@hj @design_RG oh, it's already just buttons, but shown in plaintext.

Btw may do a selector for BBcode and HTML. Nice idea.

@a1batross @design_RG feel free to ask me (or other PleromaFE developers like @shpuld) about anything pleroma-extensions related. Dropdown would be cool, but you have to take into account which formatting options are actually enabled on instance.

@hj @a1batross @shpuld Thank you, HJ!

I joined my first Pleroma node today and I am loving the richness of it. Things I could only dream of, already implemented.

Your team deserves thank yous and respect - excellent work! I write a blog about various things, mostly Fediverse experiences atm, and will prepare a post highlighting the many nice features, controls and options you have in Pleroma.

Never thought it was so rich inside. Wow. 👍

@design_RG @a1batross @shpuld don't forget to thank PleromaBE devs as well who implemented the extensions on backend. :)

@hj
Most certainly! It's interesting that you have this dual team approach. Interesting, keeping people focused on what they know best. 👍

Thank you PleromaBE development team, I am impressed.

@a1batross @shpuld

@hj @design_RG @shpuld I've noted that for myself. I need implement nodeinfo query for that.

Instead, I have a question, is /api/v1/instance and nodeinfo query cheap on backend? Tusky queries /instance every time composer is opened, so can I just add nodeinfo query here or it's better to implement kind of caching at first?

@a1batross @design_RG @shpuld that's probably a better question for BE devs. PleromaFE queries it once when opened, but it might become invalidated eventually with server restart+config change and such.

@design_RG @a1batross where can I find a list of GlitchSoc instances?

@realcaseyrollins @a1batross Hi Casey, sorry I was a bit off line yesterday. REturning now, the coffee pot is on. lol.

A list of GlitchSoc instances. I will do a search in a minute and report back. Wanted to mention for now that EMR does have various possible front ends you can use to see it - it's another of those amazing things Pleroma has.

* The normal Pleroma UI ,which is all javascript and client side processed.
* A link to Pinafore.social is in the main front end list of options too.

* and another link, marked MastodonFE -- which will open EMR in a Mastodon interface, but is actually GlitchSoc, has the extra controls, I recognized it as soon as I opened the Settings app.

So if you joined there you could get the two experiences in one place.

Searched and it's hard to find instances with GS installed. I came across a couple that are closed membership, for the dev community. But Nikisoft has one and is open for signup (they are the developers of halcyon client as well.

https://blog.nikisoft.one/tags/GlitchSoc has a link to https://muensterland.social/about

"A small instance, mostly German speaking, for people around Muenster, Germany."

@design_RG @a1batross

Ooh, very interesting! I might give EMR a go then!

@realcaseyrollins
It is a nice instance to see what Pleroma is like, which is really interesting. The controls it allows a user, you can change not only any of the different element colours in the UI, but even the Font style -- serif, sans, monospaced. Or specify one you prefer yourself -- I looked at it with Verdana, which is an Enhanced san-serif font (similar to Arial but better), and it looks pretty.

Where else can you get this kind of control at the user level? Not for everyone, but I like this option being there for power users.

And the Toot size limit is 65 K characters too; something I have begged some mastodon admins, and they refused. (ex-Twitter people, they don't see a need and mostly post one liners themselves.)

@a1batross

@design_RG @a1batross

I couldn't find a link in the settings tab but deduced from my previous experiences in ost.social that the Mastodon FE link could be found here: https://expired.mentality.rip/web/timelines/home

@realcaseyrollins @design_RG it is here. It must be shown inside a block on the left, but somehow I broke it.

@a1batross @realcaseyrollins Casey --- see Mastodon FE here: https://expired.mentality.rip/web/getting-started

@a1batross @realcaseyrollins and that link you provided should work too. There was a set of buttons at the Pleroma front end, not there now, as A1batross mentioned.

@realcaseyrollins
If Husky is released and supports the Rich Text Formatting which Pleroma and GlitchSoc already support, it will be unique. And it's built as a fork of Tusky, a popular client, so people won't have to learn a whole new interface and way to use Fedi.

Look forward to it as well.

@a1batross

@realcaseyrollins
He mentioned he is waiting for the Tusky v10 release to come out, since he's using some of their code in his own version.

But maybe you could get a pre-release, testers one? 😉

(There might be a link in the Git, but A mentioned it doesn't work.)

@a1batross

@realcaseyrollins @design_RG Husky currently in early stage of development so there is no stable build available. However, I did connected a CI, so every change will be built and published here: https://github.com/FWGS/Husky/releases/tag/continuous

I've updated it yesterday so it shouldn't crash, but again, it's in development.

@a1batross @design_RG

Very cool! I don't mind running dev builds in the least 😝

@realcaseyrollins @design_RG I hope I'll figure out how to run fdroid repository, so anyone who will use devbuilds can just update from fdroid client.

I also have some other projects that would be nice to have a way to update them "Google"-lessly.

@a1batross @realcaseyrollins

Hope this works well and you get F-Droid for distribution, they run a nice place there and people who know trust it. Many of their users would prefer not to use G Play at all.

@design_RG @realcaseyrollins I hope I will get into main FDroid repo because Husky is completely FOSS. ;)

My previous attempt to suggest my other project is turned into debate is it FOSS and long run insult for me. But now I'm matured and I kinda understand their point so instead I may host my own repo and be fine. Anyway, their client(and Aurora Droid as well!) is now in more usable than Play.