#indieweb 2017-09-11

2017-09-11 UTC
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@EddieHinkle
Set up https://woodwind.xyz today after realizing I’m not gonna be able to build a IndieWeb reader for awhile…… https://eddiehinkle.com/2017/09/10/12/note/
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sl007
koehr - The people at Mozilla Berlin maintain a very strong Rust community - I think there are regular meetings. Maybe it would be nice to meet them on thursday https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Berlin-Mozilla-Meetup/
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sl007
!tell koehr - The people at Mozilla Berlin maintain a very strong Rust community - I think there are regular meetings. Maybe it would be nice to meet them on thursday https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Berlin-Mozilla-Meetup/
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Loqi
Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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@keithjgrant
<A> — A great little mix of some history of the web and an introduction to some indieweb principles from @adactio https://adactio.com/articles/10887
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Loqi
[superfeedr] "WP Tavern über Micro.blog" by Matthias Pfefferle on 2017-02-01 https://notiz.blog/2017/02/01/wp-tavern-ueber-micro-blog/
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gRegorLove
What is Google Drive?
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "Google Drive" yet. Would you like to create it?
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gRegorLove
It's down currently.
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tantek
screenshots?
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aaronpk
also they're dropping the desktop app
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tantek
aaronpk: I heard all native apps
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gRegorLove
Google Drive is a file storage service from [[Google]]
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gRegorLove
Yeah, just their generic 500 error message screen though
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gRegorLove
Will upload
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tantek
still worth it - especially with the URL visible
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gRegorLove
Interesting. I get a different URL than in that screenshot. "drive.google.com" redirects to "https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/"
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aaronpk
weird, i'm even logged in
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aaronpk
whoa that started 2 hours ago?
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gRegorLove
Yeah, surprised that doesn't show anything for today, just 9/7.
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gRegorLove
Is there a performance status page for the performance status pages? :)
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snarfed
oh sorry yes, that's not today
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snarfed
fwiw may just be a bug, not an outage. drive is working fine for me, two different accounts
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aaronpk
from the PoV of someone trying to get to their files there isn't really a difference
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snarfed
gRegorLove: google product URLs can differ sometimes if you're logged into multiple accounts vs just one; they use url paths and query params to identify specific accounts
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gRegorLove
Drive is working for me now
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snarfed
aaronpk: if the bug breaks the app for you entirely, yes
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snarfed
obviously big difference to the provider though
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aaronpk
yeah i couldn't get to drive.google.com at all
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aaronpk
looks like it's back for me now tho
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snarfed
btw, i have to admit, i'm a bit skeptical of our habit of obsessively documenting silo downtimes. they have bugs and outages sometimes, yes. indieweb sites do too.
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snarfed
we don't really pitch people on indieweb expecting that they'll have *less* downtime than a silo. (and if we do, that's probably not generally true, so we should reconsider.)
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snarfed
if we're capturing instances of error page design or behavior, ok. otherwise, i'm not sure it adds much value.
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sknebel
snarfed: agreed. It makes sense to note if it is a common occurence for a service or if they had data-loss etc, but random small outages IMHO are not very interesting
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@WorkingWriter
New post on the IndieWeb as a bridge to a more permanent, decentralized web. Pointers to how to join too! https://metaverse.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/decentralized-web-pt-3-indieweb/
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gRegorLove
I think I agree too. It can be useful to point out times when services that have the only copy are not available, though. Encourage people to have their own copies, online or off.
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snarfed
yup! ideally that's implied, but we can emphasize a blanket reminder. nothing has 100% uptime. do backups, LOCKSS etc.
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aaronpk
I mostly agree, but I also think it's important to reinforce that even major services like Google have downtime and that you shouldn't expect that "the cloud" is flawless
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snarfed
definitely! a blanket reminder is probably good enough, and maybe point to the examples we already have. i doubt we need to continually document every new instance.
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tantek
snarfed, we don't see the patterns until we document them
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tantek
also documentation of such outages serves to counteract all the marketing bulshytt that silo sales & marketing departments continuously pump-out
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tantek
also helps to combat cargo-cult fanbois that exist around every such silo service
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tantek
citations of real world occurences > faith in the "too big to go down" religions
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snarfed
sure! again though, a few examples probably suffice. i think we get very diminishing returns from the time we spend documenting every single instance.
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tantek
snarfed, well, "once a year" and "several times a year" are worthy to distinguish IMO
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snarfed
...times n silos
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renem
Hey Indieweb folks, I'm wondering if anyone knows why woodwind.xyz returns an HTTP500 for me, since days. Just tried to open the "main" url. Anyone else?
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sknebel
renem: works for me
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sknebel
were you logged in?
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gRegorLove
It's working for me currently. It's had intermittent issues for a while, though
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tantek
is there a troubleshooting section we could add some tips to? like try again in a bit - intermittent issues sometimes happen?
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tantek
what is woodwind.xyz
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "woodwind.xyz" yet. Would you like to create it?
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gRegorLove
what is woodwind
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Loqi
Woodwind is a minimalist open source indie reader by Kyle Mahan https://indieweb.org/Woodwind
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Loqi
[Kyle Mahan] In case you were wondering why woodwind.xyz and silo.pub were down for ages, the database had finally filled up the disk. I eventually willed myself out of entropy and wrote a cron job to delete entries older than a year (or more than 2000th in their...
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tantek
woodwind.xyz is /Woodwind
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@MattNavarra
Facebook working on a private profile mode which you can share with just a small circle of close friends h/t Devesh Logendran https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJWTmzoXcAAwxQw.jpg
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renem
@sknebel I think, yeah that I logged in some weeks ago, but no woodwind.xyz return HTTP 500 every time
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@sl007
@EthanZ http://dci.mit.edu/assets/papers/decentralized_web.pdf - would appreciate a Case Study #IndieWeb building blocks: mf2, micropub, websub, webmention [the basics]
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Loqi
Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch Several months ago, I turned off notifications from Facebook on my phone. Last week, I we...
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@Dazinism
An Introduction to the IndieWeb - start your website through which you can easily communicate with everyone – http://altplatform.org/2017/07/28/an-introduction-to-the-indieweb/
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tantek
Facebook << Criticism: 2017-09-11 Brad Frost <cite>[http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/facebook-you-needy-sonofabitch/ Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch]</cite> documents several examples of excess use of [[notifications]] by Facebook.
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Loqi
Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch Several months ago, I turned off notifications from Facebook on my phone. Last week, I we...
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Loqi
ok, I added "Criticism: 2017-09-11 Brad Frost <cite>[http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/facebook-you-needy-sonofabitch/ Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch]</cite> documents several examples of excess use of [[notifications]] by Facebook." to the "See Also" section of /Facebook
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[cleverdevil]
At WorldHostingDays.usa and the current main speaker is a President at Joomla and he's absolutely railing on silos.
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[cleverdevil]
Using lots of IndieWeb terminology as well (including referring to Weebly, Wix, and Squarespace, all of which are in the room, as "closed silos.").
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tantek
that's not strictly accurate
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[cleverdevil]
Its not, but it is interesting ?
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tantek
since wix and squarespace at least allow you to use your own domain
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[cleverdevil]
(That is true).
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tantek
and frankly should be indieweb allies, not railed on as silos :/
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tantek
sounds like Joomla-specific-tunnelvision :P
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[cleverdevil]
Funnily, he actually clarified his position as we typed this to make that more clear ?
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[cleverdevil]
(DreamHost has our own proprietary site builder product, as well, and I absolutely think it could be an IndieWeb ally).
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tantek
[cleverdevil] - biggest problem with wix, squarespace (don't know about weebly) is their js;dr by default "templates"
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tantek
[cleverdevil]: indeed! is there a place to file / track public feature requests for the DreamHost site builder?
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[cleverdevil]
Platform lock-in is a big issue as well, IMO, but that's not an insurmountable obstacle.
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tantek
that's a different problem
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tantek
domain lock-in is worse
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[cleverdevil]
Nope, not right now, other than becoming a user and filing tickets.
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tantek
[cleverdevil] is there a sample "DreamHost site builder built website" that we can look at to analyze and give feedback about?
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tantek
example.sitebuilder.dreamhost
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[cleverdevil]
Good question.
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[cleverdevil]
Let me see ?
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[cleverdevil]
Includes links to sites that were built with remixer.
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[cleverdevil]
And their customer case studies.
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tantek
cool. does it have a live example? example.remixer?
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tantek
thinking more like a *simple* example, like a hello world or equivalent
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[cleverdevil]
Ah, no "Hello, World" examples.
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[cleverdevil]
That'd be a good idea, though.
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[cleverdevil]
(FWIW, right now, Remixer sites could definitely do better on IndieWeb citizenship -- first order of business would be microformats2).
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tantek
yeah!
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tantek
that's what I was figuring would be easier to suggest, with changes etc., on a "hello world" style example
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tantek
reads logs
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tantek
what is CNN
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "CNN" yet. Would you like to create it?
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@nueww
Neuer Termin für den Homebrew Website Club bei @tollwerk: am Mittwoch um 18 Uhr ist es wieder soweit. ?? http://nueww.link/hwc13sep
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@sl007
@m_ott Mensch aus deiner Nähe fragt : Homebrew Website Club nähe S. oder HN. ...
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@noahread
We had the first Austin Homebrew Website Club​ meeting last night. Looking forward to many more.​ http://noahr.co/2j71MCc
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@noahread
I’m excited for tonight’s 1st Austin Homebrew Website Club​. Hope to see you there. http://www.manton.org/2017/09/homebrew-website-club.html
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@schmarty
Hey B'more! Join us 9/6 for Homebrew Website Club. Build your personal website & dump silos like this one! Details: https://martymcgui.re/2017/08/25/000915/
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@calum_ryan
Still time to register for Homebrew Website Club London tomorrow https://hwclondon.co.uk/meetups/20170906
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@t
Event: Homebrew Website Club SF At: 2017-09-06 17:30 @MozSF RSVP: http://tantek.com/e/4qF1
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tantek
CNN is a news publishing website that has a text-only version http://lite.cnn.io/en.
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tantek
what just happened
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aaronpk
oh i know what just happened, i just tweaked the search terms cause i'm trying to work on getting the full expanded text to show up
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aaronpk
not quite sure why some of these hadn't been found before tho
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[cleverdevil]
You crossed the streams, aaronpk
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aaronpk
ah looks like "Homebrew Website Club" search term wasn't working before and now it is
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tantek
oh wow that explains a lot!
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tantek
jjuran++ for that CNN simple text version
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Loqi
jjuran has 4 karma
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