@lindner Congratulations!

For extending things a bit, be sure to check out: http://docs.withknown.com/en/latest/plugins/community/ so you don't have to reinvent the wheel.

One of the things that made using my Known site much more addictive was being able to do so more easily on mobile. I wrote up a few thoughts here that you might appreciate: http://stream.boffosocko.com/2016/sharing-from-the-indieweb-on-mobile-android-with-apps-and

If you don't like the writing interface you might consider using Quill https://quill.p3k.io/ which uses micropub (already included in the core of Known). Micropub is now a W3C candidate as of yesterday. Alternate posting clients may be found at https://indieweb.org/micropub#Clients. In particular you might like OwnYourGram or OwnYourCheckin for Instagram and Foursquare if you use those.

You'll find lots of fellow devs and users of Known at https://indieweb.org/Known

Good luck and let us know if you need help!

Mike, it's an edge case for many to be sure (I don't expect my mother to encounter it often), but just another of hundreds of other reasons to be part of the Indieweb. The "big reasons" sell themselves but aren't the entire raison d'etre, and I like to document some of the others when I encounter them.

I and others in academia (most of my audience) run up against it fairly frequently in relation to scientific journal articles. It's particularly egregious when big publishers like Elsevier, who insist they're adding value for their steep subscription rates, under-manage their sites and don't always approve comments that further scientific communication or require additional work on their part to editorially change/modify what they've published in print.

The particular case that spawned this particular "rant", still hasn't "approved" the comment/question I made, yet they approved a dozen or more "me too" congratulatory comments around mine that did nothing to further the conversation in the community in which it was posted.

Further proof that you can't please all of the people all of the time...

@egoexpress @rickmende I love the idea of this! Just did a PR to add it to the @withknown community plugins page docs.withknown.com/en/latest/plugins/community/

Like you, I usually don't worry too much about SEO either, particularly for my personal site.

The IndieWeb community has recently been moving domains from IndieWebCamp.com to IndieWeb.org, so there have been some relatively big changes there which have thrown some functionality off. In particular, one used to be able to jump into the chat directly from the web-based chat logs, but that has been turned off (temporarily, I hope). If you don't want to set up an IRC client [details and suggestions are given at https://indieweb.org/IRC], you can also use the more friendly Slack channel as well since the IRC chat is bridged to Slack. Just click on the link on the IRC page to sign up. (I've never been a big IRC fan either, and the fewer chat clients, text messengers, etc. I can have, all the better!)

If you've managed to get WordPress installed, then you've already done the lion's share of the hard work! Most of the rest of "IndieWeb-ification" is done with simple plugins and minimal amounts of configuration. There shouldn't be anything too much more difficult (unless you want to get your hands dirty and do some hardcore coding.)

My main www.boffosocko.com site is a WordPress install, which I usually use for longer form (more interesting??) posts. stream.boffosocko.com is more quick hit content: status updates, checkins, and some photos. I also find it's a bit easier to use on my cell phone than WordPress is. It's built on the Known platform which was built from the ground up in part to support IndieWeb protocols.

If you'd like to join a small group of us in Pasadena on Wednesday night, I'm walking a few new people through some IndieWeb stuff: https://indieweb.org/events/2016-07-27-homebrew-website-club (Facebook copy at https://www.facebook.com/events/1176904038997597/). We can help you walk through the process on your site if you'd like.

I hope to have monthly meetings through the end of the year in the LA area, and there's a bigger IndieWebCamp in Santa Monica in November (https://indieweb.org/2016/LA)