Steven RosenbergAre #Mastodoners really annoyed by too many #hashtags?
Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦@passthejoe It's not even on my radar usually. In the extremely rare event I see a post with what I think are too many hashtags I just keep scrolling.
Probably Paul 🌍@passthejoe Hashtags in the text annoy me a bit, not only because it looks a mess, but because I know blind and partially sighted people struggle with it. Their screen readers shout "HASHTAG!" every time.
Better to put them at the bottom.
Jason Bowen 🇺🇦> Their screen readers shout "HASHTAG!" every time.
Ah, I was not aware of that bit.
@jbowen @passthejoe Yeah, I didn't know either. But having found out, putting hashtags at the bottom seems like too much of a small courtesy to justify not doing.
Any of us could lose or partially lose our sight, after all.
Muro deGrizecoI appreciate the tip: hashtags at the bottom, to make for a better screen reader experience.
Sami Seppo@BarrenPlanet @passthejoe Hashtags could be shown more innovatively and sophisticatedly. Subtly embeddedly and less discernebly when placed as singly IN your text.
...and more prominently and colourfully when at least two tags are placed in immediate succession.
This could be enabled as default and this current and enhancedly expressive text tagging could be an option.
Hughster@samiseppo @BarrenPlanet @passthejoe Phanpy.social handles them rather well, collapsing long lists of hashtags at ends of posts into a single line. It also doesn't colour the links so they blend into the text better.
@hughster @BarrenPlanet @passthejoe That single line solution looks brilliant 👍 , since most essential tags are usually first in line and the rest can be checked (by hovering/clicking ??). As a list tags could be shown more discernible – to my taste. But it should be an adjustable setting by receiver/viewer.
#Hashtags could also appear little smarter and blend smoothly in the body text when marked separately in singles, not successionally like they are in the end of message.
@hughster @BarrenPlanet @passthejoe In that suggested blended version there should then be also different customs for single word #Hashtags and #MultiWordTags. The latter ones (including more than 1 uppercase letters) would be shown less blendedly to keep the body text more elegantly rendered in such cases.
A visual demonstration of a less annoying custom of showing hashtags, depending of their type and positioning.
Visual readers could be software updated also to treat 'messy' tags in the text audibly slightly more differently and blendedly.
Queen of Anxiety
HilaryAs a nobody, who follows a small selective number of hashtags, no I am not.
But I can well imagine that prominent accounts get spammed by excessive use of hashtags.
@passthejoe I don't mind, unless the hashtags are clearly spammy and not relevant to the topic. I'd honestly rather people used too many than none at all, as so many people don't use them when it would really help.
schalken@passthejoe No, but there a corner few cases where I wish people would think a little more. Making anchorage a hashtag, for instance. Like literally nobody following that cares about where you parked your boat, we only want to see stuff about the city. Fortunately I only saw the ultra-generic form used as a hashtag once.