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Irssi.org

We need a new shiny website! We would like help with that. We want a bootstrap-based, statically-generated, Jekyll-based website :-)

Join us in #irssi on freenode, if you are interested in helping out.

What do we want?

We want to have a modern, easily updatable, website that we can use together with our already well-functioning Github infrastructure. A contribution should arrive as a pull-request such that our contributor team can easily review the commits.

Sections we need:

More or less everything from irssi.org (news, release information, all that jazz).
A way to submit articles to the website using Markdown. I'm thinking an index page at /articles/ and the individual articles as /articles/my-cool-new-irssi-feature/ where the directory contains an index.markdown with the article itself. The individual article directory can contain images and everything else needed to make the article look shiny.
Fancy "how to install irssi page" with the various popular distributions listed + how to do it directly from Git. ahf quite likes something like https://mosh.mit.edu
More ideas? :-)

Things to think about:

Permalinks in jekyll are... tricky. The best optioned seemed to be to hardcode a permalink into every page to get cool URIs.
While jekyll does obfuscate email addresses in markdown, this functionality is not available in filters. Hence contributor's email addresses are on the site.
There was some objection to adding {{ site.baseurl }} to links in templates. Using the <base> tag does not seem to be a viable option due to the inflexible URI schemes, jekyll doesn't seem to want to generate relative URIs it requires.

These issues might be fixable with or without plugins.

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