We need more ad spaces

[catgirlinspace]

We need to add some more ad spaces so we get more impressions. And this step would be so much easier to do if we built this site from scratch using GitHub Pages and Jekyll. With Jekyll, life designing this site would be so much easier, since blog posts would be written in markdown, modifying the Navbar would just be one file, and there would be no need to use Travis to build the site, because Jekyll is built into GitHub Pages.

[dragonwocky]

I see your point.

[Vaults1]

You need to get visitors first 😛. What's the analytics for this site?

[AvgZing]

(on vacation, managed to find data) Analytics: 1 visitor per week.

Side note: I created a test site using jekyll and it looked very bad. Please keep the current site

[dragonwocky]

@TheRoyalBlock some Jekyll themes look good, some look bad.

[catgirlinspace]

@TheRoyalBlock Are you saying my site I just redesigned a few days ago looks bad? Dog2puppy.tk

[AvgZing]

Your site looks fine, but (no offense) not as themed towards the name as this. This is box/wood.

[HimbeersaftLP]

@TheRoyalBlock Since when are cardboard boxes wood themed? (Yes I know cardboard is made out of wood)

[catgirlinspace]

@TheRoyalBlock Well look at pmmp. They took the alpha template from HTML5 and made it Jekyll compatible. And while wood looks nice, I prefer a very clean and easy on the eyes layout, such as jgthms/bulma which is what I used for my site and I'm going to use for the upcoming project (check Discord) admin area.

[AvgZing]

I like an appealing themed layout, not an empty, hollow layout.

[HimbeersaftLP]

We need to add more ad spaces!

(I know where the door is)

[catgirlinspace]

We have a door?

[HimbeersaftLP]

Ofc we do, did noone notice that before?

[AvgZing]

I'm blind!

[dragonwocky]

0_o

[catgirlinspace]

I guess my monitor has too low of a resolution I didn't see that when it was really small on boxofdevs.com. 😆

[HimbeersaftLP]

LMAO

[AvgZing]

We'll add more ad spaces soon, to random parts of the site

[AvgZing]

A side bar, maybe?

[catgirlinspace]

I got the perfect idea. We spam users with ads. I mean, they probably won’t notice. They’ll just think the ads are our plugins.

[Vaults1]

lol this github issue is public and that isn't really great for user satisfaction

[catgirlinspace]

It was a joke...

[Vaults1]

oh lol, sorry sarcasm isn't really noticeable online

[dragonwocky]

lol have we actually earnt any money at all from those ads?

[AvgZing]

Absolutely 0 revenue at the moment.

[catgirlinspace]

We have 3.6k satoshi which is worth $0.50 USD. We need to reach 100k for minimum payout, due to the BTC network being in a traffic jam.

[dragonwocky]

ah. I see.

[catgirlinspace]

You see what? The network being in a traffic jam?

[dragonwocky]

I see that we have 3.6k satoshi (a currency I did not previously know existed), and I see that we need to reach 100k satoshi for minimum payout (because the BTC network is in a traffic jam), and I see that we are getting very little money from the small amount of traffic to our website.

[catgirlinspace]

1. Satoshi is just smaller parts of bitcoin. 1 satoshi = 0.00000001 BTC

2. A-Ads will add altcoin withdraws soon, so we can avoid the traffic jam entirely.

[ghost]

Now back to @Dog2puppy, using JavaScript you can read blog posts from a markdown file and send them as HTML.

[catgirlinspace]

But what would we do with JS?

[AvgZing]

@nathjeid that seems off-topic

[dragonwocky]

@nathjeid how do you read the markdown file with JS? We don't need it for blog posts, but I'm curious...

[AvgZing]

in fact, GitHub has its own api for converting markdown to html

[AvgZing]

Try it: make a repo with gh-pages and no index file, but have the readme. you'll see the contents of the readme displayed

[catgirlinspace]

So how's that an API?

[catgirlinspace]

Isn't that just making a new repo?

[AvgZing]

alright, buh bye, time for school

[catgirlinspace]

I'm on a 2 hour delay. Go snow!

[dragonwocky]

@TheRoyalBlock I know GitHub has it's own thing, but I'm curious about doing it with plain JS without GitHub's "API". (E.g. a gallery thing, where the JS gets a markdown file that contains an image and description, then displays them all on the same page)

[catgirlinspace]

@TheDragonRing You could make an NPM package.

EDIT: nvm, it's already been done.

[Ad5001]

With a simple ajax request to the github API would do the trick, althought they have a rate limit.

[catgirlinspace]

They do have an API. https://developer.github.com/v3/markdown/

[Ad5001]

And with plain JS: https://github.com/evilstreak/markdown-js

[catgirlinspace]

Just asking, but does anyone else use Codenvy?

[ghost]

@Ad5001 @Dog2puppy @TheDragonRing This is an example of showdown, it is used by Google Cloud Platform and Stackoverflow. https://glitch.com/edit/#!/elated-may

[ghost]

@Dog2puppy I have heard of Codenvy..

[AvgZing]

@nathjeid Well, that doesn't make it much easier, nor better. You still have image tags, but with markdown you don't get to do beautiful formatting. I don't understand the purpose, but the function is interesting

[ghost]

@TheRoyalBlock This is a hold back, why not have a database and work with React?

[catgirlinspace]

React uses JSX. Vue.js is soooooo much better.