2mo ago

Where do I put this cross-posted badge?

Help! I'm paralyzed by indecision. Where should this "Cross-posted" badge go. It will be used to show that a post's URL has been cross-posted to another community.

Options:

Under the title	Above the title	Above the header	Under the post	Somewhere else entirely?

15 comments

+1 to under the title (I've been staring at this for too long, I think this one looks most pleasant).
My opinion, as a web dev who strives for semantic and accessible document structure, is that you cannot put such a tag ahead of the title of the post. The post is the thing being cross posted. Not the community, not the user, not the whole app, etc.
So now it's just a matter of how important the declaration of cross posting is. Is it more important that the (preview) body copy? Maybe to some communities but definitely not to others.
- I'll just do "Under the title"
Absolutely not in the notification bar, that's for damn sure.
- Lol that's a joke. It's meant to be a choosing of your choice. Although if you want it in the notification bar...
Don't devote an entire horizontal row in the UI - share the row used by the author name:
- Wow I did not format that table correctly. Will fix.
  I considered this but the issue is I am worried I will need to add another badge in the future. Giving it its own row adds an easy way to add more badges in the future.
  
  I guess if the need for more badges arrives you could always change the design or offer an option then.
  Semantically it makes sense to put it after the community (ie crossposted from somewhere else) or after user who did it. I'd rather have this information in some shape or form in that location than that it's shaped like a badge.
  
  Unless you have immediate plans to add other badges, I'd go with the nice inline design, since that frees up some space in the current layout. You can always revisit it later.
- I agree with this one. And if you adjust the size could fit two (maybe three?) badges if more needs to be added in the future
I think i like under the title, more.
I think under the title looks better but under the post feels better. Does that make any sense? Anyway I'd be happy with either of those.
I think, above or below is great
I also tried some other places like in the header. However I am not favoring those places just in case I have to add another badge tomorrow. Ideally this solution should scale to more than just 1 badge type.

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