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

@freemo
Well put, and I think the no-editing allowance is by design, similar to what Twitter has.

While the regrettable FB does allow editing at any time - while keeping any edits on the record to be looked up if needed.

Wish they would also look at providing desktop/laptop users with a larger toot editor box - I look at my client running in a full screen high rez laptop, and the amount o wasted space in the columns at left and right sides is disheartening. 😞
@chikara

@freemo

Exactly. It was specially hard on me when the post in question is not a casual banter, but a question of order and a call for the whole staff team.
@chikara

@shibaprasad Yes, the numbers are odd.

If we look at the raw users number, it should indicate a whole different scene in the Local scene. Which is not happening.

A lot of people are new, probably shy, and may or may not stick around for long.

Some might just need a base address to reach out to the larger community, and post in unlisted mode, or DMs mostly.

But that would assume a more experienced user, and I don't think we are getting that many of them.

Another instance I participate in had about 250,000 posts earlier this week when I took snapshots - and the whole userbase there is -- 160 users at that time. 😮

A vocal bunch! LOL.

It is great that we can see and experience so many different places.

@chikara Forgot to invite @freemo into this.

@chikara Thank you for your reply, and yes, the process works as you described in general.

Although there are BETTER ways to do long posts, which I do use here and elsewhere.

I am with you 100% in considering the Toot Editor box too small for serious posting - and use a plain text editor on my laptop instead to compose larger pieces.

That gives me full screen capability, a spell checker if desired, and once I am happy, a cut and paste into the tiny Toot editor box will send it into the fediverse.

In smaller posts and *specially* if I am not tagging other users (which will fire up notification to them instantly), I used delete/Redraft and fix small errors as needed.

With people being called in, that is less optimal.

When I make a post and address a whole site's Staff team -- and then take the post away from them while they read it, it's less proper.

Not to use the word annoying, which in fact I consider it is.

We welcome dialogue, but addressing the whole crew, raising issues is not casual posting.

@maison_faim @Full_marx Never political, mind you, (where we would be facing from opposite quarters), but delightful reminiscing for me, who love #retro #computing

@maison_faim Ah, understood. Hope all went well. It's nice to see friends we miss return to the timeline. 😃

Really miss my good friend @Full_marx , we had great conversations here too.

#Quad And I immediately noticed the Quad Fives on this latest @users post here at Qoto.

5, 5 5 5 users now.

Seen 5 hours after the post, so we must be about 10 more now I would guess.

#patterns are fun... How long before 6,666 ?

@ae Thank you for all the beautiful photos you post here, Hiraeth!

@shibaprasad @jahnke And I am also grateful for the wonder of the world wide web, which brings wonderful resources to further our curiosity and allow us to keep learning, curious and happy.

A wonderful interactive tutorial for MarkDown language : https://www.markdowntutorial.com/

Can't recommend it enough, not only for the MarkDown content, but as an example of how you can implement great educational content in the web.

@shibaprasad when I was in first year engineering school, there was a joke about us and the gals in History department.

I did find a sweetheart there and never forgot her.

Changed course after the first year, one of those inflection points we recognize in hidsight, and wonder where things would have led to if I took the other branch.

@shibaprasad @jahnke
Today I am grateful for #MarkDown language, which allows for amazing formatting of text, much simpler and faster to use than hml MarkUp.

While not strictly #Math related, it can be used for any posting and publishing purpose.

@maison_faim Yey!!! 😜

More time to play in the #fediverse ....

How are you, MF?

@freemo @TuvixJaneway Yes, I agree. It is nice to have people who actively bring in other perspectives.

Made me go out and look proper spelling for Dilithium even, and discover they are a REAL thing.

Points for that theme!

Wikix : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilithium

ST Wiki : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilithium_(Star_Trek)

@Iambharani Those are all good, J. Thank you.

The only one that might be a bit iffy is the #1 - I think next year will be a very tense one, with the politics in US election building up to a deadly fight to the end.

And even then, what after? One candidate is not likely to accept defeat gracefully.

@freemo @TuvixJaneway

I think she might have set course to another quadrant and activated the dilithium crystals, warp engaged.

someone responded to a starfleet broadband message she sent and pointed at a StarTrek themed instance elsewhere.

@chikara I have received two site notifications, not only to me but the entire Staff team here at Qoto. (I am not yet a member of staff, although have been nominated for a position).

I underrstand you want to make your point well, but to post a large message that is in regards to the whole instance admin and mod staff, and then pull it off - twice - is not a proper way to do it.

Please write a draft and post it.

Or better yet, open a topic in our Moderation subforum in the Qoto Discourse Forums.

https://discourse.qoto.org/c/QOTO/moderation

User registration is required, but just takes a minute.

I dropped other work to come and check, twice, and was half way thru a long legal and semantic argument you were positing.

@freemo @arteteco @Surasanji @mngrif

@ChakaZulu If you are new to using Mastodon, there's a good guide here: https://lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mastodon-1828503235

We also have another new users guide, posted here : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/suggestions-and-guidelines-for-new-users-written-by-mastodon-art-administrator

@mngrif Game? which one?