I'm still pretty happy my indieweb publishing experiment.
Content is flowing in all the right ways. Posts end up as Posts. Photos are uploaded native with backlinks. POSSE via brid.gy just works. You can see that Brid.gy polls Google+, and then saves what it finds back to the original post by sending Webmentions. The result is a full archive of activity around this content.
Oh and cross posting to SoundCloud worked perfectly. And so do embeds..
After a fix from the Known Team WebHooks are working. I get a POST whenever content changes. To test this out I send the URL to the Internet Archive Save Page. Voila! Instant archiving of my content. [Next up, backups in IPFS]
I was able to set up the Known open source software on my own server. Next step is to pull a backup from the hosted version I'm using so I can experiment further and contribute back to the project.
Mobile Posting via Chrome on Android is working well. You can access the Camera and a rudimentary file picker. HTML editing is workable, but not great. I installed the Url Forward app so I can also have native sharing intents.
Bumps
Of course there are some issues encountered...
Spelling errors mean you Publish Once, Edit Everywhere. Or if you messed up the URL, Publish Once, Delete Everywhere
I tried using a native web mention to reply to another post, but it didn’t appear on the target site. There wasn't any visible UX feedback.
I found that there’s no UI support for backdating posts. Okay, I’ll try Micropub to post. Nope, very rough implementations, but Quill seems nice. Eventually I wrote a stub post in Wordpress, exported, imported and edited. Phew!
But.. it appears that brid.gy doesn’t syndicate to old posts like this. Even when I went back and pointed links at each other. I’ll have to followup on that.
Also, I lost the first version of this post due to a CSRF error since I left it sitting too long in the browser. Oops.
TinyMCE still is a pain and loves using and CMD-9 is bound to <address>.. I might have to use Markdown instead.
I miss @ mentioning people, and wish there was a UI for that.
Native Google+ support in brid.gy needs an API.
But still overall quite happy with the way this is going. I hope you're enjoying the journey with me.
Tagged: #indieweb #withknown
