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I drove through here yesterday twice on my way to math class at UCLA and it wasn't nearly as haunting:
https://twitter.com/WLV_investor/status/938410022538682368

 

Interestingly, as I'm writing a complaint about road closures, I see this tweet from CalTrans that I can only assume to be a major error, as it definitely wasn't the case an hour and change ago:
https://twitter.com/CaltransDist7/status/938480016949624832

 

It might take a slight bit of tweaking, but you can combine using the micropub features of the www.woodwind.xyz feed reader to post directly to your site with something like https://twitter-atom.appspot.com/ to get yourself a bit farther along.

 

Khürt, I can feel your pain. I know that SNAP just made a recent major release that changed a lot of it's code base, so I've been half purposely waiting to update while they work out some of the kinks. I'm just about to download the most recent and test it out on a server before I upgrade to the latest version on my production site, since the old version is still doing a relatively good job and it's a lot of overhead to update/upgrade going into the holidays.

There's a frequent phrase that many in the chat will use: by which they mean try doing everything manually to work on getting the output and workflow to work the way you want it to and only then try automating things based on your manual experience.

There are many ways of doing syndication, so before settling on one, try doing things by hand for a bit while you're testing out other potential options. I often find that even though I've got automated means of doing things very quickly, I actually often prefer the manual methods sometimes, particularly when it means I know exactly what the output will be. With POSSE you'll find that with some of the automated means, the easier it is to set up, the less options you'll have for control, while the more control you get means a much more difficult set up.

Try a few options and then go with what works for your needs until it drives you so crazy you have to change it. In the meanwhile, documenting the issues and problems either on your site or in issue queues will slowly help things get better.

In the end it can't be much worse than people who are syndicating their Facebook content to Twitter that simply shows up as just the raw https://fb.me/123456789 URLs and nothing else. ;)

 

Replied to a post on github.com :

Which sites are you syndicating to? I know it's the case that not all sites that SNAP supports are supported by Syndication Links. Most of the major ones like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr are, but some of the lesser ones like Flipboard, 500px aren't.

 

@t Given the restrictions on Twitter, I'm suddenly struck by the simplicity and beauty of this POSSEd event post.

 
 

@andrea It looks like you're missing the Semantic Linkbacks plugin for WordPress. That should make your facepiles have actual faces and display much better. https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-semantic-linkbacks

How are you posting to Known? Using Quill or another micropub application? Do you have the WithKnown Twitter plugin installed? https://github.com/idno/Twitter That can help some of the display issues you're probably seeing.

I'm sure many in the IndieWeb chat (Slack, IRC, Web, etc.) can give you help if you need it. There's a main room, and and specific channels. https://indieweb.org/discuss

I'm out at the moment but am happy to help more later if you need it.

 

Between @BeakerBrowser and @IndieWebCamp, it looks like Austin is the place to be in December:
https://twitter.com/BeakerBrowser/status/935182379139952640
https://indieweb.org/2017/Austin

 

@dcastelvecchi @scienmag 110 people I follow are following it, but are they really paying attention at all?
https://twitter.com/sentientist/status/934812277001412608

 
 

A short Thanksgiving treatise on the statistical thermodynamics of humanity:
https://twitter.com/ClintSmithIII/status/933700034943639552

 
 

The definition of a modern day commonplace book:
https://twitter.com/maneeshasane/status/932354610492334082

 

@tressiemcphd Your narrative would be stronger with threading https://business.twitter.com/en/blog/How-Tweet-threads.html