Octothorpes seem cool
What am I doing, am I doing this right?
Edit: No, I did it all wrong. Adding the head directive breaks my blog. ಠ_ಠ
Edit, again: I broke my blog for a bit trying to implement octothorpes. I squeaked on the discovery feed, and @octothorpes saw my post and reached out to help. After an hour of exchanging emails and testing various bits, it turned out the header snippet was missing the closing </script> tag (now corrected). 🙃
After that, setting it up was super easy. My test post was originally a #status, so it also displayed on my homepage — and, to my dismay, both the post and my homepage were indexed. I immediately changed it to a #meta post before my Status page also got indexed. How obnoxious would it be to have three(!) of my pages indexed from one hashtagged post? I shudder. When I looked today, my homepage was removed from the list (whew).
I don't know if I'll keep/use this, but browsing #weirdWebOctober was super fun, and I'll be curious to see how this looks for the Bearblog (and the wider blogging) community. I can imagine this being useful for blogging challenges (e.g., WeblogPoMo), which typically rely on social media hashtags or manually compiled lists of participants. For myself, I know I'd be interested in pages tagged with #bearblog-css (simply because the Bearblog search isn't great at surfacing this information right now) and #weeknotes.1
The difference between what I'm seeing on #weirdWebOctober and the Bearblog implementation though is that the former doesn't display an embedded list of pages with the same hashtag. I don't think I care for this embedded list. I prefer just a link to the hashtag page (or maybe even nothing at all).
I love the very human process of manually curated links and find myself resistant to more automated feeds... but this is an incomplete thought. Maybe I just dislike thoughtless, spammy hashtagging + links. Octothorpes does feel like it can be more intentional, particularly with the example of community events.
Edit to test: Adding a #demo tag without Javascript (no embedded list):
#demo (this link text can be anything)
Edit to add: I'd follow a #cats (or #cat-tax?) hashtag for the cats of Bearblog. 🐈