I've had some great feedback about I Haza Website, my website hosting service that provides a ready to use installation of Dobrado running at your own domain name.

The most important feedback was that for most people, registering a domain name and updating their records was too difficult. This was the only manual step in the whole process, so it gave me the motivation to automate registering domain names. I'm using name.com because I appreciate their support of the IndieWeb!



Payments currently go through PayPal, which I used because I had an existing implementation for it. I'm just passing through the purchase price from the name.com API and PayPal's processing fee, and hosting is currently free, so this is a pretty easy way to get your own website!

I just finished adding OPML export to Dobrado, a.k.a how to get your follow list out of a reader. I've been trying to switch my daily reading habits from my old account on unicyclic.com, to my new website at mblaney.xyz, but the new way of reading is via a Microsub client which has been quite buggy up until now!

I've been using both every day for a few weeks to get the kinks out of the new code, and I'm pretty happy with it. The only thing that was missing was that I hadn't bothered following all the same feeds again, I decided to leave that until I could export them properly from my old account and import them to the new website.

Around the same time I was chatting with Chris, who has a mammoth following page with links to his OPML files. He recently had a go at importing them into unicyclic.com, which didn't get very far, but this was good timing as I was already working on it. There are still a few issues with network requests timing out but I think it's much better.

Dobrado now exports a similar OPML file to what Chris has created, which groups feeds by category. The import function now checks for categories and will use them to create Microsub channels as required.