Aaron Parecki

Since Monocle is completely stateless, I needed to add some information about the source into the response in order for Monocle to be able to display that. Here's a sample...

This is live in Monocle now! I ran into a few edge cases that I'm not clear on how I want to solve. Mainly around reposts and likes. Also when...

@mblaney yes, Monocle looks for the `_source` property and if it finds it, it will turn the author name and photo into a link to view posts from this source....

@mblaney right now `_source` is just a string. Maybe it'd be better to expand that right now to include that `h-card` object described in #13? Combining both proposals would basically...

A similar but slightly different version of this is when following content from forums, where you want to know which forum thread a post is from. I currently use a...

Would you want the client to do that logic of showing the source info in place of the author? It seems potentially messy to have the server do that.

Some brainstorming info: It looks like current interfaces show the following information about the source: * icon * name * url Atom has the following properties in their top-level feed...

My current thought for this is to add a new property to the entry with the source's `h-card` info: ``` { "type": "entry", "url": "https://example.com/1000", ... ... "_source": { "url":...

@mblaney Interesting idea on getting the source info in a different request. That does force clients to become a bit more stateful, as opposed to being able to render a...

``` { "type": "entry", "url": "https://example.com/1000", ... ... "_source": { "_id": "9857239874", "url": https://example.com/", "name": "Example Person", "photo": "https://example.com/photo.jpg" } } ``` Properties: * `url`, `name`, `photo`: display values, the...