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Cohost's Chief of Silliness @silliestpersonaround4/28/2023, 11:39 AM

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Wobblegong @wobblegong4/28/2023, 4:05 AM

ATTN: The Tumblr Magic Comma works on Cohost too (I think)

Tumblr tags have always relied on the humble comma to separate them and cohost uses this functionality as well. Well, at some point someone discovered there's a secret magical comma that will appear as a comma in tumblr tags, without separating them. tumblr user ceescedasticity's sleuthing suggests it's Single Low-9 Quotation Mark, Unicode U+201A but whether that's right or not you can copy it right here:

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and stick it in all the tags you want. Make your run-on sentence tags even more insufferable! I know I will.

More hot tips straight from the rechost press:

per xkeeper copy-pasting to drop a regular comma in works too!
per tati copy-pasting to drop the whole tag in is also an option!
per lexyeevee mobile doesn't even need to think about it because commas don't automatically end tags there!
and per VampireExpert in the comments screenreaders can't be expected to think this tomfoolery is a normal comma, so if any of the above allow you to use a normal comma, it's a good choice for accessibility purposes!

#The Cohost Global Feed #ok there I think I got them all

eevee @lexyeevee4/28/2023, 5:18 AM

well,

#the thing is, i think you can do this on mobile too by typing a regular comma because that doesn't seem to automatically end the tag

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The Web's Dear Freja @VampireExpert4/28/2023, 5:27 AM

You can also paste text containing regular commas into the tags field and it won't get broken up. I imagine the screen reader experience might get a little confusing with the fake commas.

cassie @porglezomp4/28/2023, 5:40 AM

Seconding this! If you're going to paste text in, paste a regular comma, it works just as well. Speech synthesizers don't pause at all for the low quotation mark.

Here's a comma you can use if you need one :P ,

🌊@wave4/28/2023, 7:40 AM

on desktop browsers you can write the tag until the comma, click out of the tag text field, click back into the tag text field, and type a comma. since you left the input field and came back it will not close the tag.

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