[inbox] Website fixes & updates

[nathenf]

• ➕2024-12-04 change so that Rufus does not show up at the author (instead life itself) on our publications on substack - see https://www.reddit.com/r/Substack/comments/139nx4y/hiding_author_name_on_welcome_page/ for ideas
  • research if possible and how to do it
  • estimate time
  • do it if less than 30m

Epic Issue for website redevelopment: #170

• ➕2024-01-22 https://lifeitself.org/institute is pretty badly broken with most of PDFs etc not working plus out of date forms etc etc. 🔥🔥
• ➕2024-01-10 https://lifeitself.org/sympoiesis/ gives 404 but linked from e.g. https://lifeitself.org/blog/2021/09/13/announcing-the-sympoiesis-residencies-at-the-life-itself-praxis-hub - suggests we moved but did not implement a redirect ... 💬2024-01-17 this is a trailing slash issue - if you remove the last / it is all good. NB: this is something we should fix in general and can be fixed in nextjs easily
• ➕2024-01-17 https://lifeitself.org/blog/2021/04/15/reinventing-organisations-by-frederic-laloux is now duplicate of https://lifeitself.org/blog/reinventing-organizations-by-laloux-notes-summary (want to stick with this latter one as Rufus added it with original date and nicer image).
  • Remove https://lifeitself.org/blog/2021/04/15/reinventing-organisations-by-frederic-laloux and its image
  • Add redirect for it to https://lifeitself.org/blog/reinventing-organizations-by-laloux-notes-summary
• ➕2023-11-30 Having %20 (a space) in url path Example: https://lifeitself.org/podcast/jamie-bristow-advertising-to%20mindfulness-in-politics (Not a big deal ... Question: do we even care? should we stick with "standard" urls that are lower case with dashes etc etc)
• ➕ Collective Wellbeing White Paper link 2018 shows a 2018 error - https://lifeitself.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Collective-Well-being-1.pdf. Waiting to find out which page this link is listed on.
• Broken link on 'Building the Field for Developmental Spaces: a new project in collaboration with Fetzer Institute, Commonweal & Ekskäret' (June 2023) - introducing the project background, plan, and collaborators at the bottom of https://lifeitself.org/initiatives/building-the-field-for-developmental-spaces

Tasks

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• Show up the long term residency on homepage @alexianetcu
  
• Refactored Life Itself site Refactor lifeitself.org content for better structure etc #223 ⛔ 05/01/2023 have worked on this ah-hoc, requires job stories as next step. 2023-02-16 @rufuspollock look through this and see whether this can merge back here etc.
• Collective Wellbeing White Paper link is broken (flagged up via email from a LI member - no further details on where the link or which page is clicked through from)

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Tasks

• The author listed on the Latest blog - is then listed on the other 2 blogs when this isn't always the case (in this screenshot I'm actually the author of Myka's call)
  

• Text under view all blogs to be updated to: All of our pieces.
  

• Image of the most recent published blog to be visible above the larger latest post title and text Some of our latest pieces. (great to have)
  

• We want all urls to be in the format lifeitself.org/blog/title and remove the dates 💬 This is a whole other story. Can you confirm this is needed? @rufuspollock this was your request to change the formatting of urls

• Can we add a meta description/preview to avoid issues with the way links are shown (see below as an example) 💬 Tbh I don't think this is reaaaally needed. You can just add a description without the link to the frontmatter. The text displayed here is just a short overview of the blog post and I don't think it should be anything more than that. But maybe I'm wrong? **N 💬 - can we at least make it so markdown syntax does not show in the description?
  

• Missing images in assets folder #399 - 🚧 Don't know the status, but left by Khalil

• Volunteer/Contribute Page

• Donate Page (see https://newrepublicoftheheart.org/donate/ for example)

• Optimise residency pages

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• Don't show image at top of blog posts automatically ... so that i can a) choose to have an image or not b) choose where to put it (e.g. after the lead paragraph). Downside of this change is you have to consciously add the image but don't think that is that big a deal. Not a priority
• https://github.com/life-itself/community/issues/264
• https://github.com/life-itself/community/issues/677
• Matthew name as an author isn't showing on the list but is in the blog
• Submit new site map to Google
• move ecosystem to the vault ⏫ i.e. ecosystem content in vault/ecosystem and images in assets/ecosystem
• what do we do with current content at lifeitself.org/ecosystem? (migrate to markdown and relcoate somehow?) Or move to an old blog post? 🔼 2023-02-16 this is worth doing i think mainly as back-blogging but also some relocation.
  

Misc from old issue #170

• ➕2023-02-21 add link to facebook in our social media
• support for posted attribute in front matter (which is url of post on blog or elsewhere)
• ➕2022-12-18 evaluate forum software and good features of specific ones e.g. ForumMagnum 🚧2022-12-18 see https://app.excalidraw.com/s/9u8crB2ZmUo/16qvtKbcHwg
• fix all lifeitself.us links to lifeitself.org links (and preferably relative links)
• Tidy up co-x in notebook
• clarify what is difference between project/stream and item in notebook (e.g. is co-x a project/stream or just and entry in the notebook)
• Update notebook/spaces and what it is
• in merging ecosystem how do we merge stuff
  • what do we do with current content at lifeitself.org/ecosystem? (migrate to markdown and relcoate somehow?) e.g. Move to an old blog post?
  • what do we do with navbar of current site
• how does sub-navigation within a project work - e.g. does ecosystem get its own navigation (and how does that work)
• Deprecate https://lifeitself.org/notes/projects/digital-garden-2022 @rufus 💤
  • Process content out of here into A10 or epic?

Digital Garden

• Digital garden improvements e.g. a special theme for this section that flags you are in digital garden and that some things are incomplete
• /notes/ works and introduces the wiki/garden
• Section clearly marked as such so people know less polished / developed
• maybe even mark individual pieces as more or less polished

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• Initiatives pages: change date created to start and end date for the initiative template ✅ 2023-05-04 85e4640
• Feature images not showing up when blog posts and residencies are shared on social media ✅ 2023-06-05 commit 6dec949
• Ken Wilber feature image should be changed to something less creepy
• link from Praxis hub in Primacy of being post article is not working ( it is also not signed )
• ➕2023-05-14 https://lifeitself.org/blog/2018/06/22/synthesis-and-the-middle-way does not show up ie. 404s (but is in repo) - probably a build error or some kind.
• Images for Tenzo note 9 and latest blog post not working Tenzo note 9 photo not showing on blog post #736 see https://lifeitself.org/blog/2023/09/01/exploring-intentional-communities-from-6-different-perspectives and https://lifeitself.org/blog/2023/07/28/tenzo-note-9
• Image for https://lifeitself.org/community does not show, but should show Since this file is outside of the /blog subfolder, it's not utilizing the blog layout - the one that supports image frontmatter field. You can still use it by adding layout: blog to the frontmatter. It will work then.
• Another example The image path was incorrect: 1) /asset instead of /assets, 2) missing extension. Again, please double check by e.g. comparing against other blog posts where the images do show up. It's not happening without a reason ;)
• Pop up on website for Conscious Coliving course #722 get the pop-up live PR submitted Conscious coliving 101 popup #779
• Create a new blog Blog page improve layout #317 PR submitted New blog index page and blog post layouts #800
  • On the blogs page after a certain number of blogs the scrolling option stops. Ideally a user would be able to scroll through them all
• fix Flowershow logo
  
• fix footer styles for smaller screens

[nathenf]

Hey @khalilcodes a few outstanding things here, which we discussed in our call. Do you think you could finish these early next week?

[khalilcodes]

@nathenf

Feature images not showing up when blog posts and residencies are shared on social media

This is blocked atm as a bug with flowershow websites datopian/flowershow#498

[theo-cox]

@nathenf @khalilcodes I've just added a dead link flagged to us by a visitor (https://lifeitself.org/2022/03/11/mapping-metamodern-what-is-metamodernism/)

[nathenf]

FIXED - Priority tasks complete. One outstanding task about blog post images. This can be taken up as a separate issue when necessary, but is not a priority

[rufuspollock]

@nathenf an inbox task generally just stays open forever - it is a collector task with specific items either getting done preferably becoming issues ...

[laurenwigmore]

@khalilcodes we noticed a few issues with the Life Itself website.
I've added these above into the tasks (bottom two). Are you able to look into them please?

[laurenwigmore]

@khalilcodes Hey Khalil, can you give us an update on when you might be able to look at the above issues please?

[nathenf]

@olayway this is our inbox for ongoing website issues we want to get fixed

[olayway]

@nathenf, @laurenwigmore While working on the new blog layout, I've noticed a lot of inconsistencies in the styles of different parts of the website, e.g. in spacing, font styles/sizes/weights, buttons (shadow, no shadow, big, small etc.) or categories links (underlined lowercase, not underlined capitalized, with hashtag, without hashtag etc.) used. I'm addressing some of these issues along the way (primarily related to spacing) but it would be good to take a closer look at it in the future (especially on the home page) because the site looks a bit messy IMO.

Also, should the collaborators be linked? Atm the URLs are empty, so the site just reloads upon clicking on them.

[olayway]

@nathenf, @laurenwigmore what are the tags used for? E.g. here at the bottom of the page. https://lifeitself.org/blog/2020/12/19/word-laundrette-1-nirvana
How are they different from categories?

[olayway]

Actually we want all urls to be in the format lifeitself.org/blog/title and remove the dates

@nathenf, @laurenwigmore This was mentioned next to some unrelated issue with broken links that include trailing slashes (can be fixed with the pending PR). Can you confirm if this is really needed?

[laurenwigmore]

Actually we want all urls to be in the format lifeitself.org/blog/title and remove the dates

@nathenf, @laurenwigmore This was mentioned next to some unrelated issue with broken links that include trailing slashes (can be fixed with the pending PR). Can you confirm if this is really needed?

Ideally yes, if possible? But it's not urgent.

[laurenwigmore]

@nathenf, @laurenwigmore what are the tags used for? E.g. here at the bottom of the page. https://lifeitself.org/blog/2020/12/19/word-laundrette-1-nirvana How are they different from categories?

Honestly not a clue Ola. My guess is that they are there to give an insight into the theme under the category they sit. Are there many like this? Personally, unless the tags are already in the categories list, I would ignore them if it doesn't cause problems, as I imagine these are only on a handful of older posts from years ago.

[laurenwigmore]

@nathenf, @laurenwigmore While working on the new blog layout, I've noticed a lot of inconsistencies in the styles of different parts of the website, e.g. in spacing, font styles/sizes/weights, buttons (shadow, no shadow, big, small etc.) or categories links (underlined lowercase, not underlined capitalized, with hashtag, without hashtag etc.) used. I'm addressing some of these issues along the way (primarily related to spacing) but it would be good to take a closer look at it in the future (especially on the home page) because the site looks a bit messy IMO.

Also, should the collaborators be linked? Atm the URLs are empty, so the site just reloads upon clicking on them.

maybe this should be set up as a separate issue?

[rufuspollock]

@laurenwigmore i don't think any technical work is needed here so i think we remove that last comment to reduce noise in ola inbox 😉 (and then i can remove mine).

[laurenwigmore]

@laurenwigmore i don't think any technical work is needed here so i think we remove that last comment to reduce noise in ola inbox 😉 (and then i can remove mine).

Sure no problem, my only question for you and @nathenf is to confirm that we are just adding each blog with its title now under the Blog folder, outside of any other dated folders? And this will just publish without any issues?

I've deleted my earlier comment for Ola.

[rufuspollock]

Sure no problem, my only question for you and @nathenf is to confirm that we are just adding each blog with its title now under the Blog folder, outside of any other dated folders? And this will just publish without any issues?

Yes that is correct. PS: we need to be careful that an inbox issue does not become a real issue ... as we decide to do things from an inbox issue we should pull them out into actual issues.

[rufuspollock]

I think it is a priority to review this and clean out stuff we won't do and select items which are to be done ...

[laurenwigmore]

Added item flagged by John Oliver to the above list - 11 Sept 2024