Your website but inhabited. The web is full of content but empty of people. TownSquare brings a little presence back. Visitors can see each other, say a few words, and share the same space. No accounts. No algorithms. Just the present. That’s the pitch on TownSquare, which is where I got the base code for the widget towards the bottom of this page. The widget was created by Cauê Napier who released it free of charge for all to use. Thank you Cauê. I liked it straight away. Closest I will ever come to being an XKCD character. Since Cauê offered a hosted version that’s the one I chose. It looked so easy. It was not quite as simple to add to my blog as the “three small steps” described here. Fair to say it took way longer than a “minute”. That’s not Cauê’s fault. More so down to my cobbled together modified version of the Hugo Simple theme. Every time the widget loaded my entire site took on the widgets default colour scheme. It’s a nice enough scheme but is not what I wanted to happen.…
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