15 votes

An RSS bot in a group chat is our era's best salon

6 comments

  1. hungariantoast
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    @Deimos new Tildes feature just dropped: anyone who posts their own original content to Tildes gets added to the "original content feed" and receives a notification any time anyone else posts...

    Perhaps participating in a scant handful of these, non-overlapping social scenes. Is it too easy for activity to drift off if folks allow their posting to be write-only, and don’t contribute to the general conversation? Tooling to nudge, maybe: an RSS bot gently DMing members to remind them to pay attention to others’ posts if their own feeds kept pushing content to the channel without their also contributing chatter…

    @Deimos new Tildes feature just dropped: anyone who posts their own original content to Tildes gets added to the "original content feed" and receives a notification any time anyone else posts their own original content

    16 votes
  2. [2]
    pseudolobster
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    I really like oldschool blogs and such. This is a great article, and thank you for sharing it. HOWEVER I'm really miffed that they decided to put all the text into a 50ch-wide div. I'll bet it...

    I really like oldschool blogs and such. This is a great article, and thank you for sharing it.

    HOWEVER

    I'm really miffed that they decided to put all the text into a 50ch-wide div. I'll bet it looks fine on mobile but on a real computer it's a tiny strip taking up less than a quarter of the left side of the screen.

    I get that they're trying to emulate a geocities site from the 90s but if you're going to do that why not use <FRAME>s. They still work on modern browsers and show no signs of being unsupported anytime soon despite being deprecated for over a decade.

    13 votes
    1. rodrigo
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      Increasing page zoom or activating reader mode fixes it. Anyway, not an excuse for a bad large screen layout — it’s so easy to adapt it for different viewport sizes nowadays…

      Increasing page zoom or activating reader mode fixes it. Anyway, not an excuse for a bad large screen layout — it’s so easy to adapt it for different viewport sizes nowadays…

      1 vote
  3. [3]
    sparksbet
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    This is somewhat off-topic, but does anybody know what the font they're using for this post/website is? It's super pretty.

    This is somewhat off-topic, but does anybody know what the font they're using for this post/website is? It's super pretty.

    1 vote
    1. [2]
      mycketforvirrad
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      It looks like quietism, mentioned on the blog here.

      It looks like quietism, mentioned on the blog here.

      4 votes
      1. sparksbet
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        Ooh thanks! That g especially is really calling to me.

        Ooh thanks! That g especially is really calling to me.

        2 votes