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    1. Allow users to submit text (markdown) along with a link for new posts

      Currently you can only do one or the other, but I feel that this results in low efforts posts where a user simply post a link and walks away. If we can post text along with a link to, say, a news...

      Currently you can only do one or the other, but I feel that this results in low efforts posts where a user simply post a link and walks away. If we can post text along with a link to, say, a news article, the OP could then start some sort of discussion around that article without having to go into the comments and post whatever they were going to say.

      3 votes
    2. More tildes tests

      Hey I'm just typing along and then BAM: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~lotsa tildes, maybe even just one long string of ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Then something with extra tildes: ~tildes~~ Okay,...

      Hey I'm just typing along and then BAM: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~lotsa

      tildes, maybe even just one long string of ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      Then something with extra tildes: ~tildes~~

      Okay, how about a ~tildes.~.~.~.~

      1 vote
    3. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      hey there ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~doggos~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~dogs LOTS OF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Also...

      hey there

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~doggos~~~~~~~~~
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~dogs
      
      
      LOTS OF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      
      Also 
      ~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL
      ~[url](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL)
      ~tildes.net/~tildes
      
      1 vote
    4. Daily Tildes discussion - general impressions/annoyances + thoughts on changing the default sort?

      Hey everyone, thanks for being here. It's really exciting to see so many people on the site now, and hopefully we can keep the momentum up. I even have about 50 more invite request emails from...

      Hey everyone, thanks for being here. It's really exciting to see so many people on the site now, and hopefully we can keep the momentum up. I even have about 50 more invite request emails from overnight that I haven't gone through yet.

      As I've said before, I think keeping these daily discussions a little less serious on the weekend is a good idea, so I'll stick to that for today. Two main questions/focuses:

      1. Obviously, there are a lot of people new to the site in the last day or two. For all those people (and previous users too) - what are your early impressions? Anything you really like? Anything that's driving you nuts that I should try to fix very soon?
      2. What do you think of changing the site's default sort to "Activity"? I've found myself using it almost exclusively since I added it, so I like it a lot, but I'm not sure if everyone else feels the same way. Ideally I'd like to make it customizable so people can set their own default sort (even separately for each individual group and the home page), but that probably won't be for a little while yet.
      45 votes
    5. Suggestion: Ability to tag one's own comments

      Other people can tag my posts as jokes, but I can't. Is there a good reason for this to be the case? Obviously I'm not going to tag my posts as Noise, Troll, or Flame, but Joke and Offtopic aren't...

      Other people can tag my posts as jokes, but I can't. Is there a good reason for this to be the case? Obviously I'm not going to tag my posts as Noise, Troll, or Flame, but Joke and Offtopic aren't necessarily negative.

      9 votes
    6. Website accessibility

      Hi! This isn't a topic I know a ton about (beyond basics like the need for image descriptions for screen readers), but @nil's layout bug stemming from a very large font got me thinking about...

      Hi!

      This isn't a topic I know a ton about (beyond basics like the need for image descriptions for screen readers), but @nil's layout bug stemming from a very large font got me thinking about accessibility.

      Has accessibility been discussed and worked on so far?

      (If not, I'd like to suggest taking a look at online accessibility guidelines to see what would apply to tildes in particular. It's one of those things that's easiest to add towards the beginning of projects, and it takes making a conscious decision to include it.)

      11 votes
    7. Suggestion: 2FA and Site-wide Search

      I am absolutely loving Tildes so far! I have been using HackerNews for a long time and I think a couple of things that sites like those lack is 2-Factor Authentication and a dedicated on-site...

      I am absolutely loving Tildes so far! I have been using HackerNews for a long time and I think a couple of things that sites like those lack is 2-Factor Authentication and a dedicated on-site search functionality. Even though this is not a priority, nor does this site require any personal data, I think adding a 2FA would allow users to strengthen (?) their account at one point. I also think a site-wide search would be a good feature to have. HN does not have a native search and you need to use 3rd party services through HN API, which I think isn't really intuitive.

      Neither of these are a priority, but I think having these features early on would actually be a good thing to do.

      11 votes
    8. Bug: layout

      It's probably just me, because I have to use a really big font, but the text in the group summary and in the topics overlaps and is very hard to read! I'll send a screenshot to Deimos. Also, the...

      It's probably just me, because I have to use a really big font, but the text in the group summary and in the topics overlaps and is very hard to read! I'll send a screenshot to Deimos.

      Also, the sidebar is at the bottom of the screen in my configuration.

      5 votes
    9. Suggestion: less real estate per topic

      It's probably just a personal preference, but I really enjoy that HN or reddit only use two lines per topic, which makes browsing much more efficient. I'd actually prefer one line per topic! Just...

      It's probably just a personal preference, but I really enjoy that HN or reddit only use two lines per topic, which makes browsing much more efficient. I'd actually prefer one line per topic! Just give me a list of topics and let me decide whether or not I want to bite. ;)

      What do you think?

      5 votes
    10. Whats up? How's everyone's month going? Anything exciting happening?

      Shalom my dudes! I'm getting ready to graduate finally. I've been out of school for a few months. Getting work done and such. Then I'm going to iowa with my dad to visit family! So what about you...

      Shalom my dudes! I'm getting ready to graduate finally. I've been out of school for a few months. Getting work done and such. Then I'm going to iowa with my dad to visit family! So what about you guys?

      16 votes
    11. Suggestion: Make indicator for upvoted topics clearer

      When I upvote a post, it just goes form dotted border to solid border and a very slight change in color which makes recognizing if you already upvoted a post a little hard. Maybe inverting the...

      When I upvote a post, it just goes form dotted border to solid border and a very slight change in color which makes recognizing if you already upvoted a post a little hard.

      Maybe inverting the color of the box would be more suitable?

      18 votes
    12. My random notes for Nim lang

      -> Nim notes <- Some background I am learning a new programming language Nim. As many would do, I also take my own notes as I am learning it, running little example by myself, etc. .. but I doing...

      -> Nim notes <-


      Some background

      I am learning a new programming language Nim. As many would do, I also take my own notes as I am learning it, running little example by myself, etc.

          .. but I doing that a bit differently.

      • I take notes in Emacs Org mode. Org mode has a feature set called Org Babel. That allows one to document the code snippets, and also run them directly in that document, and insert their output results below them -- Notes in Org

        This also helps me document regression of the language behavior between different Nim versions of any, as the exact outputs are documented too. After each major Nim update, I press a single binding (C-v C-v b) in Emacs, and all the output blocks get recalculated.

      • But not everyone uses Emacs and Org mode. So to be able to share them to a wider audience, I need to export (Org term) that to a format like HTML, PDF, or Markdown..

      • Hugo is a really fast static site generator that uses Markdown as one of the primary content formats. It parses that to HTML using a Go Markdown library called Blackfriday.

      • As my notes are in Org mode, and converting them to HTML via Hugo needs them to be in Blackfriday compatible Markdown (which is almost like GitHub flavored Markdown), I starting working on an Emacs Org mode package ox-hugo about a year back. Using that, this Markdown file is generated. Hugo natively supports a subset of Org, but I needed to write this package to use the full power of Org mode.

      • Hugo then takes that Markdown and generates the final Nim notes page in HTML.


      In the end, I have something that ties together all things of my interest: Nim, Emacs, Org mode and Hugo :)

      8 votes