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This is mostly for my own benefit but feel free to bookmark this if you find any use for it.

Markdown Plus

Used to easily make all those fancy text effects.

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Prechoster

Used for more complex chosting with module graphs and other features I've yet to wrap my brain around, let alone use in any way that's constructive.

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Widgets Generator

Generate Trello-esque modules within a chost

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Cohoard

Generate script-like text formatting that can be used to mimic text chats or forum threads.

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CSS Crimes Intro Post

Cohost Tutorial Tag

Feel free to suggest more stuff in the comments. Even if I don't add it in myself others will find it useful too!

Was just having a nice long chat with my friend @tiffbun about the whole-ass weird-ass and extremely fucking opaque use case that cohost is clearly designed around, and realizing that I'm actually, literally going to have to reframe my relationship with this website within the context and expectations I have from social media writ large - assuming that the team manages to adhere to whatever those design principles are, of course.Honestly, at this point I'd love to know exactly what those principles are so I can better understand what to expect from this site rather than wishing for functionality that I was never even intended to have, because it's not what the team set out to create in the first place. As a "content creator" online I'm inclined towards treating these platforms primarily as tools, and tools are meant to solve problems, right?Well, not cohost. Cohost is starting to feel to me like its own microcosm - it's not here to solve a problem, it's here to provide its own experience. If you joined cohost simply as a replacement for Twitter, as I did originally, you're gonna be sorely disappointed, as I know many people were from their (and yes, my own too ) repeated complaints about it. I still think some features would improve users' quality of life on here without compromising that experience too much but, by and large, I think I'm gonna chill out a little bit about that, moving forward.It feels a little hypocritical of me to be putting out niche content based on my own tastes, interests, and yes, my own philosophy too; then show up on this site that's so well made and clearly based upon clear intent only to expect that it bend to my whims, just because of what I've been taught to expect from previous platforms I've used.They've already implemented tagging pretty much perfectly , which anybody who's followed me for a while knows is one of my biggest bugbears with just about every fucking content sharing platform as a variety fetish artist. Letting users curate their experience online is as important to me as my own freedom to express myself however the fuck I want (yes, terms and conditions do still apply) , largely for the exact same reasons.I really should be happy with the rest of what we have to hand, learn how to make best use of the featureset that we've got, and see what new and crazy stuff they might come up with as a result of them remaining largely unbothered by chasing after whatever standards were established by other platforms before it.I just want to know if there's a way to better understand where they're coming from, so I can more easily get to that point, and I might even learn something in the process too.

Was just having a nice long chat with my friend @tiffbun about the whole-ass weird-ass and extremely fucking opaque use case that cohost is clearly designed around, and realizing that I'm actually, literally going to have to reframe my relationship with this website within the context and expectations I have from social media writ large - assuming that the team manages to adhere to whatever those design principles are, of course.

Honestly, at this point I'd love to know exactly what those principles are so I can better understand what to expect from this site rather than wishing for functionality that I was never even intended to have, because it's not what the team set out to create in the first place. As a "content creator" online I'm inclined towards treating these platforms primarily as tools, and tools are meant to solve problems, right?

Well, not cohost. Cohost is starting to feel to me like its own microcosm - it's not here to solve a problem, it's here to provide its own experience. If you joined cohost simply as a replacement for Twitter, as I did originally, you're gonna be sorely disappointed, as I know many people were from their (and yes, my own too) repeated complaints about it. I still think some features would improve users' quality of life on here without compromising that experience too much but, by and large, I think I'm gonna chill out a little bit about that, moving forward.

It feels a little hypocritical of me to be putting out niche content based on my own tastes, interests, and yes, my own philosophy too; then show up on this site that's so well made and clearly based upon clear intent only to expect that it bend to my whims, just because of what I've been taught to expect from previous platforms I've used.

They've already implemented tagging pretty much perfectly, which anybody who's followed me for a while knows is one of my biggest bugbears with just about every fucking content sharing platform as a variety fetish artist. Letting users curate their experience online is as important to me as my own freedom to express myself however the fuck I want (yes, terms and conditions do still apply), largely for the exact same reasons.

I really should be happy with the rest of what we have to hand, learn how to make best use of the featureset that we've got, and see what new and crazy stuff they might come up with as a result of them remaining largely unbothered by chasing after whatever standards were established by other platforms before it.

I just want to know if there's a way to better understand where they're coming from, so I can more easily get to that point, and I might even learn something in the process too.

• oh shit that art is cool, let me follow that artist—
• Oh I already follow them, neat

I would like the bare minimum of connection reminders like when I literally go on someone's exact profile and want to see whether or not they follow me cause actually, yes, considering who might or won't immediately see what you're posting on their feed is sometimes useful information too.

"Social media" isn't bad just because of what it is (which is important cause that's what cohost is whether it likes it or not), social media is bad by design, and some standard features facilitate its users' time on it and being courteous to one another too.

I can't say I know what cohost's design philosophy is deep down, but the April fools "Numbers" update makes me think that the team harbors some spite towards other platforms we've migrated from. Resources might be limited and I always try to take that into account but some features seem to me like they're excluded on principle simply for having been implemented on Twitter once.

Differentiating yourself from other similar sites is actually a great thing, but even some basic features on the objectively worse alternatives do offer actual improvements for users' QoL.

(I hid names cause it's not a callout post nor do I want people feeling guilty about sharing stuff, especially since it's stuff I actually enjoy seeing too. Just, not three times in a gd row - this is a coding problem, not user error)

I don't need nor want to see the same rechost multiple times in my already extremely cluttered feed. It makes me so anxious about rechosting literally anything - especially my own new posts - because it frankly looks so dumb on other people's feeds.

Yes, I know this is a nontrivial problem to solve because of rechost timings, the logic behind how to group posts together, UI elements for grouping who posted and who rechosted, etc etc etc.

It's been done before and, on a social media platform of all things (and that's what cohost is, no matter how hard it tries not to be), anything would be better than this. Honestly I'd say this might be the topmost QOL improvement we could use right now, especially given that other nice-to-have features don't seem to be on the cards anyway.

I stand to be corrected of course, but this is the thing I'm most frequently faced with which takes me out of the good vibes from being on this site.