Today's project: gonna finally see if I can wrestle webmentions to the ground. Never been able to get it working properly but I like the idea of rolling my own glitch webmentions server like this: qubyte.codes/blog/a-new-serv…

Qubyte Codes - A new service to handle webmention dispatch for you

Webmentions are a great way of letting folk know when you're talking about their content on your own blog, but they can be a little fiddly to implement. A new service from Remy Sharp automates the...

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Setting up Webmentions TL;DR: - Enable h-card markup - Add webmention.io support - Write custom JS to display webmention.io API - Sign up for Brid.gy for social webmentions - Sign up for webmention.app
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(cont.) - Set up IFTTT for RSS -> webmention.app to send webmentions Fin? Maybe? I count 4 different web-apps necessary *and* two different code markups needed to get this all working correctly. Webmentions is a failed system.
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Not sure I understand why this is "failed"? I'm guessing you are using a static site generator. That's going to give you lots of problems trying to do anything dynamic, kind of by definition.
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I was *just* about to come back around and thank you and Remy for building these servies for starters. So thank you! Yes, this is a partial failure of static sites but it still just feels like an over-engineered solution. I know lots of bloggers and so few of them use webmention
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Replying to @tomcritchlow
There's definitely room for someone to come in and build a better solution tailored to all the specific limitations of static sites! What you're seeing is the side effect of these solutions not having been built specifically with static sites in mind.

Nov 1, 2019 · 2:39 PM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk
Is it much easier for non-static sites? Is there a "webmentions in a box" WP plugin?
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Yep! wordpress.org/plugins/webmen… It's completely self-contained, no external services, and integrates with the native WordPress comments system.
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