Question about link text variations

[afuna]

I'm considering whether having two sets of standard text would be acceptable for official styles. Right now, all the entry links (previous/next/memories/track, etc) are two words or more. That makes those links somewhat difficult to work with in some layouts which have more limited space.

What I'm considering are to have the long forms as defaults, but to have a secondary set of shorter text we can encourage style designers to standardize on, for official system styles. Keeping in mind the previous entry about changing link text, do these variations work for you?

Long and short forms of entry link text

Long	Short
Previous Entry	Previous
Next Entry	Next
Add to Memories	Memory
Untrack This	Untrack
Tell Someone	Tell
Leave a comment	Comment

Comments

[lightgetsin]

All but "tell" make sense to me, but I can't really come up with a better synonym. Maybe share?

[jadelennox]

thanks so much for reposting! I think that having two standard sets of text would be really useful -- and the nice thing about the two columns you've given here is that they all share text in common (well, the "add to memories" text shares the string "memor"). That makes building functionality around shared standard text easier.

[snakeling]

Also, because "Comment" could be confused with "# comments", I usually use "Reply".

[vampwillow]

"Add to memories" is, surely, "Remember"? And I'd strongly agree with the view that "Tell" should be replaced by "Share"

[not_a_sniglet]

Those'd work for us. We like the short forms actually but that's just a personal preference.
Great work Fu!
Also, that icon is brain-meltingly awesomely cute.

[ex_peasant441]

Perhaps 'memo' for 'add to memories'

And, yes 'share' and 'share with someone'

[jeshyr]

Note: There needs to be only ONE canonical form for each long and short version. As Jade has said, they need a word or a decent chunk of a word in common for searching purposes but the usefulness of standard forms is that they're standard - even when my eyes can't turn text into meaning very well they can look for text of a standard shape much more easily.

So for example "Share with somebody"/"Share" is a great version of the current "Tell" but it needs to replace the "Tell" form completely and not complement it to be really useful. I realise not everybody will want to change right away but the usual caveats about default systems styles do it this way -> if we're changing what "this way" is it needs to change totally.

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