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    1. Suggestion: tag limiting

      Gotta limit the tags; I added maybe 5-6 tags on a submission, I know Instagram has a limit of 30 or so hashtags, if tags are going to be searchable or used for surfacing content in other contexts,...

      Gotta limit the tags; I added maybe 5-6 tags on a submission, I know Instagram has a limit of 30 or so hashtags, if tags are going to be searchable or used for surfacing content in other contexts, limiting the hashtags would limit abuse of it.

      Or maybe this already exists and I just haven't hit the limit... ;p

      7 votes
    2. Suggestion: Weighted Subscriptions

      On Reddit, I can chose between two options - to be subscribed to a sub, or to not be subscribed. Right now, the situation is the same with Tildes. I would like to have more fine-grained control...

      On Reddit, I can chose between two options - to be subscribed to a sub, or to not be subscribed. Right now, the situation is the same with Tildes. I would like to have more fine-grained control over which posts show up on my homepage. For example, right now, a signficant proportion of my homepage is music. I don't know if that will continue to be the case as the site grows, but it serves as a good example for now. I like music, and want to see music related posts on my homepage, but ideally I would like to be able to use a slider or selector of some form to dampen the precedence of ~music, so that I only see the very best posts. Other tildes, like ~comp, I want to have higher precedence / weighting, so that their posts make their way onto my homepage with more ease - because it's the topic I care most about.

      I understand that this might be simply infeasible for server-load reasons, and I also could understand if it is felt that this would clash with the clean and simple mechanics of the site. However, I think this feature would be really useful, and moreover could serve as a good USP to attract users from other news aggregators who care about curated, high-quality content.

      21 votes
    3. Familiarity: upvote arrows vs tapping on the votes

      It took me a few seconds to realize that tapping on the # of votes would count as an upvote. The usual arrows would be nice, even Facebook is experimenting with those now. update: Just realized...

      It took me a few seconds to realize that tapping on the # of votes would count as an upvote.

      The usual arrows would be nice, even Facebook is experimenting with those now.

      update: Just realized this suggestion was already raised 4 days ago.

      8 votes
    4. Chasing the carrot on a stick: A karma system.

      That silly number on someone's account. One that means nothing but is a weird goal people seek out. Karma can be used to encourage user participation. Karma can also be bad and can cause someone...

      That silly number on someone's account. One that means nothing but is a weird goal people seek out.

      Karma can be used to encourage user participation. Karma can also be bad and can cause someone to post with the intent of collecting karma instead of discussion.

      Karma can be earned different way;

      • the reddit way, you get karma for how many upvotes you get for things you post
      • the gamefaqs way, you get 1 karma point for each day you log in

      I'm not sure of any other ways, but I like silly numbers. Perhaps the 'trusted user' thing in the docs can somehow tie into a karma system.

      What do you think about karma and how it could/should/would play out here?

      13 votes
    5. Let us post a link *and* text

      One of the biggest limitations of Reddit is that if you want to post a link, and comment on it yourself, you have to go make a comment on your own post after you've made it. It would be really...

      One of the biggest limitations of Reddit is that if you want to post a link, and comment on it yourself, you have to go make a comment on your own post after you've made it.

      It would be really useful to be able to fill in both the Link and the Text box, and have your text displayed under the link while you are viewing the comments.

      (Also, we should be able to edit posts after making them.)

      11 votes
    6. Ce n'est pas un test.

      h1 Heading 8-) h2 Heading h3 Heading h4 Heading h5 Heading h6 Heading Horizontal Rules Typographic replacements Enable typographer option to see result. (c) (C) (r) (R) (tm) (TM) (p) (P) +- test.....

      h1 Heading 8-)

      h2 Heading

      h3 Heading

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      h5 Heading
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      Horizontal Rules




      Typographic replacements

      Enable typographer option to see result.

      (c) (C) (r) (R) (tm) (TM) (p) (P) +-

      test.. test... test..... test?..... test!....

      !!!!!! ???? ,, -- ---

      "Smartypants, double quotes" and 'single quotes'

      Emphasis

      This is bold text

      This is bold text

      This is italic text

      This is italic text

      Strikethrough

      Blockquotes

      Blockquotes can also be nested...

      ...by using additional greater-than signs right next to each other...

      ...or with spaces between arrows.

      Lists

      Unordered

      • Create a list by starting a line with +, -, or *
      • Sub-lists are made by indenting 2 spaces:
        • Marker character change forces new list start:
          • Ac tristique libero volutpat at
          • Facilisis in pretium nisl aliquet
          • Nulla volutpat aliquam velit
      • Very easy!

      Ordered

      1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

      2. Consectetur adipiscing elit

      3. Integer molestie lorem at massa

      4. You can use sequential numbers...

      5. ...or keep all the numbers as 1.

      Start numbering with offset:

      1. foo
      2. bar

      Code

      Inline code

      Indented code

      // Some comments
      line 1 of code
      line 2 of code
      line 3 of code
      

      Block code "fences"

      Sample text here...
      

      Syntax highlighting

      var foo = function (bar) {
        return bar++;
      };
      
      console.log(foo(5));
      

      Tables

      Option Description
      data path to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates.
      engine engine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default.
      ext extension to be used for dest files.

      Right aligned columns

      Option Description
      data path to data files to supply the data that will be passed into templates.
      engine engine to be used for processing templates. Handlebars is the default.
      ext extension to be used for dest files.

      Links

      link text

      link with title

      Autoconverted link https://github.com/nodeca/pica (enable linkify to see)

      Images

      !Minion
      <img src="https://octodex.github.com/images/stormtroopocat.jpg" alt="Stormtroopocat" title="The Stormtroopocat" />

      Like links, Images also have a footnote style syntax

      <img src="https://octodex.github.com/images/dojocat.jpg" alt="Alt text" title="The Dojocat" />

      With a reference later in the document defining the URL location:

      Plugins

      The killer feature of markdown-it is very effective support of
      syntax plugins.

      Emojies

      Classic markup: :wink: :crush: :cry: :tear: :laughing: :yum:

      Shortcuts (emoticons): :-) :-( 8-) ;)

      see how to change output with twemoji.

      Subscript / Superscript

      • 19^th^
      • H~2~O

      <ins>

      ++Inserted text++

      <mark>

      ==Marked text==

      Footnotes

      Footnote 1 link[^first].

      Footnote 2 link[^second].

      Inline footnote^[Text of inline footnote] definition.

      Duplicated footnote reference[^second].

      [^first]: Footnote can have markup

      and multiple paragraphs.
      

      [^second]: Footnote text.

      Definition lists

      Term 1

      : Definition 1
      with lazy continuation.

      Term 2 with inline markup

      : Definition 2

          { some code, part of Definition 2 }
      
      Third paragraph of definition 2.
      

      Compact style:

      Term 1
      ~ Definition 1

      Term 2
      ~ Definition 2a
      ~ Definition 2b

      Abbreviations

      This is HTML abbreviation example.

      It converts "HTML", but keep intact partial entries like "xxxHTMLyyy" and so on.

      *[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language

      Custom containers

      ::: warning
      here be dragons
      :::

      2 votes
    7. Daily Tildes discussion - welcome many new users + two new groups (~comp and ~creative)

      As already mentioned, there was a reasonably successful post about Tildes on Hacker News today, so I've got an email inbox full of invite requests and feedback that I'm about to start going...

      As already mentioned, there was a reasonably successful post about Tildes on Hacker News today, so I've got an email inbox full of invite requests and feedback that I'm about to start going through. This means that I'm about to invite a lot more people, so the activity will probably start picking up shortly.

      As part of that, I've created two new groups: ~comp and ~creative. A lot of the people coming from HN will definitely be on the more technical end, so ~comp is intended to be a place where we can post articles about programming and so on without filling up ~tech with that kind of stuff. ~creative was a suggestion that meristele made yesterday, and I think it's definitely something that we needed. Let me know if you think there are other groups we need desperately.

      Note that while new users will get auto-subscribed to those groups (for now), I did not go back and subscribe all existing users to them. So if you're interested in either of those topics, you'll need to go subscribe on your own.

      Outside of that, please be welcoming to all the new users. And to both old and new users - please let me know what you think and if there's particular functionality I should prioritize. I know that there's a lot of things still missing, but if you're coming from HN you're probably pretty used to that. You can post here or feel free to make separate threads in ~tildes if you want to discuss something in more depth.

      Thanks! I'll most likely give out some more invite codes to everyone in the next day or two, so that we can try to keep more activity coming in.

      26 votes
    8. This is heart breaking

      @leahmcelrath: If you watch nothing else about the mass shooting at #SantaFe High School in Texas, watch this. Her name is reportedly Paige. #SantaFeHighSchool https://t.co/Xwy5VMCOTK

      7 votes