Twenty years and two days ago, @KevinMarks.com (@KevinMarks@xoxo.zone @KevinMarks) and I introduced #microformats in a conference presentation.

I wrote a long retrospective last year: https://tantek.com/2023/047/t1/nineteen-years-microformats

Since that post nearly a year ago, here are the top three updates & interesting developments in microformats:

1. Growing rel=me adoption for distributed verification (✅ in Mastodon etc.)
 * Wikipedia: https://tantek.com/2023/139/t1/wikipedia-supports-indieweb-rel-me
 * Threads: https://tantek.com/2023/234/t1/threads-supports-indieweb-rel-me
 * omg.lol profile links by default: https://home.omg.lol/info/profile-items

2. A proposal to merge h-review into h-entry, since reviews are in practice always entries with a bit more information:
 * https://github.com/microformats/h-entry/issues/32
 
3. #metaformats adoptions, implementations, and iteration
 * There was growing practical interest in metaformats, so I updated the spec accordingly
 * A half dozen implementations shipped: https://indieweb.org/metaformats#IndieWeb_Examples
 * Active discussion for evolving metaformats to support more real world use-cases: https://github.com/microformats/metaformats/issues

Hard to believe it’s been 20 years of iterating and evolving microformats, to #microformats2, growing adoption as #IndieWeb building blocks, distributed verification (those green checkmarks) in #Mastodon and across the #fediverse, and implementing metaformats parsing to standardize parsing various meta tags for link previews into equivalent microformats2.

From last year’s activity, it’s clear there’s more use-cases, implementer interest, and community activity than ever.  Looking forward to seeing what we can build in 2024.


Post Glossary

h-entry
  https://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry
h-review
  https://microformats.org/wiki/h-review
link-preview
  https://indieweb.org/link-preview
metaformats
  https://microformats.org/wiki/metaformats
microformats
  https://microformats.org/wiki/
microformats2
  https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2
rel-me
  https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me