What is the most comfortable way to get PluralKit-like functionality on Cohost? It seems like the best way to do this would be to open another "page" per headmate, correct? Does that seem reasonable?
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in reply to @Gyro's post:
ive also seen accounts swap out their icon and name if they dont swap whos fronting very often, and im kinda planning to use the textbox talksprite css i made for plural stuff. i think its all about the structure of your system and what works best for you
We do the former! In conjunction with individual tags for later reference. The most annoying bit is remembering to update artist credits for our icon as appropriate.
The big downside of individual pages we spotted just before we realised we were plural1 was that pages don't carry followers across. Well, it's more a mixed bag really, I'm sure some systems will appreciate it; but for us it's kind of killer.
Which I guess is to say, yeah, Myno's right; there're a few ways to handle it and you've just gotta find one that works for you.
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Turns out wanting to make an in-character page for your fursona is, at least sometimes, pretty plural behaviour.
Another potential downside of multiple pages: blocks don't carry between pages, so if someone's a jerk you gotta go block them on every individual page.
that's generally what we do, yeah. we usually only create ones for people who are particularly active & want to be separate though because there are a lot of us :^]
another way we've adopted is to sign off our names in the tags of posts. it's not the most differentiating but it at least gives an idea and then you can scroll the tags like it's that headmate's own page
i think(?) i have seen people use an emoji signifier at the start of each paragraph to denote when someone different is speaking although that might need some familiarity on the part of the reader...
🐦⬛ so if i were several birds, my crow-self could lead paragraphs or blocks of text like this
🦩 and any other creatures in there could do similar any time there is a change in speaker mid-post
but i don't know how universal it is... a lot of creatures i know are loosely connected so it might just be kinda.... "local"?
We just have the one, but swap icons occasionally. Might investigate separate blogs later, but so far there's not really been a need for us.