoo[d]: Yeah! I have found the community around personal websites one of the best parts of having a website.
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capjamesg jbcrn[d] You may find https://indiewebify.me/ useful to validate that the microformats you add work as you expect.
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Loqi jbcrn capjamesg: we try to keep jargon (Microformats) out of this channel to make it more inviting to newcomers, can you move this to #indieweb-dev?
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capjamesg Yeah, we should move microformats discussion to the #indieweb-dev channel too 😄
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jbcrn oh sure, I'll move, sorry!
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capjamesg My first time seeing this on a blog post 😭
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capjamesg https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/866577279223595022/1431260418906652682/Screenshot_2025-10-24_at_13.37.39.png?ex=68fcc4a3&is=68fb7323&hm=25bc9a8bec97fe5c127fe4ddf04216db14cb447cdfb6010a033eea798b640d69&
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capjamesg (https://wille.bearblog.dev/hobonichi-cousin-i-guess/)
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capjamesg [edit] (https://wille.bearblog.dev/hobonichi-cousin-i-guess/)
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capjamesg Maybe one reason not to embed from third-parties: the third-party may decide for some reason the content should not be available in your region.
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[lazcorp] [capjamesg] yes, I just got the same. I switched on my VPN and picked Amsterdam and saw the images (none of which were in any way controversial by even the most prudish of pearl-clutchers)
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[lazcorp] It looks like Imgur have completely blocked the UK: https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgur-access-in-the-United-Kingdom
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capjamesg Wow no way.
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crystalwoohoo capjamesg[d]: thanks so much!
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[tantek] One week left in October for all the October things! Blogtober mathtober indiewebcarnival movieclub (Hackers!)
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crystalwoohoo [tantek]: is there a central blogtober page or anything or is it just make a post every day of october?
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[tantek] What is blogtober
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "blogtober" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "blogtober is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[tantek] Hmm
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[tantek] What is October
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Loqi October is the 10th month of the Gregorian calendar year and a month of several blogging challenges such as Blogtober, Inktober, Mathober, Weird Web October, also a month where some sites display a seasonal Halloween theme, or may be in reference to October CMS https://indieweb.org/October
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[tantek] crystalwoohoo, Blogtober might just be a hashtag without a central page
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Loqi does a happy dance!
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crystalwoohoo [tantek]: Ok, awesome, thanks. 🙂 I think I'm going to finish out the month.
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capjamesg [edit] knmonkey There is some advice and a lot of links on https://indieweb.org/top-level_domain to explore.
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gRegor what is blogtober
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Loqi October is the 10th month of the Gregorian calendar year and a month of several blogging challenges such as Blogtober, Inktober, Mathober, Weird Web October, also a month where some sites display a seasonal Halloween theme, or may be in reference to October CMS https://indieweb.org/blogtober
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gRegor I recently archived the original blogtober post there, from way back in 2011 (!). I think it's pretty decentralized these days
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capybara240 Hi! I'm new here. I just love Computer Science and I made 2 CSS websites on Spacehey :> I want to learn more about webdeveloping and indie web stuff ^_^
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capjamesg Welcome!
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gRegor Welcome!
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capybara240 Hi everyone!
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capjamesg Is there anything in particular you'd like to learn about?
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gRegor Great nickname. Now I have the capybara song in my head, haha
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capybara240 capjamesg[d]: I just need to learn how to host a website and just the general stuff on making websites (I love to learn how to make websites interactive) most especially in the style of old internet
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capybara240 I'm also happy that I shared some codes with my friends who are interested in making a css
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Loqi friendly reminder capybara240, would you mind moving this more technical conversation (CSS) to #indieweb-dev? thanks!
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capjamesg You may appreciate these links: https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/resources-list-for-the-personal-web/49#p-63-beginner-html-and-css-guides-3
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capjamesg [edit] You may appreciate these links: https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/resources-list-for-the-personal-web/49#p-63-beginner-html-and-css-guides-3
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capybara240 capjamesg[d]: wow!! thank you very much! Im gonna book mark these
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capjamesg https://htmlforpeople.com is a good end-to-end tutorial for basic HTML and CSS.
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capjamesg [edit] https://htmlforpeople.com is a good end-to-end tutorial for basic HTML and CSS.
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capjamesg I also like going through Neocities.org for retro website inspiration.
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capybara240 capjamesg[d]: I tried neocities before but even though I love css sometimes I don't like how I created my first webpage most especially from scratch because of the sizing but I will give it a try if I have time ^_^
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capjamesg Yeah. Making websites is a continual learning process!
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capjamesg My site has changed a lot over the years!
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gRegor I'm not directly familiar with neocities options, but in addition to some default themes, they might have a "blank slate" option so you can customize all the sizing and layout
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capybara240 gRegor: ooooo niceeee imma check it out on that :>
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[aciccarello] Every time someone asks for my email address, I wish I had a short domain I was happy with....
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[aciccarello] Does anyone have a short domain they like for email?
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capjamesg jamesg.blog 😄
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capjamesg Except .blog isn't always clearly an email address if you say it out loud.
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[aciccarello] Ciccarello is hard for people to spell 😅
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gRegor [aciccarello], gmail.com :D
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gRegor I know, not very indie
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[aciccarello] Yeah, I currently forward my domain's email to my gmail.
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[Roy] anyone have a recommendation for a non corporate tech giant email service?
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gRegor I think Proton is a popular alternative
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gRegor Might find some pros/cons on the wiki or in posts linked from there
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gRegor what is email
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Loqi Email is a decentralized, non-web messaging transport, with user interfaces that enable a wide range of message formats and styles, and commonly used for account recovery by web sites and applications https://indieweb.org/email
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[Roy] yeah Proton looks pretty good!
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capjamesg I have had a good experience with Proton.
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mrmet86 I really like Fastmail, but Proton is good option as well.
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mrmet86 So I moved site over to Blot.im (used to use and went to micro.blog but was never comfortable with it). Anyway... setting up sharing with open graph info and it's odd it works fine on BlueSky and Threads when sharing something but mastodon does not pick up anything. I dont use twitter anymore but was goign to put post up and that did not work there either. Strangest part is that I tested it at opengraph.dev and it shows it's right!
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gRegor Yeah I think support varies by silo sometimes in weird ways. Could also be caching. The wiki page for OGP has some tools (Facebook at least) to make sure you get a fresh scrape of the page. #indieweb-dev is probably better to discuss OGP more.
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mrmet86 gRegor: Thanks will take there if i don't figure out
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