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

Not only we have the new forum, but I have just collected a topic we discussed here, earlier today in our local feed -- and made it into a prettier, formatted and in-line illustrated page.

The way a good manual page could be; and there's a need, the documentation available is very limited; so I plan to add to it.

First Topic, brand new Forum.

* Assigning Colour Themes to Allow easy Multi-Instances use in Pinafore Client *

Please visit : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/assigning-colour-themes-to-diferentiate-instances-at-a-glance/295

The Forum is publicly Visible (anyone can read) and open to new user registrations if you want to comment, ask questions about Pinafore or have any suggestions to the Author. We will be sure to pass those along, and Nolan is very good with supporting, promptly responding when I had something to ask.

Many Thanks to Nolan Lawson (@nolan) and Dr. Freeman (@freemo).
Special thanks to Coralie @globcoco for inspiring this inaugural topic.

#Qoto #Discourse #Forums #Pinafore #NewUsers #Fediclient

* A new Pinafore client discussions Forum is now online at Qoto's Discourse Forums *

We now have a brand new sub-forum, dedicated to the powerful and fast Pinafore client for Fediverse.

I am a big fan of Pinafore, since first trying it six months ago. It is a popular client with power users, as it is FAST and Light, plus has elegant design, clean UI and many nice features.

Nolan Lawson is the author of Pinafore, and I have told him many times how I enjoy it.

As part of Fandom, I thought we could do more to support Great Software, and requested a new Project Forum for Pinafore here at our Discourse Forum. Our Qoto.org admin graciously agreed and created it, and it's now opening for business.

As a matter of fact, an Introductory post was needed, so here we are. :smileycat:

Never heard about Pinafore? See the author's word here : https://nolanlawson.com/2019/06/02/one-year-of-pinafore/

#Qoto #Discourse #Forums #Pinafore #NewUsers #Fediclient [ continues 1 / 2 ]

* Selecting Colour Themes for our various instances in the Pinafore Client for Fediverse *

@globcoco

>> The same I used at mamot.
>> I think that if I'm using the same pages and layout I might confuse myself but I love the easy set up.

* Go into Settings and select one of the instances you have configured (hint -- double click on the Star in the right, and it's a ONE click switch, instantaneous).

* Done that? Now go into Settings --> General Settings.

* Slide to the Bottom of the page.

* and select one of the many Themes - Light or Dark, whichever you prefer.

* that theme becomes the Default for the current instance, and by selecting different ones, we can tell we are in one place or another.

There's lots of choices and the client is really a delight to use.

#Pinafore Client is Tops. #Fediverse #NewUsers

In response to : https://qoto.org/@globcoco/104319907198041891

...but posted at top level so people can see it.

Screenshot shows possible Pinafore colour themes. ---v

@freemo
'Fresca' would indicate cooled water or liquid.

@curt @gioypi

* Intuition.

When you heart and your mind concur that something is a good idea, I like to follow.

Example, inviting someone I met yesterday and had some wonderful conversations with. An attentive listener, a bright mind and a fast learner.

Confirmed when I look at the person's profile after just a few hours, and find it already growing roots and being an appreciated part of our community.

Those followers, they all agree.

Hope we could find such great people more often, but it's a joy. Welcome to Coralie. You are a Star.

Thank you for the stimulating conversations.
#NewUsers #Welcome #Qoto #Writers

@zleap Looking good, thanks Paul!

@freemo

@hansw LOL, no wonder. 😜

Even here, it gets ugly sometimes.

@hansw I can't stand the orange man either, and equally, can't vote or influence their votes. So hopefully they do the right thing this time.

It is tremendously draining to see that man, everyday, calling attention to his absurdity and misdemeanours.

@feld Well, their graph shows it topping up at just over 99 Mb/s for incoming traffic, so it appears that's their connection speed.

Conditions vary, and in some places there's less options and much higher costs.

I loaded their site and it seems responsive, maybe it has stopped now.

@hansw Agreed, 100%. Glad you came.

We used to have a great Local feed when I joined here in November, then in December. But later it died out, and new user types came around, Twitter exiles who talked only to their existing twitter friends who had also moved here.

Result, it became dismal. As recently as a month ago it was BAD here. I was dismayed.

But we have managed to turn things around, and that is a major improvement. If I had joined Mastodon and gone into mastodon.social, as most did when I came (coincidentally, at the time of the Indian Diaspora from Twitter), I wouldn't have stayed for 3 days, for sure. It's just crazy there.

@feld That must be their full incoming Bandwidth, saturated.

Yeah, that will do it, anyday.

@hansw That was a wonderful post, and a great life story, Hans. I am glad you came here. We can all gain from more nice people joining us.

Cheers!

And this is just going on.

Just noticed on the Fedi feed.

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@SDF/104321311930675367

@nipos

I also plan to blog extensively of my reasoning and the current situation with this sad bunch that is in fact acting like the Fascists they are out to condemn.

@freemo @rgx

@nipos
I am greatly enjoying the service, Niklas, thank you -- and it is a pleasure to see a post I make there be available in all 12 or so accounts in my Pinafore client.

I got tired of people not seeing my content, and took action, as an Author, to get on an open platform.

Sadly here at Qoto that is not the case, and with some instances that are important to me.

@freemo @rgx

@zleap
Thank you, Paul.

And to have an experienced person here in the Fediverse could be useful if the company decides to provide a presence here - someone already into the environment would work out best.

@globcoco

@globcoco I didn't get much details, but said thank you as a first move. I am happy with the free time I have, my expenses are covered, and I would normally be out travelling right now -- Spring being my favourite time to travel, have been to Europe in the past 3 years at that time. Not this year, but it's turning out ok since the projects I am involved in are satisfying and enjoyable (all of my fediverse, plus pen pal correspondence, plus Writing two blogs, and being staff here, so it's a busy time).