*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

Seen on the news just now.

When a Ministry of Health high officer uses a Special Forces Dagger and Skull, what do we read on that?

img source : Folha de São Paulo

#Brazil #xp

#xp for @freemo
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RT @doctorow
As #DefundThePolice spreads, you may be wondering what, exactly that means. It means a new kind of policing, with a dramatically shrunken role, one that excludes social work, mental health interventions, drug counselling, etc.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/06/defund-police-protests-minneapolis-city-council

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1270356727792234496

Duchess, very pretty.

#Cats #MastoCats #CatsOfMastodon #Meow #xp
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RT @Sophia12508530
I'm sitting up on the tree away from duchess she's been following me around all day
https://twitter.com/Sophia12508530/status/1270294391337304065

@globcoco

Before I forget -- I have a good page for you. Honest. This one :

https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/is-it-important-which-instance-you-are-in

@angedestenebres @DavidBlue

@globcoco

I use Windows, have done so for many years and taught Tech, so my systems are stable and fast. 😃

Stay with it so far since Linux pushed me down to newbie territory, and I find the loss of productivity unnaceptable.

Although I do know Unix is the best, maybe I will try again. Have lots of spare systems.

The default client in Mastodon is pretty poor in terms of screen usage, so I found a better layout with some tweaking and a Firefox Addon -- the screens you see in that Forum post.

@angedestenebres @DavidBlue

@globcoco
You are very welcome, and I will look at David's blog if I have a chance.

Thing is, I am stretched pretty thin and writing is a priority. If I started developing new layouts it would take time and experimentation -- likely on a separate blog, so I don't mess up a nice going one. I have an account at wordsmith.social, and they allow up to 10 different blogs per user.

That is ideal for testing and posting things in separate streams, which I plan to do.

@angedestenebres @DavidBlue

@globcoco

Plus -- did you notice the size of that Reply Editor ? 😃

I have a custom desktop layout that is really good for Writers and Readers. Lots of room and no wasted space.

I am preparing a proposal, and it shows screnshots and explains it. Here : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/mastodon-screen-use-in-wide-screen-displays-a-search-for-better-results/280
@angedestenebres @DavidBlue

@globcoco @angedestenebres @DavidBlue

LOL.... 😛 It is a personal Crusade of mine. I cant's stand the 500 chars limit and avoid instances that insist on it.

Check out my snapshot of this post, as I started...

I have 65,500 here at Qoto, 5,000 at Munsterland.social, and other places with at least 1 thousand. 500, nope, not for me. Find a better home.

@Perico That does good to mental health and happiness. Too many tense and hard news to be seen; I have been staying away and oing other things.

Paella is a Spanish specialty, maybe you would open the restaurant there? or the idea is really to offer Spanish Cuisine in Itália? [nothing wrong with that]

@realcaseyrollins

Awesome, thanks Casey! Real hunters, those guys.

@cereal

@globcoco

I just went and visited your profile here, and saw the link and followed to the Blog.

Will tell you one thing, and this is personal option, of course -- but I haven't touched the CSS controls or looked at the suggested pages they offer.

I find there's so much to do, with the provided framework and format, right off the box.

Always work on my PCs and laptops, and try to make it work really well - and then I was surprised by how nice the pages (default theme untouched) look on mobile device.

They look lovely, use the screen appropriately and I am afraid of touching something and breaking it. You need to make sure the finished pages look good in both PCs and mobiles, as so many people use mobile those days.

Things that were and are important to me :

* to have a functional and efficient tool set to work with, so it flows nicely. Got it, and I plan to write a guide for new users sometime, explaining those (text editor, image editor, image host and uploading tool, etc).

* to have a good working knowledge of MarkDown, which I absolutely love. I learned it just as I started my very first blog in December 2019.

Used the wonderful tutorial at https://markdowntutorial.com/ -- which is interactive, so you learn the concept, and type the code to see if you can match the example.

I have worked in Education for many years and this tutorial is Top Notch ,an amazing tool. Kudos!

* and then -- what to write, we need inspiration.

I am currently back on the Groove, after a dry spell, and publishing pretty frequently. I did also start a totally different, themed blog -- as my main one is heavily Tech and Fediverse oriented, and people would be confused if I started blending in other themed posts.

So -- a new one, focused, and whoever visits is there for that theme.

My personal goal is to create one page per day, doable, but for my Long Form style, that means hours of work, research and preparing to get it done.

Then, we have to spread the word -- in Fediverse, on Twitter, or any other network you find useful.

But you know what -- it's SO fulfilling, when I see and read my pages, I like and am proud of them. I am very picky and demanding of my own work (INTJ, no surprise). LOL...

Nice talking to you and to Devid.

Suggestion -- really consider finding a mastodon instance that allows more than 500 characters maximum. My post here is at about 2,400 atm, but our instance allows 65,500 max.

Writers like space... 😛

@angedestenebres @DavidBlue

@Fraciel Gracias, Fraciel! 😄

@hansw LOL...

I will be happy when MarkDown is around here, for now it's quite frustrating for me to pull back to plain text.

@globcoco

Ah, thank you so much, Coralie. The work is mostly Ange's -- she created a full and logical Guide which is sorely missing for Write.Freely.

I just posted at their own Mastodon server today, hopefully it will be seen and used. I am glad you liked it, I loved it too.

I could make another translation, to Portuguese, fairly easily as I am fluent in the language (and now I have the text from Ange's Wiki cleaned up and easily manipulated and copied to Translation software.)

Merci a vous. 😺

@angedestenebres

* Guia de Usuarios en Español para Write.freely *

Ange hizo una guía agradable e ilustrada para los nuevos usuarios de los blogs Write.freely, pero todo está en francés.

El objetivo es ayudar a las personas interesadas en usar la instancia write.freely en TeDomum.net, que ha sido el hogar de mi blog. Esta mañana me tomé un tiempo y traduje su guía al Español.

Ahora la página está en mi blog: https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/guia-de-usuarios-en-espanol-para-write-freely

#YoMigroaMastodon

Prefires el Inglés ? See it on : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/write-freely-wiki-documentation

* Write.freely blog - a guide for new users *

@angedestenebres made a nice and illustrated guide for new users of Write.freely blogs, but it's all in French.

Goal is to help people interested in using the write.freely instance at TeDomum.net — which has been my blog's home. This morning I took some time and translated her guide to English.

Now the page is on my blog: https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/write-freely-wiki-documentation

[ Repost of Release announcement, December 2019. ]

#WriteFreely #Blogs #NewUsers #Writers #Tools #QotoJournal worthy

@hansw There's some problem with that post URL, I have noticed the search error too. But I didn't mean for it to be hidden at all. Sorry.

Yes, the format is exactly the one you used in the example. I had a little discussion thread with someone and sent some examples, which he did see properly in vanilla mastodon.

Here it is, found it : https://muensterland.social/@rgx/104283646978895578

@angedestenebres @rgx

Made an Edit including the new web version; while also keeping the wiki one linked for now.

Screenshot below. Thanks, Ange!