Forking/extending this plugin

  • My little group is probably going to fork this in order to create skinning, UX, and functionality that resembles that of Twitter. “Simple microblogging” has already solved several problems we were going to solve, so why reinvent the wheel? Differences will include:

    • a blog admin might go to the micropost page and see a form at the top of the page, with an interface very similar to that of Twitter (even including image and video upload). Below the form would be the old pages.
    • readers would go to the same page and see nothing but the user’s micropost history
    • pagination and other UX improvements
    • eventually we’ll include, either on the same page or a second page, a microblog post reader, for microblogs you subscribe to
    • we will add support for ActivityPub and other hooks as soon as possible
    • sooner or later (possibly very soon) we’ll include an appropriate RSS extension so that RSS readers can be used as decentralized social media readers

      We’ll be back in touch when it’s ready, but please reply if you have any comments or concerns.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by lmsanger.
    • This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by lmsanger.
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  • Will your group be developing this in public? I’d love to follow along and contribute where I can.

    sounds good

    Glad to know that this plugin is getting a breath of new life! It was such a cool concept, a decade ago… while it was regularly maintained.

    Since then, I have resorted to simply having a special category on my main blog — ‘Snippets’ — where I’d place random thoughts and similar things. Eventually, I also gave up on that idea — it became easier to do that on Twitter and just embed it on the page.

    However, my ‘solution’ — if you can even call it that! — was only appropriate for a single-user-blog… for a more complex solution, I’d have to use, say, bbPress or something similar — which are ‘heavyweights’ to accomplish what seems to be something quite simple…

    I’m intrigued by your approach — i.e. using a weighty CMS (outdated conceptually, but fortunately being constantly improved) to implement microblogging, but, knowing your background and history, I’m confident that you have good reasons to have picked that solution since there are quite a lot of other concepts out there, some of which may scale much better than WordPress: https://github.com/BasixKOR/awesome-activitypub

    Aye, ActivityPub is really a must these days. It’s a pity that it’s so tricky to implement, even using a good library… good luck with that. I’d love to run my own ActivityPub-compatible server, but I’m not willing to install Ruby on Rails or Java — two popular choices for developing ActivityPub-compliant services. I’m strictly a PHP & Go girl ?? and hate Java with a vengeance ??

    Okay, okay, okay… This is exciting news! Any idea when this will have a debut? Bugged or not, I want in! Please let this become a reality! I’ve been waiting for this moment!

    Thread Starter lmsanger

    (@lmsanger)

    Hi folks, here’s an update.

    We decided not to fork this plugin but to start over from scratch. We’ve made a pretty full-featured theme, but not a plugin yet—that’s next. Should be pretty cool.

    At some point soon we will be developing it publicly, yes, but it’s a good idea to have the basics done in advance of such a release.

    When will it be available? Not sure. June? July?

    Oh, I’m so bummed! I was so looking forward to the fork. Didn’t want a theme at all but rather to add a feature to my blog called “The Pulse”. So, it’s September and I’m curious if you’ve had the ability to release it. If you have, could we have a link? I’d be willing to pay for a plugin for sure…

    Jaggy

    (@vishanjad)

    I’d pay for a plugin as well with API option since WordPress is now moving to React front -end with Frontity and Faustjs. Do you have the release ready?

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