๐Ÿ’ฌ Visually indicating post types on blogs and microblogs

Replied to Visually indicating post types on blogs and microblogs by Chris AldrichChris Aldrich (Chris Aldrich | BoffoSocko)

Itโ€™s been a while since Iโ€™ve actively read Om Malikโ€˜s blog, but I noticed that heโ€™s using graphical indicators that add some semantic detail about what each post is. Itโ€™s a design element Iโ€™ve only seen lately out of the IndieWeb community with plugins like the Post Kinds Plugin for WordPress or done manually with emoji in post titles the way Aaron Davis has done relatively religiously, particularly on his โ€œCollectโ€ site.

What an intriguing term Chris, ‘relatively religiously’. It reminds me of my question as to whether the IndieWeb is ‘ritualistic‘.

Personally, there were a few reasons I started my ‘Collect’ blog. One was wondering about what a ‘feed’ in a space like Micro.Blogs might actually look like. One of the things that I noticed early on was how clunky my titles looked with ‘Reply to’ etc at the start. I also had concerns about using the identical title of the post I was mentioning. I found emojis an efficient method to indicate what sort of interaction it was and that it was not my own post.

I still have concerns about emojis in urls. Although many with Micro.Blog sites have arcane urls due to the absence of a title, I like to use the title in the url. One of the catches I found early on was that this added the emoji. I subsequently paste the title in the slug when I copy it from the properties box. I would love to be able to strip this out automatically, but not sure I am at that stage yet.

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