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

Being a sys admin / instance host is not an easy job!

This totally explains why. A current thread developing today.

https://qoto.org/web/statuses/103157648331364058

from the article. Which does make sense, as pressure must be immense.

"Trump's unannounced medical appointment resurrected theories that the president's health is not as good as he says.

Trump sought to allay fears about his health during his presidential campaign, releasing a letter from his long-time personal doctor—Dr. Harold Bornstein—which lauded Trump's "astonishingly excellent" condition and claimed he would "unequivocally" be the healthiest president in history.

Bornstein has since told NBC News that the president wrote the letter himself. In 2017, Bornstein also claimed that Trump aides turned up unannounced at his office and removed files relating to the president."

Have you Qoto people seem this yet?

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-will-resign-blaming-poor-health-before-house-can-impeach-him-democratic-activist-1472358

** Bookmarks!!

the little Flag icon allows adding a thread to a bookmarks folder, similar to the Favourites one.

Added it, and the next screenshot shows the Bookmarks folder, and the thread included.

@freemo I already found the answer, glitchsoc is a full separate version of Mastodon, with added experimental features.

Documentation here (for those curious to see what is different):
https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/

It does have some nice enhancements, which I already noted on my very short experience there.

Long Posting using Pinafore - Testing and worked.

I have been trying out different fedi clients, looking for how they feel, speed and features, ergonomics and design.

Really liked Pinafore, which is simple to setup (runs on a web browser window, similarly to the Mastodon web client).

Pinafore is well built, well designed, simple and elegant. I liked it much!

However, I hit a significant SNAG, and had mentioned it to other people, in local conversations here at qoto and in others with friends in other instances.

The problem is, when I am using Pinafore to access my Qoto account, which has a very large, 65,000 characters maximum per post limit, in Pinafore (and similarly in Tusky also) I can only use the 500 characters usual post limit. 😞

That is a show stopped for me, as I like to write Long Form and develop ideas. Argh.

A friend from another instance mentioned that she could use it on her instance, and it worked.

The main difference we could see is that she mentioned having 'glitchsoc' installed, which I am not sure we have here at qoto.

I created an account earlier today at another instance, (for different posting and a lower profile). Just now I made a post size limit test.

** Test conditions:

- acess via Pinafore web client.

- the new instance server allows a maximum of 10,000 characters.

** Test method:

- to avoid clogging the public feeds with something irrelevant, I sent myself a Direct Message, DM, which is a normal Toot, which has the privacy flag set to DM.

- the same usual size limits apply to DMs, same as regular posts.

** Test Results:

- Even as I entered the text I could see the counter in the Toot editor box started up with 10,000 chars.

- as I typed and later copy/pasted a large block of text, copied from one of my posts here, all thru this the Toot button was enabled, and the counter was decreasing.

- that indicated the input was accepted normally, if using the same Pinafore client with qoto, it would GREY out the Toot button, show an angry RED line at the bottom of the edit box.

- the screenshot attached here shows the characters left counter at about 8,600; which means my post was already at about 1,400 chars length.

I hit the send button, and it was delivered to my qoto DM inbox perfectly.

Sucess! 😄

Conclusion, there's something missing here, I believe what is enabling the outside clients to work properly is glitchsoc being installed, or not; or maybe a configuration problem.

The footer of the instance's web client shows this message:

"Glitchsoc is free open source software forked from Mastodon. You can contribute or report issues on GitHub at glitch-soc/mastodon (v2.9.2+glitch)."

...which might mean the whole server setup is a custom, forked version of mastodon, not an addon?

@freemo Could you look at this? can we have glitchsoc or is it a full rebuild and too much work (which I wouldn't expect, certainly)

Breaking Bad comes to RL ?

"It sounds like something from the award-winning former A.M.C. series “Breaking Bad”: The authorities charged two chemistry professors in Arkansas on Friday in connection with the production of methamphetamine.

The instructors, Terry D. Bateman, 45, and Bradley A. Rowland, 40, were charged with manufacturing methamphetamine and using drug paraphernalia, the Clark County Sheriff’s Department said. Meth is a highly addictive drug that can be manufactured illegally with chemicals, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/17/us/arkansas-chemistry-professor-meth.html

Visual recipe is good. Yummy.

Chicken Hakka Noodles Recipe Desi Chinese Version By Food Fusion

https://youtu.be/KrejvDCM3mo