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wongarsuyesterday at 12:29 PM1 replyview on HN

JSON-LD is 12 years old. Just four years after Facebook introduced Open Graph to make their links prettier. Maybe an appeal to implement it today is 25 years too late. But there were plenty of appeals 10 years ago, or to implement open graph 15 years ago


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hn_throwaway_99yesterday at 7:52 PM

> Just four years after Facebook introduced Open Graph to make their links prettier.

One point to highlight about this. Open Graph succeeded more than any other web metadata proposal solely because there was obvious, immediate payoff for the website owner. That's literally the only way stuff like this ever succeeds, and then direct, clear payoff line never (and still doesn't) exist with JSON-LD.