responses

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responses, or interactions, in the context of the indieweb, refer to all the different ways and things people explicitly do to and with others’s posts, from written replies to quick likes, in other words responses = replies + reactions. Common response post types are reply (comment), like (favorite), repost (reshare), and mere mentions.

Response Post Types

Sometimes a response, or possible use-case:

Displaying a response post

See the individual "How to" sections in the above Response Post Types. E.g.

reply#Display_a_reply_post

Displaying responses to a post

Individual sets of responses

See the following pages for how individual posts display a summary of their responses:

Overall design of displaying responses

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This section is for collecting examples related to the overall design of which kinds of responses to display where, in what order, as part of a post. Once we have "enough" examples we can hopefully discern which designs are better than others and document some best practices.

Twitter responses UI criticism

Bad displaying responses UI example from Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennyGesserit/status/1605930553752035328
- "UI design is my passion" @KennyGesserit December 22, 2022
Bad displaying responses example 2 from Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennyGesserit/status/1606056132086321166
- "What the hell is this why is it 5 rows tall?? The average user didn’t want this" @KennyGesserit December 22, 2022

Tweet example of responses text equivalents

Meant humorously, but also illustrated a possible way to POSSE a static snapshot of responses summary numbers:

https://twitter.com/jwcarroll/status/1617988071936622592
- "Sir, let me show you how to sort an array in Java script.
  
  🗨️ 123k ♻️ 1.3M ❤️ 23.6M" @jwcarroll January 24, 2023

IndieWeb Examples

See the lists on each of the specific response post type pages.

This section is for examples that show a wide variety of response post types.

Aaron Parecki

Aaron Parecki has a good example of a photo post with responses from Twitter (via Bridgy), and various Mastodon profiles on different servers: https://aaronparecki.com/2019/01/11/28/

"How did we let the Web get to this point. All I wanted to do was read this blog post." @Aaron Parecki January 11, 2019

Silo Examples

Nearly all silos (Twitter or Facebook for example) support some forms of interaction.

History

There was some discussion to get rough consensus around what to call the set of things that is replies/comments, reposts/reshares, likes/favorites. This resulted in deciding on the term "responses" as well as "reactions".