Ask Micro.blog: Is there an effective way to find sites running on blot.im infrastructure?
Ask Micro.blog: Is there an effective way to find sites running on blot.im infrastructure?
@canion Yes, @JohnPhilpin has made a list of them.
@JohnPhilpin good idea! We’re getting quite the resource list here :)
@herself so what URL shall I drop in for you ?
@JohnPhilpin oh, thanks! I am at discombobulated.co.nz :)
@herself Isn’t that your micro.blog site? Where do you keep your blot site?
@JohnPhilpin that’s my blot site. My micro.blog is just discombobulated.micro.blot. :)
@JohnPhilpin I’ve got two Blot sites pensandplanes.com and thoughtsaloft.com
@JohnPhilpin That is an amazing resource.
@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 @amit @canion @cm @herself @jack @ron @sumudu @vasta @canion
My blot site is wherethelightgathers.com I use it for longer form posts. I used to have it setup to do longer form and micro.blog posts. And ask myself at least three times a week how is the best way to set everything up, lol.
@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!
@JohnPhilpin Cool. The links aren’t working though. I forgot the www. on the links.
@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 Cool. Thanks
@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 Thank you for maintaining this John, it is a great list. My blog is run by blot.
@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
@JohnPhilpin todd.grotenhuis.info
@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!
@herself cool - and both pages now added to my blot.im pinboard
// @amit
@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.