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> (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ > o_o > “quasi” emojis Welp, if you need me I'll be shuffling my weary bones into a casket.
What is this part supposed to represent? ︵ ┻━┻
It's not a feature, but I like websites without sticky headers or footers. I hate seeing it on mobile, but I don't like it even on desktop. The worst is the sticky side button overlapping the main content. A few years ago, I sometimes saw "share on social media" buttons obscuring the article, and that was so annoying.
When a header is hidden on scrolldown, and shown on scrollup, that breaks a core feature that I was actively using.
To make matters worse, scroll direction is incredibly finicky on mobile, so I can't even consistently decide whether your ridiculous header is shown or not.
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/
> Using Mastodon to power our comments means that every time someone visits the blog post, the user’s browser makes a request to your Mastodon instance. ... I’d proxy these requests through my server, but it’s yaks all the way down.
I do proxy these, and it's not too much work [1]. A major reason to proxy is so you can cache: if a blog post gets HN'd it could easily get more traffic than your Mastodon instance would like to receive.
[1] https://github.com/jeffkaufman/webscripts/blob/master/commen...
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Google punishes websites that don’t have recent content, no matter how good it is.
Google knows whether your content is recent or not regardless if you have a timestamp on it, because they crawl periodically and according to recent leaks they do store this information.
1: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structu...
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.
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/
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..…
On the link preview feature, both Wikipedia's and Gwern's implementations put the preview on top of the main content. I think this is much nicer to put to the side, where its less intrusive: https://www.jefftk.com/p/preview-on-hover