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. 🐈