Re:Feeds Are Not Fit for Gardening
by cxr on Saturday March 30, 2024 @10:30PM
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Gardens suck. It's easily the worst part about the Web, New or Olde. Worse than UI dark patterns. Worse than user tracking. It's no contest.
Stop "updating" content destructively. Nobody raids my bookshelf when an author or publisher decides to put out a new edition of their best-selling work.
Stop lying about the identity of your resources. Previously:
> I wish SE followed closer to the print tradition instead of the modern Web millieu and clearly identified its microeditions as exactly that: distinct editions of the same text. (Yes, that means there are possibly dozens [or hundreds—maybe even thousands] of different editions [...] No, that's not a problem.)
Stop "updating" content destructively. Nobody raids my bookshelf when an author or publisher decides to put out a new edition of their best-selling work.
Stop lying about the identity of your resources. Previously:
> I wish SE followed closer to the print tradition instead of the modern Web millieu and clearly identified its microeditions as exactly that: distinct editions of the same text. (Yes, that means there are possibly dozens [or hundreds—maybe even thousands] of different editions [...] No, that's not a problem.)
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38835224>
(Assigning the same identifier to multiple resources is a problem.)