is a solid tactic. No one “inspect elements” every site. Everyone’s a user, even programmers — they won’t know until someone tells them.
Just noticed that Mastodon prefixes a
user’s homepage route with the @at
symbol. Pragmatic and clever name spacing? Tempting. Though I’d still prefer a
URL
of the form:
https://example.com/user
Instead of:
https://example.com/@user
Yeah… superficial, but it looks cleaner.
A lot of websites dump the entire feed — that’s nice. Ideally for bandwidth efficiency, combine multiple delivery strategies.
-
A partial content feed (Atom preferred) limited to the last
3/5/10
posts for quick queries. -
A full content feed of a similar limit for fresh content.
-
A hidden/unlisted feed for dumping all content (mirror).
Alternatively, just implement atom’s collection partial lists for feed pagination. If your post bandwidth (size/frequency) is low, then pretend you didn’t see this — be lazy and optimize later.
Here’s
a great article
that implements reading webmentions
natively in hugo
. There’s always a soul out there who
has tried what you’re thinking about.