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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-04 at 22:22

Slash Pages?

Sometimes I look at this list of "slash pages" and I'm like ughkgh I love these, I should do like all of them. Then something stops me and I think I've figured out what it is. They seem more like blog post ideas to me than permanent (if occasionally updated) pages. For example /carry is one of the ideas:

https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/04/slash-pages/

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Written by 👻 coogie on 2025-01-05 at 00:42

@chriscoyier I feel like the best way to maintain a slash page is to keep it modern (the current state of play) while also preserving the historical (your idea of blog post like)

So instead of it being destructively evergreen, it should be an additive page like:

h1: Uses

h2: 2025-01

...

h2: 2024-08

...

And so on...

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Written by 👻 coogie on 2025-01-05 at 00:44

@chriscoyier but maybe that's just the URL preservationist in me talking 😅

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Written by Chris Coyier on 2025-01-05 at 02:07

@coogie could be even MORE useful that way really

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Written by Timo Tijhof on 2025-01-05 at 04:05

@chriscoyier @coogie

Another way might be to occasionally do a "Uses" blog post, tag them accordingly and redirect or link "Uses" to /tag/uses/ which would list those posts.

Idem for some of the other slash page ideas. Then you won't feel as bad about them being stale, either. It also avoids the urge to remove or tweak older sections if you come up with a different structure, or if you choose to discontinue the page for some reason.

And it means your RSS followers get hear about them, too!

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Written by Adam Newbold on 2025-01-05 at 02:52

@chriscoyier You just inspired me to put down some thoughts that have been rattling around in my mind for the past few weeks: https://notes.neatnik.net/2025/01/everything-is-a-web-page

I’m sure other folks have done this before, but I’m going to start experimenting with an intentional blurring-of-the-line between “web page” and “blog post”. It might wind up being a flop, but I’m interested to see what happens!

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Written by shellsharks on 2025-01-07 at 15:31

@chriscoyier I've always thought of them more this way. The reason it's fun to have these types of pages in a single, static spot is that other "indiewebbers” who are familiar with the slashpage practice can find your /about, or find your /carry, or whatever other page by just going to it. Similarly, cool indieweb indexing sites can index the breadth of the communities uniform slash pages.

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Written by shellsharks on 2025-01-07 at 15:31

@chriscoyier You could still do them as point-in-time blog posts too! Just update your /carry page to point to your latest /2025/01/07/my-2025-carry post. That way /carry can still be a static point for people to find that info, but you’re also free to update it as you would a normal blog post. Cheers!

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