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13 April 2026 by Matt
What is the cast of The Muppets: Star Wars? You get one major human actor.
Question of the weekStar Wars The Muppets
6 April 2026 by Matt
What did you buy as an adult because you counldn’t have it as a child?
Question of the week
5 April 2026 by Matt
What does Easter mean to you?
Fun to Reply ToEaster
4 April 2026 by Matt
Describe the best Easter egg hunt you’ve ever been on
Fun to Reply ToEaster egg hunt
3 April 2026 by Matt
What is your favourite Easter memory?
Fun to Reply ToEaster
2 April 2026 by Matt
What is the best part of the Easter holiday?
Fun to Reply ToEaster
1 April 2026 by Matt
What would you do if you were the Easter Bunny?

(Maybe file this under Writing Prompts)

Fun to Reply ToEaster what if writing
31 March 2026 by Matt
What are your Easter traditions?
Fun to Reply ToEaster
30 March 2026 by Matt
What’s the most unexpected thing on your bucket list?
Question of the weekbucket list
25 March 2026 by Matt
Looking for some seasonal insperation?

The Muse of Last Resort has a collection of Easter-themed writing prompts.

Fun to Reply ToEaster writing
23 March 2026 by Matt
What are some excellent starter books for people getting into modern fantasy?
Question of the weekbooks fantasy
19 March 2026 by Matt
What does art mean to you?
Fun to Reply Toart
18 March 2026 by Matt
3 things you like about you

Adam has challenged us to list three things we like about ourselves. I’m filing this in Journaling Prompts

Fun to Reply Tojournalling prompt reflection
16 March 2026 by Matt
What are your best responses to How Are You?
Question of the weekhow are you reply
12 March 2026 by Matt
The Fun To Reply To Tipline

I’m looking for fun posts to reply to that I can feature here. Ideally, WebMention-enabled or ActivityPub-ready, but anything that would be fun to leave a reply to counts. Please reply, mention, or comment with your suggestions (yes, your own stuff counts).

Fun to Reply ToActivityPub WebMention
11 March 2026 by Matt
How do you take yours?

Adam wants to know how you like your tea. Also on: website

Fun to Reply Totea
9 March 2026 by Matt
What are some excellent starter books for people getting into SciFi?
Question of the weekbooks scifi
5 March 2026 by Matt
That was a fun bug

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 Newsbugs WordPress
4 March 2026 by Matt
For the glory with ArtLungBlog

On this edition of Fun To Reply To, I give you ArtLungBlog. My pick for a fun to reply to post is a reflection on life and all that which does not go where the title suggests it might: https://artlung.com/blog/2026/02/21/to-the-greater-glory-of-god/

Fun to Reply To
4 March 2026 by Matt
Wrong Answers Only

If you like playing Wrong Answers Only, then we have an account to follow for you: @saywhat Link: https://wrong-answers-only.isbrill.com My favourate so far: https://wrong-answers-only.isbrill.com/alwaysincorrekt/who-is-this-wrong-answers-only-3/

Fun to Reply ToWrong Answers Only
2 March 2026 by Matt
A quick bug fix for top mention sites

I 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 Newsbug fix homebrew error SQL top sites mentioning us
2 March 2026 by Matt
What animal would it be supremely unwise to try to punch?
Question of the week
23 February 2026 by Matt
Tell me about your website
Question of the weekwebsite
16 February 2026 by Matt
What is a great skill to have?
Question of the weekskills
9 February 2026 by Matt
Share your favourate shower thought
Question of the week

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