Making Future Posts: Update
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I posted yesterday about one possible workaround for making future posts on the Hyphen. I can tell you now that it works.
We don't have any way to schedule posts, but if you don't want to stress out about writing and posting something the same day, you can write ahead of time and save the work offline for a future date.
I wrote today's TDIAH post yesterday, did all the formatting, inserted all the pictures from my computer, etc. (All the photos that I planned to use would be uploaded and did not change location between writing and posting; I assume it would work with linked images as well).Then I did a select all/copy of everything on the left side of the editor and pasted that into a text program (I used TextEdit on the Mac, I'm sure anything would do, even an email window) and saved it. Once that was done, I took the leap of faith and discarded the post.
Today, when I wanted to post, I opened a new topic, copied everything from the text file I saved, and pasted it into the editor. Voila! It was all there, as if it had never left. The only thing I had to do was upload the thumbnail.
So, while this isn't quite the same as a scheduled post where you can set it and forget it, it does give you the ability to write ahead of time and save your work in an easily accessible way. Here's hoping our wonderful devs can come up with a real scheduled post solution! Until then, this works, and I'm open to any better ideas!
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@ttyymmnn Sweet! Still looking into ways to schedule posts, but don't have anything too firm yet. I am also working on a more rich-text based editor which may allow formatting to copy in from word (or whatever).
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@jminer Nice! That is one thing I miss over on DT is the ability to italicize or bold .
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@skyfire77 That is a really strange omission from a composer. Just baffles me it doesn't exist there.
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@jminer said in Making Future Posts: Update:
@ttyymmnn Sweet! Still looking into ways to schedule posts, but don't have anything too firm yet. I am also working on a more rich-text based editor which may allow formatting to copy in from word (or whatever).
That' would be awesome. Thanks so much for all the work.
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@skyfire77 said in Making Future Posts: Update:
@jminer Nice! That is one thing I miss over on DT is the ability to italicize or bold .
That is the single reason why I'm not dropping TDIAH there. There's no way to differentiate between the sections. I used a separator in Kinja, but here I'm just relying on bold text, which works. That you can't do either on DT is really lame.
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@jminer I'll go ahead and mention this here. We talked the other day about photo size. It continues to be hit or miss. When I did a whole post of photos with captions, and resized them ahead of time to the same horizontal dimensions, they all posted the same size. When I did my latest TDIAH post, I resized them all again, but one photo came out larger than the rest. Not sure why.
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@ttyymmnn That is strange, I'll take a look at how it handles images like that. There are some settings we can tweak on how it handles images too.
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@jminer Thanks. I even went back to make sure that I hadn't uploaded the wrong photo, and I had not. At least I think I didn't......
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@skyfire77 It is kinda weird that it has to be done with tags. What is this, 1993?
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@chariotoflove You can? I really didn't even try. Which format?
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@doodon2whls Wow, I think it is. With Ford taillights.
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@ttyymmnn Just applied a bit of code to center images in posts - thoughts? It is retroactive.
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@jminer said in Making Future Posts: Update:
@ttyymmnn Just applied a bit of code to center images in posts - thoughts? It is retroactive.
For my money, that is a significant improvement. I've never been much of a fan of fully justified text, but that might look nice with the centered pictures. Is there a way to narrow the text column, or will it always expand as the page expands?
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@ttyymmnn said in Making Future Posts: Update:
@jminer said in Making Future Posts: Update:
@ttyymmnn Just applied a bit of code to center images in posts - thoughts? It is retroactive.
For my money, that is a significant improvement. I've never been much of a fan of fully justified text, but that might look nice with the centered pictures. Is there a way to narrow the text column, or will it always expand as the page expands?
While it's nice for blog-type "articles", it might also not be great for the comments.
I think that finding a better font or adding multiple font support is more important for readability.
And also adjusting spacing between lines and things like that.If needed i can show you how to do some real-time mockups of CSS/interface change to see what would be nice and what wouldn't.
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@jb-boin I’m going to test the quill editor this weekend on the dev site which should help with the font options and composing too.
I’ll take you up on that offer at some point.
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@ttyymmnn what it would look like with a font close to the Kinja one and the same line-height (more than the current one) :
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I didn't think of that before but we can also apply a different style on the opening post (as if it's an article) than the others (comments).
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I found out today that there’s no simple way to copy/paste the main body of an article (with hyperlinks) over to DT. Was trying to do it with my Best of OPPO post. I know their CEO mentioned being willing to set something up that would make it easy for us to crosspost there; I might have to press him & their IT staff on that.
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@davesaddiction said in Making Future Posts: Update:
I found out today that there’s no simple way to copy/paste the main body of an article (with hyperlinks) over to DT. Was trying to do it with my Best of OPPO post. I know their CEO mentioned being willing to set something up that would make it easy for us to crosspost there; I might have to press him & their IT staff on that.
We might be able to improve this with a new editor on our end that's more rich text instead of markdown too.
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@jb-boin said in Making Future Posts: Update:
I didn't think of that before but we can also apply a different style on the opening post (as if it's an article) than the others (comments).
I think centering images make sense on all, but left handling the formatting of text different between the two may make sense. I have zero opinion on font though to be honest.
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Be careful teaching everyone a new system and then switching it up on them! LOL
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@jminer Please keep sans serif.
