{"id":11355,"date":"2013-08-03T12:11:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T19:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=11355"},"modified":"2013-08-04T10:18:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T17:18:01","slug":"bloggy-tweaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/03\/bloggy-tweaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloggy Tweaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a few minutes to update some stuff on the blog. As always, what is intended as an improvement might end up making things worse, so feel free to chime in. In no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The death of Google Reader reminded me that not everyone uses RSS feeds. So I&#8217;ve added a couple of features that make it easy for people to know when a new post is up (since that&#8217;s not every day). On the right you&#8217;ll notice that you can subscribe to posts via email, which seems to work pretty well. There&#8217;s also a new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/preposterousuni\">Twitter feed for the blog<\/a> that will notify you of new posts. This is separate from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmcarroll\">my own Twitter account<\/a>, which often links to new blog posts but not always.<\/li>\n<li>You used to be able to edit comments, but that featured died when it started to think that everyone was a spammer. <strike>I&#8217;ve replaced it with a new editing plugin. Let me know if it works.<\/strike> Update: nope. See below.<\/li>\n<li>More experimentally, I&#8217;ve installed a comment rating system, so you can up- or down-vote comments. Not sure if this is a good idea or not, and I worry that it adds clutter to the comment threads. So this one is definitely in a probationary period, feel free to chime in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some new tweaks behind the scenes, but hopefully those won&#8217;t affect the user experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> So the comment editor didn&#8217;t play well with the like buttons (annoying but forgivable) and inserted slashes after every apostrophe (unforgivable). I&#8217;ve deactivated it. Still can&#8217;t figure out why the previous comment editor (&#8220;Ajax Edit Comments&#8221;) thinks everything is spam. <\/p>\n<p>Further update: Now I&#8217;ve installed yet another comment editor. We&#8217;ll see how it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a few minutes to update some stuff on the blog. As always, what is intended as an improvement might end up making things worse, so feel free to chime in. In no particular order: The death of Google Reader reminded me that not everyone uses RSS feeds. So I&#8217;ve added a couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11362,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355\/revisions\/11362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}