*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@social.cleverlibre.org

@zleap

Similarly to my attempt at using Git for blog hosting; baffled me, I gave up and am happily productive on Write.Freely instead.

Still have no idea, but if someone did put together a well made guide - it could be useful.

@globcoco @freemo @linuxine

@globcoco

If you are a Writer, your primary focus should be on that; on paper, on web, on ebook, but Content Production supercedes time learning publishing platforms.

We can help each other -- Ange's WF manual, the awesome MarkDown tutorial, an upcoming tool kit post for myself.

These can shorten the learning path to productive postign for new people, and we can see more people getting into it.

The number of accounts in WF instances is surprisingly low, considering how good the platform is, that it's free and easily accessed.

Time to change that!

@zleap @freemo

@globcoco

I haven't seen that. Earlier Freemo mentioned Git as being a possible base for a Blog, but I foudn that non-trivial, and time consuming.

For a newer user, not a productive path, as there are excellent hosts for Write.Freely which is a superb blog platform.

so I gave up on the idea, after briefly exploring it. We need to focus on getting simple tools that work, testing and learning them a bit, then hone some more.

With our own content production, which is the ultimate goal and reason for getting all these tools.

I absolutely love my Blogging work, it's a pleasure.

@freemo @zleap
@linuxine

@zleap @freemo @globcoco Banding together and using all the tools we can find and hone, we can be a powerful alternative to these companies.

And the more there is, the more it will grow.

@globcoco You are most welcome.

@globcoco @freemo @zleap

Trés facile!

@freemo @zleap @globcoco

The Discourse people are being clearly greedy -- and making hundreds of thousands a month from the companies paying their fees.

That in itself is not the problem, it's fair if they get an income stream to support their running costs and previous development lean years.

But to actively obscure any simpler ways to use the open sourced product they offer? That is the bad point.

The Write.as company also seems to have had some tugs with open source people in the past; I didn't read much about it, but I know Ellen mentioned it and wasn't impressed.

Plume is an alternative to WF, but I don't like it as much. Uglier and with less features I need and use.

@freemo @globcoco @zleap

Les "CW's... "Long Post"...

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@freemo @globcoco @zleap

Awesome discussion so far.

But Please -- can we turn off the "Long Post" Content Warning? It's put into a reply atuomatically by Pinafore (probably mine are frequently labelled by Pina as LP, correctly).

But it's not needed and a little distracting. So, off we turn it? TY...

@freemo

>> Please give it a read now:
>>
>> https://qoto.org/about/more

That lenghty thing is in dire need of a re-write, split into more pages would make it digestable more easily.

And, a TL;DR added as per Koyu's -- an excellent idea for the attention-deprived set.

@globcoco @zleap

@globcoco

I am not enthused either. A free host somewhere would be ideal I have set up my own forum and worked on it for months, but unless you have user participation it doesn't work -- it becomes a ghost town.

So do what Freemo suggested, use the area he mentioned and if you have a body of posts that show a growing presence, a new place can be adapted I think.

The whole Discourse forum will benefit -- usage there is way too light, a pity as it's a great resource.

@freemo @zleap

@freemo

Oooh, wow. I was shocked by their standard pricing -- from 100 USD per month. They are really milking companies, and no free alternative is easily in sight.

And this Docker only install, wtf. 😔

@globcoco @zleap

@ourdiaspora No, I haven't -- never experienced Hubzilla, although seeing a post here by a local user showed a very pretty page and seems interesting.

Is it a nice alternative? Mastodon has some good points, but I like other projects and am open to trying and reporting my findings back -- so more people can find them too.

@globcoco

I went looking and seaching, and didn't find a Free Discourse Forums host so far.

Best I found was a professional install and config, done for you, costing $150 USD one time fee. This is installed into a Digital Ocean droplet small server, which is a $5 a month service fee.

Screenshot from : https://www.literatecomputing.com/discourse-installation-packages/

Discourse.org also says you can do it yourself -- and provides this page to guide :

https://blog.discourse.org/2014/04/install-discourse-in-under-30-minutes/

A Digital Ocean signup with a FREE one month of service deal -- https://m.do.co/c/a5bf212d9a92

Although staying here and using the already running service is the simplest option of all.

#rgxJournal

@freemo @zleap

@globcoco
He will be seeing this as I included his attrib in the conversation. So think over what you would like to have, and present it here or in a Discourse topic even; whichever you prefer.

At Discourse it has the added advantage of staying visible for longer times. Toots disappear unless you know they are there, or search and find them accidentally.

@freemo @zleap

@hansw You could use the hotspot function in a smatphone and link your laptop to it, for a larger screen.

But the essential in your case is seeing if the maps identify the CNG stations at all -- and possibly compared their results with another similar offering, for depth and accuracy of the listings.

Better yet, maybe carry two options with their maps loaded.

@cowanon Disregard as you please, of course.

#rgxJournal

@Phaedrus LOL....

Thanks for the chuckle. The thoughts in that photo are seriously correct, imo.

But lightening up helps us, for sure.

@globcoco

You could think and articulate a proposal for an added area at our Discourse - really it's too much to front the cost and hassles of hosting one's own.

@freemo is the person to approach, just prepare a good post with the ideas lined out, the reasons and what you are proposing. He will listen.

If it could all fit into on Subforum, a new Project Forum like the one we added for Pinafore is very easily approved.

And an actively used subforum or area adds value to the whole Discourse instance -- we can really benefit from that, as it will attract other users.

@zleap