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Help! I'm paralyzed by indecision. Where should this "Cross-posted" badge go. It will be used to show that a post's URL has been cross-posted to another community.

Options:

Under the title Above the title Above the header Under the post Somewhere else entirely?
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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Don't devote an entire horizontal row in the UI - share the row used by the author name:

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
  1. Wow I did not format that table correctly. Will fix.
  2. I considered this but the issue is I am worried I will need to add another badge in the future. Giving it its own row adds an easy way to add more badges in the future.
[–] Glitterkoe@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess if the need for more badges arrives you could always change the design or offer an option then.

Semantically it makes sense to put it after the community (ie crossposted from somewhere else) or after user who did it. I'd rather have this information in some shape or form in that location than that it's shaped like a badge.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I don't really think it makes any sense personally for it to be there. The point of the button is (1) for users to know the post was cross-posted somewhere else and (2) a tappable item that if the user taps will display all the locations it was cross-posted too.

Another user made a good point that it should probably appear after the title because it reads better. Eg. you see the post first and then you see that it's cross-posted. In addition, it ties the information to the post which makes sense. It shows the user "this post has been cross-posted elsewhere".

If it appeared by the name, it would be confusing since the immediate context is the name and community. A name or community being "cross-posted" makes no sense. You can't cross-post a person or a community. You cross-post a post.

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