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Of course one can do it by hand. Manual till it hurts and all that. But one shouldn’t have to. I am not a developer so I don’t know how hard it would be to give the New Post entry form the same Reply field that Status has. And logically, I would have thought a Post was more likely than a Status actually to be a reply.

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Finally reached a key milestone in the deliverables of a big work-for-money, so was able to treat myself to an excellent video from the IndieWebSummit 2017.

First up, for me, Lillian Karabaic offering A brief history of my website. I noted a few things.

First, the video, audio and editing were top notch. Huge kudos to everyone who made this happen. They say content trumps technical quality, and it does, but when you’re not fighting quality, the value of the content is so much more obvious.

Second, and much more important, Lillian’s trajectory mirrors my own and, not surprisingly, I can relate strongly to everything she said – good and bad – about the #indieweb. The help available is stellar, the documentation isn’t great (I hope to work on that) and it is hard to evangelise.

So much left to do …

Why the indieweb

Richard MacManus is indiewebifying his site, and had this to say:

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.