Hey @Jonathan_J_Chiarella ,
However(!), this won’t work for me as one of my posts did not go to this. So, all but one. Embarrassingly, one post was just test
and that went up. I deleted it, but the legitimate post never appeared. And I have no way that I have found to post to the Fediverse a Ghost post that already went up before I activated the Fediverse integration.
Let me see if I can help with your problem:
Posts only show up in the Fediverse if they’re publicly available. Is the missing post perhaps marked members-only or similar? I’d make sure it’s marked for public access, then unpublish and republish, that should make it appear.
For older posts, if you unpublish and republish, that should trigger them going out to the fediverse.
Now, back to the thread topic, which is responding to comments on posts:
- Using the Fediverse feature in the Home part (once activated) to reply to comments with the main
@index@website.com
account.
This suggestion doesn’t currently make sense. Unless something has changed in the last week or so, fediverse replies don’t appear on posts. One certainly could ditch Ghost’s native comments in favor of linking to the post in the fediverse, but the problem with the whole federated thing is that there’s not /one/ place that a website reader might be directed to. You can’t really link to a post in the fediverse like you’d like to a facebook post.
==== Reminder: I don’t work for Ghost (although that would be awesome). The venting that follows is my own. ====
To the several folks complaining about lack of functionality in the comments function: If you’re paying for Ghost Pro, you should absolutely let them know (via their support email) that you want that functionality.
If you’re using Ghost for free because it’s open source, then you might consider either doing the work to improve the comments package, or funding a developer to do the work to improve the comments package.
As someone who has put a lot of free labor (and code!) into Ghost, and who makes a living selling my services as a developer (on Ghost, themes, and integrations), I feel frustrated when the tone shifts from “this would be really helpful for us” to “why doesn’t this exist already? it should be easy!” It feels like complaining without contributing, and that’s a bad look.
==== Venting over. ====
There are several spots (comments moderation, post scheduling calendar, newsletter digests, image management) where I’d love to build an integration that solved the problem, but my experience with offering social sign-in is that the market is pretty small, and most people complaining about missing functionality don’t actually want to pay for access to it, so there’s not money to be made there. Will I eventually build one or more of these things anyway, because I love building stuff? Quite possibly, but I’ve got paying work to do first.
And on that note… have a great Sunday, ya’ll.