My main frustration with the phlogosphere is that it’s not trivial to comment or discuss a phlog entry by other means that the web (which we all despise, right?)

There are solutions of course, but I find them inconvenient:

  • emails
  • instant messaging (IRC/matrix/…)
  • /7/ item trick
  • ???

What’s your take on that ?

  • z3braOP
    3•1 year ago

    I’ve used the “Re:” method but it’s not discoverable by external readers or even the original author, so you gotta send an email to notify them. I do agree that it greatly increase the quality of replies though, which is nice.

    I’ve never used Usenet, it’s a cool idea indeed, I’ll look into it.

      • z3braOP
        3•1 year ago

        Yeah I use that too for my guest book, it uses the /7/ item type (search) to post whatever was searched as a comment. But it’s not convenient to comment on a single post.

        • @slugmax
          3•1 year ago

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    • @screwtapeM
      1•1 year ago

      For example the talking-about-my-generation thread, where phloggers edited in bibliographies of known/noticed other response phlog articles across both the gopher and geminispace.