The awesome ActivityPub plugin used a new content type for the feed reader, and I was not filtering which post types I show comments for on Open Mention’s front page. Thus, the front page looked a bit strange. A little bit of pooking about my template code, and that is now fixed. While mirroring a…
Site NewsI found an edge case problem for my Top Sites feature of Open Mentions. If a site uses www. as part of their address, my custom SQL didn’t take that into account and filtered it as not the same site. This was because subdomains count as a different site, but the top sites drops the…
Site NewsDo you want to find things you can reply to or WebMention? If so, this new feed might be just what you want. We’ll share fun things to reply to as we find them. Don’t forget to tag an OpenMention topic for maximum discovery. Filed as #ConversationStarters Update: Fixed the feed URL, I goofed (sorry)….
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Affected areas: Some question of the week posts, mostly older ones. I am aware of the fact that some pages cannot be pinged. This is caused by a bug in WordPress that causes the cache of the objects to record as ping and comment closed while the database says that they are still open. I…
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Starting with a toot asking for advice, yesterday saw many changes to the design of openmentions.com. These decorative and explanatory changes are intended to make the primary purpose of the site clearer – combine open web ideas for topic and discussion discovery. I also aimed to leave the site looking a bit nicer. That is…
Site NewsThanks to brid.gy, Open Mentions can now collect mentions from Twitter too. Linking to a topic page should collect that tweet and add it as a comment on the page. You can find our brand new Twitter account here. Read discussions about brid.gy here.
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