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Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Hey – Installed Fraidycat (FC) and tested with DaringFireball (DF) feed. I see it shows the DF title and links to whatever 3rd party link DF is reporting on. Title: The Unicorns Fell Into a Ditch Link: bloomberg article In this example the title is pretty much meaningless so I need DF's take on the topic before I make a decision to go off and visit Bloomberg. My existing RSS feed provides DF's blog content (text). So…

Also BTW, I joined Fish yesterday. Today I went to login and I couldn't. My password/email was definitely correct. So I tried resetting. When adding a new password the error message kept telling me that my new passwords didn't match. I used a special character (&) in my password. I removed the ampersand and was able to reset password, and log back in. Sorry if this isn't the correct channel for bugs (feel free to red…

Hey there, sorry about the trouble. I've pushed a fix. Special characters should now be working in the reset flow now. If you come across any other bugs feel free to email mail@special.fish. Thanks!

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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I have friends who ask me to design theirs websites because I'm a web developer, and it's not their fault, but what's explained here. I wish there were more tools on the same page as Frontpage/Dreamweaver, so anyone could make their own website, and publish it with a single click.

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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The word is niche . There are 2 major factors that will power a resurgence, that could use better tools: 1. Discoverability - self-reinforcing webrings, blogrolls, directories, ad free-search etc. 2. Creation - next-gen Dreamweaver. A low-code site creator app that exports a static website as a folder of readable CSS/HTML that people can tinker with by hand (and learn), instead of being locked into one of these cloud…

Number two could be Publii? It seems to met all the requirements you mentioned.

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Also BTW, I joined Fish yesterday. Today I went to login and I couldn't. My password/email was definitely correct. So I tried resetting. When adding a new password the error message kept telling me that my new passwords didn't match. I used a special character (&) in my password. I removed the ampersand and was able to reset password, and log back in. Sorry if this isn't the correct channel for bugs (feel free to red…

Hey there, sorry about the trouble. I've pushed a fix. Special characters should now be working in the reset flow now. If you come across any other bugs feel free to email mail@special.fish. Thanks!

Many thanks :)

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Hey – Installed Fraidycat (FC) and tested with DaringFireball (DF) feed. I see it shows the DF title and links to whatever 3rd party link DF is reporting on. Title: The Unicorns Fell Into a Ditch Link: bloomberg article In this example the title is pretty much meaningless so I need DF's take on the topic before I make a decision to go off and visit Bloomberg. My existing RSS feed provides DF's blog content (text). So…

That's cool - thanks Pixxel! So Fraidycat literally just grabs the title and link from each post in the feed - so it has to do with how DF formats its feed. It appears that the JSON feed works correctly tho: https://daringfireball.net/feeds/json Also, there is a redesign underway that will give richer post view: https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/30

Ah yes you're right, the JSON does link to DF directly.

Awesome, many thanks :)

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