diff --git a/content/long-article.md b/content/long-article.md
index 8bf047f86..c77e3b8e4 100644
--- a/content/long-article.md
+++ b/content/long-article.md
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Title: Social Media Critique - test
 Category: long-read test
 Slug: federation
 lang: en
-status: draft
 
 > This is in the end what Silicon Valley tries to prevent at all cost:
 > resistance and exodus. How can such a momentum be unleashed?
@@ -13,14 +12,14 @@ opinion it can be interesting to have a closer look at action and momentum.
 Three projects caught my attention and I think could be an interesting
 case for this 'next steps' discussion:
 
-Mastodon (2016) en Conversations (2014) and Peertube (2015) *
+Mastodon (2016) en Conversations (2014) and Peertube (2015)[ref]These are the dates of the project's source code first appearing in public, they are still actively updated and used.[/ref]
 
 All three are projects that during the past twelve months have somehow
 reinvigorated (the work on, attention for) their underlying protocols.
 Protocols that have been proclaimed dead or unsuccessful for many years.
 And probably will be for more to come.
 
-The first one, Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/), you may have read
+The first one, Mastodon [ref][https://joinmastodon.org/](https://joinmastodon.org/)[/ref], you may have read
 about or even tried out. It is essentially a twitter clone /
 alternative. Technically it is based on Ostatus, which is a protocol to
 distribute
@@ -46,7 +45,7 @@ makes the network interesting and relevant to its several hundred
 thausand users.
 
 
-Conversations (https://conversations.im/) is a messaging application
+Conversations [ref][https://conversations.im](https://conversations.im/)[/ref] is a messaging application
 that is based on the very old XMPP protocol. This is a chat protocol
 which has at one point also been the underlying technology of both
 Google and Facebook chat before they closed it down and made it
@@ -72,7 +71,7 @@ to an increase in popularity and community involvement is an interesting
 development.
 
 
-Lastly, Peertube (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube) is an attempt
+Lastly, Peertube [ref][Peertube website](https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube)[/ref] is an attempt
 at making the hosting of video content accessible to small
 organizations. The sheer amount of infrastructure and thus capital
 required to set up an alternative to the monopoly position of Youtube,
@@ -172,11 +171,3 @@ to transition together to different kind of media. This is slow and
 laborious so mutual support is important. The time is always right, but
 now more than ever.
 
-* these are the dates of the project's source code first appearing in
-public, they are still actively updated and used.
-
-greetings,
-
-Roel
-
-
diff --git a/pelicanconf.py b/pelicanconf.py
index 7fe893c08..e3dc0c434 100644
--- a/pelicanconf.py
+++ b/pelicanconf.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ DEFAULT_PAGINATION = 25
 
 # Uncomment following line if you want document-relative URLs when developing
 PLUGIN_PATHS = ['./pelican-plugins', './plugins-custom']
-PLUGINS = ['dateish','extract_toc', 'i18n_subsites', 'summary', 'events-ics'] 
+PLUGINS = ['dateish','extract_toc', 'i18n_subsites', 'summary', 'events-ics','complex_footnotes'] 
 MD_EXTENSIONS = ['codehilite','extra','toc']
 
 STATIC_PATHS = ['extra/favicon.ico', 'images', 'pdfs']
diff --git a/plugins-custom b/plugins-custom
index 466d35a87..d91a9e910 160000
--- a/plugins-custom
+++ b/plugins-custom
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 466d35a876bceae4b8a3429b0121703ba8366067
+Subproject commit d91a9e910bffb850ecb597f5c77241678f197e24