We didn’t actually finish deciding that as a team. (So take this with a grain of salt).
My guess is that Mods will still append the meta flag to new posts for which that makes sense, but functionally they were already the same as personal blogposts in terms of appearing on frontpage, and it didn’t seem worth the complexity of trying to explain the distinction. So from a user perspective, you just create a post and the mods will decide what flags to apply.
I think it makes most sense to think of meta as a cosmetic tag rather than a broader classification.
Note that you can still view posts with the meta flag on the archive page
That seems like a reasonable approach. The volume of posts on meta is low, so people generally don’t need to look at it from day to day. When they do, going through archive seems reasonable. I agree that reducing complexity is worth it in this instance as it was sort of confusing before.
We didn’t actually finish deciding that as a team. (So take this with a grain of salt).
My guess is that Mods will still append the meta flag to new posts for which that makes sense, but functionally they were already the same as personal blogposts in terms of appearing on frontpage, and it didn’t seem worth the complexity of trying to explain the distinction. So from a user perspective, you just create a post and the mods will decide what flags to apply.
I think it makes most sense to think of meta as a cosmetic tag rather than a broader classification.
Note that you can still view posts with the meta flag on the archive page
That seems like a reasonable approach. The volume of posts on meta is low, so people generally don’t need to look at it from day to day. When they do, going through archive seems reasonable. I agree that reducing complexity is worth it in this instance as it was sort of confusing before.
What about a Sequence? It’s a collection of related posts.
We’ve already got the infrastructure for tagging posts meta, so most likely sticking with that.
(It did occur to me recently that the difference between a sequence and a tag is mostly cosmetic, kinda mulling that over as a concept)