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Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by Vrondi »

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…

WHOA! This is shocking ignorance for an HN user. RSS still exists for most of the web if you can be bothered to use it. It just isn't in your face anymore. I consume a lot of content through RSS to this day. You also don't need to look at those email adverts if you can be bothered to use real email apps. It's your choice to soak yourself in the dumbed down garbage interfaces.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

#182

Post by ziml77 »

xena wrote: post #111
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

They're called kaomoji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaomoji (face-character)

And Windows actually has a library of them for easy insertion. It's part of the same interface as selecting emoji. Just hit Win+. (Win+{Period}) and switch to the ";-)" tab.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by emilamlom »

reportgunner wrote: post #140
carimura wrote: post #133

I came to the comments expecting more pushback but I'm surprised. What happened to the simplicity of reading articles without status indicators, link popups, notes, conversations, ...? OK, table of contents, you're cool.

Also 0 mentions of reader mode.

The author's focus is on static-generated sites, so reader mode isn't super relevant since they don't have a bunch of junk to clean up in the first place.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by gavinhoward »

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.

I actually agree with you, even though my Internet isn't as slow.

Can you do me a favor and go to my website? If you do, please give me feedback about what you like and don't like. Thank you.

https://gavinhoward.com/

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by Vrondi »

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?

Most CMS/blog apps have it built in. You might need to look up how to enable it (Drupal) or you might already have it enabled, even if you don't realize it (Wordpress). Check the documentation for your blogging/site content framework of choice.

If you're super old school and do an actual manual HTML site, just create the RSS file and add entries to it, then link to it. This is well documented and not in any way complex. It's just a text file, after all.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

#186

Post by markx2 »

vedranm wrote: post #76
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…

Do you mean blogroll?

Maybe, but I hated that term,.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by dspillett »

> One immediate thought is that this is completely superseded by the regular browser scroll bar that’s ever-present at the side of the page.

This is unfortunately too often not the case, as people see fit to hide the default scrollbar and have something of their own that doesn't always show or is barely obvious.

Though I agree with ToCs and showing progress that way, for pages long enough to make it useful rather than just extra visual noise, though this page itself doesn't actually do that with either of the techniques shown (an extra bar showing just progress through the actual content, or using the contents list as such a display), unless my content sanitisers have blocked some JS that would be doing such work (I see no evidence of such a problem).

> Easily Linkable Headings

Again, these are sometimes very useful, and when not are easy to ignore completely.

But again, the page doesn't make use of the feature it is extolling the virtues of!

> Grouping Series of Posts

Yes, though I might argue that such links, or a link to a ToC page for the group, belong in a more general list of related links.

> Dialogues

I can't say I agree there, but I think that sort of style point is very subjective so I'll agree to disagree :-)

> Code Blocks with Origin

Yep, can be very useful where relevant.

> Markers for External Links

Definitely, including local links that open in a new tab should also be visually indicated.

I'd stay away from an icon per target site/type though - that could quickly get confusing as you essentially have many icons for the same thing (an external link), and every site will use its own preferred set of icons, so the difference won't help generally identify things at a glance.

> Link Preview

For me, yes, though I'd be very careful where to use such things. It might confuse many non-technical users.

> Anything else

I'd like all articles to carry an obvious date of publishing and/or last update. That can be very useful in judging if the content is likely to be entirely relevant or should be verified where it may go stale.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

#188

Post by oopsallmagic »

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…

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Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

#189

Post by oopsallmagic »

Vrondi wrote: post #181
xnorswap wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

WHOA! This is shocking ignorance for an HN user. RSS still exists for most of the web if you can be bothered to use it. It just isn't in your face anymore. I consume a lot of content through RSS to this day. You also don't need to look at those email adverts if you can be bothered to use real email apps. It's your choice to soak yourself in the dumbed down garbage interfaces.

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Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

#190

Post by BiteCode_dev »

reportgunner wrote: post #140
carimura wrote: post #133

I came to the comments expecting more pushback but I'm surprised. What happened to the simplicity of reading articles without status indicators, link popups, notes, conversations, ...? OK, table of contents, you're cool.

Also 0 mentions of reader mode.

It's embedded in the browser now.
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