{"id":198,"date":"2010-07-15T17:51:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T17:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/?p=198"},"modified":"2010-07-15T17:51:42","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T17:51:42","slug":"who-does-your-blog-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/2010\/07\/who-does-your-blog-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"Who does your blog reach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You won&#8217;t be surprised to hear that at Akademy I spent a good deal of time talking to people about UserBase, how we can improve it, and how it can help with documentation problems. \u00a0Several exciting improvements are expected in the next few weeks, but I&#8217;m leaving that as a teaser for now. \u00a0First I want to talk about just one of the ideas that was floated, as we sat watching people stir the barbeque.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P7080003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-194\" title=\"P7080003\" src=\"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P7080003-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Stirring the BBQ, Tampere 2010\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P7080003-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/P7080003-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">I remarked that I often saw things in \u00a0blogs that would be interesting to readers, though probably not the whole blog as it talked of technical matters. \u00a0As an example, I remarked that in Plasma, things change quickly, yet there is little on UserBase reflecting that. \u00a0Chani&#8217;s idea was simple. \u00a0Have a space to paste the whole blog so that it can be edited down to the parts that users would find interesting. \u00a0I liked the idea, and began to wonder how we could create a scratch-pad. \u00a0Eventually I realised that I would be just introducing complexity. \u00a0There really isn&#8217;t a need for a special area. \u00a0Every user has a User:UserName page, which can have sub-pages. \u00a0All that&#8217;s needed is to use that space as a work area, then, when all is finished, to create a link from the relevant application to a new page for the blogs.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now all I need is someone willing to try it out and give us some feed-back. \u00a0Any volunteers?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You won&#8217;t be surprised to hear that at Akademy I spent a good deal of time talking to people about UserBase, how we can improve it, and how it can help with documentation problems. \u00a0Several exciting improvements are expected in the next few weeks, but I&#8217;m leaving that as a teaser for now. \u00a0First I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,6],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde","tag-kde","tag-userbase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lydgate.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}