vogon

the evil "Website Boy"

member of @staff, lapsed linguist and drummer, electronics hobbyist

zip's bf

no supervisor but ludd means the threads any good


twitter (inactive)
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bluesky
if bluesky has a million haters I am one of them, if bluesky has one hater that's me, if bluesky has no haters then I am no more on the earth (more details: https://cohost.org/vogon/post/1845751-bonus-pure-speculati)
irl
seattle, WA

ceryl
@ceryl

Cohost's (and Masto's, and pretty much anywhere) more open approach to writing means you can't easily make your post funnier by deliberately crashing against the arbitrary character limit.


nicepersonality
@nicepersonality

Don’t overlook other options, like gradually shrinking text size to indicate trailing off while you blah blah blah


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in reply to @vogon's post:

The title limit is 140 because older versions of Cohost would crosspost just the title (without the post body) to Twitter even though the limit on Twitter had already been lifted to 280 (@staff hadn't gotten the memo)

However, people would frequently chost title-free chosts and Twitter doesn't permit blank tweets, so every time someone chosted without a title the cross-posting message queue would crash and a Cohost staff member would have to restart the message queue. Since the staff was OOO on weekends this led to the cross-posting feature frequently being broken on Saturday and Sunday.