snarfed
extend blog webmentions feature to all web sites
...ie not just blogger, tumblr, and wp.com. inspired by IRC today.
(as background, the blog webmention feature currently sends all outgoing webmentions for wordpress.com, tumblr, and blogger blogs by watching their feeds and extracting links in new posts when they're posted. this would extend that feature to any site.)
the vast majority of this is done. we just need a text box next to the blog providers on the front page to enter your domain, maybe indieauth or check for a backlink to prove you own the domain (not strictly necessary since anyone can send a webmention for any source and target), and maybe tweak a few other things that come up. surprisingly little work required.
@aaronpk's telegraph now does this! https://telegraph.p3k.io/superfeedr . makes it a bit less of a priority to do it in bridgy.
@snarfed hmm. I thought that was for being able to receive webmentions from sites that don't technically support them, not for being able to send them if you are on a platform that doesn't have a method for sending.
hmm. I thought that was for being able to receive webmentions from sites that don't technically support them
right! that's what this issue is for.
for being able to send them if you are on a platform that doesn't have a method for sending.
that's what bridgy's existing blog feature is! it sends and receives wms for blogs on tumblr, blogger, and wordpress.com. https://brid.gy/about#blogs
...oh, do you mean extending the blog feature to sites that aren't on tumblr/blogger/wp.com? you're right, we could definitely do that too! at least for sending. i'd probably encourage people to use a native plugin in their CMS for that though, or telegraph itself, since that's what it's for.
oh. OK :-) I thought it was the opposite. Allow users who aren't on tumblr, blogger or wp.com to be able to easily send webmentions (i.e. Jekyll sites on GitHub pages.)
@snarfed yes, to follow up, Jekyll sites on GH pages was the specific use case I'm thinking about. There isn't a "simple" way for those users to send webmentions. Inserting some js to receive them isn't an issue. I'm used a convoluted method of a ruby plugin and building via Travis CI and then pushing back to GitHub in order to send. Not for the faint of heart or beginning user.
I'm currently working on a Jekyll "theme" that a new user could clone, edit a few lines of the config and be up & running with an indieweb site fairly quickly and easily. Having a solution for also sending would be 👍
Just a thought.
@miklb definitely! sounds like a good telegraph feature request, especially since it already has some superfeedr integration. cc @aaronpk.
A h-feed to Webmention pinger would be a great extension of Telegraph or similar. It's something I need for my Jekyll blog as well and have been thinking of building myself if nothing else. Consuming a Pubsubhubbub h-feed/rss and sending Webmentions for all relevant links in new/updated posts in there.
