Questions

Is there a way what I post on Mastodon can become a blog post on blot.im? And the other way round: is there a way to automatically post by blot posts onto Mastodon?

There are several videos that differ in time, size, bitrate, and some do not appear in the post, even if you upload them separately, they are all under 20mb. I can't find a pattern. Google Drive platform. Maybe there are limits on some video parameters?

I'm setting up a page for specific posts based on a tag. This works well using {{all_entries}} and using {{#tagged.topic}} as a filter but pagination no longer works. Pagination would also be useful for /tagged/ pages because they're getting long. Would it be possible to support this? Thanks! Ray

Hey there, I'm currently not able to post anything through git. I also can't change my pages. Everything pushes normally, but nothings shows up in blot. Is anyone else seeing this?

I've added an example Org file to my blog only to see that it's detected as a file, and not as a post. The file's contents are just: This is a test. /Woo-hoo./

Maybe there is a way to name the months personally, by manually entering new names for each month. Or immediately change the language in which the names of the months are displayed in the posts, without changing the format. If possible, I am interested in both options. I understand that it should be done in script.js, but I don't know what to add and on which line. Tell me please.

My posts used to have timezones ("EDT", "EST", etc.) in the timestamps, but now they're all UTC. How can I make Blot recognize timezone ("z") again? Thank you.

About 12 hours ago, when trying to open any template for editing, an error appears: "Error: Error rendering /template-editor/preview.html: Unclosed section "tags" at 7088" After duplicating other templates, the result is the same. This is with all templates. The site is working, and the template preview is working too.

I am using the Magazine template and writing my posts in Google Docs. However, I cannot get any images to show in published posts, irrespective of whether I embed them in the doc itself or use Markdown (which I suspect isn't fully supported by Google Docs). I could write my posts in Notepad for Windows but again, I suspect that when uploaded to Google Docs it will mess things up. Any advice on how I can get images to display without giving up the convenience of Google Docs? Regards, Roger.

Hi! I've setup Cusdis comments on my blog by adding their widget in my entry.html file. I have a standalone page that acts as a landing page for a newsletter of this blog and I'd like the comments to be hidden on this page. I've tried declaring "Comments: no" in that page's metadata, but it didn't work. Is there a way to have Cusdis be understood by the markdown metadata?

I've been updating my blog - mostly just photos, and noticed that changes I've been making to my dropbox haven't been properly reflected. I've done the reset Dropbox options, all of them from resync to clearing cache, but doesn't appear to be working.

Not a developer, programmer or anything, but I thought something may be possible if I'm not misunderstanding how Blot works or missing anything... Since everything is public as rendered from the template on the server, could it be possible to use a system of conditional templates or template-based functions based on metadata of the file to restrict access to a page or show context-depending data (like user information)? I mean, coding a script with a call to some authorization service or similar API in a template, a script that would be conditionally used either as part of a page included in another template or doing something like having a template for a whole page to show only private content, that would be used depending on the presence of some metadata or not used if such metadata is not present? For example, using a whole-page template or part of a template for conditional/private information to be shown as part of the rendered page if an "access" metadata field is not false or has a certain value. Would it be possible? Would whatever is rendering the template receive data from an API and could it be done in a secure way (like with an HTTP-only cookie restricted to the same domain if hosting the API on a subdomain), without anything being exposed in any way? Or is it impossible or insecure?

If the post contains a video, the image from it is displayed as the cover of the post, regardless of the size of the other images. Please tell me how to choose the first picture in the post for the thumbnail. And also how do I mark the borders of the text, for display near the cover. I found a discussion on this topic but couldn't apply it to my template.

Hey there, I'm trying to install Plausible. I've selected it in my dashboard but I can't see where to enter the script Plausible gives me. <script defer data-domain="blink.blot.im" src="https://plausible.io/js/script.js"></script> Can you help me please? Thanks.

I was just looking to see if there's been an update on the potential improvements to search, but it seems that the search field on this site is broken. If I search for any query, nothing happens. I've tried in Safari, Firefox and Edge on MacOS Ventura 13.5.2.

Please add table support to the Magazine template, it doesn't display vertical lines. Or tell me what needs to be transferred from the Blog template, because they work there.

I published a post last night and expected it to be the top post. It did not appear anywhere on the home page. I edited it and reset to make sure dates and times were correct. No change. Looking at the file on the site it is correct if has the new edits. But it is displaying and older version Blog/draft still at the bottom. But this should not prevent it from being the top post. Any ideas? Thanks