#indieweb 2026-05-08
2026-05-08 UTC
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stephenphsmith Hello all! I too am interested in creating a personal site
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Pull-based real-time: Approximating WebSockets and Server-Sent Events with HTTP/2 and conditional requests" https://lofihi.fi/http2-conditional-polling
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[capjamesg] Welcome stephenphsmith!
# [capjamesg] What is getting started?
# Loqi 🌱 Get started on the indieweb by connecting with the IndieWeb community, getting a personal domain, a place for your content, and setting up your home page and other IndieWeb essentials https://indieweb.org/Getting_started
# [capjamesg] You may find this wiki page helpful ^^
# stephenphsmith [capjamesg]: I can't afford a domain, however I have hosted a website on github pages.
# stephenphsmith https://ali-mohamedali.github.io/
# stephenphsmith I built most of this with org mode in emacs and a collection of scripts in sh that export a site and automatically push it to github, so all I really need to do to create a new post is to write into a file and run a script and voila!
# stephenphsmith It's not a full CMS but at least its got tagging features
# stephenphsmith Also, don't be scared by the fact that my website and my username are not the same, this is a pseudonym only
# stephenphsmith as in my username is a pseudonym
# [capjamesg] Your site looks great!
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[KevinMarks] [schmarty] I think we are beyond parasocial too https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmarks.com/post/3mbjomjwiqc25
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# [capjamesg] Yeah. Discord replies aren’t nested in Slack or IRC so the context can get lost.
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burgeonlab nice. I like the about page and your backend process Ali. I noticed though sometimes the email is not wrapping the link mailto:someguyshutup5@gmail.com
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# stephenphsmith burgeonlab: @burgeonlab yes i know that sometimes the link doesn't work
# stephenphsmith because there was a reeent failure actually. i fat fingered a sed command and ended up deleting all my .org files which means i'll have to start over
# stephenphsmith i did a git revert by the time you saw it which actually returned it to its old state but still kind of ruined despite it
# stephenphsmith i'll have to rewrite everything from scratch and read my manuals correctly
# stephenphsmith regardless thanks for your comments :)
# [capjamesg] Ah that sucks 😭
# [capjamesg] Good luck getting everything set up again!
# [capjamesg] thamara_k Our /blank page is just for fun 😄
# thamara_k Fun is always a good reason!
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# [capjamesg] What is fun?
# Loqi 😄 fun is one of the IndieWeb principles and a key motivation for the IndieWeb — making and using your own website should be fun, otherwise what’s the point? https://indieweb.org/fun
# stephenphsmith imagine defining fun
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# [capjamesg] thamara_k I like your website!
# thamara_k Thank you! It's still very much a work in progress, but I'm finally at a place where I'm happy with the design, typography, etc
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[schmarty] [KevinMarks] that's a fair assessment!
# stephenphsmith schamrty
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# Loqi [indienews] New post: "Bubbles and Gatekeeping" https://islandinthenet.com/bubbles-and-gatekeeping/
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# _atlasisabean_ Hello all! I’m Atlas, and I’m newly returning to the fun of making websites!
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ZodiacalComet Welcome back!
# _atlasisabean_ Thank you! I used to do this all the time as a kid and as I’ve been getting my site set up (right now it’s just hosted through neocities with their domain, as I figure it all back out I figured that’s easier) and it’s been so fun and a huge relief
# [capjamesg] Welcome _atlasisabean_!
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# bearina. Welcome Atlas! Glad to have you back into making websites!
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# Peet-Janiken Hello, I'm new
# Peet-Janiken anyone online?
# [capjamesg] Welcome!
# Peet-Janiken Thank you
# Peet-Janiken Now what do I do?
# [capjamesg] Do you have a website already?
# [capjamesg] If so, feel free to share it here! Otherwise, check out the getting started page on our wiki https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started 🙌
# Peet-Janiken No I'm still pretty buisy on a personal project that has to hit the dead line of may 15th but after that I'm definatly going to give it a shot would be a nice place to upload my work outside of social media
# [capjamesg] Amazing! The wiki is full of information, but we’re also here in chat if you have questions as you get started.
# [capjamesg] A lot of us use our websites to share what we’re making outside of social media, so you’re in good company!
# Peet-Janiken Thanks that will be nice, I'm not very good at programming.
# Peet-Janiken or computers ingeneral
# [capjamesg] That’s okay! There are plenty of beginner-friendly tools for getting a website set up. You definitely don’t need to code if you don’t want to.
# [capjamesg] https://omg.lol, https://bearblog.dev, and https://micro.blog are all popular tools in the community.
# [capjamesg] Each of those tools also has their own community around them too!
# [capjamesg] If you do want to code, we have the #indieweb-dev channel for technical questions. My best recommendation for getting started with HTML/CSS for coding a website is https://htmlforpeople.com.
# Peet-Janiken copying the links into a note's folder for later use
# Peet-Janiken Thanks for the help by the way, Looking forward to after may 15th
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