Names in square brackets do not survive redistribution to Facebook posts. #2
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For lack of knowing a better-suited place to hook this issue onto, i'm leveraging this style guide, that dictates to enclose names in square brackets, to report that those names do not survive when Hackaday posts' excerpts are published to Facebook.
Style guide:
Hacker names, pseudonyms, and handles are enclosed in square brackets. This was originally intended to disambiguate "that nerdy hacker" from "[that nerdy hacker]". It's not necessary for figures of historical importance, so you don't have to write [Albert Einstein], but you may.
Something in the process of redistributing a blog post to Facebook appears to remove the text enclosed in square brackets. For example, this blog post:
... shares it's intro with this Facebook post:
https://www.facebook.com/hackaday.io/posts/4778744998805406
However, on Facebook it reads as:
The electrical signals emitted by the human body tell us a lot about what's going on inside. But getting those signals inside your microcontroller is not straightforward: the voltages are too small for most ADCs, and the ever-present 50 or 60 Hz mains frequency makes it hard to discern subtle changes. Over at Upside Down Labs, developed a universal biosensor interface called the…...
... while the original reads as:
The electrical signals emitted by the human body tell us a lot about what’s going on inside. But getting those signals inside your microcontroller is not straightforward: the voltages are too small for most ADCs, and the ever-present 50 or 60 Hz mains frequency makes it hard to discern subtle changes. Over at Upside Down Labs, [Deepak Kathri] developed a universal biosensor interface called the BioAmp EXG Pill to make all this a lot easier.
(boldface added by me to highlight the key difference).
This is just one example, but the observation can be made consistently on all the Hackaday page's posts on Facebook since I subscribed to "follow" it, about two months ago.