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Adaptive Cards

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Resurfaced independently across 5 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
6
submitters
6
observed span
2021–2026
peak thread · 45 comments
137 pts
latest 20+ return · 2024-02-07
100 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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I maintain a list of Adaptive Cards projects and resources here: https://github.com/miguelrochefort/awesome-adaptive-cards

If Microsoft want to use this, they need to use it. I was engaged in a 9 week battle with the MS Teams review team who were wholly and utterly incompetent. They wanted fields added and moved that could not be because all of the layout was determined by the card and MS Teams own rendering (namely they wanted a settings link on a card list). It took three calls with their “engineers” to make them realise. Microsoft will never…

Seems great if you like Microsoft's opinionated design

gepeake·6-point thread·

https://github.com/Microsoft/AdaptiveCards

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
248

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Total comments
82

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2021-03-08Adaptive Cards – snippets of UI, authored in JSON, that apps can exchangeoctopoc20
2021-10-13Adaptive Cards (platform-agnostic snippets of UI, authored in JSON)pjmlp61
2022-05-20Adaptive CardsFirst breakout · Best threadmiguelrochefort13735
2023-11-10AdaptiveCards: A whole new way to deliver UIstefankuehnel21
2024-02-07Adaptive Cards: Platform-agnostic snippets of UI, authored in JSONLatest 20+ point returnkaypee90110045
2026-01-15Adaptive Cards – inject your actionable content directly into MS appssmartmic10