If you've got some useful/interesting Umbraco gossip that you'd like to share with us, why not send us a tip.
UMB.FYI automates pulling in a lot of content from various sources including:
We also pull in a bunch of event sources including:
For the most part, it shouldn't be necessary to notify us about anything that would otherwise get picked up by one of these sources.
Even with the above automations, some things still slip through the net.
If you find your blog isn't getting picked up, you should make sure your blog feed as been added to the community blogs RSS list found here. For new meetup groups, YouTube channels or Podcasts we have missed, then feel free to drop us a tip detailed below.
By far the hardest content for us to monitor and what we really need your help with is all those interesting ad-hoc discussions that take place across social media and the web, such as:
To make it easier for you and us to manage tips, we have a few endpoints and bots to simplify the process.
The Umbraco Discord channel has a UMB.FYI bot installed that allows you to notify use about great content in one of two ways.
In both instances, if the tip was successfully posted you should receive a reply back from the UMB.FYI bot account with a `Thank you for the tip` response. If you don't receive a response, check the bot is online, and that you have used the correct syntax.
A @umbfyi bot account has been added to the umbracocommunity.social Mastodon server which you can notify of interesting statuses by including in the original message or replying to the main/starter message of an interesting thread with the body of `@umbfyi tip`. If the tip was successfully posted you should receive a reply back from the @umbfyi bot with a `Thank you for the tip` response. If you don't receive a response, check that you have used the correct syntax.
To help keep Mastodon from being flooded with tip messages, you can set your reply message visibility to `direct` to ensure only the @umbfyi bot sees your message.
The Bluesky bot works exactly the same as the Mastodon bot but the Bluesky bots handle is @umb.fyi instead of @umbfyi. Everything else remains the same.
At this time, due to X's API pricing plans, we don't have any twitter integrations. Please see the email option below.
If you are a Chrome based browser user you can install our browser extension which adds small icon in your toolbar. When you come across an interesting site, click the icon, provide a description and click submit to send your tip directly to us.
If we don't have a bot for a particular service, you can also notify us about hot tips by sending us an oldschool email to tips@umb.fyi