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

* Things I would love to see. *

A recent post in Discourse, described the idea : a new feature for Mastodon.

Allowing authors of Long Form, long text articles to choose to Collapse the text.

Which would work similar to what a Content Warning toot does -- EXCEPT, and this is important, it would NOT Blur the image in the post. (which a CW post always does.)

Why bother? Because :

* it looks nicer in the timelines. Some people are not interested in long posts.
* Visually prettier too, for all users.
* Toot Title is displayed, as in a CW toot warning line.

And the image and the Title can be carefully selected to attract a Reader, who can expand the post if desired.

My full proposal is at : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/mastodon-collapsed-text-exposed-image-a-proposal-for-improvement-blog-post-version/326

And on my Blog : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/mastodon-collapsed-text-exposed-image

@Gargron please consider. Thank you.

#mastodon #mastodev #UI #UX #GlitchSocial

@fishbowl Wonder to hear that, fishbowl.

What OS are you using now? Which phone and model?

I did a lot of tinkering with Android tablets and loved the CyanogenMod roms - still have two of those tablets with them installed. Good times. 😺

* Fediverse - Cats Follow on Friday Suggestions *

And it's #FurryFriday but also #FF or #FollowFriday ... In fact, I am late in posting this, a pretty Blog version of my original Discourse Forum --https://discourse.qoto.org/t/cat-posting-accounts-for-fff-felines-follow-on-fridays/286 post. And now it's #Caturday even.

So I thought -- why not post a neat Referral to our feline loving Fediverse accounts that are present in these hash tags ?

#cats #mastocats #catsofMastodon #meow #Kittens

That is the Topic of today's Blog -- https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/fediverse-cats-follow-on-friday-suggestions

[ OP, much prettier : https://muensterland.social/@rgx/104336892703458752 ]

@globcoco

Bon Jour, Coralie.

Are you having trouble with the Forum loading? I saw your post here and just went to check, and it's working well for me atm.

The feature you saw in action in Hans's post you mentioned (En savoir plus -- or Read More for the English version) is built into Mastodon; it will trigger automatically when a post is longer than a certain number of lines.

I really think that proposed feature would work well - but it is quite difficult to get the top people to accept a proposal it seems.

Let's see how it goes. Thank you for the reply - and try to copy and paste it in later, as the Forum should be working.

Already made a new Blog page -- posted and now announcing, haven't had breakfast yet but it was an interesting idea. 😄
@hansw

@chrism @freemo

And the monthly view for past month.

Crawlers load is too high, I would like to reduce it myself. Google users is not the central focus for me when system load is affecting performance.

@chrism

The Discourse server works strangely sometimes. Fast and nice, and then... Molasses. Freemo has been increasing the assigned resources to it (RAM mostly, seems to make a difference) but the hosting costs are getting higher and higher.

I will take a look at the Traffic graph -- I hate seeing huge loads of stupid search engine spiders, crawlers, taking big chunks of processing time away from human users.

Here the current data Graph.

@freemo

@stux another account and more garbage from that same person. Just blocked it.

@mandlebro I think the meetings are good and all could help people, some with serious problems.

Just found the Sunday sermon Theme really ironic in contra-position to all the problems in that society, as indicated from all these needed support groups.

A much prettier version of this post is at our Discourse Forums, Pinafore Discussions :

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/pinafore-once-again-avant-garde-supporting-something-i-am-requesting-in-mastodon-already/327

...as Pretty as my Glitch-Social post, and actually better -- as it allows in-line images. 👍

Not Making this up.

Just Found it. Oh, the Irony. 😜

## Pinafore does many things well

I have mentioned #Pinafore many times, in forums, conversations, threads in Fediverse.

Now I prepared a presentation, putting forward a Request for Comments and possible adoption of a new Feature which I think is important.

Today's Blog post is all about it.

.:. .:. .:. .:.

## Proposing a new Feature to Mastodon

The core idea is simple -- to allow a user to post Long Text, while collapsing it for display in the various timelines. For aesthetic reasons, as it will look better in a crowded TimeLine listing.

Today's New Blog Post is Live now: https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/mastodon-collapsed-text-exposed-image

.:. .:. .:. .:.

## The Essential of this Request ?

...That I can see a Long Form post, exactly like Pinafore now displays it.

Yes, Nolan did it, again. Thanks for another nice aspect of Pinafore.

Snapshot of This Topic - https://qoto.org/@Phaedrus/104331271947790146 -- as shown in Pinafore, as part of the Local Feed. Attached below.

...which is EXACTLY what I am looking for.

The post contains an image, and in the Local Timeline is compacted to a dense and still meaningful form

Well done, I say.

OP : https://muensterland.social/@rgx/104333704480785286

#rgxJournal The Pinafore Discussions Forum is now open : https://discourse.qoto.org/c/PROJ/PINA/35

@Sphinx Good work.

Now add Trial motorcycle to your known facts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_trials

@shebang

Thank you, first hand experience is best, specially from someone who ran a node. I was there very briefly, but I can relate to the UI comments. 😛

Got to revisit and form some more impressions, maybe write a blog report about it. Thanks for the insights!

@globcoco

@globcoco Too small -- I would recommend a 15"laptop, for real work. So much better.