Hypermedia Pattern Language

A Hypermedia Pattern Language. Since Human Systems are Complex Systems from Civilization All the Way Down to human brains, our sense-making and collaboration and communication systems should leverage associative/composable media.

I'm using hypermedia here to handwave at it being hypertext, embedded multimedia, and interglactic. And, in some cases, interactive.

but I'm still biased toward Worse is Better foundations like web/HTTP, markdown, sql + filesystem, etc

Inspirations/references: Claim, Claim Refactoring Service, Digital Garden, Card-deck, Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts, Assemble-It-Yourself Component-Based Journalism, Scaling Synthesis, Decentralized Discourse Graph....

meta/base/core

A 'node' is a storage-object: record or file. A page is a display of 1+nodes; most often, 1 node. I will probably use these words interchangeably.

Every node should be addressable.

Sometimes a node contains a "single thought" (atomic note), sometimes not. Sometimes it contains a single "block" of text (1 sentence, 1 tweet, 1 paragraph, 1 line-with-sub-bullets), sometimes it doesn't. If you want a subset of a node to be addressable (e.g. paragraph-addressable), you should probably split it off into its own node. (Counter: can/should you leverage text fragment model? Combine text fragment with purple numbers?)

A node should have a good name/title: Designing Good Page Names. Sometimes a node is so short it doesn't have a (separate) name/title (e.g. a tweet). We can often treat the node content itself (stripped of "code") as the name - is there a length-limit to that? Technically you could hit 2000 chars, but is there a downside?

A node's URL should "be" its name: Page Name As URL.

should strip punctuation
- personally, I strip spaces and use Smashed Together Words; other people turn spaces into dashes or underscores.
issues with non-ascii characters

A space is a namespace within a domain, a collection of nodes

should access-control be by space? Or manually set by node?

A node should be able to link to another node in the same space via Double-Brackets. Such links should work in the opposite direction: BackLinks, particularly Visible Backlinks.

Individual

Social Warrens

Permeable membranes, discovery, community, mission

Scenes, Collaborations, Inventions, And Progress

Decentralized Discourse Graph, Garden Warren

Live Chat and Discussion Forums

A post is a node? Or is a post a cluster of nodes, so that one can respond more directly to a specific idea/node?

You respond-to (or post-after creating a chrono sequence) a single node, but you can also link to other nodes. And thus backlinks can lead from those nodes to the new response.