How does lain markup their pages? I tried to go with markdown but it was too limited and ended up using a bunch of ugly hacks to extend it. Is something like pug or siml better if you're constantly going to be doing weird things? It'd be nice if there was some lightweight markup language that was specifically made to be easy to extend so one could add syntax like:
I'm an[^^]
inline footnote, distinct from a regular reference-style footnote.
> Details
| Summary
| etc.
> More details makes it a list
| Summary
Progress bar [=50%=]
and maybe macros for templating.
>>64051This is perhaps an issue of messaging as much as it is an issue of demographics. "Lainchan webring" implies a webring for lain-adjacent topics, of which
>Hello I'm Steve I like Free software and anime and I don't like phones and Bill Gatesis a partial summary and representative demographic. My own website is quite removed from this, but as a consequence, feels very out of place. A website that wasn't a blog or wiki, but a some kind of mundane service would be even more so. In light of this, should the OP try to encourage off-topic websites and risk diluting the character of the webring?
Touching on
>>64059 and
>>64060, I think blogs probably suffer from the "dead chan" effect. It might help if there was a concerted effort to adopt something like RSS - both for broadcasters and subscribers. For the latter, a website or even a bookmarklet that functioned as an RSS reader would be excellent for adoption. I might write one if none exist since it wouldn't be too hard to encode one's list of feeds in a query string and use a dynamic title and the fact bookmarking only responds to the title to get everything working from a static website.
