Subscribe form below each post

[cjeller1592]

You’re welcome @nibl!

@nibl

There is also the issue that it redirects to /subscribe. You get a 404 error if that does not exist. Is it necessary to redirect to that page?

So this is where that little bit of JavaScript comes in handy to grab the slug of the post, because once the subscribe form is submitted, it redirects to the top of the post with the message that you subscribed. It should work now though.

@nibl

Do you think this will work like the default subscribe where it detects that you are already a subscriber?

It should because that detection happens server side. I don’t know why it isn’t working here.

But I think it’s best to build a solution for this @nibl than having to do this work around, because there are some things that we cannot replicate with the custom JS that help reduce spam subscriptions.

I’ll bump the post signatures topic in the meantime and see what people think about the feature as a whole. Once we have a better idea of the demand we can look into it further.

Post signatures

One writer mentioned wanting a way to add a signature to blog posts automatically, as seen on public blogs like bleakandpretty.writeas.com and mondaykickoff.com Right now you can do this by copy-and-pasting the same bit of text in each post, but I thought an automatic way of adding one could be interesting – it would save time, and let you update the signature anytime without going back through each post individually. What do you think? Would you use this feature if we had it? Would you want t…