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by elpachongco 1001 days ago
Slightly related project of mine: https://bhread.com .

I like the idea of webrings and I'm exploring the possibilities of connecting blogs together. My project, Bhread, is a site that creates threads from blogs. Blog2 can reply to Blog1 by typing `replying to <url of blog1 post>` in the body of the blog post. This allows for a twitter-like experience of blogging.

In comparison to webrings, bhread is for a different use case. Webrings are great for discoverability while bhread is better for conversations. Maybe we can find an overlap here (Webring + bhread = ?). I'm still exploring ideas i.e. groups (subreddit-like blog threads).

The design of bhread always considers decentralization. No important data must be gone from the internet if ever the bhread site dies. Just like a webring.

BTW, I recommend having a separate `/shorts/` page in any personal blog as well for small, tweet-like posts [1].

The website is still very new. I put it on the web for demonstration and testing purposes so if you break it, let me know [2][3]!

[1] Here's mine: https://elpachongco.github.io/shorts/ . The shorts page's rss feed should probably be separate from the main posts' feed.

[2] https://github.com/elpachongco/bhread

[3] I'm still working on the layout of the site so it may be weird on some devices but it should work, it's html css and js (htmx, tailwind, alpine) served by django.

1 comments

Aren't webmentions/trackback/pingback supposed to solve the "replying to" use case? Is the advantage here that this works on static content?
This is the first time I've heard of webmentions although I think I have used it on Wordpress before. I thought it was a proprietary protocol.

Reading this document: https://indieweb.org/Webmention-developer it appears that bhread is a bit simpler than this and as you've mentioned, works on static content. The setup is simpler [1], and there's a homepage for all content. It's probably the only advantage of my project but thanks for bringing this up. I now have a new resource I can get ideas from.

[1] Sign up, put xml url, post a verification