Right, here's the plan:

A big problem with FediTips is that the same tips get repeated quite often because not everyone saw them the first time.

Then, if people half-remember a tip they saw on here, or if they want to find out more about a topic, there's no easy way for them to look it up later.

So, I'm going to change the format of this account to be based around a web page:

https://growyourown.services/an-unofficial-guide-to-mastodon-and-the-fediverse

(It forms part of a site I run at https://growyourown.services to encourage non-technical people to host their own online services.)

I'll gradually add sections to the page covering tips from the past year, and will post updates about it on FediTips as I do so.

Any new tips featured on FediTips will also be added to the page. That way, there's always somewhere people can go to to easily catch up on tips they missed.

Any thoughts on this as a plan? Honest feedback appreciated!

@feditips
Mastodon Search bar?
Eugen [1] will strongly not implement full text search for posts or near future (would be good if we could choose) so back to 'my' suggestion for your posts being searchable since it's priceless help to Mastodon!

(I'm glad it is making progress in some other way)

I would be looking for a search bar (I might have missed it before) and autocomplete from it

(though this might be done via CTRL-F if on one page)

Example site with search
http://freeschool.0id.org/

I'd like to hear why not a basic self-hosted Wordpress (apart from aesthetics and the choice of pre-Gutenberg V5 or post-V5 versions --> of which I have pre-V5 in my example above)

AND IF there was a Mastodon to Wordpress (I don't think there is) then the reverse of this plugin below would also seems to make sense
https://wordpress.org/plugins/autopost-to-mastodon/)

Happy to hear what are the downsides to doing it the Wordpress to Mastodon way and also if there was a 2-way or Sync Thing between them

Also with Wordpress you get so many plugins, you start with search, RSS, sitemap etc)

[1a] https://qoto.org/@khird/108912262310974124
[1b] github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/594

#Mastodon #Search #Public #Optional #Wordpress #RSS

A search would be good in Mastodon like this example:

https://qoto.org/@freeschool/108765484674710404