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This discussion conflates comments with highlights, which are two different animals altogether. The distinguishing feature of highlights is that they are ancho
by idlewords 3y ago
This discussion conflates comments with highlights, which are two different animals altogether.
The distinguishing feature of highlights is that they are anchored to a specific passage in a (hyper)text, which you want the bookmarking tool to make visibly distinct, searchable, and so on. Ideally you want this feature to work seamlessly across paginated texts as well as on PDFs.
Comments are an entirely different animal, and the way they do (or don't) interact with highlights will depend on how people use the site socially, which is not really within the control of the site author.
Binning bookmarks, highlights, and comments together as "content" is like calling wedding cake, bobcats and lighter fluid different kinds of "matter"; it's reductive to the point of uselessness.
- bsnnkv 3y agoHard disagree with everything in your comment, but it's cool to have elicited a reply from the Pinboard guy.
- hammock 3y agoWhat do you disagree with? Makes sense to me, a comment annotates a highlight and both highlights and comments live in a bookmarking tool so you can find them
- bsnnkv 3y agoWith this > This discussion conflates comments with highlights, which are two different animals altogether. And this > The distinguishing feature of highlights is that they are anchored to a specific passage in a (hyper)text And this > Comments are an entirely different animal And this > Binning bookmarks, highlights, and comments together as "content" is like calling wedding cake, bobcats and lighter fluid different kinds of "matter"; it's reductive to the point of uselessness.
- hammock 3y agoWhy do you disagree?
- joshu 3y agobookmarks and highlights do seem to be adjacent. comments seems much more distant. the difference between "saving" and "sharing" causes tension.