(2020-11-13) Quirk Removing Support For The Indieweb

Kev Quirk: Removing Support For The IndieWeb. I recently redesigned this website. When I did, I removed all of the IndieWeb functionality from it.

the IndieWeb is a suite of tools that you can integrate into your website which allow you to communicate with other sites who have done the same.

While this all sounds great on the surface, there are a couple of drawbacks that really taint the entire experience:
The IndieWeb is convoluted and difficult to manage.
Because of #1, not many people use it.

myself only used a few core parts of the whole system; namely webmentions, a profile and IndieAuth. In order to implement those 3 services, I had to install 7 (yes, SEVEN) bloody WordPress plugins on this site

The only real value I got from the IndieWeb would be the occasional Webmention.

That was a great feature, but these comments were like 1 in 20 if I was lucky, and they didn’t warrant 7 bloody plugins!

So none of my posts have comments now. Instead I’ve gone full-blown 90s and implemented a guestbook instead.