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In case you want to start or branch to a private conversation you can now use hashtag #private along with the mention of the handles of the users you want to include, and only you will be able to see it.

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Good to know.

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Got the from so now you can: $ curl -s https://textlog.cc | less defaults to /new and also works with /hot /any and /all

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Wonderful! Maybe slightly against the design principles you follow for textlog, but may I suggest adding a possible query parameter for last post I saw to only fetch those newer? I don’t know if the id just count up, but if it does it should be possible?

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You can now mute posts that you don’t want to receive unread or push notifications when someone replies to them or their descendants. Direct mentions will still show up under @.

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cool new for ! autotag action will enrich your post with relevant hashtags so you don’t have to do it manually. It uses an to do it so it is quite good. Try it!

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Cool. If you run every post via this auto tag feature, then the process is vulnerable to prompt injection attack. Isn’t it? Do you have any special protection in place? I guess yes. Curious.

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It doesn’t run on every post, you run it yourself via more → autotag, and it’s safe, it doesn’t have access to anything other than the post content and we simply use its response. Or do you have any other case in mind?

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I just tried and i do believe it is possible to craft malicious prompts. I can share an example. How do i DM you?

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Check the IRC at the footer or you can send to ‘abuse@textlog.cc’ so I find it.

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Sent email. .

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Thanks! Fixed it by passing it through OpenAI’s moderation endpoint first, so it now blocks at least the problematic/illicit ones now before reaching autotag.

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Makes sense. Cool.

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Now you can set your mood in your using a single emoji! It will be displayed next to your handle. You can see it right now next to mine! I’m not sure if I’ll keep this but it seemed like a little addition and I was bored.

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Language	files	blank	comment	code
TypeScript	278	3101	122	47960
CSS	2	1148	1	6132

SUM:	280	4249	123	54092

also Markdown tables

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Very nice! Will this be added to the formatting help?

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idk what you mean it’s already there

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Ha! I swear I checked and it wasn’t (maybe it is too early, and caffeine hasn’t kicked in). I see it now!

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🤣 i’m messing with you just added it :p

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LOL. You really got me! 😂

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Not sure if that's intended but when you configure round buttons for UI, the table headers also have round corners

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lol fixed now

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We now have ! You know that book or movie someone mentioned? Now you can bookmark that post by the bottom right action in the post’s page and then you can find these bookmarked posts from the bookmarks nav menu item. These are visible only to you and there is no gamification, the author doesn’t see that you’ve bookmarked their post. Enjoy!

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Tweaked timelines to favor readability over strictly chronological ordering. This means sometimes a recent reply can resurrect an older post making it look like it is recent, but it’s only meant to bring context. The feeds also now collapse discussions with >1 replies that have been read, so you have to expand to read them again. Unreads will expand anyway. Let’s see how this goes for a couple of days.

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οι σημειώσεις μεταφράζονται αυτόματα τώρα οπότε μπορείτε να μιλάτε στη γλώσσα σας και το κείμενο θα μεταφραστεί αυτόματα στα αγγλικά!

notes are now automatically translated so you can speak in your language and the text will be automatically translated into English!

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Да видим как ще се справи с Българският, че съм виждал големи плетеници с автоматичен превод и не бих се учудил и ако сега е така! Много яка функция би било обаче ако работи.

Let's see how it will handle Bulgarian, because I've seen big messes with automatic translation and I wouldn't be surprised if it's like that now! It would be a very cool feature if it worked, though.

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δούλεψε! χρησιμοποιεί το google translate οπότε είναι αρκετά καλό, ελπίζω

it worked! it uses google translate so it's pretty good, I hope

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Супер! Дали прийоми би превело? Няма кво да се прай. Луда глава си . Не се обиждай ако го преведе грешно. Ще го опрая после ако е зле. Гугъл преводача се е сдобил с някакъв LLM явно, защото преди беше страшно зле!

Great! Would Priyom translate it? There's nothing to worry about. You're crazy . Don't be offended if you translate it wrong. I'll correct it later if it's bad. Google Translate must have gotten some kind of LLM, because it was really bad before!

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love this!

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Cobain ah, kalo banyak bahasa bisa ngga ya? Wani piro? Iso boso jowo ora? 问我一两个问题.

Cobain ah, kalo banyak bahasa bisa ngga ya? Wani piro? Iso boso jowo ora? Ask me one or two questions.

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Only followers will see this — it’s still public but will not appear in /latest or /hot, replies to this also remain whispered.

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added redacted text, use with |redacted|, hover or tap to reveal.

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added also italics with /italics/ — now we have the whole circus: bold underline italics ~~strikethrough~~ code

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You can now lock conversations by editing/adding the hashtag #lock to a note. Itself and all of its descendants will then lose the ability to reply.

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Got me there with that #lock in a code block. Wondered if something was broken, given I could see the very reply link right there below your message! I then thought - doesn’t really do what you say, mate… but alas - it does

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You can now pin notes to the top of your profile notes and replies tabs by using the hashtag #pin — the newest note that has it wins on each tab.

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With all these special hashtags, are they documented somewhere other than the "more" button? That text is getting kinda long already 😅

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Now they’re all documented in the ‘and more’ details. Should be fine.

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While I’m enjoying working on this -only site, I miss the dealing with . I’m thinking of doing a sister-project where you can record shareable voice-snippets which can then be embedded in and elsewhere by their permalinks.

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~~Like codepen but voice?~~ (dang it. Strike-through is not a thing here) I guess I didn’t properly digest your thought/idea. Do you envision having a wave representation when shared? Playable inline?

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More like imgbb.com or , except for audio. Using Open Graph meta so it’s portable anywhere with just an <audio> tag pointing to the resource. It will have an image of the waveform yes (again from OG) and below the <audio> tag when shared here.

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Oooh. I see. Is universal audio support good in browsers? I think only mp3 is well supported, but unsure. In-line playback might buffer no matter if users want to ~~waste~~ spend the bandwidth… 🤔

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If you set preload=none the browser will not fetch anything until you press play. mp3 is universally supported.

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Strike-through now works, both single and double tildes will work!

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~~Perfect~~ Awesome

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Integrated with Vocaroo, let’s see if this works: cc

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Did you delete the recording? Seems like it. How did you integrate? I don’t see an api! Maybe you mean that you added support to fetch a shared vocaroo audio to process it - embed and create a thumb?

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Yes the hovercard on desktop is an <audio> element pointing to the mp3 from a shared vocaroo clip. It’s still online, just hover the link. They don’t have an API but the mp3 location is deterministic and we proxy it.

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We have a button now that you can put on your site for people to follow you! Find it under , this is how it looks like:

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Increased character limit to 500. I was hitting the limit way too often and I noticed a lot of posts needed 2 posts back to back to express fully. It should be plenty now, it aligns as well with Mastodon’s limit if we want in the future to enter the Fediverse/ActivityPub.

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please don't call it textlonger and sell the platform to a billionaire at 1000DAUs.

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we’ll see 🤣 did you see we’re now an under ? it ensures the project will stay non-profit, in the process looking for grants now.

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woooo big! Awesome to see how your project has slowly grown week by week!

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a note with bold and underline, use with *bold* and _underline_ ! cc

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Very nice! Isn’t a single asterisk each side for italics, and two each side for bold? Even Markdown is hard to define these days. 😅

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We’re trying to save on characters so we’re rolling our own flavour :P

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🤣 fine as long as it’s documented properly! lol

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Well, that’s Org Mode syntax. Also italic, +crossed+, =code= and ~~verbatim~~. Much more semantic than with Markdown.

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my today’s list:

wake up

make coffee

work

and possibly later:

contemplate existence

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you can now microblog about your to-dos! The syntax is:

something #todo list
[x] my todo checked item
[ ] my other item

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I have this in my config: (setq org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO" "DOING" "|" "DONE" "WONT-DO") (sequence "DELEGATED" "WAITING" "|" "COMPLETED" "ABANDONED") (sequence "IDEA" "|" "DISCARDED"))) Checkboxes are pretty limited

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It’s either done or not. If it’s not done then you can add the reason to the text and/or a hashtag to make it searchable. Saves you from having to maintain a union type.

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But I’m thinking maybe add - to indicate “won’t do” when delegated/abandoned etc. Anyways this isn’t meant to replace your to-do app :p

created a poll:

Best OS?

Windows0%

MacOS38%

Linux63%

16 voted

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We have polls! The way to create one: you write the question, put the hashtag #poll followed by the answers each in its own line. Simple.

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do polls have a closing time, or can they be closed?

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currently they close 24h after posting. We were displaying the time left and the number of votes but I removed them in the same spirit I removed all the other numbers from the UI. maybe we show the number of votes after the poll closes.

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Results are back! 16 voted, Linux won! 🥳