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Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by meiraleal »

efortis wrote: post #68

More nice features: - flash/highlight the fragment when clicking a link to it. Also, adding some padding for making sure the header is not covering part of the fragment - an alternative to sidenotes is to use an initially collapsed details/summary element. - inlining css, js, and svgs so it can be saved as a single html file This post has some examples of those features: https://blog.uirig.com/freebsd-jails-network-s…

- inlining css, js, and svgs so it can be saved as a single html file

Or just use http2 and have a much better organized code without need to build/bundle them together.

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Post by dsign »

A feature I love while reading web novels is...music. Nothing like reading that scene about the main character eating noodles inside her tiny Zurich apartment and reminiscing and have a theme named "Alone with my ghosts" start playing. Additional kudos if the author composed the music themselves.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by netcraft »

hypertexthero wrote: post #55

Good list, though here comes my Hacker News-style pesky comment: Justified text on a screen is a feature that makes my eyes and brain hurt. Ragged text is much easier to read. Uneven and beautiful, like a plant whose details you rest your eyes upon as you observe, rather than a uniform concrete structure where vision is lost. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ ┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)

I totally agree. I think its because it lets my eyes get their bearings, like sensing the terrain.

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Post by vedranm »

On the topic of showing page progress with table of contents, author's description matches exactly how it is implemented in Material for MkDocs [1]. I moved my blog from WordPress to it (for unrelated reasons) and I immediately liked how going through longer blog posts felt with highlighted entry in the table of contents moving together with the page.

[1] https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/setup/setting-up...

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Post by Dalewyn »

markx2 wrote: post #59

I value links. WordPress used to have a Links section in the sidebar by default. It was later criticised for the default links being to WP founders/devs. But it was there, and you could change it. Links are the web for me. "If you like my site maybe you will like what I like". Go look at https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/ - links! Go look at other sites and if they are WP chances are no link list. Am I blaming WP? Y…

Way back in the feudal age when knights still roamed the lands, castle walls would have affiliate banners draped over them.

I miss them. Now get off my lawn, I have wind mills to slay.

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Post by afiori »

fabianholzer wrote: post #34
squidbeak wrote: post #29

RSS should be a core rather than a 'micro' feature.

Should, but sadly I have lost count how many feeds in my reader became dysfunctional because they were rewritten to be using nextjs (or the likes).

What is a good guide on how to implement basic RSS functionality?

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Post by Dalewyn »

xnorswap wrote: post #50
squidbeak wrote: post #29

RSS should be a core rather than a 'micro' feature.

I might cop a lot of hate for saying this, but it's been 10 years, it's time to stop mourning RSS and move on. I loved RSS, I sorely miss the protocol based internet rather than the web based internet we have now. I miss when my emails didn't have adverts pretending to be emails at the top of my inbox. Advertising was a lot less prevalent when applications had protocols and you could simply move to a different client…

>I miss when my emails didn't have adverts pretending to be emails at the top of my inbox.

Here's a nickel, get yourself a better email client.

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Post by janvdberg »

Puts wrote: post #47

A feature that seems to have disappeared from a lot of blogs these days is date when a post was published. Sometimes date is required to put things into context and I can't understand why so many blogs these days don't have it.

This! It is so strange when posts don't have a date. It feels like those posts are trying actively to hide something. It's almost suspicious.

I also have a couple of other things I look for in a good blog: https://j11g.com/2024/06/24/a-good-blog-has/

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by jszymborski »

xd1936 wrote: post #57

I like Cassidy James' idea of linking a blog post to a Mastodon post[1], and showing the corresponding social interactions as a comments section at the bottom of the post. All static site client-side! 1. https://cassidyjames.com/blog/fediverse-blog-comments-mastod...

Shameless plug, but I wrote a post on the pros/cons/implications of using Mastodon to power a comments section:

https://jszym.com/blog/mastodon_blog_comments/

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by hollerith »

Puts wrote: post #47

A feature that seems to have disappeared from a lot of blogs these days is date when a post was published. Sometimes date is required to put things into context and I can't understand why so many blogs these days don't have it.

It used to be that a book or magazine issue needed to have a copyright notice including the year of publication or it didn't get copyright protection. That was a good rule.
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