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Dev notes from @musing, tooted away by @matt. Follow @write_as, @writefreely, @snap_as, @remark_as, and the rest for official announcements. #writeas […] [bridged from https://social.musing.studio/@dev on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

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And this is now live on @write_as! via @updates: https://write.as/updates/we-now-show-alt-text-in-the-fediverse-now-alt-text-from-photos-in-your-blog

write.aswrite.asWe now show alt text in the fediverse! Now alt text from photos in your blog posts gets sent out over ActivityPub, so your images are more accessible to your readers and followers there. Alt text (meaning _alternative text_) lets you add a description of any images you include in your posts. This is especially helpful to readers who are blind or have low vision, and use screen readers to consume your posts — instead of an empty space where your image is, the screen reader can read aloud the description you provide, giving them the full context of everything you’re sharing. In our Plain Text editor, you can use standard Markdown to add alt text in the brackets before your image URL: ![A screenshot of the Insert Image modal, showing fields for the image URL, alt text, and optional title.](https://i.snap.as/71LVK9TQ.png) In our Rich Text editor, you can use the top menu option: **Insert → Image** to find a _Description (alt text)_ field, where you can describe the image: Alt text on Write.as has been here since day one. But especially with it carrying over to the fediverse now, we’d highly encourage writers to make an effort to include it more often in their posts! #updates #fediverse #altText #accessibility
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Since our Markdown preview has been working well on @write_as, we'll also be bringing it to @writefreely in v0.17! https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/pull/1647 #WriteFreely #WriteFreelyDev

github.comMarkdown preview by thebaer · Pull Request #1647 · writefreely/writefreelyThis adds a "Preview" button to the default / plain text editor that allows writers to see how their Markdown will render before publishing. This is a basic first-pass that can be improve...
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Finally fixed the issue when switching between the Plain and Rich Text editor and your posts contain HTML. Now it won't break! (Coming to @write_as shortly) https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/pull/1644 #WriteAs #WriteFreely #WriteAsDev #WriteFreelyDev

github.comFix ProseMirror HTML handling by thebaer · Pull Request #1644 · writefreely/writefreelyPrevent ProseMirror from breaking on unknown HTML Previously, loading any HTML into the Classic editor (such as when switching between editors, mentioned in #671) would cause the entire editor to b...
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Just a small improvement coming to #WriteFreely v0.17: now you can change the font of posts after they're published from the web UI! https://writefreely.org/pull/1609 #WriteFreelyDev

github.comSupport changing published post font on web by thebaer · Pull Request #1609 · writefreely/writefreelyThis supports changing the font of an existing post from the Post Metadata page. This includes CSS changes. To see those, run: make ui Ref T937 I have signed the CLA
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Just opened a PR for this: https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/pull/1491 It ends up putting us in compliance with the ActivityStreams spec, too, by making sure no markup is included in the `name` property. #WriteFreelyDev

github.comTitle fixes for ActivityPub by thebaer · Pull Request #1491 · writefreely/writefreelyThis fixes some issues minor issues with titles on posts sent to the fediverse. It solves for the following use cases: Posts with a link (or any Markdown) in the title A short note published with ...
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At long, long last, a bug with hashtags on @writefreely instances running MySQL 8+ is getting fixed in our next release, v0.16. https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/pull/1461 #WriteFreely #WriteFreelyDev

github.comUse modern ICU regex syntax on MySQL 8+ by thebaer · Pull Request #1461 · writefreely/writefreelyThis fixes the "illegal expression" error with MySQL v8.0.4+ when trying to fetch all posts with a particular hashtag in them, causing all hashtag pages to fail to load with a "page ...
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Making some small housekeeping updates to our #Writeas / #WriteFreely command-line client. I'd like to add a lot of basic missing functionality to it, so it's much more useful for everyone. https://github.com/writeas/writeas-cli

github.comGitHub - writeas/writeas-cli: Command line client for Write.as / WriteFreelyCommand line client for Write.as / WriteFreely. Contribute to writeas/writeas-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.
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You would really think when you have 5 years to implement a feature, you'd squeeze it in there somewhere. But here we are! Either way, implementing the 5-year renewal stuff now will also come with some new experiments I'm excited to try, as far as benefits for our most loyal writers.

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Working on some #fediverse things in @write_as today. - New `preview` property on our Articles, so future supporting platforms can fall-back to a short-form representation of blog posts - Interop issues with #Ghost

writing.exchangeWrite.as (@write_as@writing.exchange)1.8K Posts, 158 Following, 4.41K Followers · Type words, put them on the internet — and fediverse. Powered by @WriteFreely. Part of the @musing@musing.studio suite. @snap_as@musing.studio · @remark_as@musing.studio · @submit_as@musing.studio Toots here by @matt.
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Going to revert the recent change that broke things, and add a new way to re-send any emails that might've failed to send while this bug existed. https://discuss.write.as/t/temporary-email-issues/16632/4

discuss.write.asTemporary email issuesThank you, this is really helpful to know! I’m going to revert that latest change, so that should at least fix the issue going forward. Otherwise, I’m working on a new feature that’ll show you which posts never got sent as emails, and then let you manually send them again – so that should help make sure people still get those posts. Going to get that done tonight if possible, stay tuned!
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In #WriteFreely news, I just have to wrap up SMTP support (https://writefreely.org/pull/1131) and then I think we can get v0.16 out finally. Still had features like "require email on signup" on the roadmap for this version, but going to push that to the next release. #WriteFreelyDev

github.comSupport SMTP email configuration by thebaer · Pull Request #1131 · writefreely/writefreelyThis adds the ability to configure a bulk email provider via SMTP, instead of only supporting Mailgun. Work in progress. Closes T905 I have signed the CLA
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Adding the `fediverse:creator` tag on @writefreely posts: https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/pull/1253 #WriteFreely #WriteFreelyDev

github.comDisplay fediverse:creator header tag on posts by thebaer · Pull Request #1253 · writefreely/writefreelyThis uses the fediverse actor a blog author has added in the Verification field on their blog, looking up the handle locally (required by this tag, instead of the URL required for the rel=me tag) t...
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