Questions

Anyone care to share the URLs to their Blot blogs here? I know David has a few listed in examples on the front page, but I'm sure there's many more. Would love to see others to follow (and gain inspiration!)... Here's mine: Along the Ray: https://alongtheray.com

At the moment, Blot supports three ways to sync a folder: Dropbox, Google Drive and Git. We're currently working on adding others – which tools or services would you like us to support?

Blot prompted me to reconnect my Google Drive, but when I attempt that I get "This app is blocked: This app tried to access sensitive info in your Google Account. To keep your account safe, Google blocked this access." This appears to be an issue with Blot's security. I've tried to set up an app password via Google but this does not appear to work, either.

I've been updating my blog - mostly just photos, and noticed that changes I've been making to my dropbox haven't been properly reflected. I've done the reset Dropbox options, all of them from resync to clearing cache, but doesn't appear to be working.

Have been getting no reply from him for the past 2+ months on a technical issue, and there has been no github activity (including activity on blot) either Just wondering if everything is okay

I'm sorry after three months without support and a broken site, I've decided to cancel the subscription and to try and look for an alternative. It's a pity because I like the unique simplicity of this publishing model—this is how the web should be for ordinary folks. Good luck.

I published a post last night and expected it to be the top post. It did not appear anywhere on the home page. I edited it and reset to make sure dates and times were correct. No change. Looking at the file on the site it is correct if has the new edits. But it is displaying and older version Blog/draft still at the bottom. But this should not prevent it from being the top post. Any ideas? Thanks

I noticed when enabling CloudFlare proxy, the site will end up in a redirect loop. This also happens when disabling the "Redirect subdomain on Blot to your custom domain" setting. Anyone any luck with using CloudFlare proxy ontop of a blot blog?

Is there a way to creat specific views that the blog engine will access when a visitor goes to a /tagged/keyword url? Example. I’d love to be able to make a tagged-photos.html view with specific markup and have the blog engine know to load this when someone goes to the /tagged/photos url. If a tag specific view does not exist, the default tagged.html would be used. I know I can make a view, filter it on a specific tag, and then bind that view to a specific short url /photos through the json file, but I’m wondering if there’s a more fluid/less clunky way.

I would like to know how to have a section in the blog containing posts independent of those on the home page. For example, I would like to create a page called 'News' on which to put posts that do not appear on the home page.

I noticed that Blot replaces apostrophes with dashes when converting a title to a URL-ready slug, but only when they’re singular. For example, Apple’s Striking Short Film Ahead of International Day of People With Disabilities → https://heydingus.net/blog/2022/12/apple-s-striking-short-film-ahead-of-international-day-of-people-with-disabilities vs ‘All Consuming’ Podcast is Back → https://heydingus.net/blog/2022/12/all-consuming-podcast-is-back Would you consider making it so singular apostrophes are also ignored, as it would make the URLs more readable?

Blot connects (so far) only to Dropbox as data source. Some writing tools I work with only connect to iCloud. If I want to continue working with both, I would need a sync solution between an iCloud folder and a Dropbox folder. Does anybody know of some online services doing this?

I am used to a date format like 18 Jan 1999 or at least 18-01-1999. I have set the date format in the settings to DD-MM-YYY, but still the blog displays January 18, 1999.

I've made a few file changes in Dropbox that the client is happily picking up but for some reason Blot doesn't appear to be syncing so my site isn't being updated. The status page doesn't show anything and neither does the dashboard. Anyone else seeing this?

The error reads: "Stripe: I require argument "customerId", but I got: undefined" I also raised this via support email but not sure which one is checked more often?

I would like to have comments under my blogs, but i am not quite ready to pay $5/mo or more for this feature. Is there any plan in supporting a free comment feature?

Is there any simple way to implement a WebFinger with Blot? I tried to upload a JSON file, and it is served by Blot (https://lev.lc/webfinger.json), but I can't figure out how to assign it to a proper "/.well-known/webfinger" path. If you wonder why anyone needs that, it looks like an easy yet "hacky" way to use your own domain with Mastodon

Is there a way to share an html page that is totally standalone from the rest of the site? Like I made a little webpage that is a kind of webtoy, but if I try and share it in one of my blot folders it doesn't work properly because blot renders it within the entry.html stylings etc. (which I understand cos it's rendered in the {{{html}}} block of the template). Is there a workaround to get blot to not render any other html/css/js other than what this html file is telling it to? Or would I have to host it elsewhere and link to it from my blog?

Are diagrams supported? If not is there a way to get them to work? Here is an example.

I changed my picture for my blog, but the favicon didn't get changed, is there anything else todo after uploading the new picture?