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

@namark

>> arxiv bot is cancer, kill it with fire!

Sure a heartfelt reaction. I have muted them for months too. 😜

@zleap

>> is there a way to notify people who search on here for arXiv that they should perhaps check out the forum link ?

You can try to catch them searching -- by including their user names in hashtags, so the post will show along with other results. Include the Discourse forum link and an explanation -- so they see the use of opening the link for more info.

@zleap Yes, each of the Bot profiles is easily Searchable and found for interested people. And I bet many Qoto users dread scrolling thru one of their posting storms. 😸

@globcoco I hope you have a productive time -- I am feeling guilty for my much delayed response letters to my penpals, plus the house needs cleaning, dust is on the floor, etc.

So I will try to do some housework and be less visible here. The letters are enjoyable but time consuming, as I write long and thoughtfully to each pen friend.

It has been a lot more satisfying to see a piece of work on a Blog page, reaching dozens, hundreds of readers instead of a single one.

But I have been doing the pen pals for a year now, and it's been good, so got to put some effort into it.

Bonne Journée!

@zleap Thanks, Paul, that would be wonderful.

I hated to dump that bomb in the open, as Freemo is already loaded and he doesn't need more work added; and I can't do it either.

Gracias!

@hansw

Thanks, Hans. The Discourse Forum here at Qoto is run as a tab on any web browser you might prefer to use, there's no installation required, and for casual reading, no account is needed either.

For posting comments, replies and new topics, a new account there can be created; registration is simple, just needs a verified email and you are in.

Yeah, I think the focus for programmers and development teams is mostly in creating and prefecting the software they are involved in.

Documentation is very important, and hopefully someone in the team can do a good job, or they can attract a new person for that function. It makes a huge difference for the users, and also makes communications between users and devs so much better -- translating in between their much different outlooks and written languages.

@globcoco

* Maybe we should consider making the arXiv bot posts unlisted? *

* there's a lot of them, at schedule times of the day, late at night for me here.
*many users might not like to wade thru them.
* some might already have Muted the 5 or so arXiv posting accounts.

I know I did; it clears the timeline pretty effectively, and I have a duty as Mod to monitor all that is posted here.

So, what you Qoto users and Fedi at large think?

Unlisted posts will still go out, they just become harder to discover (as they will not show in any of the timelines.

Ideal solution - in my opinion, Unlisted posts as standard, plus maybe on Digest post per day (with a list of Toots made by the account that day), this being posted as "Public".

Image attached is from the moderators panel -- I just closed a report filled against one of the arXiv bot, accused of Spam.

#qoto #Discussions #Bots #arXiv

@fishbowl Ah, very nice!

LineageOS is the new company that evolved from CyanogenMod. I have looked at their site and they do have a lot of supported devices.

Unfortunately, my model is not yet on the list, and this must be an exact match, as the consequences of an error are dire.

Very cool -- maybe write a little report someday, listing what you liked, features, maybe some screenshots?

You could post here or on the Discourse Forums, here at Qoto, where it's nice to be able to use enhanced text, in-line images and other features for a nicer post.

Thank you!

* Things I would love to see. *

A recent post in Discourse, described the idea : a new feature for Mastodon.

Allowing authors of Long Form, long text articles to choose to Collapse the text.

Which would work similar to what a Content Warning toot does -- EXCEPT, and this is important, it would NOT Blur the image in the post. (which a CW post always does.)

Why bother? Because :

* it looks nicer in the timelines. Some people are not interested in long posts.
* Visually prettier too, for all users.
* Toot Title is displayed, as in a CW toot warning line.

And the image and the Title can be carefully selected to attract a Reader, who can expand the post if desired.

My full proposal is at : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/mastodon-collapsed-text-exposed-image-a-proposal-for-improvement-blog-post-version/326

And on my Blog : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/mastodon-collapsed-text-exposed-image

@Gargron please consider. Thank you.

#mastodon #mastodev #UI #UX #GlitchSocial

@fishbowl Wonder to hear that, fishbowl.

What OS are you using now? Which phone and model?

I did a lot of tinkering with Android tablets and loved the CyanogenMod roms - still have two of those tablets with them installed. Good times. 😺

* Fediverse - Cats Follow on Friday Suggestions *

And it's #FurryFriday but also #FF or #FollowFriday ... In fact, I am late in posting this, a pretty Blog version of my original Discourse Forum --https://discourse.qoto.org/t/cat-posting-accounts-for-fff-felines-follow-on-fridays/286 post. And now it's #Caturday even.

So I thought -- why not post a neat Referral to our feline loving Fediverse accounts that are present in these hash tags ?

#cats #mastocats #catsofMastodon #meow #Kittens

That is the Topic of today's Blog -- https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/fediverse-cats-follow-on-friday-suggestions

[ OP, much prettier : https://muensterland.social/@rgx/104336892703458752 ]

@globcoco

Bon Jour, Coralie.

Are you having trouble with the Forum loading? I saw your post here and just went to check, and it's working well for me atm.

The feature you saw in action in Hans's post you mentioned (En savoir plus -- or Read More for the English version) is built into Mastodon; it will trigger automatically when a post is longer than a certain number of lines.

I really think that proposed feature would work well - but it is quite difficult to get the top people to accept a proposal it seems.

Let's see how it goes. Thank you for the reply - and try to copy and paste it in later, as the Forum should be working.

Already made a new Blog page -- posted and now announcing, haven't had breakfast yet but it was an interesting idea. 😄
@hansw

@chrism @freemo

And the monthly view for past month.

Crawlers load is too high, I would like to reduce it myself. Google users is not the central focus for me when system load is affecting performance.

@chrism

The Discourse server works strangely sometimes. Fast and nice, and then... Molasses. Freemo has been increasing the assigned resources to it (RAM mostly, seems to make a difference) but the hosting costs are getting higher and higher.

I will take a look at the Traffic graph -- I hate seeing huge loads of stupid search engine spiders, crawlers, taking big chunks of processing time away from human users.

Here the current data Graph.

@freemo

@stux another account and more garbage from that same person. Just blocked it.