Ask Micro.blog: Is there an effective way to find sites running on blot.im infrastructure?
@canion I guess the only would be if the image caching option is used by the blogs, but most people on micro.blog would not be using it as it doesn’t render in app. I can’t think of an other way. But would like to know if there is - traceroute to IP may be? 🤔
@canion Good job. He may also be able to point you to writeups about how to set it up. I seem to recall there are some.
@JohnPhilpin my blog site is at canion.me. I’m still trying to ascertain what content to put where: the challenge of many a blogger!
@canion alas that link doesn’t resolve for me - understand the issue re which content where tho !!!!
@JohnPhilpin it’s a variation on the console template. Got some help with the archives page, though I really want to set up a page with links for all my tags as well— haven’t figured that out yet!
@cm yours is a great example of blot, I think. I've often looked at it and thought: "like this!" :)
@herself one of those links on that page goes to this which is ugly and i don’t have the skills ot sort it - BUT it is blot's auto generated page of tags in use
@JohnPhilpin Oh yes, something like that. But did you add those links manually? I was hoping I could mustache my way into a template that would pick them up automagically :)
@JohnPhilpin Oh, whoops, just saw your second comment as I was replying to your first. I had no idea they did that automatically!
That said, did you have to do anything to turn that on? discombobulated.co.nz/tags just leads to a Page Not Found...
@JohnPhilpin Thanks. Surprised it didn’t automatically redirect. I didn’t even know I needed the ‘www’!
@canion not an expert - but there is something you need to set somewhere in your dns provider or something stuff !!!!
@herself the pretty page is manual the ugly page is automatic - here is where I started
blottings.philpin.com/tags - replace my URL with yours - and that is the auto generation
@JohnPhilpin Yeah, I hate dealing with DNS. I always seem to bugger it up and then not find out until propagation, and have to start over again.
@JohnPhilpin @herself It can be done by creating a new view on the web editor - wrote a brief how-to here. Hope that helps. I had to do that for separating my "social" posts.
@amit oh THATS getting added to my pinboard for blot.im tomorrow .. where I am starting to build an index of blot help - along with nested folders for tagging ... new news there aswell - thankyou
@canion Thank you Andrew. Wanted to go for a simple all text theme - inspired by so many greats here . And Blot granted full control.
@JohnPhilpin Glad you found it useful. I had captured my experiments with blot at my blog - all entries related to blot are available here. @herself
@amit @johnphilpin Thanks for that info, and links on setting up the tags! Off to have a read now as well :)
@amit That's awesome -- thanks! I have just blogged my own steps here. Thanks so much again for your help :) @johnphilpin, you too!
@JohnPhilpin Nice 👍🏽 . Btw even I had to create my tags page from scratch. I had started with the default theme.
@herself well now - I couldn’t resist - so I took your code and painstakingly re-typed it and voila ... next step to put some structure and content around it, little bit of CSS work oh - and make my links actually work!
filed in 'reasons I have friends that don’t believe I should be allowed access to a computer’
thankyou
@herself see what I mean - links already fixed - simply by stepping away ... coming back ... slapping forehead ... correcting code and saving.
@JohnPhilpin huzzah! Looks good! Though after looking at @amit’s tags page I’m curious to know if I could somehow generate the links in a grouping (no new line for each link) like that. But I think I’ll quit while I’m ahead...for now :P
@JohnPhilpin probably the only time ever that something I’ve posted could qualify as “tech help,” hehe.
@herself like this? ... just compared @amit source to mine.
All you need to do is replace line break with ‘ ’ and you are done
@JohnPhilpin oh nice!! Yes, just like that. For some reason it seems more navigable that way, compared to a linear list.