[Note: this post was originally made to Pillowfort on March 19, 2019.]

While putting together a massive compilation of links recently, one of the things I got to thinking about, as you might expect, was about how some sites were easier to collect examples from and follow the conversation on than others. The forums were, of course, the best. The most customizeable search function, plus the threaded nature of, you know, threads, made it really easy to find what I was looking to find. As for the Tumblr posts, I mostly either had to have those handed to me directly or else only found them because I knew exactly whose blogs and tags to look through -- and each individual post or reblog chain seemed to stand as an island, with nothing to directly connect it to any others. So because we've also talked about site dialect and culture, now I'm also wondering: What about a culture of links? ( Read more... )