Do *you* have a personal website?
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@poleguy Yeah, I think a large disconnect comes from the fact Libre.fm took off in a way that was unexpected and unwanted. Last.fm is a product. Libre.fm needs some context.
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@mattl Ah, I see. I get a sense there is some trauma associated with it based on your "roadmap" page. I went to the wayback machine and looked at what the site looked like in 2019 which gives a much more clear explanation of why I might be interested in signing up, what it does, etc.
It seems like an interesting project; good luck! I'll return to lurking now.
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@poleguy Take a look at the site now. Hopefully clears things up a tiny bit.
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@pl Did you look at your profile yet today? https://libre.fm/user/pluc
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@mattl I'm now more intrigued than ever. I'd love to hear the back story... the "unexpected and unwanted" bit... have you written it up? Maybe you need a 'history' page?
But I've already caused you too much trouble on a page that clearly must not be the 'funnel' driving 'engagement'.... he.he.
I said I was returning to lurking...
...but also did just sign up.
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@poleguy yeah this is an open source project and it wasnβt supposed to be a silo of users. 370,000 users on Libre.fm
But it gave us my other project, GNU social, the precursor to Mastodon.
Be sure to add your fediverse URL to your profile. See my profile for an example.
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Nick Simsonreplied to Dr. Matt Lee π last edited by
@mattl Are you seeking any UI or graphic design help on this project, at this time? I'd love to contribute, if so...happy to move this convo to GitHub, email, etc.
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Dr. Matt Lee πreplied to Nick Simson last edited by
@nsmsn yes but not on the current website.
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@mattl
I just got back from hockey. Had a good time with IRL people....I did add a fediverse URL to my profile. My honest impression: The edit feature is all kinds of buggy, but I think I succeeded despite the weird error messages and confusing UI.
I don't understand why adding a fediverse URL to my profile adds any value. I don't understand how to find your profile. I can only guess what a 'profile' even is, really.
I feel alone on this site after signing up. I don't really get it.
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@poleguy the edit feature doesnβt invalidate the cache to keep the site fast.
My profile is linked from my mastodon profile. Adding it to your Libre.fm profile lets you verify yourself on mastodon.
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@poleguy what error messages are you seeing btw?
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@poleguy send a screenshot of what you were trying to enter into the Fediverse field. Also any error messages you saw.
Iβm not worried about the centering.
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@mattl
The text of the error is "Laconica profile must be a URL".
It is very hard to notice that an error even occurred, or notice the message because when you click on submit the screen jumps to the top, there are two highlighted yellow pieces of text, and the error is not at the bottom where you clicked submit, nor at the top where the screen jumped to, nor next to the "Fediverse Profile" field that has the error, but in the middle where there is a bunch of similar text. What's "Laconica?" -
@mattl I don't know what the 'x' is for. Also "Donate" isn't centered. On the bright side, everything does seem to work.
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@mattl Also the "Fediverse Profile" help says "address for your profile" which I interpreted as @poleguy. Maybe you should say "The URL of your profile on the social web on an ActivityPub-powered site, e.g. "https://social.lol/@username"
Although maybe not that url, because it's somebody's real url.
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@poleguy yeah just your username doesnβt make any sense on the fediverse. Youβre just one of many poleguyβs.
Iβm going to take a look at this one today. Can you keep any future suggestions and bug reports to GitHub?
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@poleguy URL field fixed, the "donate" link wasn't centered and is now. Some other minor fixes.
Please try scrobbling something Visit your profile while logged in and you'll get some suggestions.