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

* The Fediverse reminds me so much of FidoNet *

New Year's day, and all is quiet in the land. :-)

Remembered a blog idea; a few days ago, we were chatting in the network. About a situation that reminded me a lot of the BBS world; where I started in computers, dial-up modems, and the network called FidoNet...

New post, live at : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/the-fediverse-reminds-me-so-much-of-fidonet

OP -- much prettier, Video link included, see screenshot : https://muensterland.social/@rgx/104350547080378171

Just had some interesting interaction with an AI in a Discourse Forum. Pretty cool, the Discobot.

Graduated as a user and got a certificate even. 😋

Truth is -- it teaches users valuable, basic forum skills.

@WaysideLiege A lot of info on Bing.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=What+aspects+of+Gor+can+be+used+in+one%27s+life%3F+What+are+the+tenets+of+Gorean+philosophy%3F&PC=IS45&PTAG=SYS1000000&form=ISCHR1

@WaysideLiege That is really interesting. I had never heard of it, but love science fiction and this must have a lot of interesting aspects to learn about.

Thanks for the post!

@zleap I think Freemo posted some screenshots here once, and it was interesting, yes.

I come from the time when Telnet was my way in to my shell account in Colorado.

The story is here : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/joining-the-internet-in-the-mid-90s

@zleap

Very good, thanks Paul! Well done...
@globcoco @freemo

@globcoco

>> Got that habit from Mamot to make it as short as possible😋

You know how much more a CR/LF adds ? One Byte, compared to what you had (a CR without a LF).

But I can understand, the 500 chars limit is cruel and does that to people. 😋

@globcoco C'est bon!

@compass_straight_edge

There is the Book Room (user level 1 and higher), and the Library for level 2 and higher. Levels are earned by participation and use of the forum.

Book Room is https://discourse.qoto.org/c/MEMBERS/BOOK/12

@tedomum

Thank you! I have seen the box for custom css in the user control panel but never wanted to touch it. I like the default display (when it's showing a page directly, it's pretty, simple and looks good on mobile and desktop).

However -- when you see the full user blog stream, it compresses vertical spaces; this is the problem, I had thought it changed the width, but checked and it remains at 640 pixels, as it does in page view.

Sadly some programmed decided to save vertical space when displaying the bigger list, and it's damaging to content and presentation. Sucks, really.

Thank you for looking into this, much appreciated!

@angedestenebres @matt

@penny @Sphinx You are very welcome. My pleasure.

@penny

Nolan can be reacher either at @ nolan @ toot.cafe

or @ pinafore @ mastodon.social

I inserted spaces here so we won't bug him for now. I asked and he mentioned either address is ok to use for support , suggestions, questions, etc.

Have you seen the Husky mobile client yet? it's been made as a Tusky fork by a pleroma admin -- and the idea is to add what's missing.

He's got Markdown in it already, for example.

@Husky -- download link in this profile.

@Sphinx

@matt

Thank you so much, Matt. Sorry for the rant, but I was quite annoyed. As you can imagine.

My original post here had all the content in one post, and flowed perfectly.

@zleap @globcoco

@penny

You could make a request to Nolan -- he's the author. Problem is, he works on it on his spare time, a labour of love, and Pleroma support has been mentioned as not high priority in the past.

That could change if more people and instances did move to it.

@Sphinx