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Goodbye comments, welcome Webmentions 🙋🏼‍♂️

Chris Bongers on September 20, 2020

Finally, I made the switch to Webmentions, not because I hated comments, but it just didn't serve the platform. You might be wondering, what is he...
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Mateusz Jarzyna

Dev.to should implement that shit

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Chris Bongers

That would be amazing 👀

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Andrew Baisden

This looks cool need to see a higher adoption rate though.

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Chris Bongers

Let's hope people will adapt this quickly!

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Tiago Celestino

It's amazing.

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Chris Bongers

Glad you agree 🤟

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Stożek Krzysztof

One question - does twitter send webmentions or we need this bridgy app to do it? how it works? does it looks for tweets with your url or with your username ?

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Chris Bongers

Good question, twitter does not send them out, that's indeed what bridgy does in our setup.
It looks for tweets to the domain you setup in the profile.
Bridgy is than the app that sends the webmention.

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webstuff

This sound great, but i still need a example site, because i can't visualize it

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Chris Bongers

See my own website for instance:

Webmentions on Daily Dev Tips

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