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[kalloway]

Whaaat?! It's March already?!

What have you been working on and how are things going? Found any cool resources to share? Or just want to say hi?

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[le_gaosaure]

Just yesterday I found this page that generates the code you'll need to make a link to a webpage generate an embed on sites/softwares that have that function (social medias, instant messaging...): https://metatags.io/. I'm not sure the site uses every single property but it's a solid start if you never touched the topic (and at least you'll now know what to search for elsewhere!).

[le_gaosaure]

I'm realizing that my wording isn't super clear, so: pics! What I mean is that when you create a webpage and post the link somewhere, by default you just see the link. With the additional code, you get an embed, like this (first example is on Stoat, an instant messaging software; second example is on Mastodon and shows the alt text when you hover over the image):





It is possible to do stuff that looks a bit better than what I have, I just decided to test it like 30min before going to bed, but you get the idea ^^

[althea_valara]

Thanks for explaining more! I am bookmarking this - I don't *think* I'll use it now, but I might if I make another site.

[le_gaosaure]

Glad to spread potentially useful info ♥

[overmore]

T the beginning of the month I did some actual fic archiving for once. Got all my alvaluca fics besides the long fic on my fic archive. I've been very lazy with doing any archiving at all, but at least I got SOME of that work done. Still a lot left to work on though.

a few days ago I also secured myself a spot on hosting for my online TCG stuff, so soon I won't need to use my personal site for that! It's a lot better since now I kinda have to update my side on the daily wit hall the cards coming in and out, meaning there's not much actually going on (in general there wasn't much this month overall but still). Excited for that, even if I need to figure out how PHP works lol.

[gg8473]

Got help with 11ty via the smallweb chat on citrus con! Very happily moving my js/html old blog o 11ty ^^ i cant wait to transfer my main site over :3 a lot easier with the help. this tutorial was a god send!

[althea_valara]

Oh, yay! Well done! I'm using Jekyll, not 11ty, but it's the same principle, just works a little different with its templating. But it's really helpful using a Static Site Generator such as Jekyll or 11ty. Have fun with it!

[your_local_grubdog]

!!! Hey I was at Citris Con too :D

I currently use 11ty, glad someone else is finding use in it ^^

[althea_valara]

I uploaded another chunk of my FFXIV: Shadowbringers "summary" (lol, try full fanscript now) on my Neocities site, but that was on February 1st. That push also implemented a dark mode. I haven't touched my fan site since because I've been too busy knitting.

I have another Neocities site, though, and had to do some tweaking to that. Not linking it for personal reasons... I'm just glad I remembered the password for it! It's very basic so didn't take long to update, but I'm pleased I have it because it comes in handy.

Now that you've posted, I kinda want to work on my site! But I need to finish knitting my FFXIV Fan Art contest piece first. Neocities will have to wait until the end of the week, then.

[your_local_grubdog]

I'm always finding cool stuff lol, but to pick just one I have to go with Contrast Grid! Checking the contrast of colors on your site is important, especially when it comes to making text readable, but most sites only let you test one text color against one background color at a time. This one lets you test eight at a time, all in a grid, so you can see all possible combinations of them and how they work (or don't). Very handy!

[adevyish]

Well, AO3 downtime finally got me making my fanfic archive I've been meaning to make forever.

I'm most familiar with Eleventy so I decided to use that for speed. I did find a way to exclude certain tags from showing up in your full tags list, which I think someone asked about before.

1. Open _config/filters.js
2. Find this bit:

  eleventyConfig.addFilter("filterTagList", function filterTagList(tags) {
    return (tags || []).filter(tag => ["all", "posts"].indexOf(tag) === -1)
  });

3. Add the tags you want to exclude after "all", "posts".

This is a little silly as you have to do each tag one by one. To be more generic you can exclude any tag starting with the word "hidden" by replacing the whole method:

  eleventyConfig.addFilter("filterTagList", function filterTagList(tags) {
    return (tags || []).filter(tag => ["all", "posts"].indexOf(tag) === -1)
      .filter(tag => !tag.startsWith("hidden"))
  });

You can also do the opposite of this to make tags list that only include tags with certain keywords, which I'm doing to split my tags list by fandom/ship/etc.

[le_gaosaure]

Congrats on making your archive! ♥

If you'd be interested, to help more folks find it, there's a webring for that: https://ficring.neocities.org/; and also a directory: https://fan-archives-directory.nekoweb.org/!