On my micro.blog wish list is the ability to embed images inline with text like Dave does on Scripting News. Perhaps there is a markdown way that I do not know of?
@Ron Wow. I had no idea about 1999.io. There's just so much stuff Dave has explored and solved for himself. The promise of the simple posting interface "edit-save-post" is wondeful.
@amit Yes, it was/is a lovely tool. I'd love to still use it (It's still working), but I never got even 10% of the engagement over there that I've gotten here from the beginning. Very quiet there, a few crickets. Maybe it's output could be fed to Micro.blog?
@amit the one thing i truly miss about 1999 is to see a post - want to make a change - do it right there.
that really is about it ... help, support, community, knowing its all going somewhere … micro.blog wins in all categories.
Still only found 5 of us that were on 1999 - that are now here
@JohnPhilpin I'm pretty sure @antonzuiker and @johnjohnston were on 1999 too. Or maybe I just remember them from Fargo and some other Dave blogging tools, like River 4 and/or 5.
@Ron JohnPhilpin I had 1999, river5 and storage for littleoutliner running on my Raspberry Pi for a while. The 1999 rss fed in to micro.blog too. Corrupt SD card blew that. I think I had accounts on Dave’s spaces too.
@johnjohnston Ohhh, so you were able to feed 1999 output into Micro.blog! Neato. I never did try a Raspberry Pi.
@Ron It sounds so good. I have never used it, may be I will get it running just to get a feel of it. And as @johnjohnston had done, we should be able feed the micro.blog timeline with the posts from 1999 via rss.
@JohnPhilpin Funny that I always saw the section there marked “1999ers” that I could never understand. I thought I will ask but never did, unsure what it exactly could come out to be. Had. I idea it was a blogging platform.
Btw did it also have a community aspect? @Ron
@johnjohnston @JohnPhilpin Hey Scottish John, with your 1999 install, did you have to sign in through Twitter like we did on Dave's machine?
@amit Yes, there was some community interaction, but Dave was very specific in stating that he was not trying to build a community. There was a support website (maybe Google group) where you could report on your progress. But you had to be very careful to ask Q's in the way Dave wanted it done.
@Ron @JohnPhilpin I think so. Memory vague and I think notes were in 1999 :-( I’ll have a look later).
@amit If you could get your own instance of 1999 running, that would be fantastic. My concern is that we had to sign in through Twitter to use Dave's setup. When I had a friend set up another one of Dave's tools for me, there was a problem with the Twitter part, like they had changed something.
@Ron found som partial backups of 1999 from my pi which jogged my memory. You did indeed use Twitter for accounts/authentication. Links on my blog to setup notes lead to the pi and seem to be lost. Got some on river5. AFAIK setting up 1999 was straightforward. I had several nodestorages set up on different ports for different services.
@JohnPhilpin No word yet on whether @antonzuiker was too. I know he built a River for the university where he works (Duke?) & nearly positive he was on Fargo. But not sure about 1999.io.
@johnjohnston thankyou ... I am pretty sure that whatever indie community springs up ... ‘nice company’ will be a suitable descriptor ...
@amit I have some resources on 1999 setup, if you could email me at sylvester.andy@gmail.com, we can setup a conversation.
@Ron I couldn't find notes on setting up 1999 on Raspberry pi but I did find ones on setting up nodestorage. Was originally an myword essay on the pi, so move to my blog johnjohnston.info/blog/. cc @AndySylvester
@johnjohnston here is my draft 1999 user guide: andysylvester.com/1999-io-r... cc: @amit . One current problem is that Twitter now wants users to apply for a developer account before allowing users to set up Twitter apps like the ones used by 1999.io for identity (https://github.com/scripting/1999-project/blob/master/docs/setup.md#set-up-your-twitter-app).
@AndySylvester That is a good one. AFAIR setting up on the pi was just following the linux guide. I wonder could the authentication be changed by some clever dev?
@Ron @johnphilpin yes I am still using Dave’s 1999 and River5 and LittleOutliner2 and Radio3 (as well as Textpattern and Micro.blog). My 1999 is at blog.zuiker.com but I’m having trouble keeping it from crashing.
@Ron the Duke River of News is at dukeriver.co and river5.dukeriver.co. It’s been a valuable tool for my work at the Duke Dept of Medicine.
@antonzuiker I looked at the latter of those two and ended up listening to the podcast about the family who adopted two boys, then home schooled them, eventually living in a converted school bus. It was called "I think we need to live on a school bus." It was excellent!
@antonzuiker Aha, so you installed your own instance of 1999. Do you have to login via Twitter to use it, as with Dave's original instance of 1999? Or is there some other mechanism for logging in with your instance?
@frankm Doesn't that mean that Twitter could decide not to let its platform be used for the authentication of other software, in which case the 1999 software would be silenced by the actions of the owners of the silo?
@Ron Yes, but that is a risk whenever you rely on APIs from another company. Dave is leveraging Twitter's OAuth API, which is a fairly standard authentication method, and many applications rely on their parties like this rather than build in such authentication because to do so takes work. It's not likely that Twitter will deprecate this API, but what would mitigate the risk is to add support for another OAuthn provider like Github.
FINALLY added you to the 1999 Micro Blog Directory
@andysylvester @frankm @jack @ron let me know if you still have a live 1999 instance and I will add the URL
@JohnPhilpin John, I am not running a current instance, but my previous posts are at notes.andysylvester.com
@JohnPhilpin I still occasionally use the instance provided by Dave, but none of my own yet. The nice thing about posting with Dave’s is then my posts are positioned next to those by Doc Searls in Andy’s 1999ers river. Good company to keep. 😋
