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A big day for writers — the editor was rebuilt underneath, and a batch of everyday annoyances got fixed.

Until now the editor had one writing surface that converted its contents in place every time you switched between the wizzy view and Markdown mode — and every conversion was a chance to lose something. Text inside angle brackets could vanish, adjacent lists could tangle toget...

Adding a title to a reply used to look like it worked, but the title was silently dropped when you published. Now it goes through, same as on a regular post.

That's how titles look.

Selecting with a swipe that drifted past the editor's edge used to make the whole editor vanish — very jarring. It doesn't anymore; only a deliberate click outside dismisses it.

Clicking the heart (or finishing an edit) on a long, collapsed post used to snap it fully open, throwing the icons far down the screen. A post now keeps its collapsed state when it updates.

The Delete command in a post's popup menu is now disabled on everyone else's.

I got a little flummoxed by the new UI, but it was a good form of flummoxation. 

I replied to a post by Andrew. Back in the timeline there's the reply. First anxiety quelled. It made it to the server and people can see it.

But where is what it is in reply to?

Calm down and look above the reply, there's a link there, well-labeled.

Lots of changes in the last few days, and I need people to try reading it in a serial fashion. That is come back every few hours to see if something new is posted. And if you see something you have something to add to, reply. And see how quickly you are satisfied your reply was received. 

You are mentioned prominently in this post. 

I'm doing a big new thing with RSS, and that's got me thinking a lot about where I want to go after the first round of new functionality is out there. I noticed that Andrew Shell came out with a new version of his open source rssCloud hub server, which we use here, that now ...

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of our great nation, The Onion has produced a Ken Burns-esque film called Birth of a Nation (“the only movie ever named this”).

250 years ago, a group of illiterate men would gather in these hallowed halls to scribble down what historians can now only assume were words. Words that would one day be assigned meaning. Words and pictures. Pictures mostly. That would serve as the founding principles for a grand new experiment that would forever change the course of human history. An experiment that would produce a monstrosity so powerful it would soon be known to the whole world by just one name. America.

Tags: politics · The Onion · usa · video

The 1970s were a time of contradictions in the United States. The fallout from the ongoing Vietnam War and Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal led to widespread cynicism, but that tension was cloaked in polyester and mirror balls. Sandwiched between 1960s idealism and 1980s ex...

English has always been the dominant language of United States presidents, but many have also spoken other languages. Some presidents were well versed in classical tongues such as Latin and Greek — a standard component of education in colonial America for those who could acc...

The 1920s were a transformative decade: A convergence of economic prosperity, technological and industrial advancements, and flourishing artistic movements led to a cultural transition from the reserved social mores of previous eras to a modern age. In the United States, the...

Britain is a land of countless myths and legends, including King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men, and King Canute commanding the tide not to rise. Many of these staples of British folklore mix fact and fiction, blurring actual ...

The term “Dark Ages” conjures images of a bleak, backward world, a period of human history marked by ignorance, barbarity, and intellectual stagnation. The term is typically used to refer to the era spanning roughly from the fifth to 10th centuries, but at times has referred...

Endlessly scrolling through Netflix without being able to decide what to watch is an all-too-common problem, but it’s easier to solve if you have a specific genre in mind. And while most of the history dramas streaming on the platform aren’t exactly historical themselves (as...

NEW: Cadillac Heights used to be a quiet neighborhood. After a historic land swap facilitated by Detroit officials, a billionaire-owned concrete plant moved in.

Now residents say they are battling air pollution so thick they can “taste the dust.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/detroit-kronos-morouns-concrete-neighborhood-takeover?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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