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Idk people on Tumblr usually just add on to one of their own posts or make many posts in their own special tag i.e. "#user liveblogs event" so people who aren't interested can block the tag (but i suppose that doesn't work here yet).

I think with post collapsing here the adding-on-to-a-post would be my choice (because then it goes to the top of the feed again)

Single post + comment thread is how I've done sporting events on here, seems to be the easiest way without cluttering feeds with a ton of reactions. Obvious downside is nobody can see whatever cool/funny joke you make but it seems better than just sharing each though in a rechost chain.

I was thinking of just having a single post that I keep editing during the thing, and then at the end do a rechost of it to indicate I'm done?
Maybe?
At least it won't be as annoying to people following me as my sometimes massive twitter threads were. Hopefully.

i feel like comments are too restrictive, and reposts are too spammy. it would be nice to have another option for longer ongoing stuff

for my building stuff posts i've been doing "installments" of like 1-3 reposts and then adding links between these installments. it... kinda works, but it's kind of labour intensive to find the old post and edit it, and easy to mess up.

maybe it'd be nice to be able to create a... i guess you'd call it a "thread" or "series" or something. a label you can file posts under like a tag, but unlike a tag, it's specific to you (and maybe only one series per post? i can see arguments both for/against that).

then in the regular TL you could show something to indicate "this post is part of series foo'", and that's a convenient link to see just that specific series of posts in order

Is this about some sports again? What's coming up?

As other people mention, I’ve been using personal tags for this (see #cassie Gundam etc.)

But, that’s really only good for seeing the whole thing, it would be nice to be able to jump into the middle of the feed to see the posts before and after the one you’re linked from.

the ability to append new posts to one of your existing posts without the timeline treating each update as a discrete new post would be welcome, and it's one of the few functional elements I still miss from twitter. no idea what that would look like from a design or code perspective though lol, good luck

I think reposts could work, if each repost didn't show up with its 'ancestors' as a discrete entry in the timeline. This could also help with what occasionally happens now, where I'm scrolling back in time, and seeing a post with all reposts, the latest one at the bottom, and directly below this is the same post again, just with one fewer repost appended.

it would be neat to have a little box that's unchecked by default but that I can check when sharing and adding to my own post that basically says "show a link to the original and maybe visually distinguish it in someway so we know this is an ongoing thread but don't show the whole thread." then if someone wants to view the whole thing they just click on the link and it looks like a normal post with a long string of additions

While live blogging media, I've been doing 1 post per episode (with a read more cut if needed), with each episode's post added to an ongoing chain as a reblog. I don't love it. I'm also trying out using a personal tag to group posts (eg Essay Scents for my perfume diary) but don't love that either since tag searches don't seem to catch everything.

What if each tag had a sort of community chat? Not exactly what you were asking about but say you tagged #GameAwards, you could talk to others who've followed the tag in a chat room dedicated to that tag, sort of live blogging in a way.

i have low enough engagement i have no idea what effect it has on the recipient's end but self replies clogs your replies, although it does spare other users who follow you from endless spam

the other thing i considered when the op is about a thing i'm researching is just editing op but i only want to do that if, again, it generates no extra notification

i suspect a solution could look like either one of these but a user could opt to stay informed about changes to it somehow

Given that this site is closer to Livejournal than Twitter, people having their own posts and then liveblogging or commentary in the comments is how I've seen it done on big places like ONTD

If people are going to do multiple chosts for a short event, will the community naturally split into fast chosters and slow chosters? I think I'm definitely a slow choster

I've been liveblogging a tv show by making a tag specific to that liveblog and making one post per episode, but this has largely been convenient because they're short episodes and only one/two a week. I imagine liveblogging a bingewatch would start to spam people's feeds