🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@design_RG

So I am on the dark theme now looking at the post you linked me, and it renders just fine for me as expected with a bar to the left and not the ">" stuff you are seeing... I am not sure why you would see it any different. You said your on firefox right? maybe its a browser thing... you are sure you dont have any browser extensions on modifying the formatting?

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@design_RG

It is mostly a matter of CSS and personal preference. For the most part this shouldnt really have too much to do with the server from a functional standpoint.

We can easily import CSS elements from glitch as we wish. Let me switch over to the dark theme and see if i can see what you see there, though I thought I fixed that.

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@design_RG

So the pinnafore client is the one with the ">" or the webclient was? Does rich text content from other servers behave the same?

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@design_RG

Very odd, you are the first mentioning it.. do you have an example of a post where the quoting isnt rendering properly in the web client too so i can see if that happens for me?

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@design_RG

Ok thats interesting if your own markdown post isn't rendering as markdown.. are you saying it doesn't format it with the markdown when you post from a mobile client specifically. Or do you get this error from the web too?

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@design_RG

When you do quotes with > it basically renders it as html using the "blockquote" tag.. The actual way that gets stylized and rendered is entirely up to the client, assuming it renders it at all. On vanilla mastodon the rendering wont be there at all, other clients will render it in different ways.

So my fuess there is that your just seeing the sylization that particular client chooses to use when rendering a blockquote.

Either way I have no control over how the formatting renders, thats always going to come from the client's CSS.

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@design_RG

Can you see the formatting you made in this post? Renders just fine to me.

My guess is you saw a plain text post that used asterisks for emphasis without the intention of bolding it. Its pretty common.

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@design_RG

No because groups can not follow people and do not follow you, you follow the group.

When I suggested followers only for the group to make it private it would be the group that would set its status to followers only (in other words a locked account where followers need to be approved before they can follow you). The individual posts would still need to be public you just couldnt view the group itself

This is stuff that needs to be fixed, its not perfect. In a future release i will be adding the ability to post to the group in a private way. When it comes to truly private groups (your original post is private AND the group is private) it gets a bit complicated and so far all the solutions require some change in the clients themselves.

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@design_RG

Not really. The group server wouldn't work if it were a direct message due tot he nature of the group "standard" (it needs to be able to reboost your post for it to show as a group post effectively, though because its an actor type group it doesnt look like a boost).

I believe unlisted would work though.

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