“ The feature was never fleshed out, and there were only nine allowed formats.”

This got a legitimate LOL out of me, as if nine wasn't overkill.

I was theme-tinkering today when I stumbled upon a long lost line of commented code I kept around just in case a time traveler from Web 1.0 showed up one day and needed to post his formatted AIM chat logs with John Titor online.

I hadn't thought about post formats since the Tumblring. Truly the one thing our blogsister did better. So of course we had to eat her. Post formats were like an inelegant complication to a problem no body had that didn't need a solution. Why have an image post format when you already have an attachment post type? Were they meant to be posts with only one image? If you attached more than one image on a an post format, isn't that just a Gallery? What's the difference, really, between a Gallery post-format post and a regular degular "standard" post type post format? Standard. So, so stupid.

I actually played around in dev this weekend to see how one might use the link post format on a site that posts a lot of static links and really needs some kind of link library management. I told her WordPress had exactly what she thought she wanted built into its core, but just like those hateful eight post formats, it was depreciated in its day.

Aside from all that, we did get one truly great thing out of post for Matts.