Investigate 0 web mentions
rviscomi opened this issue · comments
https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/css#reactions
Why does a popular chapter like CSS appear to have 0 likes and 0 reposts? The data suggests that this isn't very well-liked or popular, which isn't the case. Is there any way to improve the accuracy of these stats? If not, is it worth showing them?
Web Mentions come from:
- Blogs that have implemented ping backs
- A less reliable scrape of our @HTTPArchive Twitter account, because Twitter does not integrate WebMentions natively.
Most are from the latter. And especially "likes".
Looking at that we only have 4 likes. So yeah it missed some (not uncommon) but not like posts WE have posted have huge numbers of likes.
It would be great if it could pick up on other people's Tweets but at the moment it can't. When I last spoke to the WebMention people, they were waiting on a new Twitter API to make it a bit more reliable, but even then not sure if it will pick up Tweets from others.
Or TLDR - Post more from @HTTPArchive account rather than just retweet others
Thanks for clarifying. I think if there are technical limitations like this, it's worth considering taking it out to avoid the impression that nobody likes the content. The "mentions" part still seems accurate and useful, but "0 likes" is a bad look.
Something similar to Medium's clap button could be a fun way to get readers engaged and measure popularity. Not sure if there's any 3P services that do that or how hard it'd be to build on our own.
Hmmm.... there's no Likes nor Reposts for any of our chapters as far as I can see.
I wonder if there's more afoot here. Maybe they changed the API.
Digging...
So this was partially fixed (there was an issue in Bridgy with Twitter accounts with capital letters - like HTTPArchive has).
It still doesn't pick up WebMentions with a fragment/hash url (e.g. https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/css#reactions) but that's a limitation of WebMentions at the mo: aaronpk/webmention.io#106
Closing this as investigation is complete and we've got what we can get for now.