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symbiote/silverstripe-microblog
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Provides microblog type functionality for creating interactive sites like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit.

3.0.1(6y ago)76157[2 issues](https://github.com/nyeholt/silverstripe-microblog/issues)[4 PRs](https://github.com/nyeholt/silverstripe-microblog/pulls)3BSD-3-ClausePHPCI failing

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Microblog module
================

[](#microblog-module)

An alternative for providing blog-like functionality, following the direction of Reddit/Twitter/Facebook, but also allowing forum-like structures.

For full instructions, please see docs/en/index.md - or

```
composer require silverstripe/microblog

```

A summary of features

- Markdown parsing of content
- Auto-inspection of URLs for OpenGraph / OEmbed ability
- Drag/drop file upload
- @mentions of users
- Threaded replies
- Edit posts in-place
- Can be used for comment/discussion threads on individual pages (timeline?target=Page,11)
- Can be embedded in other pages using an iframe (timeline?embed=1)
- Notifications (with the [silverstripe-australia/notifications](https://packagist.org/packages/silverstripe-australia/notifications) module installed)
- Can be configured to resemble a forum, or left as a twitter / facebook style feed of posts
- Create isolated blogs using the MicroBlogPage that allows direct configuring of how posts will appear / can be interacted with
- /timeline provides a site-wide twitter-like stream of posts

###  Health Score

35

—

LowBetter than 79% of packages

Maintenance14

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity21

Limited adoption so far

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity77

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 96.6% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~32 days

Recently: every ~180 days

Total

52

Last Release

2454d ago

Major Versions

1.10.2 → 2.0.02015-07-11

2.13.0 → 3.0.02019-07-28

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/25cb1c56a7ab949d1e6b28a2a04862ce1cffe1799a291e1797f8dfd33cd83716?d=identicon)[nyeholt](/maintainers/nyeholt)

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Top Contributors

[![nyeholt](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/161730?v=4)](https://github.com/nyeholt "nyeholt (56 commits)")[![Neumes](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8358226?v=4)](https://github.com/Neumes "Neumes (2 commits)")

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Tags

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