#indieweb 2025-11-12
2025-11-12 UTC
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[Al_Abut] That’s super generous of you. What’re you thinking? Friday pre-game style? Saturday halftime? Sunday wrapup?
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# [Al_Abut] That sounds like a dance move
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# .dannb 👋 Hello everyone! I'm Dann. I'm an engineer at Squarespace, but I've had a personal website since 2010 (currently dannb.org). I've also got a monthly newsletter and a youtube channel. Many, many years ago, before getting a more technical role, I was a tech journalist (Laptop Magazine and The Verge). I've only just started discovering indieweb and thinking it might be fun to meet more people and get more involved. Happy to meet y'al
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# [morganm] Welcome Dann. http://Morganwebdev.org is me
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Loqi Homebrew Website Club Europe/London is starting soon! Join us! https://events.indieweb.org/C8FoLQ2mP9kW
# .dannb thanks capjamesg[d] . great to meet you
# glitzeor4444 _dannb[d]: Welcome! Sounds like you have had a lot of fun on the internet 🙂
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# [Roy] I have sort of an odd question that I am likely overthinking. Really looking to see how others organize their websites. I treat my blog as sort of a collection of semi related topics that are exposed in an rss feed. I also have pages like about, contact, and now, that are standalone unique pages. All of these pages exist in the sitemap. What do you do with those pages that sit in between those two? Like, the $random pages? Do those become blog
# [Roy] posts for you? Do you create them as unique standalone pages? Is there a neat third option I am not considering?
# [snarfed] [Roy] good question! we do have a pretty common practice of "pages" that are evergreen, or standalone, or otherwise not traditional "posts" https://indieweb.org/page
# [snarfed] I have lots of both: https://snarfed.org/archive
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# [Roy] oh cool, thanks for the links. that is very helpful. yes i can say I am definitely overthinking. your archive is nice!
# Loqi page is short for a web page on the IndieWeb, and is usually primarily known by its name (AKA named page), served at the top level of a site (AKA slash page), and kept updated in place in contrast to posts which are primarily datetime-based; a page that is browser-editable with viewable revisions is a wiki-page https://indieweb.org/page
# yellowbilledmagpie [tantek]: I have a personal site currently unpublished that I'm building 🙂 I will check out that channel, thank you tantek!
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# [morganm] Really enjoyed Homebrew Website Club Europe ! Thanks all for organizing and really enjoyed it
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# jboy [Roy]: for me, the thing between pages and posts is notes. Essentially it's just a different category of post with a different layout that is relegated to a different, less visible part of the site.
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# [snarfed] huh. we generally think of articles and notes as subtypes of posts: https://indieweb.org/article , https://indieweb.org/note . notably, articles generally have names/titles, notes don't
# [Roy] the pages examples are helpful. There are what i think of as "meta" pages, the / urls that are about the site or about me, and then other pages that may be just be essays, or simply for fun, or informational, sort of the character of my site.
# [Roy] It's that last bit i am overthinking. they can just be pages
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# .dannb [Roy]: what's an example of "$random pages" that are in between a page and a post? my gut says they're probably just pages, but if you have more examples of what you're thinking of as "in between" it might be easier to answer
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tantek.com _dannb[d]: one way to look at it is to ask yourself this question about the particular piece of content — is it topic-centric and you expect to iterate and update it over time? or is it a snapshot in time about a topic, your observations/impressions/thoughts about it as of that moment?
# [Roy] nice thats a good way to look it. the page i created that kicked off this quest is a love letter to a video game.
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[Jo] (I have a https://dead.garden/drwho fanpage on my site)
# [Roy] i love it. yes. ok, thats inspiring for sure.
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