I've never accepted homepage webmentions, not here nor when using WordPress, primarily because there was nowhere to display them.
Pablo sent a mention just to the root of the site but I didn't know about it until I read his post. This got me thinking that I should at least cater for them somehow, even if it's only to notify me by email.
This post will serve as a test to see if the changes I've made to the endpoint work or if I've broken things dramatically. ๐
It worked! Just a slight tweak to account for there being no post mentioned and we're all good. A homepage mention will send me a mail so I can at least see where it's come from.
This has always been a headscratcher for me too. I recently just settled for rerouting root webmentions to go to /about since thatโs where all the ActivityPub @me traffic winds up. Never thought of just having it send a status email. Need to toy with it a bit. What happens on your side if someone just links to your siteโs URL? Do you get the trackback?
Colin Walker replied:
My site doesn't accept trackbacks or pingbacks so unless they send a webmention I won't know.
Well there's always that route too! ๐ I'm going thru the colophon section of my favorite design indieweb blogs so I can steal borrow ideas for that blog system project I told you about a few weeks ago. Big post about it later today, and I'd really appreciate it if you could give feedback, opinions and ideas-- I like your concept of "blog as a life app".
(BTW, I'm testing posting replies to replies inline from my comments section on posts. I hope this works ๐ค๐พ)
UPDATE: It sent a repeated post out ๐. Back to the drawing board.
