Original link: https://sanguok.com/blog/a-beautiful-way-to-share-rss-feeds-by-hubzilla/
Hubzilla, Friendica’s rich text is rarely supported by other social media that support related protocols. In this context, when Hubzilla and its similar products share the RSS/Atom content on the news stream, they cannot use the regular interactive forms such as forwarding and commenting, but can only quote, and publish it without paying attention to the typesetting format of the sharing. The content may not be beautiful.
When quoting RSS/Atom content, the editor will place the quoted original content at the top of the text box in the form of a short code by default. If you don’t say a word, you just want to share the original text; just wrap the line and share the testimonial below it, after clicking the “Share” button, the editor will automatically print the quoted RSS/Atom content short code as RSS/ Atom content abstracts (every two hundred words or so), or even the full text of the original text (the number of words may be thousands). In Hubzilla and its similar products, because the quoted text is tagged with “share”, the visual output will be different from the feelings written by the user; but on platforms that do not support such rich text (such as Mastodon), no matter Whether it is the original text quoted or the feelings that the user really wants to express, they are all listed in the same format, font size, and color in the same order. What are the large paragraphs of text you copied, which are your real feelings?”
If the quoted part is placed at the forefront, and the original quoted text is too long (such as thousands of words), the reader will need to scroll for a long time to find what the user wants to express. Impatient people may just swipe away the item and look at something else.
If some social platforms and websites do not set up long text folding, such long content will also cause trouble for readers.
The recommended layout and practice of shared content are as follows:
- First explain yourself “What article did you read/read, and it was about…”
- Talk about what you think is worth noting, or other feelings.
- On a new line, add the sentence “The following is the original text/abstract”, or other characters that can be used to separate and make it clear to the reader that the quotation should start below.
- Paste the code for the quoted content.
After publishing, you can see what the quote actually looks like printed out. Generally speaking, the order of printing is that if there is a readable abstract of the original text (about two hundred characters), only the abstract is printed, and if there is no abstract, the original text is posted in large sections. If the self-assessment original text is too long, click Edit again (because of the feature of Hubzilla’s very similar products that can edit the content <item> multiple times; in fact, Mastodon also has similar improvements that have been submitted for review, looking forward to the day of promotion), then you will find the quote The shortcodes for content have been revamped into long texts wrapped in a “share” tag. Take out the parts that you think are important, and delete the unimportant parts—unless you think the full text is worth being archived. Pay again to save.
It should be noted that some instances will reject the second and further changes made by the user. If you feel guilty that the citation is too long to make up for in these instances, you can start by not using the short code of the citation content generated by the editor itself, but take the initiative to use quotation marks or greater than signs to mark the copy that you have copied in advance and want to share. An excerpt for the reader. Finally, the original link is attached.
This article only talks about personal feelings and suggestions. Believe it or not, I will listen to the public opinion. If there is a better way, or if you have a way that you are more used to, you are also welcome to communicate.
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