A 🐸 Lillihub update to celebrate 1 month 🥳. Check it out, it’s a fun way to view your Micro.blog timeline.

• Conversations don’t repeat as you page
• Comments from people you follow are highlighted
• Photo page for a user now has a grid view
• Comment threads now have a collapse at the bottom

@ovr Thanks! ☺️

@heyloura 🎉

@heyloura Wonderful! Lillihub is shaping up really well! 👏🏽😊

@heyloura I've been wondering how tied Lillihub is to micro.blog-- if you brought/made your own MicroPub, Webmention, WebSub, indieauth, etc endpoints, could you use Lillihub as a front-end for all of that?

@rossk It's pretty integrated with the M.b. API. But that is an interesting thought.

So it is currently using IndieAuth and MicroPub, though hard coded to the M.b. endpoints. The discover page could work with a little tweak since I'm pretty sure you don't need an auth token for those feeds. And MicroPub should work if it wasn't hard-coded (the new post and manage post/media pages). Replies could potentially be tweaked to send as webmentions...

I don't think a custom IndieAuth endpoint would work with M.b. in terms of getting M.b. account functionality like the timeline feed, bookmarks, bookshelves, and the like. So those would need to be hidden.

It would take some thought to figure out the rest if you Like what would be in the timeline area/conversations area instead... 🤔 An indieweb feed reader via MicroSub? Assuming you have a server doing the feed fetching and parsing...

So I don't think it's insurmountable to do. It's something I'd have to think about; if I wanted to take Lillihub in that direction. Also, Lillihub is open source so anyone who's interested/or inspired can check out the code here. It's using Deno, so JavaScript on the backend. The front is just straight forward HTML, CSS, and a sprinkle of JavaScript.

@heyloura interesting, thanks! I've gone down the rabbit hole of building my own MicroPub service and indieauth endpoints (since abandoned) but never had a clear idea for what I would do on the front end (beyond using an app like IndiePass). I'm not sure I'll ever revisit that stuff, but if I do, it seems like Lillihub could be adapted to serve as the UI.

@heyloura I've been trying out Lillihub since you posted this and it's really great! I like having conversations collapsed and the check boxes for adding other people in the thread to replies is brilliant 👍

@tracydurnell Thanks for checking it out! I'm so glad you've enjoyed it. It's been a fun project to put together 😁