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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 donatj »

seanw444 wrote: post #150

Almost all of these are pretty nice. I disagree with the preview-on-hover though. That sends off a request to a possibly unknown (possibly unwanted) destination. I often hover a link to look at what the URL popup says in the bottom corner, before following it. It's just not a very privacy-conscious feature, even if convenient.

With modern Content Security Policy restrictions and such most sites now have, previews almost entirely have to be implemented server side to make them work anyway, so no real privacy fears.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by wegfawefgawefg »

I hate all of these features except the index. I get about 12kbps on mobile. There are very few sites I can view. Hackers news is one of them. The more I use the modern internet the more I want to be left alone with my thoughts. I need th website equivalent of a sensorial faraday cage.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by dspillett »

jevogel wrote: post #144
baxtr wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meta comment: that’s the third comment I see this week with “quasi” emojis. Is this becoming a trend? o_o

These are called kaomoji. More generally, emoticons. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons

Sometimes referred to as smilies, though IMO that word describes the 3ish character subset that look like a face at 90 degrees⁰, and predating emoji¹ by quite some time².

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[0] Like :-)

[0] and many many others: ;-) :-( :-| :-p 8-) …

[1] the graphical alternatives

[2] first commonly used in the early 80s, even before my time online, where emoji turned up right at the end of the 90s

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by fabianholzer »

afiori wrote: post #86
fabianholzer wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

If you start from scratch, factor it in when deciding on a cms, platform or site generator. I think RSS/atom owes a lot to WordPress, which has it enabled by default since ages.

When you want to add it retro-actively, the specifications are relatively straight forward and don't have many mandatory properties. RSS is a tad simple than Atom, but I'd probably rather go for Atom if I were to start over.

https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification

https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/atom.html

In any case: add a link rel=feed to the header of every page to enable discovery (https://www.rssboard.org/rss-autodiscovery - but works regardless of the format)

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by WolfeReader »

wegfawefgawefg wrote: post #152

I hate all of these features except the index. I get about 12kbps on mobile. There are very few sites I can view. Hackers news is one of them. The more I use the modern internet the more I want to be left alone with my thoughts. I need th website equivalent of a sensorial faraday cage.

Besides "Link Previews", which other features are affected by your bandwidth?

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by aklemm »

wegfawefgawefg wrote: post #152

I hate all of these features except the index. I get about 12kbps on mobile. There are very few sites I can view. Hackers news is one of them. The more I use the modern internet the more I want to be left alone with my thoughts. I need th website equivalent of a sensorial faraday cage.

Phone might have a power button which would help you meet your goal.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by rat_on_the_run »

ants_everywhere wrote: post #143
rat_on_the_run wrote: post #114

I don't like side notes. It tries to separate the readers to two groups---one who wants more details and the other who doesn't, but the problem is that there's no such natural division. When I read articles with side notes, I often find myself constantly checking the side notes and then regret doing it because the info is unnecessary. I prefer the author to carefully think through and choose what info to present inst…

This seems like evidence that there is a natural division and you're in the second camp, no?

The thing is, I do like to see details and I'm curious. That's why I check them in the first place. But we can't know beforehand whether it's useful or not.

This is true for both footnote and side note, but for footnotes I can give it a glance to see if I want to read it thoroughly after reading the whole page, whereas for side notes, they are so easy and tempting to be seen. I feel the point of notes is that they do not interrupt the main flow but side notes put them on almost equal footing in terms of attracting attention as the main content.

Besides, footnote/side notes should be kept minimal, otherwise the note becomes the main content. I find articles with side notes often overuse them. Yeah, if they are kept minimal I guess both approaches are fine.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by paulddraper »

wegfawefgawefg wrote: post #152

I hate all of these features except the index. I get about 12kbps on mobile. There are very few sites I can view. Hackers news is one of them. The more I use the modern internet the more I want to be left alone with my thoughts. I need th website equivalent of a sensorial faraday cage.

You get less than a quarter the speed of dialup?
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