Site features

Reposts

We're continuing to implement Cohost-like functionality here and something I'd like to implement soon is the ability to repost, and repost with text. This would allow for follow ups between us. Included with the ability to repost would also be the ability to repost from other blogs on this site. Including the main one, my personal one, and the entire archive of cohost posts we have up here (unlisted).

One thing I would like to get right is how this would work with RSS, especially if we go the threaded-style format. Before that, I'll have to work out some internal way to represent the data that won't overcomplicate our Eleventy setup. Maybe we need to build in some redundancy for the time being as a hack, with the plan to move towards more nested data fetching. We've managed to mostly avoid anything too wild like custom/programmatic collections so far, but that will likely have to change for this. Thankfully all that heavy lifting only occurs at build time, since it's a static site generator.

Tags

I think we will also want tags, but we do track those already and it is just a matter of displaying them and exposing them in RSS.

Newsletter

We have a newsletter for our main blog, and it would be cool to have one for this site too. We use Buttondown which does have an RSS import thing as a paid option, but will likely use rss2buttondown, a script I wrote a while ago, since this would be a separate newsletter from the main blog and I don't think we would want to pay the premium for another newsletter. Plus we can customise the import thru code.