
Loopback Social
Loopback Social is a platform for connections between communities.
Through this website, community administrators can obtain a black banner that can be attached to the top of each community. This banner displays the names of other communities participating in the campaign.
Though it's a loose connection, we started this project with the idea of appealing that communities are connected to each other, and sometimes incorporating various means such as event promotion banners or pop-ups.
Through this project, we aim to symbolize connections between communities and operate as a collaborative campaign.
Step 1. Installation
To add a banner to the top of your website or forum, add the following line of code just before the </body>
tag (closing body tag) in your HTML file or skin body.
<script src="https://loopback.social/banner.js" defer></script>
Step 2. Get Your Name Out There
There are two main ways to participate in loopback.social:
- To add your community to be displayed on the banner together, submit a community listing issue to the GitHub repository after installing the banner.
- To share news in the news ticker, submit a news submission issue to the GitHub repository after installing the banner.
Step 3. Submit News
If you have news to show in the news ticker at the bottom of the banner, you can edit docs/news.json
or submit reports through the News Submission issue template on GitHub.
How It Works
The banner.js
script dynamically creates and inserts a black banner at the top of the page when included in a website. This banner includes the project title loopback.social
and a dropdown menu containing a list of participating communities. The community list is managed in the communities.json
file, and the news ticker content is managed in the news.json
file.
Solving Cache Issues
If you don't see the updated content, try the following methods:
- Hard refresh: Ctrl+F5 (Windows) or Cmd+Shift+R (Mac)
- Clear browser cache: Developer tools (F12) β Network tab β Check "Disable cache"
- Check in incognito/private mode