Reply to Evgeny Kuznetsov
Yesterday, I received the following email from Evgeny Kuznetsov:
Hi!
This email’s primary purpose is to register how joyful I am to read that you’re alright and in action, and that the reason I’ve not been reading from you lately was the RSS mishap. I must admit, I’ve been worried; I’m really glad to read from you again!
That being said, I’m really sad to read you’ve ditched Webmentions as a comment stream (I fully understand and sympathize the reasons, though), but even more I’m sad to find out you’ve ditched Webmentions support altogether, Weaving Webmentions into Giscus comments is something I wouldn’t want to do myself (it is complicated, and the legal implications are scary), but you could at least keep a Webmention endpoint on so that you could be notified of the new Webmentions (even if you never plan to include them among the comments). I plan to continue registering my likes and replies to your posts on my site, and it’s disappointing to know you won’t be notified of those (unless you subscribe to my reactions RSS, which I doubt anyone in their right mind should).
Anyway, to re-iterate: it’s a relief to read from you again!
Evgeny
Evgeny references the RSS feed error I recently fixed, as well as the update of this website to version 3.0.
Because of this feedback, I have decided to reinstate my Webmention endpoint, which I first introduced to the site in version 2.2 last year. I will not reinstate the webmention.js library, however, which means that webmentions won’t be shown automatically on the site. But I now receive them again via the external Webmention.io service and will feature feedback from webmentions on the site, if appropriate. I will do this manually from now on, just as I am doing with this email.
Thanks for your input, Evgeny! As always: I appreciate it very much.