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Jeremy Cherfas

Flippin' useless, @withknown import.

I winnowed the stopping place down by searching for things, using that splitting by halves technique, and discovered that the Import had choked after 318 lines -- of 12058.

In reality, I ought to just give this up, but I'll have a quick look at the database and see if I can't screw that up.

Jeremy Cherfas

Not too helpful

Not too helpful

Dear @withknown

I am my system administrator.

Any clue as to how much you did manage to import? That would be nice.

If I do try again, what are the chances of duplicates being created?

Thanks

Jeremy

Jeremy Cherfas

For the sake of completeness, and as a necessary stage in my web plans, I am now going to attempt to extract my files from vaviblog.com and import them here.

We're both on the same version of , so it Should Just Work, right?

Jeremy Cherfas

Why the indieweb

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Richard MacManus is indiewebifying his site, and [had this to say](https://richardmacmanus.com/2017/06/22/openness-rivers-indieweb/):

> I’ve found the IndieWeb tools to be tremendously helpful, and the community to be open and friendly. But I think my own goals are a little different. I’m less interested in the technologies themselves (like microformats and webmention) and more interested in how they’re being used in the wider Web community. Not dissimilar to my interests when I started ReadWriteWeb. But of course to do this, I need to stand on the shoulders of the developers who build the tools.

All of which sums up my own position exactly. I'd go slightly further. I'm not as interested in how the technologies are being used in the wider Web community as I am in putting them to use myself.

*p.s. A major drawback of Withknown's excellent engine is that it doesn't allow New Posts to be replies, and that means I can't use the MarkDown formatting.*

Jeremy Cherfas

Can @withknown do threaded replies? Seems silly to have to reply to my own post too to keep context

Jeremy Cherfas

Hey @withknown: can't seem to find RSVPs in 0.9.9. Can you give me a clue?

Jeremy Cherfas

Another update, another "Micropub error" from micro.blog and the latest @WithKnown.

Jeremy Cherfas

Off to upgrade to the new @WithKnown release. I may be some time, although I expect not. Hoping for improved import/export to amalgamate my two sites.

Jeremy Cherfas

Working my way through Chris Aldrich's guide to bringing Twitter @mentions home, and while the WP site is not responding, this site is. But, in the absence of a /mentions page, where on Earth are those backlinks going? And can I display them?

Jeremy Cherfas

@kevinmarks Interesting piece, although @Withknown didn't like @velartrill's URL

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Thanks for the notice. Just checked, and there doesn't seem to be a problem. Maybe it was temporarily unavailable? I've kind of abandoned it, for now, to concentrate on the version I am hosting myself. But I don't want to shut it down until makes it possible to export data from that version and import it to the master. Not that there's anything all that valuable there, but still ...

Jeremy Cherfas

The future of WithKnown

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The question "does @WithKnown have a future?" is cropping up increasingly frequently of late. And the "official" answer is that it most definitely does, look at all the activity on github, nothing has changed. And it's true, there has been a lot of activity and things are moving, if you go and look. But for someone just looking in and trying to decide whether to use the software, the lack of outward facing activity must be a bit off-putting.

Or maybe it isn't.

I have no idea.

All this was [kicked back and forth on the WithKnown IRC channel yesterday](https://github.com/mapkyca/KnownchatLogs/blob/master/2017-03-23.md), with -- alas -- no input (yet?) from the developers.

I'm going to continue trying to understand Known because right now it seems to me the best place to continue pursuing ideals.

Jeremy Cherfas

Pure voodoo. What did not work a couple of days ago works today. Exactly the same! So, Kudos to @dg01d and his plugin to syndicate from @withknown to pnut.

I wonder whether Brid.gy can talk to pnut.

Jeremy Cherfas

Do you know anything as capable as @withknown out of the box @raretrack ?

Jeremy Cherfas

Mysterious typography

Mysterious typography

Cannot for the life of me work out why @WithKnown styles these two reply type posts differently -- but it does.

Jeremy Cherfas

I wonder whether I can use the Recipe plugin for @withknown to markup a recipe for and then copy the HTML to my own site?

Jeremy Cherfas

Quick question for Chris Aldrich, which I may be able to answer myself by judicious experimentation: how do you reply to two URLs at once?

Later: well, it isn't by including two URLs in the reply to a site field!

Jeremy Cherfas

Another test of Quill editor

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Writing something nice again, but I have enabled the Markdown plugin on Known.


And maybe a headline too

Like this

Utterly bizarre; when I went to write a new post, the above was already there. In other words, the content of the post from Quill, without the block quote.

>This should be a markdown block quote.

I'm knackered. Will try some more tomorrow.

Jeremy Cherfas

Completely mystified by editing a bookmark in @withknown

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I cannot get my head around how @withknown is handling posts.


I bookmark a page, with a quote from the page:


I don't like the yellow behind the text. So I click on edit, expecting to be able to at least look around.


Where is the quote?


Beats me.

Jeremy Cherfas

Plugging away

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Bummed out by the fact that Quill wasn't enabling me to syndicate directly to Twitter, I followed up on some good advice from Daniel Gold: Back to basics, uninstall and reinstall plugins one by one. Shades of WordPress. So I did that, and here's what I found:

With IndieSyndicate configured (*via* silo.pub) I can posts to Twitter just fine, but Quill still does not see that as a Syndication target and Quill cannot post to my site.

In retrospect, that's obvious, because there is no endpoint at my site.

So I enabled IndiePub and now Quill posts fine, but it still does not see any Syndication target.

I probably just have to live with that. At least for now.

Finally, re-enabled Brid.gy and everything looks good once again.

Just for the record, here, I've decided that for now I do not need these plugins: Static pages, Firefox, Events, Custom JS, Custom CSS, Comics, Audio, API tester. That may change in time.

Jeremy Cherfas

Having switched Quill's endpoint to my new instance of WithKnown, I thought it only right and proper that my first post there be my first post from Quill.<p> </p>

Jeremy Cherfas

A giant leap ... My own installation of in a sub-domain on my main site. Getting more serious about the , but lots more still to do.