#indieweb 2026-03-04

2026-03-04 UTC
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osteophage spamt0n[d]: FavoriteSalesman, if you're still taking suggestions for what to put on a website: make a link directory! https://osteophage.neocities.org/writing/in-praise-of-links
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[tantek] links pages were one of the first things people did with personal websites
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[tantek] because back in the day, that was the discovery mechanism (no Google, Yahoo, any search engines etc.)
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valerieflynn A fun thing I learned about through Indieweb was slash pages.
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valerieflynn Here's a link to check them out. You don't have to do ALL of them, just whichever ones strike your fancy.
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valerieflynn Hers a website about them:
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IWDiscord <v​alerieflynn>
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IWDiscord <v​alerieflynn>
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valerieflynn https://slashpages.net/
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capjamesg Reminder that we have HWC Europe in 20 mins! https://events.indieweb.org/2026/03/homebrew-website-club-europe-london-E9IImIWrSnnY
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capjamesg [edit] Reminder that we have HWC Europe in 20 mins! https://events.indieweb.org/2026/03/homebrew-website-club-europe-london-E9IImIWrSnnY
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Loqi Homebrew Website Club Europe/London is starting soon! Join us! https://events.indieweb.org/E9IImIWrSnnY
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gRegor what is slash pages
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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/slash_pages
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spamt0n /discovery
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spamt0n [tantek]: i misunderstood and typed /discovery 😭 I thought it was a discord command
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spamt0n ill check /discovery in the website you sent lol
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spamt0n Whoops
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spamt0n thank you tantek!
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capjamesg What is discoevry?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "discoevry" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "discoevry is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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capjamesg What is discovery?
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Loqi Discovery is a variety of methods for finding content, websites, communities, or people to follow on the web including search, directories, recommendation engines, tags, or other serendipitous methods; there are also discovery-algorithms for developers https://indieweb.org/Discovery
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capjamesg There is the page ^^
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spamt0n capjamesg[d]: thanks! I found it. I think I have a decent list of things to put on my website. Now that ive designed a UI im somewhat happy with. I now need to actually write and put the content on there.
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spamt0n Is it a security risk to host my website this was, with strangers possibly visiting every now and again? I really like the idea of hosting a website myself.
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spamt0n The final question I had is, I have hosted websites myself from a computer that is acting as a server with many vms for various websites and video games servers I run (like private minecraft server stuff)
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IWDiscord <s​pamt0n>
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spamt0n [edit] capjamesg[d]: thanks! I found it. I think I have a decent list of things to put on my website. Now that ive designed a UI im somewhat happy with. I now need to actually write and put the content on there.
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spamt0n The final question I had is, I have hosted websites myself from a computer that is acting as a server with many vms for various websites and video games servers I run (like private minecraft servers)
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spamt0n Is it a security risk to host my website this was, with strangers possibly visiting every now and again? I really like the idea of hosting a website myself.
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IWDiscord <s​pamt0n>
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spamt0n sorry for the lots of questions, but this community has been awesome and I feel like ive learned a lot. Creating this website, viewing others websites, and reading on this stuff has been super interesting
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capjamesg I'll share my perspective in #indieweb-dev 🙌
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spamt0n capjamesg[d]: thanks!
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[tantek]1 spamt0n ah I can understand the confusion. When you use a slash in front of a word, out chat logs autolink it to the wiki page! Eg /POSSE
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spamt0n [tantek]1: I see! Using discord because for some reason the website loads pretty slow on my laptop. Probably my browser or something.
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