#microformats 2026-01-26

2026-01-26 UTC
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ulhar4409 is u-category a thing that gets used? or should i stick with p-category?
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ulhar4409 actually, u- would probably imply that the parser should look for a link and treat that as the primary value, which feels probably wrong
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gRegor It depends on the type of post and context, what you intend consumers to see. In most posts, if you want a tag/category name to be the result, you want p-category. Some indieweb cases like people tagging use u-category, though: https://indieweb.org/person-tag#How_to
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ulhar4409 icic
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ulhar4409 my current plans are basically just category "names" that happen to link to a page with more in that category
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ulhar4409 although, if the link points to another website entirely with the intent of being a submission for *that* site, would that be a good usecase for u-category?
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[KevinMarks] you can put rel="tag" if it links to a tag page, that's the previous model. Are you sending webmentions to *that* site?
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ulhar4409 if it's not a same-site page then i would
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gRegor chances are slim the external site is parsing microformats, so probably still p-category
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gRegor If they receive webmentions, they'll be verifying the link appears on the page, not looking at the mf2
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ulhar4409 ~~Not if I also make the external site~~
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gRegor What would be your consuming use case for u-category then?
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ulhar4409 i do have an idea for an opt-in tagging site, that would accept webmentions on its tag pages and interpret successful mentions as submissions
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gRegor p-category would still work for that
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ulhar4409 yeah probably
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ulhar4409 i guess it's a question of "is the URL or the name more useful? "
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gRegor Worth checking out IndieNews an indiewebxyz, they didn't use p-category quite like that, though they could. A syndication link like IndieNews uses works to establish the intent to submit the post
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gRegor and a category name (hashtag) would be sufficient for categorizing it in the aggregator
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ulhar4409 oh true, i kind of forgot about syndication links
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ulhar4409 hmmmm
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ulhar4409 there is a sort of "remarks in tags" pattern from tumblr/cohost that i would be wary of here, which could probably be sidestepped with some kind of "Please don't p-category your tags if you're not using them as categories" policy
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ulhar4409 idk if i need to dig into that project right now anyway
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gRegor yeah, tag moderation is something to definitely consider
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gRegor this is getting more into #indieweb-dev though :)
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