Post #575040
2026-03-07 19:34 UTC
Replies (3)
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@wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net 2026-03-07 22:47
@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @kentpitman@climatejustice.social @ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @cdegroot@mstdn.ca hmm... is there a way to do a reply that is *also* a quote-post? I should try this. https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@wrog/116185582433077397 (𝜔+1)/11
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@kentpitman@climatejustice.social 2026-03-07 19:46
@wrog @dougmerritt @ramin_hal9001 @screwlisp @cdegroot It's a bit low tech but if you noticed it in time that other people don't have a ton of other stuff attached to it, just save the text, delete the old post, attach the new. Someone could make that be a single operation in a client and even have it send mail to the people who attached replies saying here's your text if you want to attach it to the new post. Or you could attach your own post with their text in it. Low-tech as it is, existing tools offer us a lot more options than sometimes people see. I'm sure you could have figured this out, and are more fussing at the tedium, but just for fun I'm going to cross reference a related but different scenario... https://web.archive.org/web/20100921050348/http://open.salon.com/blog/kent_pitman/2010/09/18/the_cornfield_explained
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@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-07 20:05
@wrog > (I hate this UI. If anybody's written an emacs fediverse-protocol thing for doing long threaded posts please point me to it, otherwise it looks like I'm going to have to write one ...) There are *so* many programmers using variants of this UI that you would think someone would have addressed it by now. But you never know, maybe not. Certainly everyone who does multi-posts seems to be struggling with doing it by hand, from my point of view, so that would seem to cry out for the need for some fancier textpost-splitting auto-sequence-number thingie, in emacs or command line or something. Conceivably a web search would find the thing if it exists. I personally almost never do long posts, so I just grin and bear it when it comes up. @kentpitman @ramin_hal9001 @screwlisp @cdegroot