Simon WillisonAug 26, 2024

I wish I had the equivalent of threads for my own blog... there's something uniquely interesting about a publishing medium that produces a chronological record of the way you explored a specific thought

A thread is almost like a mini-blog for evolving one very specific idea over time

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The biggest design challenge is deciding what to do with threads that might have new notes added to them for months or even years - how does that play into a most-recent-posts on the homepage and at top of RSS feed blogging platform?
Aug 26, 2024 at 7:46pmWeb
Show threadDan HonAug 26, 2024
@simon they only exist in the context of what came before them now feels like a pretty good Design Principle
Show threadTed Han ★ 韓聖安Aug 26, 2024

@danhon @simon This also feels like a cross referencing & section challenge that all news orgs face.

Like take a look at what the Verge does with the side rail: https://www.theverge.com/

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Show threadRichard TerryAug 26, 2024
@simon Separate blog posts in the feeds, add a "thread" field fk to point to the first post, first post renders them all in chronological order, URL is /original/#new.
Show threadDave bauerAug 26, 2024
@radiac @simon This is what I was thinking. Anchors seems like a simple answer to link to latest which keeping the context.
Show threadDavid ArchAug 26, 2024
@simon Wikipedia Talk pages typically are marked up into threads; the atom feed simply carries timestamped diffs of edits. Overall not really pleasent but the page could be endless I guess (or old content archived into sub pages and edited back etc.)
Show threadLeon BambrickAug 26, 2024
@simon
1. when adding a note to a thread have a checkbox (default:off) to indicate if it is a note worth adding to the main rss feed
2. When a note from a thread is added to the rss feed it also includes a little automatically generated info about the context.
(I’ve done similar on a few wiki like systems)