[pcthrowaway]

So here's my question: HN as far as I can tell doesn't explicitly integrate with webmention, but I'm assuming webmention.io does use it. Does that mean the owner @aaronpk does get a mention every time webmention is linked, say, from Hacker News? The docs don't make it clear, but if in fact, it does, this seems like a killer concept for HN users who want to be notified (among other times) when their service/blog/whatever is shared to HN

edit: Also, why doesn't webmention.io display its own mentions to utilize the two-way communication it advertises? Seems like a no-brainer to show prospective users an example of it working in action

[aaronpk]

> edit: Also, why doesn't webmention.io display its own mentions to utilize the two-way communication it advertises? Seems like a no-brainer to show prospective users an example of it working in action

This is a good idea, and if I were re-making this service new in 2021 I would definitely do this. However I launched this in 2012 as a barebones implementation to get webmentions working for a few of my websites and never bothered to develop it much past that point.

[cube2222]

There are multiple services which solve this problem already, i.e. https://f5bot.com

[aaronpk]

HN does not as far as I know, but Lobsters does! https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/pull/535

[tarkin2]

Yeah. This is my interest.

I don't want to a cluster of likes and tweets. But I do want link notifications. I need to rely to Google for this currently.

[leephillips]

You can also look at the referrers in your webserver logs. It’s just that someone has to click on the link for it to appear in your logs. And you can discover referrer spam!

[account42]

Browsers are not guaranteed to send Referer headers and some choose not to (or send fake ones) due to the privacy implications.

[leephillips]

Good point. But, in the absence of any other solution, there is at least some data there, sitting in the log files.

[FalconSensei]

Just curious, how you do that with google?