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1. Chris Messina (chrismessina@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 07:19:13 JST Chris Messina

   • Eugen Rochko

   Is it time for hashtags to evolve?

   Well, they're about to on Mastodon due to an upcoming change in v4.2.0, advanced by @Gargron himself.

   I have some thoughts.

   https://medium.com/chris-messina/the-problem-with-the-problems-with-hashtags-35d4ba29b04d?sk=89627c83abff03705edb64fe59570415

   #TheProblemWithHashtags

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 07:19:07 JST Eugen Rochko

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     @chrismessina No, that change cannot be tested in beta 1, it's not merged. The person you're citing is completely misguided, the change has nothing to do with what they're observing -- in fact, the change would fix their problem, as tags authored in non-Mastodon software that are not included in the body of the post would become visible for the first time. My change would also not remove a hashtag from the end of a paragraph. Only if you put it on its own line.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 07:48:37 JST Eugen Rochko

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     @chrismessina No, Vince Aggrippino. It's simple, if the end of the post is just hashtags, beginning with a newline, they are not rendered in the body. Yes, it does.

   • Chris Messina (chrismessina@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 07:48:38 JST Chris Messina

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @Gargron I think the person I'm citing is myself?

     Will clarify re beta 1.

     Do you have a set of tests I can look at to better understand the behavior you've designed? I was relying on the screenshots in the Github issue.

     Also, I was unaware of this: "as tags authored in non-Mastodon software that are not included in the body of the post would become visible for the first time"; are you saying that ActivityPub already supports non-inline tags on posts?