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Reply to https://sarajaksa.eu/2023/12/reply-to-benjis-note-on-watch-metaformats/

But you do realise you proved my point a bit? If one needs to go searching the GitHub issues to figure out how to do it, then people would need to be really motivated to do it.

I completely agree with this. A big challenge for me has been finding the right example that is maybe linked in the wiki. When nothing is found I usually ask at HWC and get more pieces of the puzzle but in cases where something isn't defined as well as other things, like watch posts, it's a dead end.

And yet, sometimes I have a feeling that people (not you personally) just sort of assume that we all understand the microformats.

This is specially important in this case. When there's not an example anywhere it's up to the person that wants to define the microformats to do it. For me it's a bit intimidating and I have struggled with this because I don't think I understand enough and sometimes do it completely wrong.

Luckily like you mentioned in your reply to gRegor, people I've interacted with in the IndieWeb have always been very helpful and I have not felt judgement for being wrong. But I don't know if this would be immediately apparent to a newcomer.



Reply to https://sarajaksa.eu/2023/12/the-chicken-egg-problem-of-movie-microformats/

I brought it up again at HWC Pacific since its one of the main ways I use my site and the lack of consensus has always bothered me.

I create watch posts with sparkles where the u-watch-of property is an h-cite with name, year, IMDB ID, and IMDB URL. I also add a rating and progress which can be "want", "started", or "finished" based on these discussions.

In the watched feed they used to be h-reviews but was pointed to this discussion about switching over to h-entry with an u-review-of at HWC. Not 100% on board but it feels better than h-review.

If we take RSVPs as an example where a in-reply-to and rsvp means its an RSVP post, it would seem like an h-entry with a p-rating is enough to classify a post as an review. This way we could review a u-watch-of, u-read-of, or anything else. I think there might be a conflict if a post where to have a u-watch-of and a separate property (location for example) where the question would be: Is this review of the movie, the venue, or seeing the movie at this venue.

For now, this is how I'm using watch posts. I need to start adding some of this stuff to the wiki and other discussions since it feels like if someone were to want to add watch posts they could either use this as a starting point or tell me how it can be improved.








Reply to https://barryfrost.com/2023/09/i-m-getting-the-dreaded-rattling

I thought it was just me. I took in my brothers airpods pro and after diagnostics the right and left ones needed replacement. They quoted replacements for ~$160 but somehow the system allowed it to be marked as $90. Except it wouldnt let me check out...

He ended up getting a new set of the latest pros for cheaper.

This all feels like a scam so you are forced to purchase apple care.