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Improve Google Drive client:
- Handle uncaught error with verify on Google Drive client.
- another uncaught error surfaces when the account is deleted, before a verify takes place
- Add better tools for reseting Google Drive sync state, pulling from Drive instead of from Blot.
- Expose unlock and verify options for drive
- Uncaught exceptions raised by verify seem to not be caught properly by the try/catch blocks. Simulate an exception and work out why.
- Resolve error which occurred when I disconnected a blog from Google Drive client, a folder lock issue, which wasn't surfaced properly.
- Weird issue with connecting multiple blogs to same google drive account – the file from one appeared in the folder for the other. Also strangeness possibly related to an empty blog folder?
- How do we handle two files with same name and same parent? How does our fileId:path hash handle this? Make sure we delete the right file. Will file.title as opposed to file.name give us the deduped version?
- Bug: move file with deduplicated name from sub folder to other folder
- download should check for an existing file with same name but different fileId and dedupe before storing the path?
- Handle revoked credentials without tanking server
- Fix bug which occurs when:
- move a folder containing a folder containing a file from within your google drive, into your blog folder
- then move the folder within the folder out of the folder but keep it within your blog folder.
- Blot will never transfer the file inside
- Fix bug which occurs when:
- move a folder full of files from within google drive into your blog's folder
- Blot will recieve the folder but not the files inside
- Create test app for local use
- Can the google drive client handle a server restart during setup?
- database.folder should throw ENOENT and EEXIST errors for del, set, move etc.
- Error handling
- Retry when we get google drive's This service is not available error
- Handle storage quota errors
- Handle 429 errors with exponential backoff retry
- Add percentage progress and a status bar to the folder copying setup page
- Add `folder.rename` method to `app/sync` to take advantage of Google Drive's true rename feature
- Add a way for sync/build to accept a ctime as an option. We can't set this at the operating system level but google drive's API does return a createdTime value and we could use this as the true file's created date, rather than the date the file is made on the server
- Work out if we can test this using Mocks
- `write` should use the best method for large file uploading
- `download` Should nicely handle the export of various Google Doc formats
- Do we encounter dropbox/google drive bugs when we remove a directory of files, rather than invidivual files?
- Victor
- Ryan
- Johannes
- Rizwan
- Fritz whose blog became stuck
- [Kevin](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGlkFzdBrlJzrGprHNHNmvkQqbW)
- It seems one sync tanked the setup transfer with an [ENOENT](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvTwMksRmWvSpQXVhvlMXjKFC)
- Tell [Mike](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGpFgpdfBScqQctbnNGxBCLrztC) once the bug is sorted so he can rejoin
- Tell [Juan](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGpFzvBSNgqmRVDRHvdGrzqrZDt)
- Tell questioners](https://blot.im/questions/576)
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Expose local template syntax error messages on preview subdomain
Expose local template package.json error messages
Expose template build metadata errors on dashboard
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Add 'confirm email address' flow to prevent typos in emails
Add simple form endpoint, could be used for contact forms
Create a 'light local server' for template development which zips then posts template files to Blot's endpoint for live-auto updating previews for a given blog – there would need to be authentication with a one-time pass
- some blogs could be used unauthenticated
Create a bootswatch template and [tell Michael](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqRQBnhffbhgdVXCMpzGpbJgbW)
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Fix 'back' button in photo template and tell [Bibi](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGrcPJTmPXxWvhbmFpvwdfVzhpn)
Fix duplicate GUID issue and tell [Jason](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGrbvKsNQgVWVNKrVqMzRJdDvKk)
Come up with a workaround for [Silas's Dropbox business issue](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGrbvJhdWCxjRHXRbXpjhZtwTst)
Fix issue with favicon and [tell questioner](https://blot.im/questions/1202)
Fix missing posts on [preview of reference template](https://preview-of-reference-on-frances.blot.im/)
Tell [Jarrod](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGrbRSDCZqMwzjDdqdGCkScxpsw) when local template folders better reflect template names
Fix navigation link bug with blog tempalte and tell [Jason](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGrbcCBmkcVhfWTpZbmqndwXQrL)
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Add theme with photoswipe and use sharp's tile generation feature along with
Fix bug with undeleteable template files prefixed with dot and tell [Stuart](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?zx=j8rkxjpin0du#inbox/FMfcgzGqRZbhWzrwNrgrFLQBBDWBzhxL)
Add `Ignore: yes` metadata to trigger the ignored file behaviour
Fix bug with leading emoji and title case plugin and tell [questioner](https://blot.im/questions/874)
Fix bug with typeset 'Small caps' setting and wikilinks then follow up with [questioner](https://blot.im/questions/414). The issue is caused by the insertion of the span class="small-caps" before the wikilink converter has had a chance to render the link. Typeset should be run after wikilinks to fix this.
Handle long titles in breadcrumbs / file paths in sync log / long links etc. elegantly on the dashboard
Add [hot reload for preview subdomains](https://blot.im/questions/832)
Make it possible to set the slug-part of a URL for a post and tell [George](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLsdBjKHPdsRXJBGSbxpQQCbCN) and follow up for [post in Questions](https://blot.im/questions/23) and tell [Jarrod](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqQcpsRhzFwxVGFJLLTRsFFGKj)
Add custom metadata to turn off/on search indexing on specific post or page and tell [Hani](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHNqCSdngxBKHqctWBTgmFBbkB) and [questioner](https://blot.im/questions/890)
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Can Blot blogs be federated? Respond to [Nigel](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGrbRWfcBdwKdRZxsBKjKDwrkTp) once I do some research on this
Rebuild folder sites and tell [Michael](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?zx=j8rkxjpin0du#inbox/FMfcgzGqRQBnhXzfWsqFZhBCGVMMzDGX) that the broken image link is fixed
Follow conventional delimiters for [KateX](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?zx=j8rkxjpin0du#inbox/FMfcgzGrbHmWxcrVtbhnzHVnCtfLZhxH)
Fix bug with chinese characters in template name and follow up with [Alex](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/alex/FMfcgzGqRGTCSrMXTznCBvTWhQqvkgCL)
Fix bug with duplicate entries and tell [Marco](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqQcrBrMBLSZGlZZtZPCnRfwXr)
- [another ghost post](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqQmWhrKRqLgXMRjPbKMsBRbrV)
- there is an entry without the 'news' tag, that [shows up under 'news'](https://timeline.marconoris.com/caminar-para-entender-caminar-para-recordar-en-frontera-en-eyeframing-on-mediation/7)
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Fix bug with this [question](https://blot.im/questions/648)
Investigate this [date metadata bug](https://blot.im/questions/936)
Support larger files on DB client and tell [Marco](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqQmWjKnmPrwKSXMdZNmlqmtss)
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Add 'download as zip' option to template editor
Work out how to ensure fix is able to remove tag items without posts
- how to reproduce this bug?
- it seems there is a phanton entry which no longer exists on a tag index
- can we iterate over all tag keys during fix to detect this?
Improvements to toLowerCase:
- There was a bug with toLowerCase(restore?) that was triggered when disconnecting from Dropbox with a preview file.
- sync.lowerCaseAllFiles needs handle a duplication of files with different cases. I need a case-sensitive disk to test this on
Improvements to Dropbox client:
- [ ] improve aesthetics of oauth redirect screen (currently an ugly blue link)
- [ ] Fix issues with sync:
- Expose unlock and verify options for dropbox
- error earlier
- log all dropbox client related errors?
- add some kind of request rate limit to dropbox client?
- we could use async queue to accomplish this...
- [tell marco](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqPpdwHHQTgHmMFwkXQZBjSwXt)
- Is it possible that retry delays from the Dropbox API under excessive number of requests is the cause of the lockup?
- Tell [N](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqPzKcnRQlXQVVcbdRvLVxtjnD) when you can switch between dropbox and git without bugs
parallelize build/download a little more, so posts appear when many files are dropped into folder
- [ ] Efficiently handle Dropbox file renames with internal hash of fileIDs
- [ ] surface errors during setup on dashboard
- [ ] surface sync issues with Dropbox client on the homepage of dashboard
- [ ] How do we make errors sticky? To make sure users click through to clients page to re-connect to Dropbox, etc...
- [ ] ensure that when a process dies, any blogs syncing will be re-attempted
- [ ] ensure that when a process dies, any blogs setting up db client will be re-attempted
- [ ] reconnecting with the same account and same permissions should not create a new folder for `full_access=true`
- [ ] add 'verify' method which can run when sync fails / errors
- [ ] 'verify' should also run the `blog.fix` option
- [ ] make full_folder use the old app folder directory? is there a way to disconnect it from the Blot app? otherwise add a big warning to prevent confusion about where the new folder is when transitioning permissions
- [ ] `syncContents` needs to remove any files which existing on Dropbox but do not exist on Blot
- [ ] handle the download of large files gracefully too
- [ ] run a complete initial sync during the setup to handle all those deleted files
- [ ] add a mass upload option to speed up initial setup
- [ ] consider adding back in download/upload stream, but add a check to see if the download is stuck?
- [ ] add a check for folder storage before doing mass upload
- [ ] handle folder full error appropriately
- [ ] handle a sync lock failure on second blog when migrating an app folder
- [ ] check content hash for upload where possible
- [ ] consider re-instating streaming-download but adding a check for progress?
- [ ] should we persist last sync status message somewhere?
Fix issue with variable passed to dateFormat function and tell [Leo](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqQJlfVpSBNBwDxcSlGGqHXQbh)
Explain that the git client uses the master branch and repos from github will use main in the docs and on the dashboard then tell [N](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqPzKcnQKsQQNkzcRpvCWpWKTr)
Inject title metadata into h1 tag for all the text-based default templates and tell [questioners](https://blot.im/questions/795)
Make the magazine template respect the date settings and follow up [with questioner](https://blot.im/questions/773)
Send out cancellation confirmation emails with option to give feedback
- auto-refund people who immediately close their account after signing up
Investigate bug with template views whose names include hashtags and follow up with [Jay](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqPzMvLDJBfbNfLzpkKDzmZSNt)
Replace radio button on clients page
Get to the bottom of the slow cloudflare issue and follow up with [Wen](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqPzBWZcLJcwtWTXTbQjMbVrZB)
Add [scrubbing pagination to images template](https://jsfiddle.net/tdnc28vm/1/)
Fix issue with git client mirroring on GitHub by follow steps in email and follow up with [n](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqPzKcnQKsQQNkzcRpvCWpWKTr)
Ensure POST error messages are passed to client properly through ajax
- to trigger, submit a >5mb file on web template editor
Git client improvements:
- Surface status of git client intialization when you first set up your blog on the git client.
- Fix issue which occurs when you change your username with the git client
- Fix issue with switching from Dropbox client to Git client, in production which affected Nat
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Re-enable partial templates in posts/pages
- Tell [Matt](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGpGwrFkhsBptjFjjmRcNHSBsGX)
Add tag to iterate over all images in a folder and tell [Laurel](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvBwZtktzGVFtcfDWbGZKhsfh)
Fix bug with tags that contain slashes and tell [Jack](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGpFgzpsCkCMGqnClfqMkWZqNNz)
Fix display of featured post on mobile for magazine template and tell [Ben](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvTzfVVTRQpBGKPzTjkhVsbKl)
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Determine why we get zombie processes after running reload server script.
Express all path-based metadata rules as regular expressions, then allow the customer to control these, e.g.
```
\/Pages\/* -> Page: yes
\/Drafts\/* -> Draft: yes
```
Create starter kits for each template
- e.g. a starter kit on the blog template for a writer, or a photographer, or a journalist, or an academic.
- these could be downloaded as folders on the template page?
- Get [David](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGpGnDfkQbzQqMVDndbNVzwCWZC)'s feedback when one exists for writers
Create an index of customer-created templates and add [Matt's theme](https://www.mattlangford.com/kalena-template-for-blot)
Add 'Hidden: yes' metadata to replace 'Menu: no' and tell [Sebastien](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvTstgvzhzNkPFXdgStpTJvrN)
Fix bug with subdomains with numbers in them cause SSL certificate errors (e.g. foo2.blot.im)
Fix bug with the typeset settings do not actually affect anything (you can only disable/enable)
Fix bug not exposing issue with invalid JSON in package.json for locally-edited template on dashboard and tell [Jason](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwKjndBRlNNjZtlddcVVfFWVBbg)
Fix bug with particular emoji and tell [John](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHNqBKcPSQQHZtCFpKHrPDFkDq)
Fix case-sensitivity issue for relative (and absolute?) paths to files in folder in production and tell [Marco](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHNWHHtTmhpstcFdMfRRpzbnNw)
Fix bug with footnote links in a teaser by switching #frag to {{permalink}}#frag
Fix bug with [many twitter embeds and tell Nash](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGllMNfjvRBthVncQtPJQpmrksx)
Fix bug with a once-scheduled post, based on the file's path or previous date metadata. The post remains scheduled even if the date is removed, and even if it is then rebuilt.
Fix bug with date metadata on [Vincent](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwJXVMdhvCJPXwVVSKRTFHQTQzn)'s blog and follow up. I suspect it's to do with the ordering of date tokens.
Fix bug with tokens inside blog posts and follow up with [Karoly](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwJXfkFdhXCgBCTwGfBCzPhqwJF)
Fix bug with two entries with the same guid, possibly related to an entry rename event (i.e. copying the guid across). Make sure that when a rename happens, the old entry is permanently deleted and its guid cannot be reused. I imagine that WRITE foo.txt MV foo.txt bar.txt WRITE bar.txt could trigger this bug.
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Add method to merge updates into custom templates and tell [Dave](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGpGnDfkQbzQqMVDndbNVzwCWZC)
Improve backlink's tolerance
- Add support for full qualified URLs in the backlinks list for each entry. For example, if your blog is example.com, the following link will not appear as an internal link: [Foo](https://example.com/foo) because build/prepare/internalLinks is not aware of the blog domain/handle
- Tell [Eli](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGlkFlwSwXGrFZwvSKdHKvcxplV)
- Add support for internal links without a leading slash
- Tell Laurel
Add support for 2FA (Two factor authentication) then tell [Luke](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/163993b0f8499ab3), [Max](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/1641e9bd104c5b77), [Chaz](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/165b726aa900158a), [Prathamesh](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqQmWhhpCVSlbhdvlvWdmdtJWQ) and [Tom](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDqnpZncgBDbDskMZdPMXkgGCN).
Add support for SSO then tell [Prathamesh](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqQmWhhpCVSlbhdvlvWdmdtJWQ)
Make retreiving files from server case-insentive
- i.e. add resolve case insensitive path to file to blog/asset.js
Reach out to Wesley about using [notebook](https://github.com/WesleyAC/notebook)'s features in a template
Prevent full disk from affecting access to people's blogs.
- switch into a read-only mode?
- the specific issue that takes down the server seems to be the redis error (cannot persist on disk, out of space)
Investigate [Adam's broken template](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGlkPcpFqrPfrVjQTdjNSTMbgrP)
Release a new film showing some of Blot’s more recent features
– The current video is now many years out of date
- Finish video script in brochure/readme.txt
- Find a neat public domain song to play
- https://archive.org/details/Grab_Bag-12446/03_-_Trust.mp3
- https://archive.org/details/Winter_Sunshine_EP-8201/Evgeny_Grinko_-_01_-_Winter_Sunshine.mp3
- Ensure each template is good enough for the new film
- Finish the test folders for each template
- Add syntax highlighting option themes using [this demo as a starting point](https://highlightjs.org/static/demo/)
- Run templates through [lighthouse](https://web.dev/measure/) and [observatory](https://observatory.mozilla.org/)
- Tell these people about new templates, and to subscribe to newsletter:
- [Chris](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/14fc82f57cb2408e)
- [John](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#all/1618ca0420779742)
- [Jan](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChmLnfMTdtNkpLxHTlPJNHlCT)
- [Jamie](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDrRRZTKntrWKJvfDXrRFTzljs)
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Add nice import step under 'Services' and as part of sign up
- Fix bug with script to import wordpress posts and follow up with [Simon](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGCtMPcJhlmcdNvWwtWvgzWJvZ)
- Create importer script for [John's posts from flickr](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/166da622325d19e7)
- Create importer script for tumblr text files and tell [Sawyer](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBVMhRNdQhfDwlXsqqFNgmKfTk)
- Create importer script for Weebly and tell [David](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBTjzpgHQZMJSsvjktggRFNpDw)
- Finish Ghost template import for [Kingi](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/1625fdd572e72c69)
- Map excerpt metadata to summary for Jekyll converter importer
- Look into how Hexo has written imports for [blogger](https://github.com/hexojs/hexo-migrator-blogger), [joomla](https://github.com/welksonramos/hexo-migrator-joomla), [rss](https://github.com/hexojs/hexo-migrator-rss), [wordpress](https://github.com/hexojs/hexo-migrator-wordpress).
- Add importer for Twitter and sell [Sawyer](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBVMhRNdQhfDwlXsqqFNgmKfTk)
Improve dashboard:
- Smooth over the custom domain adding process
- cache domain validity and display checkmark on dashboard
- validate the domain is pointing to Blot before allowing resty-auto-ssl to request a cert. we seem to get into a DNS mismatch where a client thinks a domain points to Blot, and triggers a cert request through resty-auto-ssl but whatever DNS server Blot's server points to has the stale record (pointing elsewhere)
- Disable redirect to HTTPS for blogs by default (to ensure old browsers without SNI work) but ensure all prominent links to the blog on dashboard use HTTPS
- Improve clients
- cache sync validity and display checkmark on dashboard
- surface errors for clients on dashboard index
- add a change button next to the dropbox folder selected on the dropbox client where possible
- add blocking process to dropbox connection when writing folder contents
- ensure the app permission access_token is destroyed when switching to full-folder and vice versa
- add a folder chooser during full-folder setup
- ensure you can move the folder in full-folder permission mode
Move citations out of {{{html}}} and tell [questioner](https://blot.im/questions/298) and [Mikka](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGlkPcprJZlTSFbTGlqSPJcfWJJ)
Add [OneDrive](https://onedrive.com) client
- Tell [John](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGkbDVrfBwGjnVDdtXkNxKpwjfq)
- Tell [Shantesh](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/166df93b38231ec9)
- Tell [Nathan](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBVgvsdfSnqBppQrXLTVjZBBzp)
- Tell [ekskog](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBVDBmdRXFWTFLqxKgxVkdWnWL)
- Tell [John](https://twitter.com/seismonerd/status/1096862510404128768)
- Tell [Simon](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChcrhfQNXvkFkdtKntXlhjNfm)
- Tell [Andrew](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLtGjKFlzJFfRcVQdWdMBkZzdK)
- Tell [Naveen](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHMZJvNGJxTXXcnsmXDqdkNnNq)
- Tell [Emad](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHNCtzTpZsgXXjWsrTGsTTZLjx)
- Tell [John](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwKjnVGxPWrFPKJRqtlnbkHfwXt)
- If OneDrive for Business is supported tell [Josh](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBVqWwRgxrwLRzrNscfJtllhXz)
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Convert [Vitepress](https://vitepress.vuejs.org/) to Blot and tell [Nicolas](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmtNldkFnLGgZVNfqLcvBjVxWW)
Re-order blog engine routes such that pages/entries are evauluated first, making it possible to set up custom redirects and tell [Marco](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGllCcNbxjDTdZzRCcNgmnJjXWM)
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Write new converters to turn files into posts
- Add AVIF image post support and tell [Simon](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGlkFqWwhwwQgrrlwKtctkTgRXx)
- Add RTF support using Pandoc or [rtf.js](https://github.com/tbluemel/rtf.js)
- Add support for [Jupyter Notebook .ipynb](https://predictablynoisy.com/posts/2019/2019-11-11-ipynb_pandoc/#ipynb-to-html) using Pandoc and tell [Arnab](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmtNdkGQxbMVblqjvkHwSMTBbW)
- Add support for .doc using [libreoffice](https://www.npmjs.com/package/libreoffice-convert) and tell [Kyle](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwKkHZVgwCNwsdlhdzCggRtsRhN)
- Video posts (.mp4) - add way to opt-in to these
- Add support for .tiff images
- OPML files and tell [John](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/1659bac084c3e404)
- Audio posts (.mp3 for now?) and tell [Kevin](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxvzLhcqVldHMCFpTWDmfrRHfwpg) - add way to opt-in
Write new clients to sync blog folders
- [SFTP](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ftpd)
- Tell [Coraline](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGllCmcFflWmXcCdVzTJztDTwXx)
- Tell [Calvin](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChclvkfHMWfnqGdWkQnzMdklW)
- Tell [Fabrice](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHNCspWMdnbCdzfHGwBrSKPBSC)
- [NextCloud](https://nextcloud.com/)
- Tell [Vincent](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGpHHVZggXQRzJKNTrJHRxLdLjt)
- Tell [Coraline](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGllCmcFflWmXcCdVzTJztDTwXx)
- Tell [Andrew](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChJgWDpnsGBCXsCwkxRZnXMph)
- Tell [Mike](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHMGDWmSXxbJkvjZbtvdQtNNGZ)
- [Box](https://box.com)
- Tell [Eric](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHMZRzCcPkNppMpSbBzNRKFSNs)
- [Syncthing](https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-syncthing)
- Tell [Jason](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwCgpVWzZTVxccmWLmnPBmDFjvV)
- If [iCloud](https://www.icloud.com/) becomes possible
- Tell [Andrew](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChJfNnhCDNsffJSjnQHnxdSfh)
- Tell [Cristina](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmtFHHXQKNQKppXpHGpkvLjQSD)
- Tell [John](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGlkPcphtxgswTQccZLfQGwfWhN)
- Tell [David](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChJfNfSZgQqjNWLWVHZjwXQrS)
- Tell [John](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChJfNTrdmqJwwzCPLrhcQRNWW)
- Tell [Dave](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChJfNfLmTVjNGcXZVRWdlrLzp)
- Tell [Shawn](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChJfNfRRjzkzpvQjPTCQtqpDx)
- Tell [Andrew](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChJgWDpnsGBCXsCwkxRZnXMph)
- Tell [Chris](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwC1hJjqgsvKxxVgFdbXvxNTHTsz)
- Tell [Kerim](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChSJkptkQxlqTjsDCtdTgMWXv)
- Tell [Wilt](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChcgKzMGXdrHMVhrjsjJnnBzk)
- Tell [John](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDqfMPDQnSTBSsWXdtfkVdJzdD)
- Tell [Arlo](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwJWrZRLJddkZSdrMVxrNkTZLKn)
- Tell [Anders](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwKkRFxsDShhsHGNcdRqwHFMmJM)
- Tell [Victor](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGkbDVrLFlwcgwDddsVPJBVKSvW)
- [Github](https://github.com)
- Tell [John](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvBnVvqHdJXLgDhrtChCqdMQX)
---
Improvements to backup system
- Add hourly local redis rdb dumps to /cache
- Test maintenance mode
- Add script to roll back into hourly local db dumps and remote backups
Apply helper/imageminify to images in posts with opt-in
- [ ] Run these changes past John, get opinion on [optimized images](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLsmhMtGvPcwxlSHSSTFVpJVbd)
- [ ] Talk to Marius about [his opinions on the compression settings](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLtQPwXwJrwgMzjfvDtcwFZzFC)
Begin collecting proper measurements for page-rendering speed on the server
Add raw-link -> open graph cards/embed function, which would fetch the title, description and thumbnail for a link using <meta> tags. Tell [Robert](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGlksJFbBlWtzMHgcxcdBRBhQSJ)
Improvements to teaser generator
- Improve estimate of teaser length
- Remove trailing non-text elements (like <hr>)
- Add {{small}} and {{long}} versions of teaser?
- Fix bug with makeTeaser for ~/Dropbox/bug.html which locks main process painfully
- Internal links (e.g. #section) in {{{teaser}}} should be resolved against the entry's permalink.
- Add hasBreakpoint property to entry to allow greater control over display of {{{teaser}}} and tell [Pratik](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBTsfMTHqWMQFmprMcjNpdBQzp)
- Fix [issue with teaser generator](https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot/issues/15) that locks up a build process, sometimes for 10+ seconds.
- Make it [possible for users to select length of teasers](https://blot.im/questions/823) and [Leo](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqQJdjwTLkHkRZvZTQvfSzSFTq)
Performance improvements
- Consider switching redis client, perhaps to ioredis?
- Use a docker image to speed up test suite: https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot/pull/463
- Faster server, with SSL termination across CDN
- set up 'cdn.blot.im' as cloudfront distribution endpoint?
- Streamline and cache loading of data on dashboard
- Ensure node.js server has one process per CPU
- Ensure I am doing request coalescing on NGINX and lower proxy timeout limit
- Read the [5 hour CDN post](https://fly.io/blog/the-5-hour-content-delivery-network/) and [discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28053168)
- Ensure nginx is handling all static file delivery
- Detect CPU intensive functions in node.js process
- Use the [--trace-sync-io command-line flag](https://expressjs.com/en/advanced/best-practice-performance.html#set-node_env-to-production) to determine if Blot is using any sync methods inappropriately
- Can we keep the pandoc child_process running and pipe stuff in and out for speed? Measure before after to ensure this helps
- Add request level timeouts to prevent server swamping
- ensure to remove the timeout from the SSE streaming routes (drafts, sync status on dashboard)
- read this guide: http://expressjs.com/en/resources/middleware/timeout.html
- it seems we also need to cancel the resources involved in responding to the request (i.e. disk io, db calls) for this to be really useful
- Add a timeout of 15 seconds for building posts.
Server changes
- Write useful benchmark tool for Blot
- Add memory monitor which notifies me when memory is mostly consumed
- Migrate to lower-cost r6gd.xlarge instance, which is not possible using the AWS console due to some difference in architecture (intel vs. amazon chip?).
- Work out how to detect stray build processes. There were a bunch of zombies consuming memory on Blot's server. Work out how to kill them safely
- Experiment with different EBS types, perhaps try to use ephemeral disk more since lower latency?
- Take full advantage of attached SSD
- use rsync/inotify to synchronize 'source of truth' EBS disk with the local SSD cache then modify NGINX to check the synced folder on the /cache disk
- on boot we would gently copy across all /blogs folders and the /static directory in background task
Add [line numbers](https://github.com/wcoder/highlightjs-line-numbers.js/) to highlight.js hljs code tags
Support [Obsidian's syntax for embedding files](https://help.obsidian.md/How+to/Embed+files) and images, and tell [John](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGkbDftzhXHGrmzXrjtcMbGrmxM) and [Robert](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGlksJFbBlWtzMHgcxcdBRBhQSJ)
Migrate from mailgun to SES, mailgun's javascript sdk [seems](https://github.com/mailgun/mailgun-js/issues/122) [like](https://github.com/mailgun/mailgun-js#setup-client) a mess.
Expose log files on blog's dashboard and tell [Sönke](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLtsxjSMlVmNRFGJJxkpsVFNvg) and [questioner](https://blot.im/questions/136) and [John](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvBnVvqHdJXLgDhrtChCqdMQX)
Improvements to brochure:
- Write build scripts which can be run to produce results checked into git
- inline css in blot.css
- inline css in katex.css?
- base 64 encode and inline small images on homepage
- Optimize all images in image directory
- compute content hashes then Use blotcdn for video and other large static files
- Add end-to-end tests for brochure site to test sign up flow (use Playwright? Phantom? Chrome headless)
- Add guide to useful text editors like [this one recommended by Andrew](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/write-best-note-taking-app/id848311469)
- do this as a marketing strategy, e.g. target 'blog with microsoft word', 'blog with google docs', 'blog with ia writer' etc... contact the people who make text editors and ask them to link to us?
- Personalize the documentation for logged in customers
- Add [contributor](https://api.github.com/repos/davidmerfield/blot/contributors) / [language](https://api.github.com/repos/davidmerfield/blot/languages) and repo information to source code page using GitHub API.
Improvements to Wikilinks feature:
- fix bug with apostrophe's and tell [Roberto](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqRGVKGmtpJxgwshqLWBWXcFdL)
- use iaWriter spec to make [the lookup more flexible](https://ia.net/writer/support/general/wikilinks#:~:text=How%20Wikilinks%20Work,the%20same%20name.)
- test with non-[[Wikilinks]] options in Obsidian
- add support for other (non-Obsidian) wikilink styles (i.e. title-based?)
- use the location of the nearest `.obsidian` directory to determine the 'root' against which to resolve styles?
- support Obsidian-style media embedding and tell [questioners](https://blot.im/questions/746)
- wikilinks to images should [embed the image](https://blot.im/questions/746)
- look up the config in the the nearest `.obsidian` directory to determine whether shortest, relative or absolute wikilinks are in use?
- test with all Obsidian new link settings (shortest, relative and absolute)
- add more resolution tolerance and tell [Jonathan](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvBqpKMNBvlKBSWRLHJWdqDnC)
Improvements to simple local server (npm run local):
- Consider using [redis-mock](https://github.com/yeahoffline/redis-mock) and [mockery](https://github.com/mfncooper/mockery)
- Persist data somehow? import/export from local folder .blot?
- Fix 'Visit' link on dashboard
- Can we expand this to a simple self-hosting process ('npx blot-server')?
Use postcss to compile template CSS
- Use [color function](https://mono.software/2017/08/08/supercharge-your-colors/) to improve UX of borders/highlights
- Consider supporting SASS and tell [Max](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGDNRnfqdSCvqvTgGZTSSTvGjv)
Add options to [preserve linebreaks](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26066621/preserve-line-breaks-in-pandoc-markdown-latex-conversion) in Markdown and tell [Matt](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGkXcwpJzKrBrGKDcZKBPSSdsfh)
Template engine plan
- create data/blogs/blogID/templates directory
- show error message on preview-of subdomain
- only allow valid templates to get stored in data/blogs/blogID/templates, used for live site?
- maybe we only store in redis valid templates, live site pulls
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Improve server-side scheduled tasks:
- Write task to identify and delete long overdue customers
- Back up postgres database
Fetch dimensions of images even if optimize and cache is disable, so that image zoom can work. Tell [Joshua](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLsmhMtGvPcwxlSHSSTFVpJVbd)
Add action to lint code with jshint and eslint
- any other static code analysis tools?
- separate code to check for broken links, run in parallel
Improvements to metadata extractor:
- Improve date parser to use time from file creation date if it's within the same day as the date specified in metadata and follow up with [Nicolas](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLsShbhKRcvhWJlKRPHPctMnWM)
- Fix summary generator such that a subtitle is used for summary text (i.e. an h2 directly following an h1) We still want to prevent the scenario in which a later h2 becomes the summary, though. Notify [Jessica and rebuild Jessica's site](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/KtbxLwghhxtxrtdGHFqBRMcDGkGWtxvSdq)
- Add support for entry property with escaped double quotes, tell [Jay](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/15e396dbd8350972)
Reduce image compression settings and tell [Joshua](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLsmhMtGvPcwxlSHSSTFVpJVbd)
Improve questions section of site, in approximate order of importance:
- Add way to mass-rename tags
- Add display aliases for tags e.g. how -> How to use Blot, etc.
- Fix breadcrumbs within Questions section
- Fix pagination
- store version history of the question and answer edits
- add option to hide/delete a question
- question tagging, including a list of all tags, and popular tags
- give the 'ask' and 'answer' textarea inputs the full functionality of the GitHub issue/PR comment inputs (i.e. code snippets / preview / copy/paste screenshots from clipboard)
- email notifications (There's an existing system in place for sending emails in app/helper/email)
- upvoting for topics and upvote-based ranking on the topic index
- show vote count and answer count next to each question on index
- add a filter for topic index to show questions by: 'Newest', 'Active', 'Unanswered', 'Votes'
- 'run code snippet' feature / similar to trinkets.io
---
Make it possible to change URL of tagged pages and tell [Jarrod](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqQvxkjzVJFTpMQSNJRzptKkdH)
Consider adding support for nested page structure
- generate nested menu items from nested folders in /pages
Consider adding a global 'ignore' setting on services page of dashboard?
- could ignore all '.jpg' say, or all 'index.html' files, etc.
Consider adding 'default metadata' option to dashboard
- Tell [Mike](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLscxQPSzQtKbhpHpJgbNlgCQZ)
Redirect URLs with trailing slash when possible (i.e. not directory browsing) to [fix possible duplicate content penalties](https://moz.com/community/q/duplicate-content-with-a-trailing-slash) and tell [Marius](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwKkHhPFPKFBzQjQQHwlrRWwbKq)
- Add rel=canonical to all the default templates, or fix the issue that Blot serves the same thing to URLs with a trailing slash, and without.
- If we do add rel=canonical, make sure to consider the situation where someone mounts a page to the index of their site, e.g. /page/1 and / will now be different.
Add way to nest tags / hierarchy for tags and tell [Uzoamaka](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLsJwTqFWjRgHLhPXJgBtnGwJJ)
Investigate potentially TeX-related escaping issues and tell [Anthony](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwJWhzZspbBhTCPBGjvnslgrZlb) and Roy
Adjust the chargeForRemaining function in create-blog such that the balance is added or deducted from the proration charge.
Rewrite transformer (in app/helper/transformer)
- Speak HTTP properly, respect backoffs, use/send eTags
- Share information across blogs?
- Improve transformer so it checks a file's MTIME against a stored value before rehashing the file?
- Adjust interface to accept a number of directories. Make it 'unaware' of blog IDs?
- Add method which accepts a path or URL and flushes what is stored for it, update the rebuild entry script
- Cache errors. When a post contains multiple identical links to images that timeout/404, the thumbnail generator should only make 1 attempt to fetch them. Right now we have a post that is filled with identical broken image links (in this case to a spacer.gif) can suck up the build process for hours.
Add a 'page link format' option to the dashboard – the link format now only applies to entries. Tell [Mike](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwKkbjLjgTZLQqMFFMzBBpzMZTg)
Tweak {{slug-without-diacritics}} in permalink format such that "ö" becomes "oe" instead of "o" and tell [Domink](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGCGxBpTdztRkpPpScxTxdVMJJ)
Add queues and progress bars to entry building, client-switching and follow up with [Jacopo](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHNCrgCFZKKzdvTFVvWHCpQChM)
Test cloudflare analytics integration from scratch and resolve issue with diklein.com
Prevent long-overdue customers from accessing the service, then tell [Matvey](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHNgWvzTkMVZXFrSpjGfcCrWJG)
Add support for arbritary template folder location – any subfolder could be a template folder if it contains a valid template.json file. Tell [Bernardo](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwKjfBwnDxMFMGgHtfFFkBvTQbV)
Generate proper favicons from uploaded avatars (to prevent streched favicons when non-square avatars are uploaded)
Experiment with GitHub actions setup
- Look into potentially useful actions for code quality / linting / automtatic dependency updates
- [super-linter](https://github.com/github/super-linter#how-it-works)?
Improvements to server infrastructure
- Work out way to recover from expired cert in the cache. To reproduce, consider a member who signed up, connected example.com, then moved the domain to another service. The attempt to renew the cert for example.com will fail. When the customer re-registers with Blot, for some reason open-resty-auto-ssl will serve an old certificate. I followed these steps to [reset](https://github.com/GUI/lua-resty-auto-ssl/issues/42) but we should automate this
- Create DMARC record for Blot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/dmarc.html
- NGINX doesn't appear to be following the symlinks created by node.js to serve the contents of each blog's folder and the contents of each blog's static directory. Is this a permissions issue? Is now finally the time to set up users with appropriate permissions for blot, nginx, build etc...
Improve the automatic title generated for screenshots with default MacOs filename from 'at 14:40pm'
Add support for posts generated from Excel files, would generate a table. Use [this library](https://github.com/joshboyan/excel-to-html-table)?
Use [blurhash](https://github.com/woltapp/blurhash) to generate placeholders when lazy loading images and tell [David](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwJXfqzZvHgrtSxzLBCwcvTsFFB) and [Marius](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLtQPwXwJrwgMzjfvDtcwFZzFC)
Add status page information to news page:
- customize the design of this page a little (could we self-host on a different service, e.g. linode, a page which makes an API call to updown?)
- embed a brief status history in the brochure site somewhere
- link to this status page in the 502 bad gateway error page
Work out how to cache 404s at the NGINX level
- I tried extending express-disk-cache to store images inside /https/blot.im/missing/foo-bar.html but I can't set a 404 status code for the specific tryfiles directive which could match that file.
- The application server ends up spending a lot of time serving 404s
Improvements to template engine
- Add blog.statistics and entry.statistics (total words, etc.) and tell [Pratik](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmtDzMRWDrnBcZmXBmCWtvbwJD)
- Work out how to make live but saveable modifications for preview purposes on the template editor. I have already established a messaging channel between preview HTML pages and the template editor with the script injected in render/middleware.
- Add [background patterns](https://bansal.io/pattern-css#checks) to template editor tools, tell [Ish](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHMsVFZBwLtkGslXZXkcxmKdvf)
- Add 'group by' function which would allow you to group posts by month/ year in the same way that {{#archives}} lets you and tell [Jay](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLtGkSQnQDJRMcxKZhgQfbXvSF)
- Respond to Michael's [thoughtful emails](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGDWqXmTLfljkKdGlfFMhMdkTm) about the template system
- Local editing
- Fix bug with title and partials in local editing then tell [Luke](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/164afa87ede57db7) and [Frank](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/164ae2e3789b8d4c)
- Add support for chronological template ordering and [follow up with questions](https://blot.im/questions/819)
- Add way to iterate over public and private pages to allow sitemap to work properly and tell [Rodrigo](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDsFffNqTnCTjHrNSrrLBtnnGW) and [questioner](https://blot.im/questions/222)
- Fix bug with template editor which resets content of a view. Follow up with [Nathan](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxvzLhgJQTTQZvpsxJDBgnNQpJnJ) who has extensive steps to reproduce, and John
- Allow the name/slug of a template to change and tell [Marcus](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChSCwzPxFLvSpLcjjRbCkVVbg) and [Pratik](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGDDqldQjWRSnwmcMbcpRMHMxL) and [Brad](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGCkmWNjfwTqvrTgJLCSpDcDfk) when the name of a locally-edited template in your blog's folder updates
- Allow ordering of posts by file name and tell [Jacopo](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHNCrgCFZKKzdvTFVvWHCpQChM)
- Expose request query to views and tell [Abhishek](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?zx=ppqfw9q0jli#inbox/FMfcgzGljvQfHMktFrRNKQWqsxKQWSGZ)
- Add way to query list of posts using SQL? Something like [jsql](https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=jsql)
com/mail/u/0/#inbox/1588e3df7489b554)
- [Don't write my own DSL, use SQL](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17890760) Something like this in front matter? recent_posts: SELECT POSTS WHERE ...
- Add support for entry lists of variable length and tell [Logan](https://twitter.com/LoganGreer)
- Add support for 'creating' a template inside '/Templates/'
- Tell [Myron](https://twitter.com/rodriguesmyron) and [Ryan](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDrvCRNqvVclgfcHmhpJKChMhV) and [Jussi](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGCtQrKrPTxkKlfBMctjWQdbCM) on Twitter when it is possible to rename the folder created for a template in local editing.
- Support template views inside a subfolder inside template folder, e.g. {{> partials/footer}} and then tell [Nash](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChJfNfGHXPKxmntzZRfsDFHpq)
- Add support for the setting of custom headers (e.g. to enable CORS) and tell [Roy](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDrRShkTjNqPxcnPjFcGthZgbh)
- Add support for listing files in arbritary folders (e.g. use a custom folder as a 'public' folder) and tell [Nash](https://twitter.com/nashp/status/1111655667817947137) and [Marco](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/marco/FMfcgzGmvBrxCgvXVhZQsbdzpgDktSGV)
- Move to uuid based template IDs instead of slug
- Add way to list directory contents and tell [Diego](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHMZJtkqxhLVWXqdxNVchgGQzp)
- Move to data directory for templates
- Serve the template directory as a static folder, allowing things like favicon.png and humans.txt to not become blog posts. Follow up with [Jamie](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#all/FMfcgxwBVMpMKkNJwJtvbQVFvbmHqHpl)
- Re-do url redirector to use route-parser and properly support regular expressions
- Add support for paginated list of entries on other pages and tell [Kevin](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxvzLhlvZxhQwWfJmKhnXgkPnmJC) and [Eli](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBVDJhGpffNsZDjCszcstGVsGh) and [Sven](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChJhhfPCqLCXWxtnJsxNfWKdM) and [Nikhil](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDrvCRFcMTRcgMJdcCkxSNChXq) and [Adam](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHMsQczfjJBHpBSlxTmgxXMQKr) and [Madino](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwJXflPbzPWJQdgCxxrSWbzRDWT) and [Ryan](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLsdFCmRCKzvxTgchlZJzdhwQd)
- Add dynamic querying of entry list and tell [Naoki](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHMjtCWmHCBZWsVPTCftbQCZTn)
- Fix bug with filtering paginated list of entries and tell [Roy](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBVgrQJWNPHHvdxnMtWCGJkZdM) and [Josh](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBVzrFNFzLzbWrssWzbrSvtpTm) and [Logan](https://twitter.com/LoganGreer)
- Add a popular entry list
- Add a related entry list and tell [Thomas](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/156dbe97153fab61) know
- Add way to list files at a path and tell [Matt](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDqxRmLMrTjjpjftkSwddPJkTm)
Re-send receipt when the customer changes their email after initial payment, pre-account creation.
- Once stripe allows programmatic receipt delivery
Improvements to entry builder
- Adjust title metadata extractor to fallback to file name rather than first sentence of file if the post does not contain a title tag. The current behaviour has suprised a number of people. If this breaks [John's template](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHMjqlPTxhSXLNBDCmqXLQHdvX) create new first_sentence property of entry to use on the template.
- Fix bug with slashes in tags and tell [Dave](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHMjqlPTzJxBPcQPnGsQsPSsvh)
- Generate a list of titles which you could use to generate a table of contents and tell [Zach](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGDNNMjbjsSKltGRLDsqXfbMhN)
- Use time draft was moved into blog folder for entry created/publish date, rather than the time the draft file itself was created. Tell [Kerim](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDrHtwmLGkWLvLfklMwRRqDpTk) and [Shibel](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGDWsqhHZnPjfgRqFhpdNGZVKn)
- Parse Word Document subtitles as h2 and tell [Matt](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sent/FMfcgxwDrlfrjDMsDlkLHNsnbtmXQtDw)
- Add way to filter entries by post type (e.g. photo) and tell [Justin](https://twitter.com/juter/status/1079767534231011330).
- If entries share publish date, sort them by blot creation date
- Fix bug with blockquotes and tell [Kerim](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/165b813e36c5ad67). Multiple ">" symbols on the blank paragraphs between other quoted text are not formatting properly.
- Fix bug with indented code in pre tags and tell [Michael](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/166704e2c0187e5c)
Improvements to dashboard
- Fix bug with file list on dashboard in Safari and tell [Ryan](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHMGHzLwclHfnvjZrvfsvTQdGf)
- Fix missing error messages on overdue subscription payment form
- Use \<select\> optgroup on timezone select dropdown to subdivide zones by current time, and steal the presentation format used by basecamp.
- Add a broken link checker
- Make dashboard requests idempotent to prevent multiple form resubmits, multiple new blogs created accidentally? More information about [idempotent requests](https://stripe.com/docs/api#idempotent_requests)
- Indicate that some posts' permalink will not change (if metadata) on the dashboard when setting the blog's permalink format. Tell Chet.
- Dumb quotes are still smartified, even without typeset enabled, possibly by pandoc?
- Undo option for form changes
- Add transactional emails notifying customer of changes to their email or password.
- When a customer pastes the whole tracking script into the preferences page on the dashboard, strip out everything except the ID which we need... perhaps create a page explaining what
is happening before doing this.
- Handle noscript on dashboard / signup gracefully (remove all dashboard js?)
- Allow customers who are restarting an account with multiple blogs to disable some before restarting.
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Finish template translation offers
- [Anders Norén](https://www.andersnoren.se/teman/)
- [Radek Kozieł](https://github.com/panr)
- Port [Jane hugo theme](https://github.com/xianmin/hugo-theme-jane) to Blot and tell Jack and Josh on micro.blog
- [Ghostwriter](https://themes.gohugo.io/ghostwriter/) and tell [Simon](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLsScxfcHPpszsvCwTxqwbczTm)
- Work on [Tim](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/QgrcJHsNmtgTlZpGFBGxzhPSDHVNczfwqXL)'s template
- Translate [this theme](https://github.com/huangyz0918/moving) to Blot and tell [Naveen](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChJZlmGfwNKCPLPMbkRHJSjNs)
- Translate [Ana's](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDqTgjDcQwDdcmTkgjjKTdQhQV) designs to Blot
- Translate [2019](https://themes.gohugo.io/twentynineteen-hugo/) to Blot and tell [Gabriel](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDrHqTkZhqhrFllhNGrbzwXqzg)
- Translate [Paul's template into Blot](https://blot-im.slack.com/messages/DJ39G5WQ0/)
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Improve the markdown converter:
- Add plugin option to enable hard line breaks in Markdown parser? Tell [Wil](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLsmhNWSxQsvMkWPRdQsxQxSvh)
- Fix bug with nested Markdown and tell [Martin](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDqnhgBjBSKzvtclvqcFcMptMR):
- ](http://example.com/images/_landingImage_01.jpg)
- Extend the Markdown converted to add support for Ulysses highlighting and iAWriter highlighting syntax, using the [example files provided by Marco](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLsKFQGTxDTnxNddZQxjsLZJGb). Tell [Marco](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLsKFQGTxDTnxNddZQxjsLZJGb)
- Fix bug which injects <p> tags into the following: <div class="img-gallery"><img src="_Floralia.png" title="Floralia"><img src="_Flower.png" title="Flower"><img src="_Mechanical.png" title="Mechanical"><img src="_Curv.png" title="Curv"><img src="_Curvus.png" title="Curvus"><img src="_Futuristic.png" title="Futuristic">
</div> and tell [Vanessa](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLswJQjKhnLpNZzfPhJZpVtcph)
Finish script to identify long-expired customers with blogs to safely delete and free up space.
- Sort by date expired
- Write script to safely delete blogs
- wipe blog folder
- wipe static directory
- wipe all keys
Ignore files inside 'assets' inside .textbundle directories to improve support for textbundles and tell [Thomas](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwCgzDLvlTkKNmfZgnXpzzLZjWN).
Rebuild all the thumbnails and cached images for every blog
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Add support for paying with Bitcoin
- Consider https://github.com/btcpayserver https://github.com/btcpayserver/node-btcpay
- Tell [Chaz](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#sent/165b726aa900158a)
- Tell [Anita](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLsSWMtCTdmrbscFCFLggctmxH)
Add support for paths to static files with a trailing slash then tell [Sean](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGBwbZsfsWKHCGcbzXXSPhQWXx)
Add copy button to code snippets in \<pre\> tags and tell [Atif](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGCGxBVcrtzqmXGBtpLTBBjrQf)
Add support for Ulysses .ulz file format and tell [Nash](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDqxRmfFfLfBdcrrZBDxXPTtTj)
Add support for Ulysses image syntax and tell [Konstantin](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHMsRmxKrQzmjmcxnBTqQKHvzj)
Consider adding a {{titleLink}} property to each entry, which extracts a link from the {{titleTag}} for use in RSS feeds, etc. and tell [Guy](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGBwTplWfqwxrlPtkQsbjddSfl)
Add new template lambdas
- Whitespace trimming and tell [Chad](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChmTsrnBLkSXfNXKDtXdNFjfk)
- Number formatting (e.g. add commas to int.) and tell [Chad](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChmTsrnBLkSXfNXKDtXdNFjfk)
Add way to filter archives page by year or month and tell [Chad](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChmTsrnBLkSXfNXKDtXdNFjfk)
Add a cool bookmarklet which [drafts a post a la this demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu5uXXulnNk)
Add broken link check for all email templates for logged in and logged out customers
Fix bug with rename detector which caused old permalinks not to redirect to their latest version and tell [Shibel](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChSMBfbsZQQSGSjtghSHKKVzm)
- To reproduce, create file 'foo.txt' with title and permalink 'foo'
- Then turn off server
- Then rename file to 'bar.txt', and edit title to 'bar' at the same time
- we expect /foo to redirect to /bar, but it doesn't
Tell [Thiago](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDrttWJFgmtWWqnnxzCmmfDQbc) once it's possible to create stand-alone HTML pages whcih don't become blog posts.
Make it possible to search entire page on web template editor and tell [Precious](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/QgrcJHrtwLwTldzhrTKHMtnhwVqMXVzCTqv). At the moment, only the text on the viewport is searchable.
Follow up with [Shibel](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwCgpcJbSnrrjHZGqtgschtWwXs) about how to ignore arbritrary paths and keep clean URLS (no underscores). Sitewide .blotignore file?
Fix bug with image zoomer on mobile devices and tell [Alessandro](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChSCwptjLtLGMjWxdkQNnNfTk)
Adjust length of slug to use as few words as possible until collision and tell [Chet](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGBmtwFVcGnqXNNxPNqdbzlWhL)
Fix bug with handling of queries and tell [this person](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?zx=tqp989l7y4yi#inbox/15b575fbc8d80ad1).
Fix post encoding bugs
- Fix [Kevin](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/1665be131ce98928)'s URL encoding bug. Each entry's url property is not encoded as a URI component on the server but it needs to be.
- Fix encoding bug with greek URLs then tell [Rodericus](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/rodericus/15bb13fafc1c34e5) know
- Fix bug with template tags in blog post and tell [Shibel](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwCgCJQhBZwgzQVLkKHnwPKVkFC)
Fix bugs with RSS feeds validation. Perhaps extend absoluteURLs helper function? Tell [John](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxvzMBqKpcLTtxTzcfvMCVckLMJJ)
Fix bug with [Rodrigo's Word Document files](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBVWRXqnjmjBDmcRXKcdxjcDfr)
Fix bug with image minification which produces larger file than source file and tell [Jan](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBTkHlNvhcJLGVRCPvXvjbwsWR)
Fix Git client bugs
- Fix bug which occurs when you change your username while using the Git client (caused by the broken repo url) and tell [Koen](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/1670f516115ef9bd) and [Andre](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDqfMMxJXpbTZLvGzVmZlFPNfk) and [Josh](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDqnkxhvtmPpdMMkRPjzpktrxG) and [Ryan](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGCGthpSTxskRFFVjtrGnhnSvh) and [David](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGllVjvNfvdDVmnmlRvrFsNnQSD)
- Work out how to pipe custom error messages down
- Pipe custom message when you change a blog's handle (breaking repo url)
- Tell [Koen](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/1670f516115ef9bd) about the broken repo URL fix
Date parser bugs
- Fix bug parsing ISO8601 date format and tell [Thomas](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/1625012def221a8f)
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Improve scheduler
- Adds a command to restore database from backup.
Remove dependence on AWS
- Adds offsite (i.e. non AWS backups) backups
- Write out plan to move off AWS
- DNS
- EC2
- S3 for backups
- Cloudfront for CDN
- backup blogs folder + db somewhere offsite at least once per week
Metadata parser
- Make custom metadata more strict, follow up with Chris](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwCgpdRvrccbzfckkZRtPXHzqjs)
- Add support for [Pelican-style metadata](http://docs.getpelican.com/en/stable/content.html) in HTML posts using <meta name="date" content="2012-07-09 22:28" />
- Removing Date metadata from a post should reset its date to the file's creation date. Currently nothing changes.
- Fall back to file name before first sentence when generating title metadata and tell [Rob](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwCgpVWgqcnbZjCdSXbjrBlLkFC)
- Add support for setting the index of an item in the menu to metadata and tell [Silvio](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChJfNfLljXGvbjpNwDBFWXDWR)
Implement hidden link section on Menu page under profile settings. Default links not on the menu would appear there, making it easy to restore them in future. Tell [Josh](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwCgVTbfgnTVvCjfMGzWDjvjfML)
Move away from reds and investigate good full text search options using Postgres
- Tell [Tim](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBVMjZKgvPxSjvsHjPRzGsDHQX)
- Tell [Toshiyuki](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmtNcZRSNsGpkKLvjpkDBJzmpm)
Improve Ghost importer and tell [Vin](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBWSwbGRtFTnJCPCXzVHntQPtC)
Add new variable for last-build-time for a blog, and use this for <lastBuildDate> in the sites' RSS feeds. Tell [Shawn](https://twitter.com/soypunk)
Redirect old draft URL to live published post and tell [Shibel](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwCggCNxgsmCtmRTSkVrDlMJqSH)
Improve 404 log page on Dashboard
- Add button to clear 404 log and tell [Jamie](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBVDLzTVpVZHfgwRgcmtGXFHXx)
- Add frequency indicator for each route 404 log and tell [Jamie](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBVDLzTVpVZHfgwRgcmtGXFHXx)
- Add filtering by date to 404 log and [tell this person](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/1566e52d170f29ca)
Add way to auto-refresh page during template development on preview subdomains. Tell [Ryan](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/FMfcgxwBVDHXWxBGqwNlmsmgZjbnHXvg)
Add support for nesting multiple layout tags e.g. "{<>} {||} Y" and tell [Marius](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBVqNqbsQJjcrTXRcsFxHVPzDq)
Improvements to Git client
- Add support for LFS and tell [Jamie](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBVMcpnxGHqnxJHNdbMBSrglzg)
- Remove git folder when switching to Dropbox client and tell [Jamie](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGDDqlwPCNcJrLDqprtcKWXFTn)
- Backdate existing commits (perhaps set file ctime using info from git log?) This would sidestep the frustration experienced by [Gavin](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/1669a8e621f9ef37) when he imported an existing repository.
- Fix bugs with git removed / renamed file unit test on Travis
- Extend sync lock during long syncs
- Write test to simulate process dying and restarting mid-pull. Does the client recover? What happens if a pull fails midway? Does git recover?
- Write tests for a series of random client operations (pull, add, push, move, reset, delete) that can be seeded and reliably re-run in the case of failure.
- Move to neat promise chain api when 2.0 comes out
* Test that client must keep sending new entries and deleted entries when it recieved an error from entry.build otherwise you get ghost posts...
- send nice error message with instructions for 413 request too large: "git reset HEAD^" etc...
- Thoroughly document:
- Tidy up tests and reduce size and runtime
- This client should acquire a lock on the blog's folder before doing stuff to it more generally, especially during initialization etc...
- what happens if customer changes their handle? will pushing break?
- I want them to be able to keep using their old one *until* someone else claims it, then I want 401 unauthorized, please reauthenticate with new username... but the remote path will be wrong?
- Rate limit authentication route?
Dropbox client
- Revert lowercase for all files when disconnecting the client
- add support for Dropbox Paper files using paperDocsDownload and tell [Emad](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHMZJvMswZZXKvLfBRBVqfzksw)
- Add integration test with a dropbox Webhook call. I want to not push some code which would prevent syncing customer folders.
- Does client.remove support the removal of folders? If not, make it so and add a test
- Add a step to authentication flow which says: 'there is already a folder called 'Your blog title' in your Dropbox, would you like to use that?' then overwrite the files inside. This prevents the proliferation of confusing 'Your blog title (1)' when you re-authenticate.
- Add a progress bar to the dashboard when writing existing files to Dropbox. It takes a while and confuses people.
- Adding an additional blog to existing app folder under constant webhooks failed. New blog had correct folder but old blog still used root. I guess we need to acquire a lock on ALL blogs interacting with that dropbox account.
- Extend sync lock during long syncs
- Write test to simulate process dying and restarting mid-pull. Does the client recover?
- Write tests for a series of random dropbox client operations (pull, add, push, move, reset, delete) that can be seeded and reliably re-run in the case of failure.
- Look into getAccessTokenFromCode on DBSDK repo to avoid the mess in get_account.js https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-js/issues/64
- Gracefuly retry wrapper around Dropbox
- Can we write to a folder_id instead of a path? It would be nice to be able to move the blog's folder even when writing the initial files to it, for example...
- This should be simple once we copy the exisiting state of the blog folder across. But right now it doesn't really do much. It resets the local server folder. Then resyncs.
- Update to latest version of Dropbox client.
- Make the folder in Dropbox rename automatically when the
customer changes the username for one of their multiple blogs?
Add media-query to prevent typeset hanging punctuation on small screens (it looks weird) and tell [Shibel](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwCgpXqMzwcBGWgjxgpcpCnMCQW)
Make Redis performance improvements
- Research [Redis clustering](http://highscalability.com/blog/2019/2/19/intro-to-redis-cluster-sharding-advantages-limitations-deplo.html)
- Prune redis keys and begin storing more on disk
- [redis analysis tool](https://github.com/snmaynard/redis-audit)
- Move to using unix socket with redis client per [documentation](https://github.com/NodeRedis/node_redis) for better throughput. [Read this issue first](https://github.com/NodeRedis/node_redis/issues/204), I might need to make some user group permissions tweaks to ensure things are secure.
Restructure application folder
- make serving static files from NGINX easier?
- ln /data/blogs/{blogID}/folder /data/cache/{hostname}/folder/...
- ln /data/blogs/{blogID}/static /data/cache/{hostname}/static/...
- consolidating the data stored about each blog
- Specfic ideas:
- Move cache directory from /cache to /data/cache
- Move blog's folder contents from /blogs/{blogID} to data/blogs/{blogID}/folder
- Move static files directory from /static/{blogID} to /data/blogs/{blogID}/static
- Move db directory from /db to /data/db
- Move logs directory from /logs to /data/logs
- Remove /tmp directory and instead use os.tmpDir
Switch to streaming JSON parser. There are npm modules that offer asynchronous JSON APIs. See for example:
- JSONStream, which has stream APIs.
- Big-Friendly JSON, which has stream APIs as well as asynchronous versions of the standard JSON APIs using the partitioning-on-the-Event-Loop paradigm outlined below.
Add notification emails for monit events
- Include secure one-time link to reboot the AWS instance?
Research state of static site generators
- https://www.11ty.io/docs/
- https://www.staticgen.com/
Investigate [support for xattr](https://github.com/LinusU/fs-xattr) to read image metadata on Blot? Or source for dragged images?
Set NODE_ENV [environment variable to production](https://expressjs.com/en/advanced/best-practice-performance.html#set-node_env-to-production)
Add support for HTTP2 and tell [Ryan](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDqnjnkQjwXHFWSTtWtwhFWxGd) and [questioner](https://blot.im/questions/573)
Fix bug with rename catcher which allows two posts to share a guid. It caused a bug with Disqus comments. To reproduce this bug: Rename an entry. Create new entry with old name. Both entries have same GUID.
Fix bug with .emf files in Word Document and follow up with Todd. Can we convert EMFs? Can we pass a flag to pandoc to let them deal with it? Is this just caused by Tiff files? I need a Windows machine to test this.
Could we have multiple clients attached to one blog?
Generate list of external API dependencies and follow changes for each
Add simple minimal version of Blot that could be npm installed, then tell [Pedro](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHMsSvqTVCjSSjJKVrGKmgRbjw) who is frustrated editing templates locally with the git client
Subscription refactor
- Different payment methods per blog
- Seperate blog subscriptions behind the scenes to avoid the crazy calculations. Think of them like domains, you wouldn't do what Blot is doing for those...
Create script to export Blot sites to common formats like Wordpress and let Roberto know
Move to Linode?
- Preserve AWS elastic IP and proxy to Linode
- Think about eventual multiple locations around the world from day 1
- Work out the [pricing model carefully](https://www.linode.com/pricing)
- Use [blockstorage this for storing all customers' folders](https://www.linode.com/blockstorage)
- Use [backups](https://www.linode.com/backups)
- Use [nodebalancers](https://www.linode.com/nodebalancers)
Increase price to $5 per month for new customers. This will not affect existing customers in any way.
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Create an API for Blot
- Add webhooks and tell [Aurynn](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/1554260da157b405) and [Shawn](https://twitter.com/soypunk)
Allow logged in customers to see public homepage. Perhaps use dashboard.blot.im for dashboard?
- Add a slack.com style dropdown on the public homepage for logged in customers which takes them to the dashboard for their sites.
When the customer's blog does not have a client, client.write and client.remove need to remove the files from the source folder. Create some kind of local client which we fall back and use when none is configured?
Work out how to host podcasts on Blot and tell [Adrian](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxvzLrCjsVpbQmLZmGvkrPbqWhZC)
Add support for IPv6 and tell [Raul](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/167083384282a5df)
Client.write does not propogate sync errors... to demonstrate this, revoke dropbox token then try to enable local editing.
Re-enable image minifier and fix the bugs it creates
Webloc converter
- Generate screenshots as thumbnails for webloc posts perhaps using [pupeteer](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer) and PNG8, which seems [efficient for screenshots](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18236912) and tell [Tom](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBWSwcVDLBRqVlxrsXqMcwsKFB)
- Download the webpage for bookmark files and try to extract title + summary
Prune package.json
- To [minify HTML](https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier)
- To [minify CSS](https://github.com/cssnano/cssnano) [(alternative)](https://github.com/css/csso)
- To [minify JavaScript](https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2) [(alternative)](https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/)
Fix bugs with RSS feeds validation. Perhaps extend absoluteURLs helper function? Tell [John](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxvzMBqKpcLTtxTzcfvMCVckLMJJ)
Add support for Micropub in Blot's API. Tell Amit.
Reconsider default slug length or add new short slug property and tell [Josh](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBTjxhZStzKhchtwjXbWxDbdfh)
Set up [Dependabot](https://dependabot.com/) to automate dependency upgrade PRs
Follow up with [Christian](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/164811d17f389c18) about DataValet blocking
Work out why Pandoc cannot handle 'linked' images (instead of conventionally embedded images). For instructiosn on reproducing bug, see [SG's email](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxvzLhcqMVrZbNlKTcVmxVHwRmJC) and follow up when resolved.
Self-hosting documentation then tell [Jake](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/1659d67326849fb3) and [Berndl](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGlkPcpPHkbRnKFRWNPGcGTPcJD) and [Joel](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmtXNqjrzcDZGVTgbvwFJjcDvd) and [Mohammed](https://twitter.com/mnafees_me/status/1051121206030753794?s=12) and [BP](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGCQVldJqdJZjktfKxNfgCdkTh) and [Rado](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGDDjrKSQVTXqvgFRGrhMSFvrR) and [Nuno](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGDDmKWgcNKgMKBNDXxWqGvqrP) and [Omaid](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGDDjqhCxHhJqbGlGNZsfkWWQf) and [Brian](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGrbRSCsGjRTXLGVxlwHjQKrchP) and [Jarod](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGDWlwWMfqnWBqxBtznDJVqxfr) and [Francesco](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHNWChQlWnBZtSxhFrpVlgMwXx) and [Aryan](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwJWjCrnXRvhtPtFGVjgkfZqPMQ) and [Todd](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLswHGkjtjmGLZtxXcpNSzKxvd) and [Anita](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLswPCKHSrzLMthNDncznmTnnJ) and [Kaushik](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLtsxhzZVLzpqpTCBmXcsFPPdJ?compose=CllgCJZZQKjZgksDMdQFkdwGNcPMGFpjKxNnbBKxBzVZvVCFMFsmGhbXxnhhxLvKPBzCHcPHKvB) and [Michael](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGkXSWvKNHtTgmFlrgkWvkgbksx?compose=CllgCKHQdVwQDCnfClqxMhSRnkDKmXhLckxZBrgkfDjdCrsDZLsRhGmgtgjZdlqmCjmGpKqQJvq) and [Frank](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGkZkZWrprNcThxMPQKzSTLbkDs) and [Zip](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmthffLmfRBswqGmsDKQWdJZFB)
- Tell Nick when it's possible to deploy a self-hosted [Blot on Vercel](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwKjxHWSvgjKtCWrbhccKFPlkdD) and [Zia](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLsSXWPRNNxDNcdhGHQXBkTtsx)
Review pCloud as a potential client and tell [Omaid](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGDDjqhCxHhJqbGlGNZsfkWWQf) and [Anders](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwKkRFxsDShhsHGNcdRqwHFMmJM) and [Tim](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGlkZCjPBbnKtcXvrMQnxSwHBzk) and [JMN](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGpGwtXQsVFFTcnTJdBTNdkMmXv)
Review Dropmark as a potential client and tell [Rado](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGDDjrKSQVTXqvgFRGrhMSFvrR)
Add option to sort posts by filename alphabetically and tell [Steve](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwJXpTLwnKwSRTFKRqXKNgQkFDv)
- How do we share info, like a link on a menu, or a header image across templates? Could there be a shared info repository that templates could access?
- add support for dynamic partials to make collections possible, e.g. {{> /:tag.html}} ?
- Add neat interface to customize blog level variables?
- How do we transition from a global date display format to one that templates have control over?
- Port the jekyll template [Neocactus](https://github.com/mmarfil/neocactus/) to Blot and document the process
then tell [Robert](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/16288ce117d980e4)
- Install and test a few of these [static site generators](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17942395)
- Make templates file or folder based
- Consider making file-based template directory a git repo and using this to implement basic undo-redo functionality.
- Disable re-rendering for locals
- Add better customization options
- Local template editing does not clear cache
- Use Hogan for precompiling and rendering templates?
- Parse tokens and params from routes and tell [Jason](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/163186d43aaf52af)
- Add way to allow all entry lists to access {{#months}} sorting options just like the archives page.
- Tell [Marco](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHNWCgxHCttPshJRSPCMTPffMP) when arbirary list sorting is ready
- Fix [Frank](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/1527fbcf999ba0c3)'s strange template bug
- Warn customers that underscore will not work for hidden pages
- Fix _ entries to true public files, tell john & other folks who depend on the menu: yes, page: no side effect
- Tell [Rodrigo](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/1564a13991197f63) don't write previews for _ posts
- Add support for fetching only some properties of an entry (ideally only those that are used). prevent some properties from being fetched in some lists (html, for example in all_entries). Would be a good candidate for hgetall or hget?
Embed feature
- Add support for native PDF embeds in posts, just put a link to a PDF or a path, e.g. /_assets/file.pdf --> would become a nice embed.
- Add support for native MP3 embeds in posts, just put a link to an MP3 or a path, e.g. /_assets/file.mp3 --> would become a nice embed then tell [Luke](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwBVWLlqqwbksXcScNdhcTjhjfq) and [Nash](http://twitter.com/nashp) and [Andy](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/LXphbRLrghxkrJmtbtfXwZHrBHqGzzjDqLZVmfRCzrg) and [Charlie](mailto:[email protected]) and [Konstantin](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDrRQPphRrjCrWXPLzgHhxkzMN)
Expose exif data on Photo posts? See if you can add comments to image metadata and tell [Riley](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#sent/164756616df069dd), also tell [Mike](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/16423ebe7b027d48)
Add password protection for blogs then tell [Ed](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/164edd9d46596ec7), [this person](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/155f01452a3f7231), [this person](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/1645b6e48dc13281), and [Will](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGlkXsdBcCssKznzgvJQPDQpKlh), and [Modomiro](https://twitter.com/modomiro/status/1053345173743329281) and [Julian](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwCgpVWqGMHszwgxZRxNTNXRTlX) and [Raph](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwCgzFTCKQXQmQqdNMdjMfDFkMW) and [Jeremy](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvTvDjVMLQQmxvnZHBnnxdRpk) and [Tara](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sent/FMfcgxwChJlBCNMWSFhSctjMkBcKdpsq) and [Phil](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChSHbCCgQqZqqKQftJbwHRkss) and [Florian](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDrlSVCrQSVMBlFwQcNcGfZLzn) and Roy's friend Tim and [Kaleb](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGDNWPljXXlwQVtswFCCLGFCQV) and [Lotus](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwGDNQfSzPBHtqRCQqCDjMTZLCQ) and [Khaled](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHMGBFrctdVXhksCvqXXVPfDWR) and [Noel](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHNMdwcwMqfVjmJPHKBMxzQChR) and [Franz](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwJXVMfwXfsWswWjvrpVKrPqpDt) and [Justin](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwKjBRFjtljCQvlhsfXsSxrCKdJ) and [Kyle](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwKkHZVgwCNwsdlhdzCggRtsRhN) and [Devan](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLsJznDjRgbzwPmChbNQdqfnfq) and [John](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?zx=bjx0x027sgct#inbox/FMfcgzGqQvvRpSrnkRNsrhddkzBhMsvf) and [Anita](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLsSWMtCTdmrbscFCFLggctmxH) and [Emerald](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLtkXpvTkdGzkFCLtmmLTlvrJL) and [Ben](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvBmLLlZwPLbdJdXKQXrwrJnL) and [Giuseppe](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvBnTWqHgFgdwBvcCDcmzLXGV) and [Annie](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?zx=j8rkxjpin0du#inbox/FMfcgzGqRQCwsXBNDJqLjDnJrjGmctdJ) and [Jan](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?zx=j8rkxjpin0du#inbox/FMfcgzGqRPzfVlDPLLjkqCfnBWqmVqKg)
- Should we just go all the way and support htaccess? Add URL rewrite feature, e.g. rewrite /randomColor to /public/randomColor?
Sync
- Re-implement folder verification feature and make use of the local content hash computation script to verify we have the correct version of a given file
- Make the sync / rebuild proceses run with unpriviledged user permissions
Add soundcloud embeds then tell [Jonas](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/16404cc8d437cc23), Nashp, and [Anders](https://twitter.com/4nd3rs/status/1028250661589278720?s=12) and [Richard](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwChJbvQlJvtLVPDqRCHrGJkZTr)
Add are.na embeds and tell [Marco](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwLswLkPbqqvMVWPSHvRqtqcKlZ)
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Increase price to $6 per month for new customers. This will not affect existing customers in any way.
Buy the .com
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Thumbnail generator
- Prioritize faces in crop?
- Try to crop out ruined borders. E.g. when making a square crop of a rectangular image with a border, crop into the image as well to remove the border-on-three-sides effect