These are the sites with the most WebMentions. I’m still figuring out how to also do ActivityPub, which is just different enough to be tricky.
Top Mention Domains
- node.lordmatt.co.uk (32)
- lordmatt.co.uk (28)
- replying.isbrill.com (15)
- openmentions.tumblr.com (14)
- matrixdreams.com (12)
- muse.authorbuzz.co.uk (8)
- tory-government.ispants.com (6)
- elons-twitter.ispants.com (6)
- openmentions.com (5)
- lazaruscorporation.co.uk (5)
- doctorwho.isbrill.com (4)
- mattsbigfatarse.com (4)
- matthewdbrown.authorbuzz.co.uk (3)
- iamthedj.lordmatt.co.uk (3)
- thanetviews.com (2)
- webmention.isbrill.com (2)
- wrong-answers-only.isbrill.com (2)
- dev.authorbuzz.co.uk (2)
- osteophage.neocities.org (2)
- chat.authorbuzz.co.uk (1)
- redterminal.org (1)
- indieweb.isbrill.com (1)
- boosting.isbrill.com (1)
- tracydurnell.com (1)
- are-we-the-baddies.isbrill.com (1)
- gerben.dev (1)
- mastodon.social (1)
- dream-logging.isbrill.com (1)
- authorplatforms.authorbuzz.co.uk (1)
- reading.isbrill.com (1)
The thing I made is a page that lists all the sites that have WebMentioned OpenMentions, and another thing that lists all the comments from each site. (For example)
It’s unlikely to win any beauty awards, but it is fully functional. A screenshot from OpenMentions.com listing all the domains that mention the site ordered from most mentions to least. A screenshot from OpenMentions.com showing all the mentions from reply.isbrill.com along with links to the mentioned pages and the source of the mention.
NGL, there were a fair few moments of “Why don’t you work?” and “Huh, that’s not what I asked for!”, usually followed by, “Oh, yeah, that makes sense, I’ve been a dummy”. I can now confirm that WordPress rewrite rules are not for the faint of heart.
If you ask nicely, I might share my not-so-great code. Although, why you’d want to copy me, I have no idea.
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…