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

@realcaseyrollins @counterculture

That is a good plan, yes. 👍

@_lunawinters Sending via DM, ok?

No wonder it's taking me some time to jump from tab to tab. If they are not nearby, it's a long scroll.

#Waterfox handling it well though. @Waterfoxproject great work!

#tools for the #serious #fediverse #workers #xp

@realcaseyrollins @counterculture ...as in, Font size?

No, don't do it. The text is decent as is, you just make it harder to read.

A blog page in my view is primarily a piece of writing, images are complements or used as fillers by someone with less things to say.

I love the plain back screen I get in write.freely in Night mode, and it operates so fast. Lovely software.

Someone mentioned Plume and I have an account there now too, but not sure if i like it so much for sheer writing tasks; their editor is smaller and slower than the writing freely one, and that is something I am already used to and enjoying...

On the good side, they allowing easy indexing via tags, seaches for related pages in your blong, linking to each other. And they offer in house image hosting too.

That makes it a lot easier for someone starting up, but i like to have my images in a separate image host; my bolg pages can be moved from one instance to another, or duplicated, very simply - copy paste, and it's functional when I hit the save button.

Plume has good thing though, as does write.freely.

I will write a report on my thoughts in blog form sometime.

@Sphinx
That will depend on the community itself. If there is interest and participation, if people step up and help each other.

If some volunteer time and assume leadership positions, either as Collaborators (an Elite level user) or on track to assisting Staff, and becoming staff if all works well.

WE depend a lot on the admin, I have been a member of a large community were two of the admins passed away over the years, and it was a big loss, but they are still there, alive and well.

It shouldn't depend on one person, or two, but the more participation there is, the better.

Can't take nothing for granted in the Internet, things pop in and out all the time, backup your work and collect info, someday you might need to move or the place you were hosted on blinks out.

It's pretty sad, but that's life.

@Surasanji

Never even got to know him much, but his #introduction post is here :https://qoto.org/@Surasanji/100594445373545421

Boy, that was really serious.

Just noticed the Account Moved notice. Bye Dave.

@realcaseyrollins @counterculture

Don't cut text, that's what a writing piece is all about.

Remove the inline video and problem solved. Place screenshots, static, and make them links, but KEEP your readers.

If you load zillions videos who is going to read?

Too much stimuli, bad for concentration, imo.

@Sphinx

I started here that same week, brought on by a BBC article talking about all the Indian users deserting twitter to this new mastodon network. Woot? Bing'd it.

Found https://joinmastodon.org, and from their list Qoto seemed the best fit for me.

So glad I got here and not in some crazy instance, either too big, too weird or too porny for me.

If I has started at the Mothership (masto social, the big one), I probably wouldn't have lasted 2 days or so.

Still find it hard there, although finally got my account launched - went to ask Gargron something.

@Surasanji

@realcaseyrollins @counterculture

Tweaking things is good, I do get a thrill when I can shave off Bytes from my images by selecting the formats, maybe crop a bit more. Sometimes it's .png that does best, others .jpeg is tighter.

And then I remember the next day that people are really wasting most of the bandwidth of the net with videos, argh.

But I like to do my best, tight, clean, as small as possible.

@realcaseyrollins @counterculture
I would suggest breaking it up into sequential posts, possibly?

I like the simplicity of write.freely.

If you like more controls and lots of tools and options, maybe WordPress?

They also are fediverse aware and there are some instances listed at https://fediverse.network

@Sphinx
When did you start here, Sphinx?

That's nice that you were welcomed by Dave, I see that as an important part of a staff member. Building community is more important than playing the cop when needed.

@Surasanji

@Sphinx The time stamp in the code is from 2008.

There's lots of things that have changed, many of the img align tags have been deprecated too.

Found a nice site with www documentation earlier this week.

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_img.asp

Have been enjoying the @slowlyapp app for six months now. Besides great writing and reading, the app is so well designed, as are the awesome stamps we get to use to send our letters #slowly around the Planet.

#penpals rejoice, we got a home now. #xp #friendship #writers #love

And since our Developers at Team @slowlyapp were so nice to allow #free #coins from short video watching, I have acquired another nice set, during this Christmas Stamp Store sale.... #slowly grows my collection, and I share with #penpals #xp

Christmas Season is on, and a good #penpal friend just surprised me today -- by sending a nice gift.

Thank you! #slowly is for #writers and #friendship . #xp to #Fediverse @_lunawinters

@Surasanji Ah, that's a pity but understandable Dave. Hope you stick around and post some here too.

If I was traveling I wouldn't be able to spend as much time here either, but with the Winter blahs it's a wonderful place to be in.

Cheers! 🍾 🥂

@realcaseyrollins @counterculture Just visited again, and the images look right now.

You do have a lot of inline Video boxes, and maybe could break the post into two or three pages - they will load faster and smoother without so many calls to YT at once.

Header at the top of the page, I would lighten the size down a notch, possibly?

@realcaseyrollins @counterculture

You are welcome, glad you don't mind my suggestion and comment.

I will have to go and look it up again.

Do you need to use all that armament to prep a post? I only use #MarkDown commands, and it results in some nice pages.

Manually size the images to my liking, and replace them if they look wrong size.

https://write.tedomum.org/rgx/

@thj@mastodon.cloud @freemo

Wonderful when things work and look good at the end of a work day. Leads to happy and restful sleep.

Well done!