hello there!
is there any formatting guides for this place?
thanks.
Rewrite textlog as a ?
Yes, it’ll be faster13%
No, leave it the way it is44%
No, use a little JS where it makes sense44%
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to@stagas🤸profilefollow
creative technologist
creator of textlog:
"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist
creator of textlog:Neither, go Rust! 🤪
Already started adding JS here and there, trying to keep it progressively enhanced, so JS-disabled works up to a certain point. Let’s see how far we can go with that model. Next step would be a full frontend rewrite (though trying not to change the feel of the website) and simply making actions not having to do full page (re)loads.
I want a pony.
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creator of textlog, is there an faster way to toggle between accounts?
creative technologist
creator of textlog, is there an faster way to toggle between accounts?
@user -> account -> switch -> switch -> >_ textlog...is a long path to bounce between accounts.Here! 🐎 You can now switch from the nav menu! also we maintain a blacklist for handles that are not appropriate, so I dropped ‘user’ you’ll have to pick another one, hope you don’t mind :p
Preparing for opening up an app I'm working on for a public beta. Main is a quiet app that helps you maintain the value of your home:
Looks great! Nice job! “I think my house is haunted” 🤣 — the blank og image scared me for a bit also :p
hahaha you're the first person to call out that easter egg I threw in 😆
What blank og image? textlog doesn't render og meta previews, right?
it does, when you hover links on desktop only. And there is a comment in the source you left that says it’s there to allow crawlers to process it without doing a page screenshot.
Ah, yes. Had focused on og meta text for iMessage previews, but still had a blank image for og:image. Lemme address this now. Thanks for mentioning!
ok, have a nice new og:image. The link in my original post in this thread still shows an empty preview. Looks like you download and re-serve the og:image files in textlog.
Do you code in silence or do you listen to music? If so, what kind of music do you prefer? Personally, I prefer Synthwave, vaporwave or the occasional country.
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The vast majority of the time I prefer silence. Unlike @stagasprofilefollowcreative technologist
creator of textlog, my gets distracted with music. When I do listen to music, it has to be no vocals. I find , like Jonn Serrie, Brian Eno, and Steve Roach best for me.
creative technologist
creator of textlog, my gets distracted with music. When I do listen to music, it has to be no vocals. I find , like Jonn Serrie, Brian Eno, and Steve Roach best for me.@stagasprofilefollowcreative technologist
creator of textlog, I posted under a secondary account and it doesn't show up in all. Any insight?
creative technologist
creator of textlog, I posted under a secondary account and it doesn't show up in all. Any insight? …
, however my project will be on Tangled. .
tangled looks nice, might give it a try :D but I still rely on GH actions to deploy is there something similar there or not yet
It has workflows. I haven't used it myself as you can see from my activity. does the conversion.
@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to:
"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to:That tangled link goes no where, or it is slower than molasses. Give up.
replied to@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyers:
"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyers:Derp. It looks like it's got a case of the GitHubs. Not sure what's up. It is down for me as well, but officially isn't. status.tangled.org
Gave up on github after the acquisition. Very glad I did, given the unsurprising decline since then.
github.com/Aeres-u99
I have created a small tool, codeatlas, that basically generates an index to codebase that your llm can lookup syper quick, github.com/Aeres-u99
there is also a cbz->pdf converter that I wrote for eink devices which is nice
pinned_note and pinned_reply under /users/:handle and POST /posts/:id/unpublish for the unpublish to draft action. The voice clip you can use the vocaroo id and assemble a URL https://media1.vocaroo.com/mp3/<id> and show a player that requests it .thanks for the pointers. I think I implemented some of those changes but I need to double check some of the new API endpoints. for now notifs aren't native to android, which makes them a bit Shakey, but the perk is there are no f-droid blockers for publishing so I'm planning that
check v0.5.0 to see latest improvements and ui nitpicks i ironed out!
v0.6.0 just cut, quite happy with the swipe gestures for replying, as well as some better caching / offline behavior on app cold start.
🔥 That’s great! also, new endpoints:
/feeds/latest/conversations
/feeds/hot/conversations
/activities/for-you/conversations
/activities/to-me/conversations
If u check the webapp you’ll see that now conversations are threaded with recent replies revealed and posts expandable to reveal even more from that thread. These new endpoints deliver all that, so we move from strictly chronological to more “recent discussion” based views. Just more work for the next versions :) lmk if you need smthAs a suggestion, could we stick to either first or second person for those sections and links. ie: either "to me" and "for me" or "to you" and "for you". One of each just adds cognitive load.
it was semi-intentional, here are the complete sentences you can imagine:
“here are posts for you” (site talking)
“these posts are addressed to me” (me talking)
Sure, but why is one statement the site talking and the other one me talking? It's just arbitrary and adds a moment of confusion. Maybe I'll run a poll to see if it's just me.
Wouldn’t it be more confusing if there were two tabs with repeating pronouns? Idk I’m not settled on this. I just picked whatever felt better. They’re more visually different.
Repeating pronouns would not be confusing for me. It would serve to indicate that it's the prepositions which are the important part (which they are). Anyway the poll is now live at so we can see what the majority think.
Side note: is there a better way to refer to one post in another like this than putting the whole URL in there?
Fantastic! About the post linking, I’ve thought about it and can’t come up with a good solution. For now it’s getting shrinked visually to
/post/123 because it’s the app domain. Any suggestions here?I can't really think of anything better off-hand. You could overload the # some more and just follow it with the post number but then there would be chaos if anyone wanted a fully numerical hashtag which is going to happen at some point (new year, for instance).
I like that it shortens it in the rendering as it stands - that's good enough for me. :)
Let’s use tilde ampersand, check .
That works nicely. Although again you will get unintentional usage because
~ followed by a number is often used to mean approximately that number. eg: "we're expecting ~100 people". You are also using it for strikethrough formatting.
Looking at my keyboard the least ambiguous/overused symbol is probably the & - but I'm not sure if that's better overall.I think the ampersand is ok. It's doesn't much historical use for these things and being feels more like an append behavior than movement to or continuation of a conversation.
>_2596, branded but looks and feels awkward
>2596 or >>2596, I like the directionality and punch.What should the first two tabs on the homepage say?
"for you" & "to me" (status quo)13%
"for you" & "to you"13%
"for me" & "to me"0%
"following" & "inbox"47%
some other combination27%
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@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to:
"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to:What the "for you" means? Often I find things there, but, why are they "for me"? What's the criteria? Same for "to me". Are "to me" replies to my notes, or comments, or are they something else? I will start by defining what exactly are those two, before getting into further weeds.
my suggestion :
@ my feed hot all
@ = to me
my feed = for you
hot = hot
all = latest
@ → smallest token, visited less often than the rest, very visible when it has a counter that you need to pay attention to (someone interacted with you)
my feed → largest token, this is where you should be spending your time mostly. right now it’s everything you’re following, but in the future might be enriched, so it’s a feed of information, my feed of information
hot → obvious, unambiguous
all → simply everything that’s posted. clearly communicated.
All have different dimensions & shapes.
for you -> personalization -> feed / my feed / my textlog / >_ (branded)
for me -> directionality -> mentions / my mentions / @me @ is also directionality signifier
hot -> popularity -> hot
all -> firehose/chronology -> latest, tho it does create a endo-hit
Goofy shorthand experiments (maybe superscripts?):
>_ @me !hot *all
or: >_ @ ! *ooh this looks nice
cryptic af lol very cool idea, though it changes the design a lot
As long as we're doing this, may I put forth that the "hot" tab runs counter to the principle that removing view counts and timestamps seemed to embody? I'd rather have a "random" tab than a hot.
I liked your impulse to design around dopamine rather than at it.
I’ve given a lot of thought about that. My thinking was to keep some older nice posts a bit more alive to keep the discussion going. And it works to a percentage. But as it is now with the new conversation views it overlaps a lot with “latest” as the active conversations get bumped to the top anyway, so the current “hot” topics are in latest’s first page naturally. So I might refactor the algorithm a bit to favor top level posts. I think it’s worth it, new users especially discover posts there..
I don’t think it’s documented anywhere, or perhaps a , @stagasprofilefollowcreative technologist
creator of textlog?
Not all the hashtags are rendered in .
creative technologist
creator of textlog?
Not all the hashtags are rendered in . Not documented yeah, they’re limited to 5. I’ll raise them to 10 on the next deploy so leave it as it is and it will fix.
Made another important decision to remove all counters — notes, replies, following, followers — from both people and hashtags, so you focus on the content not the numbers. It was creating competition which feeds the dopamine system, which we have exhausted and try to avoid.
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As others have said, this made me join (textlog has been open in a tab for weeks now without my creating an account). I'm on the fence about timestamps but everything else is great. The lack of dopamine from not being able to like or get liked is both painful and incredibly freeing. Also, I LOVE the design of this site.
numbers
In a past life, when I was a statistician, I often though that the primary goal of statistics was to communicate numerical ideas without actually using any numbers. Numbers make people anxious, manufacture false certainty, project false confidence. They invariably appear to say something that's related to but not quite exactly the truth.
I love the experiment of just not having them. I also wonder about the experiment of: could something fuzzier, less fraught replace them?