Carl Milsted, Jr
Location: somewhere in NC
The guy who coded up this social network.
A Better Social Network
Why do we need yet another social network? Let us count the ways.
Let's start with a couple social networks which are designed for personal contacts.
| Feature | Fnora | Main Competitor | Lame Competitor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multiple paragraphs in a comment | Easy: blank lines. | Doable: hold down that control key | Easy |
| Bold | Easy: .b | Impossible on a desktop. Maybe on a phone | Yes using popup menu |
| Italics and Underlines | .i and .u Duh | No except perhaps with phone | Yes using popup menu |
| Highlighting | Yes | No | No |
| Lists | Yes | Manually, with control key | Manually |
| Tables | You are looking at one | No | No |
| Equations | No | No | |
| Code |
Yes
|
No | No |
| Pictures | Yes, where you want them | Yes, at the end of your comment/post | Yes, at the end of your comment/post |
| Picture Editor | Yes | No | No |
| Your Newsfeed | You Control | Evil Robots Control | Not Much News |
| Privacy of Posts | Permissions set for every post | Changing target | ??? |
| Contacts | Dignified negotions | Awkward friending | Awkward friending |
| Links | You control link text | Scrapes Headlines | Scrapes Headlines |
| Video | Not yet | Scrapes and local | Scrapes and ?? |
But how about those social networks designed for preaching to the public?
| Feature | Fnora | Network for Twits | Network for Republican Talking Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of Posts | You can write borderline blog posts, complete with equations and whatnot. | Zingers only | Multiple paragraphs |
| Quality of people | People willing to pay for real service | Twits, robots, foreign spies,... | You decide |
| Newsfeed | Grouped by poster. Infrequent posters don't get swamped by those who post in mass quantity | Grouped by robots. Is that a comment or a post you subscribed to? The science isn't settled. | Grouped by time. Newsfeed gets easily swamped by Conservatism, Inc. |
| Change Minds? | Designed for a wide variety of viewpoints, with in depth discussion | Designed for zingers | Designed as an Establishment Republican ghetto |
| Tone | Light hearted, but able to tackle serious issues | Ugly as @(#$@^*& | Echo chamber |
Carl Milsted, Jr on Aug 20, 2022 9:00 PM
When I attempted to return to my dash board using the backward facing arrow inscribed upon my device, it acted as though I had not looked upon the posts I have just read...however, when I tapped upon the read button, your posts did no longer show me a next button. Very puzzling (to me) and a slight problem, don't you think?
Ferdinando Flosky on Aug 22, 2022 1:21 PM
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Your facts could drive a good transcendental philosopher to the mad house!
Carl Milsted, Jr on Aug 23, 2022 10:51 PM
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See the QTML tutorial. The way to post links is to use the .link tag with the URL as the argument. Then put in your link text. Then the ..link tag.
Carl Milsted, Jr on Aug 23, 2022 10:52 PM
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The tutorial is at:
https://fnora.net/qtmlTutorial.fn
Stephen J. Douglass on Sep 8, 2022 8:41 PM
Looks good, Bud. Just got in. I'll be messing around with it for the next couple hours.
Carl Milsted, Jr on Sep 8, 2022 9:18 PM
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Let's see if I can reply to my own post. Was having trouble earlier, but maybe I just fixed the bug.
Stephen J. Douglass on Sep 9, 2022 8:20 PM
Social Network Feature Grid
I really like the grid above. It's helpful info for the blog. I apologize for missing your email and now it's Friday after dark. That'll give me a chance to catch up a bit on the Fnora additions. Me being a heathen and all, I'm able to work on stuff on the sabbath without the keyboard burning my fingers - but I'll pay for it with later burning.
Stephen J. Douglass on Jan 25, 2023 2:32 PM
I hadn't looked at this table in a long time. I'd forgotten how awesome it is.
Scythrop Glowry on Feb 19, 2023 11:47 AM
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The above was by Scythrop Glowry, but it says Carl Milsted,Jr...what happened there?
Scythrop Glowry on Feb 19, 2023 11:49 AM
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Number 1 is called number thirty three, and there's a commoment to number 1 1
...more mysteries.
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