@ fastidious

Any plans to fix this, ?

It’s been fixed.

Just now: x0.at/u5mk.png 😭

How about now?

Neat, now I can see the "first unread", "last unread" and "mark all read" buttons" again

Fixed! Thank you!

For me, the My Feed reads [19] but I also can't seem to find where those posts are

to add a data point, my feed showed me 99+ but after switching to it, now it shows 80.

The abuse (in my opinion) of the auto-translate feature is super annoying. Thanks goodness for “block”.

Four level threads cause horizontal scrolling on an iPhone 16, . It seems the post box is also too wide on focus.

Yes I just added horizontal scrolling instead of capping, thought it would be better. The post box I’m not sure why it becomes wide.

Can you check again, the post box should not grow now. Safari auto zooms when it’s <16px so now we set it to that for iPhone UAs. The horizontal scrolling is so that you can read a thread without jumping pages, you don’t like it?

Correct. It is fine now. 🥳

OMG, look at the length of this URL! . Can something be done to make it neater?

Should be nicer now, try following the link and it will disappear. Though it’s kind of a hack using JS, the links still carry the state, we just remove it for the URL bar.

I have come to textlog almost everyday. Most of the time not to write, but to lurk. I have it customised the way I like it. Why, then, am I getting the banner---at random times---asking me to customise it?

How big is the “slice” in which textlog runs, ? At times is feels slow, especially when clicking around tabs, or getting into conversations.

Mark conversations about textlog with or or , so they’re not shown in ‘all’ or ‘new’ bc they’re annoying. It is becoming slow because I raised it to 100 items/page, and the cache invalidates whenever there are new posts, so you get the full cost of the query, after that it serves materialized from disk or memory which are faster. Perhaps it’s time to switch to Postgres. It’s an SQLite rn.

Wouldn't that be similar with Postgres? 100 items per page is a lot of items!

It’s more than that because it loads up to 5 replies for each for the expand action and it’s a complex query and it has to rank recency and reply depth, in order to show the most relevant content on collapsed vs expanded for the space we have.

Idk really, people tell me it’s going to be faster with Postgres. But I don’t think a lot will change, Postgres has better write performance, our costs are reads.

A cache miss can become up to 2s, cache hits are 150–300ms

And to answer your question it runs on an Interserver VPS that costs 3$. So it’s not exactly high-end.

Hear me out. The “new” tab should be the default. Or let me see which one is my default in settings. 😉

It remembers the last one you had before you left, but if you clear cookies/change devices then it doesn’t carry that. We could make the last choice db persistent. But default for new users I think “hot” is the best to find an interesting topic.

I don't think hot it is, honestly. Well, I am not a new user, so perhaps that's why.

The "mark all read" link isn't working for me, under Linux Zen (Firefox).

taking a look

try again?

No dice, still the same.

should be working now? it was cache showing a stale page according to gpt

Yup, working now. Thanks!

Well, I think my IRCd (Eris v2) is close to be complete.

🥳

Just three more commits left, but /usage ran out. Resets at 01:50, so I guess I am going to sleep.

Woke up during the night for a short trip to the loo, got 'resume’ going. All done in the morning. Ahh, coffee tastes better now!

Best pee ever!

Yes, it is proven now; the lack of timestamps simply throws me off. It has also decreased my desire for engagement. Odd, but it has happened.

This isn’t very constructive. What do you suggest?

Didn’t mean to come across negatively, only stating the impact it has had on me. I am only one amongst many, right? If the consensus of the majority is that it works well, then I would consider it a success.

We did a poll , the majority wanted something “limited” which is what we did, and the “no” crowd was also really big, while the “yes” crowd were the fewest. Still not to be ignored, which is why the posts dates are detailed (relative age & m/y) on hover after they age a couple of days iirc. So you get context when you need to, but not noise when you don’t.

The thing is, there is more noise now than it was when timestamps were around: polls, &s, hide text/blurs, details/summaries. I may be missing some. So, while aiming for less noise, more have truly been introduced.

Yes, once unnecessary noise was out of the way, it opened more space for the content to become more interesting.

But I hear you. I’ll make it an option and let people enable timestamps again. We can judge from usage after how many did it whether to make it default on.

Timestamps are now a preference in Appearance → Misc. Enjoy :) Make sure you edit your timezone afterwards from the profile settings so the hover detailed timestamp is correct.

🥰 Sooo happy! I know it is hard to please everyone, but this (set on preference) sure does!

Nice! Thank you

This is exactly what I think we wanted, right? Engagement should have a core need to be born and not solely because someone said something 5 min ago, but because they said it. Not when. At least for me - this is entirely more valuable. … but I may be missing the point. Haha

There is someone absolutely rotten and fetid in this airplane. Every 10 minutes. Dear Spaghetti Monster!

The “Report illegal activity” page needs some love, . See: .

Drop down weirdly thin, huge font at tickbox, and misaligned.

As I do not run textlog, does it have an administrative interface? What does it look like?

Very simple, plus a couple more that are more sensitive to share publicly, the illegal reports, the reports, handling/dismissing reports, suspended users, recent admin actions, send email. More useful are the logs which I’m tailing in the server.

Ah! Talking about stats, it isn’t linked anywhere, is it?

It’s secret for now yes ;p can’t decide where to put it.

Put it in the footer next to the site’s name.

Perfect! I was thinking somewhere under API, but that page is busy as is 😅. Not that is a bad thing (not complaining about it)!

Productive weekend started four hours ago for me (at 06:00 EDT). Visited aunties and mum. Just got home, and waiting for wife to finish preparing to get on the road again. Next destination: nursing home (visit family, and “adopted” elders).

Yet another “hot” algorithm tweak. You have fallen down the rabbit hole, those will never end.

Just a few more tweaks and it'll be perfect ;P

maybe that right hand text can be made a little better? See:

The “you have seeing it all”, etc.

Improved. Still don't know what to do there. Maybe bring back a separate tab for inbox? wdyt?

For to comment on the improved. Certainly it is!

'mark all as read' appears now only if there are unread on the next pages. The current page is marked as read on visit.

You could even shorten it a bit more (3 chars) by using ‘mark all read’.

It appears in a secondary row below now it should be ok.

Now I need to wait until it happens. Got to keep away for a day of two. LOL.

or here :)

What do you think about making the “to me” similar to “for you”, “latest”, and “hot”, when it comes to font size, and the underline effect?

No because it's not a tab, it's a filter for the 'for you' tab. If we were to make it a tab it would have to be a different feed from the 'for you', but they overlap. I think it's ok distinct as it is.

Ah, I see, right. It makes sense.

“mentioned” is overlapping on nicks. Like mentioned you …”.

wdym, screenshot?

See:

Thanks.

Should be good now. It was a regression after the underline fixes, supposed to do ellipses.

Yup, all good. Ellipses for the win!

, what the rationale behind the change on link and permalinks to notes, and tags, etc.?

If I click on this one from "Latest", the link is:

To make the "back" button work, we need to be threading our locations in the query string. This way when you click back you're teleported to the right page and right scroll location and the post you clicked from highlights for a bit to remember our focus.

If you need the permalink, it's the link on its timestamp in a post's page. Same for the user profiles and hashtags permalinks, they're inside their pages, the headings are the permalinks in case you want to copy them to share.

What’s the maximum character number per handle?

2-24, letters, numbers or underscores, now there are helpers to point that out.

A 24 characters handle will break the UI on mobile. I suggest it to be 10 characters maximum.

I tried the maximum and it is ok on mobile. Agree might be too big. Maybe 16.

Got to change the verbose here "Handles must be 2–24 characters and use only letters, numbers, or underscores."

Ops, you reverted! Duh!

I changed it to 16 briefly then reverted that, since we have accounts with longer already. It should be fine with 24.

, is this a bug?

No just limitation currently tags are alphanumeric (latin) so it stopped at ñ. I'll see what I can do.

Ahh, I see.

Fixed :)

Woot, woot! Hopefully the OP comes back. :-)

Possible to make the email portion a bit less vendor agnostic? For those of us using Sendgrid, or Cloudflare for transactional emails, that is.

I meant to tag you on this one, .

unsure what you mean.

I am asking on whether is not it can be made vendor agnostic, so people can use Cloudflare, or Sendgrid.

Added for SendGrid and Google SMTP. Cloudflare required a Worker adapter, so it wasn't straightforward. If we need more we can add in the future!

Well done! Google SMTP is bound to help quite a bit. SendGrid, with their growing pains and all, have a very generous free plan. Thank you!

Yeah, not sure also if I stay on Resend, it's a bit expensive (20$ the first plan) if you need >1 domain and >100 emails/mo.

I was thinking… will it be possible to make textlog decentralised? Keeping the same functionality, but allow self-hosters to interact with other self-hosters, that is.

You mean federated. I did a small investigation, it's not impossible but not sure if it's worth it. It is a huge architectural change and would require a ton of maintainance, and our current scale doesn't justify it. I feel the centralized character has some charm also.

Yeah, federated, exactly. Centralised has some charm, but it is a silo, and a single point of failure.

If we start scaling to the point where federation makes sense, then we will do it. But now we're tiny

Implemented a db /dump.zip - it contains all the data needed if you want to reconstruct a frozen view of the entire site - but without exposing any sensitive information. It updates daily and should address some of the concerns regarding being a "silo".

Pretty neat!

All emails from textlog go to my junk folder, . Using iCloud+. Not sure if anyone reported that before, so here I am. :-)

Yeah it's happening to people. It's because the email contains a link and we don't have the reputation yet. Not sure what to do, have you tried reporting it as 'Not spam' in your client? Maybe if enough people do that it will fix. Gmail works ok.

Yup, I am moving them out of it. It might take a while, but eventually should be OK. All good, hopefully now with a password I will not have much use for them any more.

, “activity” needs some love. It is rather busy.

I'll see what I can do. I'd like to avoid icons since we don't have them anywhere else.

Yup, that’s much better (the now changes)!

Tiny more change pushed, check it out!

Tiny, but big declutter results! I like ’em!

:D

, will it possible, on mobile, to be able to tap on “cards”. That is, make the posts area “tapable”.

Great idea, implemented here! Thanks for the suggestion.

This is very welcome! I don't know how many times I had already tapped posts to go to the comment chain, just to realize that wasn't the place ^⁠_⁠^

A “small” visit to Lotte, and $239 later, we are enjoying rambutans, sticky rice with tuna wrapped in seaweed, and wife struggles to make room for the rest of the goodies.

Idea, replace the “Followed you” and “Replied to you” with minimal icons. That page has way too many lines.

I am trying to wrap my head around Traefik (which I have never used; have only used Caddy for most of my needs) to plan a migration for things I now run on "bare metal” to containers, and then use Traefik as entry point. If you know some good guides, send the link my way, please.

How deep can replies go nested?

Infinitely.

Wouldn’t it break the interface on as replies go deeper?

Agree needs a solution, just not sure yet how to solve it. Perhaps a "more" link that will open the thread you need from that parent post.

Solved - deeply nested now show a 'more (X replies) ->' button to open that reply's thread page.

Excellent, good job! 🚀🎉

That was exactly my thought, yes. I mean, the issue doesn’t present itself yet but, if the platform catches up, it will.

I had hit a throttle now. That’s a “subtle" way to tell me to slow down.

Maybe implementing a subset of Markdown would be a good thing. I am thinking about bold, italics, inline code, and code block, mostly. Oh, and links.

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Links implemented! The styling parts, I'm not so sure, it will make the text look more busy, which will go against the minimalist aesthetic.

curious if you intend the URL to count for the character limit, or only the link text?

Right now all of it counts against the limit because the textarea has a hard character limit and there is no way without using JS to change this.

How long before browser extensions appear to add interactivity? I struggle to remember handles to reply or exact hash-tags. No js is very limiting, let’s see when you give up ;-)

I left these as an opportunity for someone to write a browser extension. It's easier to target static html than dynamic. I'm expecting no less.

We gave up already to enable notifications

yep, good move!

Just started, and two made it to be block list. This is going well! :-D

Didn't realize there's a block list! Good to include, even when the point is minimalism.

It is good it exists. “Registration” is fairly open (and that’s good!), which could make the platform prone to abuse (and that’s bad).

The interface needs some work. For example, I would like the textarea that I am using right now to be as wide as the header above. Also, where is the character counter?

How do you propose to introduce a character counter without a JavaScript dependency?

Using CSS. It should be doable.

Oh you mean the box border turns red or something when we have exceeded the count, not show a counter like 127 / 280 characters? That is doable on modern browsers. I thought you meant showing the counter and I thought how will you manipulate the dom without JavaScript.