[Freedombox-discuss] Can't login to ikiwiki.info to post a question there.

[spectral]

On Sun, 2024-06-30 at 20:41 -0400, A. F. Cano wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Still trying to figure out why ikiwiki never displays more than 10
> posts
> no matter what the value of the numbacklinks variable says.  I have
> tried
> 0 (to show all) and 100 (I only have 22 posts) but it always displays
> 10.
> 
> The /var/lib/ikiwiki/<name-of-blog>.setup variable:
> 
> numbacklinks: 0
> 
> whose description says:
> 
> # how many backlinks to show before hiding excess (0 to show all)
> 
> properly reflects the changes made with the ikiwiki interface.
> 
> Maybe I'm not understanding what this variable is supposed to do, but
> it
> seems to be the only one that has anything to do with how many posts
> to
> show.
> 
> Since no one here apparently knows why ikiwiki is behaving this way
> (I've posted about this before), I went looing for mailing lists or
> forums
> dedicated exclusively to ikiwiki.  Found https://ikiwiki.info and
> tried
> to post the question there, but it requires a login.  There is an
> option
> to login with email, and after I enter my email address it says:
> 
>  You have been sent an email, with a link you can open to complete
>  the login process.
> 
> But I never received such a link, so I can't post.  Tried multiple
> times.
> 
> Does anyone here know what the problem is with ikiwiki.info?  Does
> anyone here have a way to contact the maintainer of ikiwiki.info? or
> have an alternate way to login? known username/password?
> 
I was able to register an account at https://ikiwiki.info by clicking
on "Preferences", then under "Password login" entering a
username/password and clicking "Register".  You enter an email address
on the registration page after clicking "Register".  After registering
I restarted my browser (clearing cookies), navigated to the forum page,
entered the title for a new thread, clicked on "Edit" and got sent to a
login page, where I logged in via Password login (username/password),
and finally got the page with the input box for the body of the
message. After starting fresh again, it looks like if you go straight
to the forum, enter a title, and click "Edit", the resulting login page
has a "Register" button, so that may be the most direct route for you.