Discussing a web page

A web page can have several conversations in Glob. You might discuss a reference on your group's node, follow the original node you copied it from, or read the wider discussion of that website address.

The web discussion keeps those places separate as Here, From and Everywhere. Check the selected place before posting so your words go to the conversation you intend.

Open the discussion#

A web node's editor or reading panel opens to Wall, with its icon on the left and Body on the right. Glob reader and the PDF panel use the same order. Choose Body to read the page, or scroll past the bottom of the Wall to reach it. You can open the discussion even on a canvas you cannot edit.

The side panel also has a Wall tab. It lets you follow a discussion without keeping the full editor panel open. Its scope follows the place you are inside, including a web page you enter. Simply selecting another canvas node does not move that side-panel Wall to the selected node.

When you enter a live website, Glob brings the side panel to Wall. On a wide screen it can reveal a hidden side panel. On a phone it selects Wall but leaves a closed sheet closed, so it does not cover the website.

Use the title and site at the top of the web discussion to check which page you are reading. A discussion that cannot load says The discussion is unavailable. Check your connection and reopen the view before treating it as an empty wall.

Here: this node's wall#

Here is the wall of this particular web node. Two people can save the same website in different nodes and have different Here discussions.

A node without a shared room says The wall opens here once this node is shared. Saving an outside link in your own space does not create a public Here wall automatically. You can still use Everywhere for the address where that discussion is available.

For ordinary wall controls, including posts, comments, votes and reporting, read walls. The posts scroll above the composer, which stays at the bottom of the discussion view.

From: the node your copy came from#

From appears when your web node remembers another public web node as its origin. When the person's name is available, the label can read From @person.

You can create this relationship by using Copy link on someone else's shared web node and pasting that address onto your canvas shortly afterwards in the same browser session. Dragging that node's web card from a chat line or wall post onto your canvas can also carry its origin.

This creates your own web node for the page. Its From discussion leads back to the original node's conversation. An unrelated paste of the same website address does not necessarily remember a source node. Your own node or a private source does not supply this origin relationship through Copy link.

While the original remains available, From shows its wall. If it is withdrawn or made private, the view can show Original removed with a read-only copy of the earlier visible posts. Removal for moderation can leave no posts to show. You cannot keep posting to a removed original through your copy.

A pin is a door to an existing node rather than a copied web node. It uses its target's Here discussion and the website's Everywhere discussion, without adding From.

Everywhere: the website address#

Everywhere is the shared Glob conversation about the page's address. It lets readers arriving through different web nodes meet around the same reference.

An empty discussion says Nothing on the wall yet. Write the first post below to start the conversation about this page. Sign in, type in Write on the wall and choose Post to start it. The first post can be up to 2,000 characters. Once the conversation exists, it uses the ordinary wall view.

Everywhere is a shared discussion, even when you opened it from your own unshared web node. Posting there is different from taking a note: the note goes into your own saved material, while a post joins the page's conversation.

Not every address has an available Everywhere discussion. If the view says it is unavailable or your post is refused, keep your text, check the message and try again later. An empty discussion and a loading failure are different states.

PDF discussions#

A PDF at a web address can use the same Here and Everywhere distinction. An uploaded PDF has no outside address, so the PDF panel offers Here only. Here still needs the node to have a shared room.

The discussion stays in Glob; it does not post comments onto the outside website. To send a page or quotation into a chat room instead, use Share to chat.