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So here's my question: HN as far as I can tell doesn't explicitly integrate with webmention, but I'm assuming webmention.io does use it. Does that mean the owne

So here's my question: HN as far as I can tell doesn't explicitly integrate with webmention, but I'm assuming webmention.io does use it. Does that mean the owner @aaronpk does get a mention every time webmention is linked, say, from Hacker News? The docs don't make it clear, but if in fact, it does, this seems like a killer concept for HN users who want to be notified (among other times) when their service/blog/whatever is shared to HN edit: Also, why doesn't webmention.io display its own mentions to utilize the two-way communication it advertises? Seems like a no-brainer to show prospective users an example of it working in action

cube2222 6y ago
There are multiple services which solve this problem already, i.e. https://f5bot.com https://f5bot.com
aaronpk 6y ago
HN does not as far as I know, but Lobsters does! https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/pull/535 https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/pull/535
tarkin2 6y ago
Yeah. This is my interest. I don't want to a cluster of likes and tweets. But I do want link notifications. I need to rely to Google for this currently.
- leephillips 6y ago
  You can also look at the referrers in your webserver logs. It’s just that someone has to click on the link for it to appear in your logs. And you can discover referrer spam!
  - account42 6y ago
    Browsers are not guaranteed to send Referer headers and some choose not to (or send fake ones) due to the privacy implications.
    - leephillips 6y ago
      Good point. But, in the absence of any other solution, there is at least some data there, sitting in the log files.
- FalconSensei 6y ago
  Just curious, how you do that with google?
aaronpk 6y ago
> edit: Also, why doesn't webmention.io display its own mentions to utilize the two-way communication it advertises? Seems like a no-brainer to show prospective users an example of it working in action This is a good idea, and if I were re-making this service new in 2021 I would definitely do this. However I launched this in 2012 as a barebones implementation to get webmentions working for a few of my websites and never bothered to develop it much past that point.

cube2222 6y ago

There are multiple services which solve this problem already, i.e. https://f5bot.com https://f5bot.com

aaronpk 6y ago

HN does not as far as I know, but Lobsters does! https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/pull/535 https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/pull/535

tarkin2 6y ago

Yeah. This is my interest. I don't want to a cluster of likes and tweets. But I do want link notifications. I need to rely to Google for this currently.

leephillips 6y ago
You can also look at the referrers in your webserver logs. It’s just that someone has to click on the link for it to appear in your logs. And you can discover referrer spam!
- account42 6y ago
  Browsers are not guaranteed to send Referer headers and some choose not to (or send fake ones) due to the privacy implications.
  - leephillips 6y ago
    Good point. But, in the absence of any other solution, there is at least some data there, sitting in the log files.
FalconSensei 6y ago
Just curious, how you do that with google?

aaronpk 6y ago

> edit: Also, why doesn't webmention.io display its own mentions to utilize the two-way communication it advertises? Seems like a no-brainer to show prospective users an example of it working in action This is a good idea, and if I were re-making this service new in 2021 I would definitely do this. However I launched this in 2012 as a barebones implementation to get webmentions working for a few of my websites and never bothered to develop it much past that point.