jae

happy wednesday! it’s wednesday this time. it’s a short week (since we posted patch notes on thursday last week), and we’ve each spent about 15 hours in zoom meetings interviewing since last week’s patch notes, so these ones are a little lighter than usual. one important change this week, and a couple smaller ones:

• about a month ago, largely in response to people tagging other people’s posts into the Cohost Global Feed in replies, we made it so that replies with tags didn’t get listed on tag pages. that was obviously a pretty brute force change, and we’ve gone back in and made the rules more complex. now, replies with tags show up in tag pages if:
  • the reply is made by the same page as the original post; or
  • the tag on the reply was also on the original post. (e.g., a reply tagged “#fortnite #pizza hut” to an OP tagged “#doritos #fortnite” will show up in the tag page for “#fortnite” but not “#pizza hut”.)
• we changed the way comment threads are displayed, to add a visual indicator of how deeply nested a comment is to the left side. especially on mobile, this lets us make the comment thread indentation smaller and nest comments deeper before they’re squished up against the right side of the comment box.
• we improved the copy when you’re an adult with the “collapse adult content” setting disabled and you see an 18+ post with a clickthrough for one or more content warnings; it now no longer says an 18+ post is being hidden “according to your content preferences”, since it’s not.

I talk about what I've found when people use this emoji set in the world and what has changed since I started making them in 2017, and what I think the best use of my resources are going forward.

I do like the effort I have put into my utility characters, they were inspired by the diamond ? symbol that macOS shows when you have a unicode codepoint it doesn't get, but yeah, they were meant just for fonts and not for public use. Not that anyone would know that! x3

+ =

U+270b + U+101613 = hand (teal) ('teal' being T2).

(although if people do enjoy them maybe they should just become standard things?? IDK)

i’m gonna start a new fort for it back in the steam version (i mostly swapped to ascii but this streams better lol) so should be fun. join me in naming my fort, picking a symbol, etc etc.

will be on https://twitch.tv/yrfriendjkap and i'll post again once it's Time

i will say that, in swapping back and forth, easily the thing i'm missing most in the steam version is building planning (which i am aware is a dfhack feature but damn if i don't use the hell out of it to pre-place beds and shit while waiting for them to finish building)