Long rant incoming...
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You all know I'm trans. So, I care a LOT about presentation, about how I look and how I'm perceived.
In a medium that is primarily text-based, I would think it's important to preserve the manner in which the author's text is formatted. ESPECIALLY WHEN THAT AUTHOR IS DESCRIBING THEMSELVES!
Look, I might as well just change the BIO text field to:
"See https://lisamelton.net/about/ because Mastodon constrains self expression"
Am I upset about this issue? Yes! Aren't you?
2/3
If you don't see this behavior in your Mastodon profile, it's probably because you're running an older version of the Web software.
I'm on mastodon.social and it's currently running version v4.6.0-alpha.7+pr-38939-5f3002f.
Again, because I don't normally look at my own profile, I have no idea when this heinous formatting began in the development process.
Because my version is an alpha, I hope that means there's plenty of time for Mastodon to fix this self-inflicted mistake.
3/3
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Long rant incoming...
I hadn't looked at the BIO text field of my own Mastodon profile on the Web in quite awhile. Long ago I formatted it with one extra carriage return between each paragraph to increase legibility.
But now it's rendered as a compressed, hard to read single blob with no vertical spaces. WTF?!?
Why is Mastodon taking away my agency and butchering my typography? Is this going to happen to our posts next?
This insulting and unnecessary change needs to be backed out!
1/3
I just looked, rant is deserved
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Long rant incoming...
I hadn't looked at the BIO text field of my own Mastodon profile on the Web in quite awhile. Long ago I formatted it with one extra carriage return between each paragraph to increase legibility.
But now it's rendered as a compressed, hard to read single blob with no vertical spaces. WTF?!?
Why is Mastodon taking away my agency and butchering my typography? Is this going to happen to our posts next?
This insulting and unnecessary change needs to be backed out!
1/3
@lisamelton still rendering correctly in Phanpy
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If you don't see this behavior in your Mastodon profile, it's probably because you're running an older version of the Web software.
I'm on mastodon.social and it's currently running version v4.6.0-alpha.7+pr-38939-5f3002f.
Again, because I don't normally look at my own profile, I have no idea when this heinous formatting began in the development process.
Because my version is an alpha, I hope that means there's plenty of time for Mastodon to fix this self-inflicted mistake.
3/3
Sis, I read about the new v. of Mastodon, saw examples and *loathed it.
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If you don't see this behavior in your Mastodon profile, it's probably because you're running an older version of the Web software.
I'm on mastodon.social and it's currently running version v4.6.0-alpha.7+pr-38939-5f3002f.
Again, because I don't normally look at my own profile, I have no idea when this heinous formatting began in the development process.
Because my version is an alpha, I hope that means there's plenty of time for Mastodon to fix this self-inflicted mistake.
3/3
@lisamelton FYI: I don’t see the behavior you describe
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If you don't see this behavior in your Mastodon profile, it's probably because you're running an older version of the Web software.
I'm on mastodon.social and it's currently running version v4.6.0-alpha.7+pr-38939-5f3002f.
Again, because I don't normally look at my own profile, I have no idea when this heinous formatting began in the development process.
Because my version is an alpha, I hope that means there's plenty of time for Mastodon to fix this self-inflicted mistake.
3/3
@lisamelton For what it’s worth, I’m seeing your bio as you intended. It must be an issue with the alpha.
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@lisamelton FYI: I don’t see the behavior you describe
@sandorspruit Read the third part of my message.
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@stx Read the third part of my message.
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@lisamelton still rendering correctly in Phanpy
@aburka Read the third part of my message.
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@lisamelton For what it’s worth, I’m seeing your bio as you intended. It must be an issue with the alpha.
@larand Read the third part of my message.
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@larand Read the third part of my message.
@lisamelton Saw that, just wanted to confirm that those of us on instances running the current release are not seeing the issue.
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@lisamelton Saw that, just wanted to confirm that those of us on instances running the current release are not seeing the issue.
@larand Correct. You need the upcoming version of Mastodon to see this.
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You all know I'm trans. So, I care a LOT about presentation, about how I look and how I'm perceived.
In a medium that is primarily text-based, I would think it's important to preserve the manner in which the author's text is formatted. ESPECIALLY WHEN THAT AUTHOR IS DESCRIBING THEMSELVES!
Look, I might as well just change the BIO text field to:
"See https://lisamelton.net/about/ because Mastodon constrains self expression"
Am I upset about this issue? Yes! Aren't you?
2/3
@lisamelton Yes. It's on mine too. And I don't like it one bit.
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@larand Correct. You need the upcoming version of Mastodon to see this.
@lisamelton @larand not sure what triggers that, but it seems to come and go. I noticed it this week, but at this moment I don’t see it. Feature or bug?
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Long rant incoming...
I hadn't looked at the BIO text field of my own Mastodon profile on the Web in quite awhile. Long ago I formatted it with one extra carriage return between each paragraph to increase legibility.
But now it's rendered as a compressed, hard to read single blob with no vertical spaces. WTF?!?
Why is Mastodon taking away my agency and butchering my typography? Is this going to happen to our posts next?
This insulting and unnecessary change needs to be backed out!
1/3
@lisamelton tech people ignoring, or disregarding, or not even considering consent. Whoda thunk it.
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@lisamelton @larand not sure what triggers that, but it seems to come and go. I noticed it this week, but at this moment I don’t see it. Feature or bug?
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@sandorspruit Read the third part of my message.
@lisamelton I did
My instance is usually fairly quick to update, so I can assure that your instance is not just running an alpha, but probably the first version with this particular change. -
@lisamelton I did
My instance is usually fairly quick to update, so I can assure that your instance is not just running an alpha, but probably the first version with this particular change.@sandorspruit @lisamelton Mastodon.social is the only server running nightly versions. (for a very obvious reasons).
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Long rant incoming...
I hadn't looked at the BIO text field of my own Mastodon profile on the Web in quite awhile. Long ago I formatted it with one extra carriage return between each paragraph to increase legibility.
But now it's rendered as a compressed, hard to read single blob with no vertical spaces. WTF?!?
Why is Mastodon taking away my agency and butchering my typography? Is this going to happen to our posts next?
This insulting and unnecessary change needs to be backed out!
1/3
@lisamelton Hi Lisa, FWIW it looks okay to me on Ivory.
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You all know I'm trans. So, I care a LOT about presentation, about how I look and how I'm perceived.
In a medium that is primarily text-based, I would think it's important to preserve the manner in which the author's text is formatted. ESPECIALLY WHEN THAT AUTHOR IS DESCRIBING THEMSELVES!
Look, I might as well just change the BIO text field to:
"See https://lisamelton.net/about/ because Mastodon constrains self expression"
Am I upset about this issue? Yes! Aren't you?
2/3
@lisamelton Oh, crap. I just looked. Oh, crap. It looks crappy.
