#indieweb 2025-11-17

2025-11-17 UTC
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anjana3108_00104 Hello everybody! im so excvited to be here and meet you guys!
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anjana3108_00104 im excited to start building my own, and hopefully i cna connect and meet all of you wonderful people along the wayy :)))
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anjana3108_00104 im a third year comp sci student from canada, and i love the iondieweb and the niche websites on it!
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martijnvdven Welcome anjana3108_00104[d]! Do share when you have a domain, we love to see people's websites around here 🙂
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capjamesg Welcome!
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capjamesg We love talking about websites here ✨
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[Jo] Welcome anjana!
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anjana3108_00104 thank you guys! Will for sure share mine when I get the hang of it, hopefully soon!
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mmsmith. Looking forward to participate in this community. I came accross with as a I researching for my next blog article on POSSE (Publish Once Sindicate Elswhere).
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mmsmith. Because of it I started a personal website, in the form of a blog.
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mmsmith. Hi, I am new to this community but I align with the anti-corporate message.
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mmsmith. I read "Digital Vegan" from Andy Farnell this year and it confirmed my values when it comes to the digital space.
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[snarfed] welcome mmsmith!
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[snarfed] we're not overly anti-corporate here, but we do obviously encourage people to post on their own websites and domains instead of (or in addition to) big tech silos
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[morganm] Welcome
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capjamesg Every so often I say I discover a page on my site that I have completely forgotten about. TIL I have an About page! https://jamesg.blog/about
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Loqi [preview] About this site
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[Jo] Very enlightening about page
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capjamesg Thank you! I do try.
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[social] This made my day. I have similar discoveries in static sections of my site at times.
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[social] The end of last week I started playing around with what a combined FAQ and colophon page would look like or work from a user’s perspective.
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[social] I don’t know that I’ve seen an FAQ and colophon combined, but they are both answers to questions about the site or person behind the site. In chatting with Joe last week I realized a book that was cancelled still has an Amazon page (so I’m a successfully unpublished author with an ISBN for the book that had just crossed the hurdle for being real in the publishing company as the pain from the 2008 market crash took hold). I still get questi
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[social] about the book as it is referenced in other books.
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[social] [capjamesg] that is an about to be about page
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[morganm] The word bout has a fun definition with examples
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capjamesg I'd love to do an FAQ on my website at some point.
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[Trevor_Morris] How many people are asking you questions frequently?
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capjamesg Other than myself? Not many!
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Loqi [indienews] New post: https://artlung.com/blog/2025/11/17/hwc-eastern-weds/
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[Jo] i have no faq because there are no frequently asked questions
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anjana3108_00104 Zegnat[d]: what’s your domain? I’d look to take a look if that’s okay with you!
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Zegnat Who is Zegnat?
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Loqi Martijn van der Ven is a long-time web tinkerer living in Sweden (CEST or Europe/Stockholm timezone). Pronouns: he or they. https://vanderven.se/martijn/ https://indieweb.org/User:Vanderven.se/martijn/
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Zegnat Right there ^ :D
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Zegnat Though it has not been touched in a long time now. Maybe time for change over the winter vacation
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[tantek] Inbound emails can be a good source of FAQs.
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[tantek] Or inbound chats
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[morganm] "Why do people comment on your attractive website so often?" "My HTML is very semantic"
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to2ds Maybe just imagine or invent some questions for a FAQ until there's a reason to have one.
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to2ds Sort of a FAQ it until you MAQ it. 🥁💥
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to2ds Assuming it's the bad jokes and puns that preclude people from asking me questions.
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[tantek] Could also use an FAQ to answer the questions that you WANT people to ask you, e.g. Can I hire you to build this thing? Can you speak at my conference? Etc
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to2ds Is that a reverse FAQ?
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[tantek] No, a reverse FAQ would be questions you frequently ask others
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to2ds Ah!
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[Jo] frequently questioned answers
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[morganm] "Whats the Wifi password?" FQA #1 lol