Filed an Issue hypothesis / client by hypothes.is (GitHub)

The Hypothesis web-based annotation client. Contribute to hypothesis/client development by creating an account on GitHub.

Steps to reproduce

1. Annotate any page on
2.  View
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The only post on my website related to the title which appears seems to be which contains copies of the annotations I made on Audrey Waters’ page. See:

Some time around 2016 Audrey disabled annotations on her site (due to abuse, though it appears she’s since re-enabled them?). Is it possible that the H client has somehow cached the title of her post and is somehow mapping it as the title for all of the annotations made on my site? Having looked at the pages which have been annotated on my site, there’s nothing hiding in or related to the the meta data or rel=”canonical” links that would indicate that they should have the titles that H is finding for them.

Adds Basic Location Support to Wordpress. Contribute to dshanske/simple-location development by creating an account on GitHub.

I’m noticing that the sunrise/sunset and moonrise/moonset details in the Weather Widget are “off”. It currently displays the following:

Sunrise: 10:40 pm
Sunset: 10:47 am
Moonrise: 10:54 am
Moonset: 10:32 pm

Sunrise should be 7:13 AM (roughly for today) though 6:13 AM for tomorrow after Daylight Saving Time changes tonight. Moonrise today should be roughly 5:52 pm and moonset at 6:14 am.

Manually changing the lat/long in the Weather widget doesn’t seem to fix it. I also get the same numbers if there isn’t lat/long in the widget but have them in the user profile in the location section.

adds support for responding to and interacting with other sites using the standards developed by the Indieweb Community - dshanske/indieweb-post-kinds

Recent Kinds Widget

It’s a reasonably frequent design/functionality pattern to see widgets from social media services. (Goodreads is an example that provides a widget for recent reads. Twitter does so for notes. There are countless others.) 

In an IndieWeb world, it would be nice to highlight what one has recently read, watched, or listened to (as examples). Towards this functionality, it would be nice if Post Kinds could provide the ability to add widgets for a variety of the post kinds to sidebars or footers.

As a baseline I could envision each widget having:

• a configurable title (“Recently read”, “Food diary” for eats & drinks, “Microblog” for recent notes, bookmarks, etc.)
• a chooser for one (or more) of the many various (enabled) kinds
• a variable N to allow for display of the N most recent of the chosen kinds; 5 or 10 might be a reasonable default; a time-based variable to run across the post within a recent period (days, weeks, months) might be a an interesting alternative as well

For display of a single kind, the widget might default to displaying:

• a heading made of the post kind icon along with “Recent [Post Kind Name plural]”
• Response Property Name (wrapped with the original permalink if it exists) by Author name (if it exists)
• An optional published date for the original content (if it exists) or the date the site owner published the post kind (if it exists) (the original content date would be better for context, I think)
• A fleuron (❧) or hash (#) which could be wrapped with the permalink of the original Post Kind post.

UI example: 

• Recent Watches
• “Cobra Kai” Take a Right ❧
• “Succession” Dundee ❧
• 60 Minutes (2020-10-25) ❧
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015) ❧
• October 20, 2020 – PBS NewsHour (2020-10-20) ❧

If the chooser in the widget allows for displaying multiple kinds at the same time, then one could have a widget for “Recent Media Consumed” or for displaying a sidebar microblog that could include Notes, bookmarks, reads, etc. (Making it similar to embedding one’s Twitter feed into a sidebar.

For encouraging outside consumption, the widget could also have a small RSS icon with a link to that Kind’s (or Kinds’) feed.

Naturally there could be some configuration for reasonable display defaults for some of the various Post Kinds./

Now archive page

Given some of the potential similarity of the widget work above, it would also be fun to have Post Kinds generate an archive page that shows by kind either the N most recent posts for each kind or all the posts within the last M days, O weeks, or P months.

This could be used to automatically generate the idea of a Now page that gives a quick overview of what a person has been up to over a relatively recent time period. A month of posts would be a good default.

One might also be able to use a solution like How to Add WordPress Widgets in Post and Page Content as a means of embedding the widgets into such a Now-type page, which could give the user the ability to pick and choose which order to place the particular kinds into based on the site owner’s discretion.

The Hypothesis client is a browser-based tool for making annotations on web pages. It’s a client for the Hypothesis web annotation service. It’s used by the Hypothesis browser extension, and can also be embedded directly into web pages.

Steps to reproduce

1. On mobile version of Chrome using the via.hypothes.is prefix to activate Hypothesis on any website.
2. I try to highlight a specific piece of text beyond a single word.

### Expected behaviour
I would expect to be able to slowly and accurately highlight a specific piece of text.

### Actual behaviour
Once I’ve got a small piece of text highlighted and try to expand it with the “handlebars” to go either up or down the page, generally beyond text on the same line, the cursor jumps immediately down to the very bottom of the page and it becomes essentially possible to select a particular block of text.

### Browser/system information
Chrome browser v 86.0.4240.75 on Android 9

### Additional details
I’ve experienced this before on earlier versions of Chrome/Android. I’m not aware of it having ever worked properly before. I don’t experience the same issue on the mobile version of Firefox on the same phone.

@williamgunn has reported a similar bug when using the Brave browser as well at:
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adds support for responding to and interacting with other sites using the standards developed by the Indieweb Community

I’ve noticed that the built-in WordPress site search is generally abysmal because so much of the content of my site is handled by Post Kinds and the search doesn’t look through any of the common Post Kinds data fields. 

As an example, trying to search for watches of particular television shows I know I’ve watched don’t show up because I leave those post title-less and don’t specifically tag them.

Is there something in the codex that will allow you to hook these fields into WP’s internal search?

Filed an Issue Simple Location by David Shanske (GitHub)

Adds Basic Location Support to Wordpress.

I only noticed because I actually went to post something while cycling around the neighborhood, but you seem to be missing a cycling option and a bicycle icon.

The only other edge cases I can immediately think of are scooter, roller skates, tractor, skateboard, gondola, and horse drawn carriage. Though these may be harder to find icons for and exceptionally rare in any case…

Good job on having nearly every other mode of transportation by the way.

A curated list of websites with an extra bit of fun.

URL:  /> Author’s Twitter Handle: (optional)@kickscondor

The fun feature I like most about this site is… the design aesthetic and the regular highlighting of quirky, fun, and off-the-beaten path content that it features. (It’s also very likely a great source for other whimsical and interesting websites and creators).

Weekly digest of IndieWebCamp activity. Contribute to indieweb/this-week development by creating an account on GitHub.

I don’t remember if the Newsletter used to pick up videos from the IndieWebCamp YouTube account, but I’m pretty sure we haven’t set up any automation for the IndieWeb Newsletter to find and highlight our Archive.org videos. This feature would be nice to have, particularly on weeks following IndieWebCamps to notify everyone that the videos have been processed and posted.

Here’s a page on Archive.org for creating search queries without output of a variety of formats for raw data or even feeds:

The search should include at least videos posted from the IndieWeb account:

It might be worth having it pick up anything with the tags or common keywords like IndieWeb, IndieWebCamp, Webmention, Micropub, etc., but this may also require some moderation or oversight.

Create your own! This tool will produce much better results if the images are much larger than the intended size (e.g. 1400 x 800 at least) since it needs to downsize the original to fit the different dimensions.

Alan, I took a swing at trying out the live Comparator SPLOT today. It’s very cool looking! Sadly I kept getting an error in the WP upload interface simply saying “An error occurred in the upload. Please try again later.”

I was uploading a simple .jpg of about the same size and dimensions as those recommended and already in the repository. I tried a few different photo sizes and types with the same result, so I’m not sure what the underlying issue may be. Unless something has changed dramatically, my one guess would be to check the storage limits on the hosting account. I’ve seen that sort of failure before when running out of physical space on a host.

Incidentally, from a security standpoint, I’ll mention that it appears one has the ability within that interface to delete others’ previously uploaded photos. (May want to look at that as a potential future improvement.)

Hope you’re holding up!

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@reading It looks like posting via email is having issues? Error shows: “the domain mailman.reading.am couldn’t be found.”

Adds Basic Location Support to Wordpress. Contribute to dshanske/simple-location development by creating an account on GitHub.

When adding /map/ to date-based archives and using Google maps as the map provider, the map doesn’t display on the page.

Annotate with anyone, anywhere. https://hypothes.is/ Contribute to hypothesis/h development by creating an account on GitHub.

I’m currently using Chrome Version 79.0.3945.117 (Official Build) (64-bit) via the chrome extension on Windows 10 (v1809) and I’m noticing just within the last two weeks that as I’m typing within the H interface that Chrome suddenly crashes.

All of the crashes have occurred as I’m adding one or more tags to an annotation/highlight. I haven’t experienced a crash while creating annotation text.

The crash is immediate and complete and doesn’t just take out the individual tab, but the entirety of the Chrome processes. While it’s possible that this could be a Chrome issue, I’ve not experienced any crashes with any other websites in ages. I also know that there has been some new code and UI work around the interface and the way that tags are displayed in the public H product.

My initial guess is that something may be happening within the memory/caching as H tries to pull past tags from the server to guess what I’m typing.

I’ve alternated with using Firefox and the bookmarklet and have yet to see an issue with crashes there.

Using v2.1 of Narwhal Microblog on WordPress 5.2.4 and PHP v7.2 I get the following error:

Warning: Use of undefined constant posthasteForm - assumed 'posthasteForm' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /home/public_html/wp-content/plugins/narwhal-microblog/narwhal-microblog.php on line 265

Knowing that Posthaste was the underlying code, I suspect it’s an issue with php and the version in use. Apparently we’ve gotten to the version where posthasteForm is throwing the expected errors.

I’m not seeing any specific funcionality issues with the plugin, but it is throwing this error on the pages where Narwhal appears.

Bridgy pulls comments and likes from social networks back to your web site. You can also use it to publish your posts to those networks.

It’s mentioned in the documentation that one can reconstruct URLs to allow manually resending webmentions for missed backfeed. However, it appears this may no longer work(?) as these reconstructed URLs, which used to be static are now automatically redirecting to their siloed instances.

Example: /> redirects to

Separately, though related, the example in the documentation for Instagram no longer seems to exist and could be replaced and the example for Google+ could be removed as the service no longer exists.

Bridgy pulls comments and likes from social networks back to your web site. You can also use it to publish your posts to those networks.

I’ve found a few instances in which Brid.gy will apparently fail to send a webmention (and/or fail to find a target) when the original URL contains an emoji(s). I’d suspect it’s a quirky encoding issue of some sort. I’m sure I’ve seen this issue before on Instagram where it’s probably more likely as the result of emojis in Instagram “titles” when using PESOS methods.

When I subsequently remove the emoji from the permalink, and reprocess Bridgy then has no problem finding the URL and sending the webmention. So at least there’s a “fix” on the user’s side for those experiencing this issue, but only if they’re aware it exists and have the means of executing it.

Example of failed webmention:

(I’ll note that it’s also got a fragment # in the URL, but don’t think this is a part of the issue)

Original:

Syndicated copy that was liked:

Bridgy Log:

Example of previously failed webmention that ultimately went through following emoji removal:

Original:

Syndicated copy:

Bridgy Log:

Another potential example from Instagram

Done via PESOS from Instagram which I’m sure missed webmentions (though too far back to find the specific logs):

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I’ve been enjoying the idea that JetPack is providing a Github contributions-like functionality at under the heading Posting Activity.