Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On 2016-06-10 20:47, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an exact specification of what's required for the reader mode to be available. I can do some digging to see if I can find something. At the bottom is the minimal amount of HTML code I could come up with that makes the reader mode available. The number of letters in these paragraphs are important. If I remove some letters it will not make the reader mode available. But, it depends on the width of the browser window. The first paragraph below needs to not fit on one line to make the reader mode available. Below is the exact number of letters or words required to not make the text fit on one line on using a 1920px wide window. An image is not required but I wasn't able to figure out what to use instead of the image below. The document cannot be locale, i.e. file://. I've not bother trying to make a multiple page article work. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod -- /Jacob Carlborg
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On 2016-06-10 20:21, Mike Parker wrote: I didn't realize anything special was needed for that. How can I make it so? Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an exact specification of what's required for the reader mode to be available. I can do some digging to see if I can find something. -- /Jacob Carlborg
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 09:06:18 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I would prefer if the text did not hyphenate the words. I think it's easier to read whole words. Agreed. Thanks for reminding me. They weren't showing up for me in Chrome at all and I had forgotten that I saw them in Firefox (and Safari). I got rid of the indented paragraphs as well. That was just ugly. If possible, it would be great if the blog worked with the Safari reader mode. I didn't realize anything special was needed for that. How can I make it so?
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On 2016-06-03 21:33, Mike Parker wrote: The D Blog was born at DConf this year. With help from Jack Stouffer, it is now live at: http://dlang.org/blog/ I would prefer if the text did not hyphenate the words. I think it's easier to read whole words. If possible, it would be great if the blog worked with the Safari reader mode. -- /Jacob Carlborg
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 16:44:35 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 14:45:07 UTC, bachmeier wrote: Is it possible to announce the new This Week In D from the blog when it comes out? That sort of post doesn't really fit within the goals of the blog. I mean, TWID is put out every Sunday. That would mean I'd make a two or three line blurb of the nature, "There's a new TWID out" every Sunday. That's what the Announce forum is for, and even Adam doesn't announce the new TWID every week. +1 I do intend to contact Adam about a TWID-related post, though (I've already got some others lined up for some interesting content). That's much more valuable, IMO, and fits better with the goals of the blog. And, of course, any time I can fit it in to the context of a given post, I'll certainly remind people to check TWID out. Every post should have value on its own other than being a simple announcement with a link. And now that you've brought this up, I've just realized there are no links to TWID in the dlang.org menus. I'll have to add one to the side bar of the blog. It has even a better spot - the "News" section of the front page. Speaking of which: now that we have have an official D Blog, maybe we can put the latest headline of the official blog to the news section?
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 at 14:45:07 UTC, bachmeier wrote: Is it possible to announce the new This Week In D from the blog when it comes out? That sort of post doesn't really fit within the goals of the blog. I mean, TWID is put out every Sunday. That would mean I'd make a two or three line blurb of the nature, "There's a new TWID out" every Sunday. That's what the Announce forum is for, and even Adam doesn't announce the new TWID every week. I do intend to contact Adam about a TWID-related post, though (I've already got some others lined up for some interesting content). That's much more valuable, IMO, and fits better with the goals of the blog. And, of course, any time I can fit it in to the context of a given post, I'll certainly remind people to check TWID out. Every post should have value on its own other than being a simple announcement with a link. And now that you've brought this up, I've just realized there are no links to TWID in the dlang.org menus. I'll have to add one to the side bar of the blog.
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
Is it possible to announce the new This Week In D from the blog when it comes out?
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 22:18:57 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 06/07/2016 12:19 PM, Mike Parker wrote: On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 18:50:47 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: I think each post should have an author displayed. While this likely will be the same person, I think it is good to have it called out repeatedly so one doesn't have to find the first post to see who is posting. It will also make it very clear when there is a guest poster. The author name is displayed at the bottom of each post then single post page (i.e. when you click the post title on the main page). I didn't notice it wasn't showing on the main page. I'll see about adding it. Both the author and the date of a blog post is important. I would like to see botthat information right under the title. Ok, now the author and the date is at the top of every post, front page and single post page. Looks better. Thanks, guys!
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On 06/07/2016 12:19 PM, Mike Parker wrote: On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 18:50:47 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The D Blog was born at DConf this year. With help from Jack Stouffer, it is now live at: http://dlang.org/blog/ I think each post should have an author displayed. While this likely will be the same person, I think it is good to have it called out repeatedly so one doesn't have to find the first post to see who is posting. It will also make it very clear when there is a guest poster. The author name is displayed at the bottom of each post then single post page (i.e. when you click the post title on the main page). I didn't notice it wasn't showing on the main page. I'll see about adding it. Both the author and the date of a blog post is important. I would like to see botthat information right under the title. Ali
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 19:19:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: then single post page *on the* single post page
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 18:50:47 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The D Blog was born at DConf this year. With help from Jack Stouffer, it is now live at: http://dlang.org/blog/ I think each post should have an author displayed. While this likely will be the same person, I think it is good to have it called out repeatedly so one doesn't have to find the first post to see who is posting. It will also make it very clear when there is a guest poster. The author name is displayed at the bottom of each post then single post page (i.e. when you click the post title on the main page). I didn't notice it wasn't showing on the main page. I'll see about adding it.
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The D Blog was born at DConf this year. With help from Jack Stouffer, it is now live at: http://dlang.org/blog/ I think each post should have an author displayed. While this likely will be the same person, I think it is good to have it called out repeatedly so one doesn't have to find the first post to see who is posting. It will also make it very clear when there is a guest poster.
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On Sunday, 5 June 2016 at 16:47:57 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: so if you have any suggestions fire away. Two things I noticed: 1. The site doesn't gzip its responses. This can lead to a 30%-40% reduction in total page size if used. I'll have to ask Jan about this. 2. The server isn't using Wordpress' custom server error pages. I'll have to ask him about this one, too. The only way I know to enable this is via an .htaccess file and it looks like those might not be enabled. Also, one suggestion I have is to use a Wordpress plugin that caches the page results into static HTML. This saves the server regenerating the templates every page load, which requires a slow round trip to the database. Glad you mentioned this. Caching is something I've never bothered with on my other Wordpress blogs, so it didn't cross my mind for this one. The only one I recall hearing of is WP Super Cache. Looking at [1], it's in the top three along with W3 Total Cache and WP Fastest Cache. Any recommendations? [1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wp-cache
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: so if you have any suggestions fire away. Two things I noticed: 1. The site doesn't gzip its responses. This can lead to a 30%-40% reduction in total page size if used. 2. The server isn't using Wordpress' custom server error pages. Also, one suggestion I have is to use a Wordpress plugin that caches the page results into static HTML. This saves the server regenerating the templates every page load, which requires a slow round trip to the database.
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The D Blog was born at DConf this year. With help from Jack Stouffer, it is now live at: http://dlang.org/blog/ This is a big deal for marketing the language. Thanks for doing it. With respect to blog comments, this article talks about the experiences of bloggers that turned comments off and then back on: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/blog-comments-revisited-why-major-bloggers-are-turning-comments-back-on-michael-hyatt-brian-clark/ "Once comments returned, many people told him they just stopped dropping by the blog, because it didn’t feel hospitable. It felt cold, sterile, and uninviting. Since comments have been back, traffic is growing again, and is up 20% over the same period last year. Michael says comments have created some vitality on the blog and it feels like somebody is home." And with any luck, bikeshedding discussions will move to the blog, leaving General for its intended purpose.
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
Pretty dazz! Thanks, Mike!
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On Saturday, 4 June 2016 at 01:17:10 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The blog will potentially attract people who do not frequent the forums. From that perspective, I think we should give comments a try. I agree, part of the fun of a blog is the comments!
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 21:15:46 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 6/3/16 4:50 PM, Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Would be nice if the comment section was an interface to a specific news group here. Keeping things in one place. Yes. That would be cool if posting a blog post could be linked to the announcement, and then the comment section was a mini-dfeed instance that posted the result to the actual forum. If anyone wants to develop a Wordpress plugin for it, I'll give it a try. PHP ain't my thing. I'd hate to waste my Akismet subscription, though :)
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 20:34:53 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote: IMO we should disable the comment section. Right now we are just asking for spam, and I don't think we want to be in the position of moderating each of these sections. Plus, all of the D tech discussions happen on reddit, HN, or on here, so I don't think we will be missing anything. The blog will potentially attract people who do not frequent the forums. From that perspective, I think we should give comments a try. I do anticipate getting a good deal of spam, but in my experience, Akismet is pretty effective. At the moment, I've got it configured to require moderation for anyone's first comment, so even if there is a lot of spam it won't be visible. If comment moderation becomes too much for me to handle, I'll look at other options.
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:34:22 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The theme is not set in stone, so if you have any suggestions fire away. The font is way too big! Jack touched up the theme a bit. Looks better now.
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On 6/3/16 4:50 PM, Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 03 Jun 2016 22:35, "Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce" mailto:digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com>> wrote: On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The D Blog was born at DConf this year. With help from Jack Stouffer, it is now live at: http://dlang.org/blog/ IMO we should disable the comment section. Right now we are just asking for spam, and I don't think we want to be in the position of moderating each of these sections. Plus, all of the D tech discussions happen on reddit, HN, or on here, so I don't think we will be missing anything. Would be nice if the comment section was an interface to a specific news group here. Keeping things in one place. Yes. That would be cool if posting a blog post could be linked to the announcement, and then the comment section was a mini-dfeed instance that posted the result to the actual forum. -Steve
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On 03 Jun 2016 22:35, "Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d-announce" < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > > On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: >> >> The D Blog was born at DConf this year. With help from Jack Stouffer, it is now live at: >> >> http://dlang.org/blog/ > > > IMO we should disable the comment section. Right now we are just asking for spam, and I don't think we want to be in the position of moderating each of these sections. Plus, all of the D tech discussions happen on reddit, HN, or on here, so I don't think we will be missing anything. Would be nice if the comment section was an interface to a specific news group here. Keeping things in one place.
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The D Blog was born at DConf this year. With help from Jack Stouffer, it is now live at: http://dlang.org/blog/ IMO we should disable the comment section. Right now we are just asking for spam, and I don't think we want to be in the position of moderating each of these sections. Plus, all of the D tech discussions happen on reddit, HN, or on here, so I don't think we will be missing anything.
Re: The Official D Blog is Live
On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 19:33:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: The theme is not set in stone, so if you have any suggestions fire away. The font is way too big!
The Official D Blog is Live
The D Blog was born at DConf this year. With help from Jack Stouffer, it is now live at: http://dlang.org/blog/ The inaugural post is a short list of some of the work Andrei is doing with the D Foundation. That's one of the things you can expect to see -- updates on what's going on behind the scenes, sometimes with more detail than what you see in this first post. You will also see posts regarding projects in the D community at large (and I am going to scour the web for projects from people who don't post here -- I know they're out there) and guest posts from certain people I intend to prod into action. I hope it becomes a source of useful information for the community and beyond. It may take a short bit for me to get my blog legs back. It's been a long time since I've done this on a regular basis. Once I find my rhythm, I hope to establish a regular posting pattern. The theme is not set in stone, so if you have any suggestions fire away.
