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Replied to Dear IndieWeb, it may be time to start considering the user, not just the technical spec. by Eli Mellen I’ve been working on a series of walkthrough posts that outline how to IndieWebify a Wordpress site. I presumed the initial setup would be fairly straightforward because ... www.zylstra.org
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bradenslen
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@ton I agree with you and @eli, if you two struggle to figure it out, what chance have I got? There needs to be a turn key solution for Indieweb implementation in order to gain wide range adoption.

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@bradenslen I also find that info on the purpose of certain steps / building blocks is missing. If you have no idea why you're doing something, and what it is you're trying to achieve, you don't have a way to see if 'install this' is the right thing or when it's done. Also mostly lots of assumptions are hidden in existing documentation (like finding out in step 12 that step 1 assumed you were running a specific OS or something). Ideally there'd be a flow from 'your purpose' - 'tasks you want to solve' - 'options to help you do that' - 'assumptions made per option' - 'instructions per option' - 'documentation of what is where in chunks of code so you can tinker if you want'. Most documentation, any type really, does the last 2 only, badly.

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bradenslen
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@ton I'm not sure mass adoption can be achived by fitting this stuff to someone elses platform. A platform that you don't control. We need to advance from a hobbiest level, where people like to tinker, to something that just works.

I agree on documentation, this is a problem throughout modern software, not just Indieweb.

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