Post #2377558
2026-04-11 18:53 UTC
@jfred@jawns.club I think I also like it better as structured data than parsing meaning out of a string. Seems more intentional and less prone to unexpected problems.
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@jfred@jawns.club 2026-04-11 19:13
@ridley@hachyderm.io Yeah. Of course at some point you'll need to parse strings for e.g. user input, but I think the more you can make the application's internal representation a data structure rather than a string, the better. How users interact with non-string parts of the data structure while writing messages becomes an interesting UX question; I think Slack-style menus/completion when you type a prefix character (@, /, etc) feels nice.