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Re:Show HN: Hacker News User Blogroll by minebreaker on Thursday July 06, 2023 @12:31AM (#36611301)

Just an idea. Wouldn't it be great to have a standard format for a user profile for automated discovery?

Something like:

  Any random string.
  [age]: xx
  [location]: xxx  # city or country or geohash or whatever
  [email]: [email protected]  # can be obfuscated
  [blog]: https://xxx
  I use the format!  # magic tag to indicate you are following to the standard

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News User Blogroll by icepopo on Thursday July 06, 2023 @05:07AM (#36613215)

Maybe something like json-ld schema? https://schema.org/Person

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News User Blogroll by flurdy on Thursday July 06, 2023 @05:54AM (#36613591)

I wouldn't but age in there. Not for PII reasons but I doubt I would remember to update it every year... My own website I changed to just say what decade my age is to give me some leeway.

Good idea though will change mine now.

The profile is used by other things as well such as keybase verification etc.

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News User Blogroll by khimaros on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:00AM (#36614501)

perhaps birth year?

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News User Blogroll by tiim on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:44AM (#36614919)

There is! It's called microformats[1] and is a very minimal format to embed machine readable data inside of html via standardized class names. The format for a person would be an h-card[2]. There are a bunch of parsing libraries for multiple programming laguages, such as https://go.microformats.io/.

For example if you enter my website url in there you get all the data as a nice json object: https://go.microformats.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftiim.ch

[1]: http://microformats.org/ [2]: http://microformats.org/wiki/h-card

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