New Layout?

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Awesome. Thanks.

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So umm is this new format ever going to actually work, because right now there are a bunch of different versions of BoingBoing stuck at various posts.

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As /blog/ is a tribute to the BB of a decade ago – see https://web.archive.org/web/20050218020921/http://www.boingboing.net/ – it probably won’t change. But if it becomes popular, that’s a good idea.

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It would also appear that Youtube embeds are now broken in the RSS feed. They now appear as just the text of the Youtube page (not even a proper link). In Inoreader, any way.

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There are about 100k uniques hitting the blog view a month. Enough to make it worth my while! There is a weird caching problem, but /blog/ should get everything. Nothing’s excluded from it.

category/post might drop things because authors decide to uncheck “post” – rare, but sometimes done on features and what have you.

/grid/ uses the same posts as /blog/ but isn’t suffering from the same caching problem

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Good idea. We might also be adding Authors, too, to make clear they aren’t just different sections of the same article.

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These are just random 404s getting routed god knows where.

http:/boingboing.net/blog/page/2, etc, would be what you’re looking for

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I was momentarily thrown but I find it a bit more intuitive than the last one.

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That makes no sense whatsoever, even as a joke.

I honestly can’t tell if you’re being serious or not.

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Wordpress, our CMS, generates pages according to its own internal pagination scheme. We don’t have control over this.



And so on.

http://boingboing.net/blog/ is an alias http://boingboing.net/blog/page/1

Likewise:



and so on.

Wordpress is, indeed, a joke. But it is a joke played on everyone.

The top-level joke:



Is now in disuse, as no-one really wants to have a “page 2” of the “magazine” style layout the front door embodies – they want a plain reverse-chron sequence at that point – and the crude hack that we used to redirect page/1/ to the blog in the past is no longer considered a Good Idea. So instead the link goes to /grid/page/n where it picks up at the same point.

I might just bung in a plain old apache redirect from /page/1 to /blog/ though. But the Apache Master is on vacation :smiley:

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Don’t say I don’t love you

0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * curl -X PURGE http://boingboing.net/blog/
0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * curl -X PURGE Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things - Boing Boing
0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * curl -X PURGE http://boingboing.net/ascii/

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urgh, this looks ugly and cluttered.

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cronsplainin’

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touche

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Can you set it up so that all the article pages also display in ASCII if I follow links from the ASCII homepage?

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Not without some very elaborate multiple-stylesheet witchcraft, I’m afraid (no)

boingboing.net/zalgo is in the works, though, so hope is not futile.

you will all be soothed

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I’m not seeing any updates in Feedly since 9/15:

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The feed url changed. It was in another thread on the changes. Looking it up…
See the post from @IronEdithKidd Show full Post largely useless (hope that goes to the right post, that thread anyway)

it is now http://boingboing.net/feed

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