Working within Lemmy’s limits

3 years ago by Barack Ollama to c/bestupdates

I’ve tried to create a few BORU-style posts, but the fact that Lemmy has a 10k character limit to posts is proving limiting.

Any ideas/thoughts/suggestions for how to format/share stories within this limit are welcome!

Honestlyrainygarden 22 points 3 years ago

If it's a post from reddit you'd like to bring over, screen shots work. Otherwise, I'm not sure. 😭 I miss BORU the most. lol I was addicted to it.

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Barack_Ollama 8 points 3 years ago

Screenshots unfortunately aren’t super accessible for screen readers :(

It was suggested to me in another thread to use something like Pastebin to share large amounts of text, but when I tried, it wasn’t formatted :( I’m also looking at possibly using Github pages, which will apply the correct formatting, but I’m thinking users are unlikely to click thru to 3rd party webpages anyway

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Honestlyrainygarden 1 point 3 years ago

Erf. I wish they had alt text or pinned comments. Then we could just pin a ton. lol.

*edit- tone to ton

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rcmaehl 14 points 3 years ago

Mod of c/BestOfLemmyUpdates here. The post character limit should be updated to 50k-100k once servers update to 0.18.

Also would you like me to point people from that community here? This community seems a lot more popular, although reddit focused.

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Barack_Ollama 14 points 3 years ago

Oh yay!! I’m glad they’ve already made the update to the codebase. I wasn’t expecting it to be that fast lol.

You’re welcome to point people here if you want! Though, that one could be for Lemmy updates only & they could be cross-posted to this one too! Whatever you’d like to do :)

We actually don’t want to focus on Reddit lol, it probably comes across that way because we’re mostly Reddit refugees who loved best of Redditor updates :). I’m going to be posting from AskAManager & others too, but will probably wait for the character limit update.

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StringPotatoTheory 7 points 3 years ago

If pinned comments or links to comments are a thing here, could try posting as much as you can to the post, then link / pin the comment thread containing the rest? It's not ideal but might be an option until/if the character limit is raised. I was addicted to BORU too 😭

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Honestlyrainygarden 5 points 3 years ago

That was kinda my issue. I was going to pin a fully typed, but I don't think that's a thing from what I see.

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StringPotatoTheory 5 points 3 years ago

Looks like links to comments are a thing, maybe that's the way to go for now?

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Springtime 6 points 3 years ago

Maybe the linked comments suggestion is really the way to go. At least until they might (or might not) extend the character limits