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Investigate faield wildcard SSL certificate renewal

Add Fergus and Theo to homepage:

Improve developer guide and tell Pedro

Replace existing magazine template with proper CSS version

Add layout options to template editor for native templates

Improve source code for native templates

Add photoswipe to templates and possibly lazyload

Work out way to recover from expired cert in the cache. To reproduce, consider a member who signed up, connected example.com, then moved the domain to another service. The attempt to renew the cert for example.com will fail. When the user re-registers with Blot, for some reason open-resty-auto-ssl will serve an old certificate. I followed these steps to reset but we should automate this

Disable analytics plugin on drafts and tell Max

Finish Feed template then tell Chris and John and Jan and Jamie

Fix bug with slashes in tags and tell Dave

Work out how to make live but saveable modifications for preview purposes on the template editor

Generate a list of titles which you could use to generate a table of contents and tell Zach

Respond to Michael's thoughtful emails about the template system

Make date-format settings template specific and tell Mike “I forked the Archive template but did not install it. And yet, changing settings like “Hide the publish date for your posts” affected the currently installed template.“”

Remove git folder when switching to Dropbox client and tell Jamie

Fix bug with script to import wordpress posts and follow up with Simon

Use time draft was moved into blog folder for entry created/publish date, rather than the time the draft file itself was created. Tell Kerim and Shibel

Fix missing error messages on overdue subscription payment form

Fix column formatting for layout.css on default template and tell Ryan

Fix bug with 'Previous' page link in Magazine theme and tell Alex

Fix bug with file list on dashboard in Safari and tell Ryan

Fix bug with guide to TeX and tell Miguel

Tweak {{slug-without-diacritics}} in permalink format such that “ö” becomes “oe” instead of “o” and tell Domink

Make grid template responsive and tell Thiago

Tell Jamie about any new templates.

Ignore files inside 'assets' inside .textbundle directories to improve support for textbundles and tell Thomas.

Parse Word Document subtitles as h2 and tell Matt

Add background patterns to template editor tools, tell Ish

Add support for YAML-style custom metadata. Consider using something like StrictYAML or Graymatter. Tell [Shibel](https://mail.google. com/mail/u/1/#inbox/164a96aa0fbd4f32) and Casey and Amit and Martin and Kyle and Brett

Add supoprt for paths to static files with a trailing slash to work and tell [Sean](https://mail.google. com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGBwbZsfsWKHCGcbzXXSPhQWXx)

Add copy button to code snippets in

 tags and tell Atif

Add support for Ulysses .ulz file format and tell Nash

Add support for Ulysses image syntax and tell Konstantin

Add image partial template which would render inside each entry to provide ways to access exif, etc. then tell Stuart and Nash

Add a crop of a livestream of the sky above me to the contact page. Possibly sourced from something like this. Just like this: https://sistercitynyc.com/

Add a template lambda which allows the formatting of the last-updated date for a site, then tell Chad

Consider adding a {{titleLink}} property to each entry, which extracts a link from the {{titleTag}} for use in RSS feeds, etc. and tell Guy

Add dark mode support to default themes using Jeff's code and tell Jimmy

Add way to filter archives page by year or month and tell Chad

Add a cool bookmarklet which drafts a post a la this demo

Add support for checkboxes and tell Matt and Shridhar and Nash

Add broken link check for all email templates for logged in and logged out users

Fix bug with case sensitivity for tag folders. Need to recursively check all directories for proper case when extracting tags then tell Thomas and Steve and Michael

Fix bug in Alex's draft and speed up its build time

Tell Thiago once it's possible to create stand-alone HTML pages whcih don't become blog posts.

Catch 404s in Google search results and set up redirects

Follow up with Shibel about how to ignore arbritrary paths and keep clean URLS (no underscores). Sitewide .blotignore file?

Fix bug with image zoomer on mobile devices and tell Alessandro

Adjust length of slug to use as few words as possible until collision and tell Chet

Fix bug with handling of queries and tell this person.

Fix bugs with RSS feeds validation. Perhaps extend absoluteURLs helper function? Tell John

Fix bug with Rodrigo's Word Document files

Fix bug with image minification which produces larger file than source file and tell Jan

Add Q and A section to site where users could post

Disable access to s3 blogs bucket

Reply to Jamie about gitwatch and other newsletter suggestions

Wait a month and then delete s3 blogs bucket

Add white background to folder logo in Blot's favicon

Implement hidden link section on Menu page under profile settings. Default links not on the menu would appear there, making it easy to restore them in future. Tell Josh

Think about adding way to add/edit files from the dashboard directly, bypassing need for a client. Tell Jamie about the decision. What about a web-based client for Blot with a basic text editor, posts listed on sidebar, conventional tag interface?

Disable redirect to HTTPS for blogs by default (to ensure old browsers without SNI work) but ensure all prominent links to the blog on dashboard use HTTPS

Move away from reds and investigate good full text search options

Improve Ghost importer and tell Vin

Add new variable for last-build-time for a blog, and use this forin the sites' RSS feeds. Tell Shawn

Redirect old draft URL to live published post and tell Shibel

Create a status page and uptime monitor and tell Amit. I like this style (just a JSON response)

Add hasBreakpoint property to entry to allow greater control over display of {{{teaser}}} and tell Pratik

Add way to auto-refresh page during template development on preview subdomains. Tell Ryan

Add way to filter entries by post type (e.g. photo) and tell Justin.

Add support for nesting multiple layout tags e.g. “{<>} {||} Y” and tell Marius

Add support for 2FA (Two factor authentication) then tell Luke, Max, Chaz and Tom.

Add media-query to prevent typeset hanging punctuation on small screens (it looks weird) and tell Shibel

Write script to download all the redis data + files for a particular blog, then restore it in my local environment. The hard part will be using Redis's DUMP command.

Investigate support for xattr to read image metadata on Blot? Or source for dragged images? https://github.com/LinusU/fs-xattr

Set NODE_ENV environment variable to production

Add support for HTTP2 and tell Ryan

Fix bug with question mark in image name, e.g. drag and drop 'x?y.jpg' into a blog folder.

Fix bug with question mark in image path's name inside a markdown file, e.g. embed a file 'x?y.jpg' in a markdown file.

Fix bug with makeTeaser for ~/Dropbox/bug.html which locks main process painfully

Fix bug with rename catcher which allows two posts to share a guid. It caused a bug with Disqus comments. To reproduce this bug: Rename an entry. Create new entry with old name. Both entries have same GUID.

Fix bug with .emf files in Word Document and follow up with Todd. Can we convert EMFs? Can we pass a flag to pandoc to let them deal with it? Is this just caused by Tiff files? I need a Windows machine to test this.

Could we have multiple clients attached to one blog?

Use the –trace-sync-io command-line flag to determine if Blot is using any sync methods inappropriately

Replace some of the assert() tests which run every time the server starts with Jasmine tests that run via npm test.

Generate list of external API dependencies and follow changes for each

Add search page to archive template and tell Daniel

Add simple minimal version of Blot that could be npm installed, then tell Pedro who is frustrated editing templates locally with the git client

Make sure color schemes have enough contrast

Create script to export Blot sites to common formats like Wordpress and let Roberto know

Increase price to $5 per month for new customers. This will not affect existing customers in any way.

Goal of this PR is to consolidate all application state inside a single directory, which could be backed up.

Merge PR #199 moving symlinks into cache folder Move static directory into /data Move blogs directory into /data Move git client data directory into /data Move DB into data folder To deploy:

bg save redis switch redis to readonly switch blot to maintenance mode shut down monit shut down blot shut down redis move existing blog and static directories move existing dump file restart redis restart blot restart monit Adds a command to restore database from backup. Adds a scheduled task to flush old backups Adds offsite (i.e. non AWS backups) Rotates log files Use S3 cli sync command to synchronize data directory?

Search HN for popular indie-blogs and contact the authors with similar offers.

When the user's blog does not have a client, client.write and client.remove need to remove the files from the source folder. Create some kind of local client which we fall back and use when none is configured?

Work out how to host podcasts on Blot and tell Adrian

Add support for IPv6 and tell Raul

Client.write does not propogate sync errors… to demonstrate this, revoke dropbox token then try to enable local editing.

Re-enable image minifier and fix the bugs it creates

Can we keep the pandoc child_process running and pipe stuff in and out for speed? Measure before after to ensure this helps

Cluster the main process. How will I verify that there is not statefullness somewhere in the server? I also want the main 'server' running on different threads to the CPU intensive stuff like image processing. Will this fix the bug with additional child processes if main process runs out of memory? Something wasn't being killed during the Nash WAV bug of August, 2018. There were duplicate node rebuild processes running.

Fix bugs with RSS feeds validation. Perhaps extend absoluteURLs helper function? Tell John

Add support for Dropbox Paper .paper files and tell Emad

Add support for Microformats in the default templates. Tell Amit and Jamie

Add JSONFeed to default templates. Tell Jamie

Add support for Micropub in Blot's API. Tell Amit.

Add an EXPIRY to the log entries for a blog's 404 log

Reconsider default slug length or add new short slug property and tell Josh

Set up Dependabot to automate dependency upgrade PRs

Follow up with Christian about DataValet blocking

Work out why Pandoc cannot handle 'linked' images (instead of conventionally embedded images). For instructiosn on reproducing bug, see SG's email and follow up when resolved.

Self-hosting documentation then tell Jake and Mohammed and BP and Rado and Nuno and Omaid and Jarod

Review pCloud as a potential client and tell Omaid

Add support for native PDF embeds in posts, just put a link to a PDF or a path, e.g. /_assets/file.pdf –> would become a nice embed.

Add support for native MP3 embeds in posts, just put a link to an MP3 or a path, e.g. /_assets/file.mp3 –> would become a nice embed then tell Luke and Nash and Andy and Charlie and Konstantin

Fix bug with footnote links in a teaser from #frag to {{permalink}}#frag

Expose exif data on Photo posts? See if you can add comments to image metadata and tell Riley, also tell Mike

Allow Blot to fallback to client.read if the file does not exist on the blot server. Say the harddrive is wiped, we still would like to serve blog files

Add soundcloud embeds then tell Jonas, Nashp, and Anders and Richard

Incorporate

Add support for paying with Bitcoin and tell Chaz

Consider supporting org-mode and tell Rashawn

Add support for entry property with escaped double quotes, tell Jay

Add a file dependency / dependents list to each entry then use this to rebuild dependent entries when, for example, a public image is updated.

Add support for comments via webmentions like Disqus and tell Amit and Luke

Automate setting up application environment using /etc/profile.d:

sudo echo “export BLOT_CACHE=true” > /etc/profile.d/blot.sh sudo chmod +x /etc/profile.d/blot.sh

Migrate code from require('mime') to require('mime-types') since it doesn't use a global default type. Remove the mime node module.

Migrate code from require('../../../') to shortcuts in node_modules

Use <select> optgroup on timezone select dropdown to subdivide zones by current time, and steal the presentation format used by basecamp.

If entries share publish date, sort them by blot creation date

Enable hyphenation again then tell rodericus

Move all unit tests which run on server start (the helper folder is littered with these, CMD+F for 'require('assert') into CI tests.

Incorporate typographic features from Textile?

Queue scheduled entries in redis somehow to make each server less stateful

Re-enable CSP on blot site in a way that works in Safari

Expose list of rendering errors on dashboard

Push archives feature

Increase price to $6 per month for new customers. This will not affect existing customers in any way.

Follow up with Eli about work on the documentation and user's guide

Add URL rewrite feature, e.g. rewrite /randomColor to /public/randomColor

Menu needs concurrency or atomic operations (so we can build posts in parallel)

Investigate atompub support for Marsedit and tell Chet

Investigate PubSubHubbub support and tell Thomas

Look into how Jekyll does data files and possibly support

Add .lhs support and tell Roy

Think about responsive images and optimizing at request time and tell Marius and Jan

Add support for github style checkboxes and tell Christian

Consider allowing users to buy domains on Blot through DNS simple

Consider distributing static built blogs on dat or something similar

Consider adding internationalization i8n and tell Christian about Portuguese and Simon about French

Consider adding embedabble support for giphy URLs and tell Nash

Consider adding educational pricing and tell Matt with my decision.

Consider using sshfs for server and for users

Consider adding simple server-side analytics and tell Tom and John

Consider adding simple commenting system and tell Precious

Consider supporting SASS and tell Max

Consider supporting Micro pub and tell Jamie

Consider adding [[Wikilinks]] and tell Bernardo

Consider establishing community of Blot users and tell Adil

Offer a DNS server with cloudflare like UX to avoid issues connecting the domain

Done

1. Remove URL keys for template view when the view is removed
   
2. Adds breaking test
   
3. Updates note on history of node_env
   
4. Added note on history of node_env
   
5. Change format of logging for scheduler
   
6. Log environment
   
7. Replace idiosyncratic usage of process env
   
8. Run entire test suite
   
9. Adds thumbnail validation test
   
10. Adds jpg that is too small to become a thumbnail
    
11. Adds debugging
    
12. Use test image for thumbnail tests that meets minimum size
    
13. Updates thumbnail function to validate thumbnail pre-use
    
14. Adds fonts page
    
15. More fixes to template pages
    
16. Rename screenshots
    
17. Remove declared image widths and heights
    
18. Fixes broken image links
    
19. Consolidate node env
    
20. Updates guide to updating node
    
21. Updates node version to LTS
    
22. Updates screenshots in brochure
    
23. Updates screenshot script
    
24. Adds script to generate screenshots
    
25. Fixes bug in image captioner
    
26. Updates Bjorn Allard folder
    
27. Updates Bjorn Allard folder
    
28. Updates readme
    
29. Updates folders
    
30. Updates interviews folder
    
31. Updates archived templates page
    
32. Updates Wikinews interviews
    
33. Move past to archived templates page
    
34. Fixes indentation issues with code blocks
    
35. Adds total_posts property to template engine
    
36. Updates developer section
    
37. Adds entry index property to entry page
    
38. Update notes routes
    
39. Updates notes
    
40. Updates note on bandwidth
    
41. Added note on bandwidth and storage
    
42. Updates diary template
    
43. Cleans up unused code
    
44. Improvements to brochure website
    
45. Fixes links on magazine theme
    
46. Adds redirect for publishing url
    
47. Fixes broken links on dashboard
    
48. Removes logging
    
49. More bugfixes
    
50. Made on this page less brittle
    
51. Add appropriate error handling when unable to render view
    
52. Update favicon
    
53. Move publishing to how
    
54. Initial cleanup
    
55. Added note on discounts
    
56. Updates deploy script
    
57. Refactor transform gif
    
58. Adds gif transformer
    
59. Adds gifsicle dependency
    
60. Updates notes
    
61. Content tweaks
    
62. Updates notes
    
63. Moved notes
    
64. Adds support for gifs
    
65. Adds comments
    
66. Adds density param for svg
    
67. Changes
    
68. Revert package
    
69. Tweaks packages