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thanks will investigate

mikho

@AnthonySmith said:

@Freek said: I recommend Matomo. It's open source and can be self hosted

And it tracks site use without tracking site use?

I will have a look though I have to doubt it does what it does as well as google.

Matomo ...previously known as Piwik

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@kuroneko23 said: Table title(?) unreadable in dark mode

Fixed

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@mikho said: Matomo ...previously known as Piwik

I don't know if I am imagining it but I think Runcloud has an auto-deployment script for that, I will look into it.

serv_ee

Not sure if your CMS has the plugin or something but maybe you could add "Popular forum topics" or "Latest topics" to the main page?

Also maybe a tutorial section?

SpeedBus

I think a few more lines of each post being displayed would be good ?

seriesn

@AnthonySmith Caching is too strong my man! New contents won't load without hard refresh.

ChrisMiller

@AnthonySmith said:
Will be finished today (hopefully within the hour) also tagging @ChrisMiller @g4m3r who thanked you so I assume want it.
I know the comments are not matching up just yet but it will be done.

SOO MUCH BETTER!

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@seriesn said:
@AnthonySmith Caching is too strong my man! New contents won't load without hard refresh.

Yeah, I have been tweaking that as I go, I have just set Cloudflare to respect server header ttl and lowered the grav headers to 3600 seconds.

If anyone has any other suggestions I am all ears.

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@serv_ee said:
Not sure if your CMS has the plugin or something but maybe you could add "Popular forum topics" or "Latest topics" to the main page?

Also maybe a tutorial section?

In progress.

@SpeedBus said: I think a few more lines of each post being displayed would be good ?

Hows that?

flips

Maybe dumb question, but when we comment an article there (in Grav), that's just an iFrame or something to this Vanilla forum? But it is then a hidden thread or something here for each of those articles?

serv_ee

@flips said:
Maybe dumb question, but when we comment an article there (in Grav), that's just an iFrame or something to this Vanilla forum? But it is then a hidden thread or something here for each of those articles?

Think its a whole category we cant really see here. "Main site posts" Or maybe thats something totally different.

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@serv_ee said:

@flips said:
Maybe dumb question, but when we comment an article there (in Grav), that's just an iFrame or something to this Vanilla forum? But it is then a hidden thread or something here for each of those articles?

Think its a whole category we cant really see here. "Main site posts" Or maybe thats something totally different.

Correct on both counts.

Longer term I plan to change that setup a bit so that notifications of a reply for example take you to the main site to see comments rather than the hidden forum link for the comments link and you will also be able to get notifications for here when on the main site.

The vision was always to have integration between the forum and main site because it’s just tighter, MUCH less spam, builds some accountability in to comments, does not allow essentially anonymous comments, and long term will also tie in to the reddit style up/down vote for articles I am having developed.

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@PHP_Backend said:

@AnthonySmith said:
And it tracks site use without tracking site use?

Problem is google tracks you everywhere. You visit a summerhost offer on LET and BOOM, you see summerhost adv everywhere.

ok I take your point, I will certainly consider alternatives, time is my main barrier right now but I did used to love Piwik so I will look in to the modern version.

serv_ee

@AnthonySmith said:

@serv_ee said:

@flips said:
Maybe dumb question, but when we comment an article there (in Grav), that's just an iFrame or something to this Vanilla forum? But it is then a hidden thread or something here for each of those articles?

Think its a whole category we cant really see here. "Main site posts" Or maybe thats something totally different.

Correct on both counts.

Longer term I plan to change that setup a bit so that notifications of a reply for example take you to the main site to see comments rather than the hidden forum link for the comments link and you will also be able to get notifications for here when on the main site.

The vision was always to have integration between the forum and main site because it’s just tighter, MUCH less spam, builds some accountability in to comments, does not allow essentially anonymous comments, and long term will also tie in to the reddit style up/down vote for articles I am having developed.

Well honestly you could make the category visible here as well and somehow "ghost" the article and show the comments imho.

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@serv_ee said: Well honestly you could make the category visible here as well and somehow "ghost" the article and show the comments imho.

not sure I understand, that is how it works now.

serv_ee

Well I mean, open up (make it visible in the vanilla forum) the main site news category so people could also see the news like "Compilation of FREE LES Shared Web Hosting Offers" in the forum as well. Like every other post not on the sidebar.

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@serv_ee said: Well I mean, open up (make it visible in the vanilla forum) the main site news category so people could also see the news like "Compilation of FREE LES Shared Web Hosting Offers" in the forum as well. Like every other post not on the sidebar.

oh right yeah, sidebar is in development.

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Latest post: migrate a VPS between hosts in easy mode: https://lowendspirit.com/migrate-a-kvm-vps-from-one-host-to-another-easy-mode

SpeedBus

@AnthonySmith said: Hows that?

Like at the moment, only a few lines are displayed per post, you have to click on "read more" to get into the post. If a few more lines are displayed per article, it would be a bit more inviting

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@SpeedBus said:

@AnthonySmith said: Hows that?

Like at the moment, only a few lines are displayed per post, you have to click on "read more" to get into the post. If a few more lines are displayed per article, it would be a bit more inviting

It was 300, I changed it to 500, "hows that" was intended to read as "is that better?" after I changed it.

SpeedBus

@AnthonySmith said:

@SpeedBus said:

@AnthonySmith said: Hows that?

Like at the moment, only a few lines are displayed per post, you have to click on "read more" to get into the post. If a few more lines are displayed per article, it would be a bit more inviting

It was 300, I changed it to 500, "hows that" was intended to read as "is that better?" after I changed it.

Much better now ahh I see now I mis-read :P

Not_Oles

@AnthonySmith Many thanks because I no longer am seeing the blinking ads!

mikho

@AnthonySmith said:
Latest post: migrate a VPS between hosts in easy mode: https://lowendspirit.com/migrate-a-kvm-vps-from-one-host-to-another-easy-mode

Loaded https://lowendspirit.com now and the new post (migrate kvm) wasn't there until I made a hard refresh.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

seriesn

Oh another 1 cents, leave comment section is very tiny. Hard to read while typing. Good stuff as usual and caching seems better now.

seriesn

Also, can the signatures be disabled on the comments? I am all for marketing and SEO, but it feels kinda dirty.

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@seriesn said:
Oh another 1 cents, leave comment section is very tiny. Hard to read while typing. Good stuff as usual and caching seems better now.

Will have a look at that tomorrow.

@seriesn said: Also, can the signatures be disabled on the comments? I am all for marketing and SEO, but it feels kinda dirty.

Probably not, but I will check.

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@mikho said: Loaded https://lowendspirit.com now and the new post (migrate kvm) wasn't there until I made a hard refresh.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

I will disable local caching all together for the next post see if that helps, I think its a combination of cloudflare and grav cache.

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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About PageBuilders (But Were Afraid to Ask) https://lowendspirit.com/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-pagebuilders-but-were-afraid-to-ask

This is a guest-written post by @vyas and @Ympker

vyas

@AnthonySmith said:
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About PageBuilders (But Were Afraid to Ask) https://lowendspirit.com/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-pagebuilders-but-were-afraid-to-ask

This is a guest-written post by @vyas and @Ympker

Thanks @AnthonySmith.

LES folks,
We began this project as a set of small reviews (rather an overview) but the idea took a life of its own. The entire series stands at 11,000 words (and counting)!

Therefore after much discussion between us (@AnthonySmith, @Ympker and I), we decided to publish this as a multi part series. I learnt a lot personally about the world of pagebuilders while compiling these posts. Hope that you will find them useful.

Chievo

@vyas said:

@AnthonySmith said:
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About PageBuilders (But Were Afraid to Ask) https://lowendspirit.com/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-pagebuilders-but-were-afraid-to-ask

This is a guest-written post by @vyas and @Ympker

Thanks @AnthonySmith.

LES folks,
We began this project as a set of small reviews (rather an overview) but the idea took a life of its own. The entire series stands at 11,000 words (and counting)!

Therefore after much discussion between us (@AnthonySmith, @Ympker and I), we decided to publish this as a multi part series. I learnt a lot personally about the world of pagebuilders while compiling these posts. Hope that you will find them useful.

Thanks @vyas ! Danke @Ympker ! great chance to learn new things about the pagebuilders

Ympker

@Chievo said:

@vyas said:

@AnthonySmith said:
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About PageBuilders (But Were Afraid to Ask) https://lowendspirit.com/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-pagebuilders-but-were-afraid-to-ask

This is a guest-written post by @vyas and @Ympker

Thanks @AnthonySmith.

LES folks,
We began this project as a set of small reviews (rather an overview) but the idea took a life of its own. The entire series stands at 11,000 words (and counting)!

Therefore after much discussion between us (@AnthonySmith, @Ympker and I), we decided to publish this as a multi part series. I learnt a lot personally about the world of pagebuilders while compiling these posts. Hope that you will find them useful.

Thanks @vyas ! Danke @Ympker ! great chance to learn new things about the pagebuilders

You're welcome mate Any questions, just ask.

Like @vyas mentioned, this is going to be big, but looking back I think we've prepared some great stuff for you guys
Thanks, @AnthonySmith for supporting this.

Freek

'Crikey! There was an error' when I open LowEndSpirit.com:

vyas

@Freek said:
'Crikey! There was an error' when I open LowEndSpirit.com:

Grav didn't like some new plugin? I used to get many such crickey’s when I was trying out grav. Fortunately an easy fix as I learnt later

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sorry, trying to sort the banner rotation out, I made a mistake, sorted.

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Latest: https://lowendspirit.com/bitaccel-new-product-new-control-panel-starting-at-usd7-month

kuroneko23

It's nice to see that you are reviewing the offer before posted it on LESB.

Also a typo at the end

my personal thoughts are that this should be marked beta and some of the limitations should be made more obvious up-front before taking payment but I also appreciate that creating your pwn panel while running a business is not a simple task and there is bound to be some things happening in the wrong order.

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@kuroneko23 said: Also a typo at the end

seriesn

Boss @AnthonySmith Menu doesn't work on mobile.

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@seriesn said: Boss @AnthonySmith Menu doesn't work on mobile.

There is a menu?

Not_Oles

@vyas said:

@Freek said:
'Crikey! There was an error' when I open LowEndSpirit.com:

Grav didn't like some new plugin? I used to get many such crickey’s when I was trying out grav. Fortunately an easy fix as I learnt later

@vyas @freek What app | environment | IDE is shown in this image? On what OS is it running? Is it something within Grav? Thanks!

flips

Looks like some PHP framework error/console ...

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@Not_Oles said: Is it something within Grav

yep

seriesn

@AnthonySmith said:

@seriesn said: Boss @AnthonySmith Menu doesn't work on mobile.

There is a menu?

I think so.

flips

@seriesn said:

@AnthonySmith said:

@seriesn said: Boss @AnthonySmith Menu doesn't work on mobile.

There is a menu?

I think so.

A rather bright menu in dark mode.
It works here. All entries go to this forum ...

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Right, I will take a look.

vyas

I see some A/B testing with the menu

Forum: talk.lowendspirit.com

LesBlog: lowendspirit.com

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latest guest post: https://lowendspirit.com/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-pagebuilders-part-iv

show some love!

poisson

Looking good. I am not sure if I missed it, but where can we see the site stats for the main lowendspirit site? I am interested to track the growth versus LEB. The content is definitely way better.

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@poisson said:
Looking good. I am not sure if I missed it, but where can we see the site stats for the main lowendspirit site? I am interested to track the growth versus LEB. The content is definitely way better.

Do you have LEB stats to compare it with?