Small Web September Check-In 2: Halfway House/Troubleshooting!

[enchantedsleeper]

Somehow, we’re already (nearly) halfway through the month of September 😱 Where has the time gone?!

How is everyone doing with their small webbing so far? The theme of this check-in is troubleshooting: if there’s any part of your Small Web September project that you aren’t sure how to accomplish, or maybe something that you worked on didn’t turn out quite right, come and ask about it here!

It doesn’t have to be specific to this month, either – maybe it’s a past project that you hit a wall on, or a future project you’d like to start. If you haven’t run into any issues yourself, feel free to offer suggestions to people in the comments who have!

Here are some question prompts for this check-in:

• How is/are your Small Web September projects going? Are you working on the same things that you put down in your Goals (if you decided to set goals), or something else?
• What do you plan to focus on for the second half of September?
• What’s an element of your project that you found unexpectedly challenging? Did you manage to solve the problem, or not yet?

As a reminder, this is the second of four ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event – you can check out the schedule and dates of these posts over on the event intro. There’s no cut-off point for commenting on them, so you can add something at any time – you also don’t need to comment on every one or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide; all discussion is welcome.

For our previous check-in post, head on over to Small Web September Check-In 1: Links!

Comments

[toothpastepancake]

How is/are your Small Web September projects going? Are you working on the same things that you put down in your Goals (if you decided to set goals), or something else?

Doing great! Some of my goals ended up not working out for me, such as the Mediawiki goal - turns out I actually hate using that software, whoops, it's not intuitive to me at all! However, I did manage to set up my otwarchive fic archive... somewhat sort of? I still need to figure out a problem with elasticsearch. Or why there are no user profiles... 😭 But omg, this is only the second thing (okay third I guess, counting the failed mediawiki experiment) I've ever self-hosted without help from Yunohost. I don't know how I did this and am extremely proud of myself for doing so.

What do you plan to focus on for the second half of September?

Getting my archive set up fully! I can't wait to have everything technical sorted out so I can work on the site customization. I'm thinking a buttercup yellow theme, since there isn't an OTWarchive site with that color yet.

What’s an element of your project that you found unexpectedly challenging? Did you manage to solve the problem, or not yet?

Um. Everything. Self-hosting is hard lmao. I haven't solved the search problem yet, but will likely try and start on it tomorrow.

[linky]

Best of luck with your archive!! Always exciting to see someone try out the OTW code.

[enchantedsleeper]

Seconding this! I hope you can troubleshoot your Elasticsearch and user profiles issues - if you want help from people who've been there, the other peeps who've set up OTWarchive sites like Walter from SquidgeWorld can probably offer some thoughts? I think that SqWA also had some Elasticsearch issues, if memory serves...

Buttercup yellow sounds lovely! 🥰 Cheering you on to get to the fun parts soon!