@stefan Cool! I think usability could be better. There's a field for the ActivityPub server, but I don't think people will know what to type in there. I'd probably rather a "Share to Fediverse" one-click button that THEN loads a page or overlay with clear instructions: "Type your Fediverse domain URL here then press Share to publish the following post on your server." Having just a server field is less likely to be understood.
@Adam Thank you, and thank you for the feedback, really appreciate it!
Adding an overlay with instructions, which would then open the sharing modal might be a bit too many steps? I do like the simplicity of the current approach.
I wonder if I could maybe change the text to something like "type your server name to share with the fediverse"?
@Adam Also, a technical side note, the reason the text is not a real label is that I'm avoiding using an ID for any of the form elements, in case someone wants to use this on a blog that uses an infinite scroll, in which case you'd end up with non-unique IDs on the same page.
Wrapping the input in a label doesn't work too well either with this layout.
@stefan Ah, another issue is that on mine, the placeholder doesn't appear (and neither does my typed text as it's white on white). I see in your code that there is a placeholder, so if that was visible it would probably be more obvious. Also, your aria-label attribute is set to "Amount (to the nearest dollar)" for that field. Minor minor bugs.
@Adam Ah, yes, that was already fixed in the code snippet and on the demo page, but on my personal site I had the old code, thank you for catching that!
And I fixed the colors when dark mode is applied, that's what was causing the colors not work right. Thank you so much!
@stefan Something else: I wouldn't use it without understanding the privacy and account security implications for visitors who interact with it or just load the page with it embedded. To be fediverse friendly, this information should be foreground focus of such a tool.
@stefan Might refer to being too hard for end users to use. A two-click share would be ideal, without having to type your instance's name.. but given the way fediverse works, little you can do about that.
FYI, a WordPress version is in the works. No time frame for when it'll be ready, but do let me know if that would be something you'd also be interested in.
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