Let facepile avatars link to the like/repost/etc?

Something of a corrolary request: perhaps a setting to combine the display of simple reaction-type webmentions, like likes and reposts, into a single facepile called Activity.

We link to the author URL because we felt there wasn’t anything to see specifically on the like page. It usually just says something like, “Blank liked URL” But it wouldn’t be the first time someone asked about te why.

For the second, you’d want the individual images but with the icons in a single row? We have some tools for that built in, let me see if I can document it.

I guess for me the argument would transparency and trust, in that linking to the action not just the person verifies that it’s real.

Trust on which side? On your part or that of your visitors?

The latter.

If it’s only for you to check… the linking is only a frontend thing… you see the source URL in the comments section of WP-Admin.

Per my last response, I’m talking about for visitors, as a matter of public trust and transparency. Possibly a holdover from my journalism days, but still applicable.

I forgot to reply to part of David’s earlier:

For the second, you’d want the individual images but with the icons in a single row?

Yes. I’m. I’m basically inclined to keep things separate but also visually tidy. I basically wish there were a way for all the webmention facepiles to be one big facepile headed Webmentions or something.

The issue with that is more a protocol/representation issue: The Webmention spec uses Websemantics to get all informations, like author name, url, comment, permalink, … . The facepile in the comment section is part of the Author-Semantics (h-card), so that’s why we use the Author-URL. If we would link that author data to the permalink, a parser would assume that the permalink is the profile URL…

But we will see how/if we can change the HTML to fix that issue.