I’ve tried to create a few BORU-style posts, but the fact that Lemmy has a 10k character limit to posts is proving limiting.
Any ideas/thoughts/suggestions for how to format/share stories within this limit are welcome!
If it’s a post from reddit you’d like to bring over, screen shots work. Otherwise, I’m not sure. 😭 I miss BORU the most. lol I was addicted to it.
Screenshots unfortunately aren’t super accessible for screen readers :(
It was suggested to me in another thread to use something like Pastebin to share large amounts of text, but when I tried, it wasn’t formatted :( I’m also looking at possibly using Github pages, which will apply the correct formatting, but I’m thinking users are unlikely to click thru to 3rd party webpages anyway
Erf. I wish they had alt text or pinned comments. Then we could just pin a ton. lol.
*edit- tone to ton
Mod of c/BestOfLemmyUpdates here. The post character limit should be updated to 50k-100k once servers update to 0.18.
Also would you like me to point people from that community here? This community seems a lot more popular, although reddit focused.
Oh yay!! I’m glad they’ve already made the update to the codebase. I wasn’t expecting it to be that fast lol.
You’re welcome to point people here if you want! Though, that one could be for Lemmy updates only & they could be cross-posted to this one too! Whatever you’d like to do :)
We actually don’t want to focus on Reddit lol, it probably comes across that way because we’re mostly Reddit refugees who loved best of Redditor updates :). I’m going to be posting from AskAManager & others too, but will probably wait for the character limit update.
If pinned comments or links to comments are a thing here, could try posting as much as you can to the post, then link / pin the comment thread containing the rest? It’s not ideal but might be an option until/if the character limit is raised. I was addicted to BORU too 😭
That was kinda my issue. I was going to pin a fully typed, but I don’t think that’s a thing from what I see.
Looks like links to comments are a thing, maybe that’s the way to go for now?
Maybe the linked comments suggestion is really the way to go. At least until they might (or might not) extend the character limits
BORU was my favourite sub. It would be awesome to see a Lemmy version of it flourish here :)
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Idk but I really appreciate you doing this!
I’m not the writer; I just got his/her permission to post them.
