We need a platform to publish our official statements and other updates
Pirate Bady
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Currently fsci.in is a plain HTML website and updating it everytime when we have to publish a new statement or any other update is not so easy. So it'll be better if we can switch to a blogging system. Hugo is a static site generator (SSG) written in Go and it already has a template that matches the current template of fsci.in so that migration will be easy. Also, Karthik has volunteered to migrate our website to Hugo. While some people support SSG based solutions, some vote for innovative solutions like using writefreely.org which supports federation and hence can be followed from mastodon and so on. Please comment your suggestions.
Pirate Praveen Wed 17 Jun 2020 11:45AM
https://ublog.pub/ can we use this to publish the statements via activity pub as well? So people can follow us on mastodon.
Karthik Wed 17 Jun 2020 11:52AM
how does ublog differ from mastodon? I know that mastodon also uses activitypub
Pirate Praveen Wed 17 Jun 2020 6:30PM
It is a single user instance, so should be lighter than mastodon or pleroma.
shine Thu 18 Jun 2020 6:57PM
wouldn't ublog still require someone to manage the account and manually post the links to the statements that are posted on the website.
instead, why not have writefreely deployed at statements.fsci.in which would automatically post to ActivityPub? This would bring in the challenge of using writefreely as the main blog roll instead of hugo; meaning there wouldn't be an easy way to show the statements on the main website under the recent statements section.
Or the other alternative is to find a hugo plugin that would automatically post to ActivityPub ( or write one, perhaps? I couldn't find any in a quick web search )
Pirate Praveen Fri 19 Jun 2020 9:55AM
As per https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub/blob/master/README.md there is an http api to post content and Hugo already has an RSS feed, I think it should be possible to parse RSS feed and post via HTTP API using gitlab ci pipeline.
Karthik Fri 19 Jun 2020 11:46AM
i have found two links on activityPub for hugo
1. https://jlelse.blog/dev/activitystreams-hugo/
2. https://jlelse.blog/micro/2019/12/2019-12-18-ukjta/
3. code: https://codeberg.org/jlelse/hugo-activitystreams
Pirate Praveen Fri 19 Jun 2020 11:57AM
If you can, please try it out and see if you can follow the updates via mastodon.
Karthik Fri 19 Jun 2020 11:58AM
I will try & see
Poll Created Sun 19 Jul 2020 11:31AM
use a ghost instance Closed Wed 22 Jul 2020 11:03AM
Suggestion to use ghost.org instance as a blogging platform .
They have robust Api's which we can integrate to our main site.
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| Abstain | 20.0% | 1 |
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| Disagree | 60.0% | 3 |
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| Block | 20.0% | 1 |
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| Undecided | 0% | 206 |
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5 of 211 people have participated (2%)
Dhanesh · Sat 2 May 2020 7:29AM
+1 for website with SSG.