tangential forum

but usually i never go back and the notebooks just pile up on the floor

were you wrong, or just found something that suits you better?

aren't you going in too many directions at once?

• Tags: You reminded me of something I wrote before, but forgot: "Folders, categories, and tags are all fundamentally the same thing. They’re like the Dewey decimal system, trying to fit all of possibility into a logically ordered structure. Reality refuses to fit in this box. Use these sparingly or not at all whenever possible. They limit your ability to organize rather than help it." They're useful, but it's so difficult to make them work for you.
• I don't see it as a brand difference because I write in a fundamentally different way on each of those platforms. On Bluesky, it's try to be succinct as possible. I have to be careful what I say because nuance is disallowed. On a blog, I spend a significant amount of time trying to perfect an argument. It's a "final" published work - but with the benefit that I can improve it later. I fairly often will revisit old posts to improve them, add links and details, or even remove something I later realize wasn't good. I promoted this pop-psych idea because I thought it was valid at one point, but much later removed it with an explanation about how wrong it was. (I've still failed to properly retract my mistake on the time dilation note/post.. I made a fundamental error that invalidates the whole thing..) Here, I let the thoughts flow as they will and then post without concern of how long it gets (well, mostly). On Telegram, I tend to try to be shorter, but also since it's a real-time chat, I will post rapid short messages.
• Unicode

what are you expecting to gain from programming a website?

• Tags: Having forum sections can be useful, but organization based on a hierarchy or exclusive categories has always failed for me in the past. It should be possible to organize in multiple ways to make finding things easier.
• Style options: What's the difference between a blog, forum, reddit, and something like Twitter or Bluesky? While there are organizational differences, and format differences, to me the biggest difference is styling. Reddit is just a blog post with a hierarchical reply structure. Forums are just a blog but with threads instead of posts, and multiple authors organized on boards based on most recent comment instead of categories and organized by original posting data. Twitter/Bluesky is just the same thing again, but with a super small character limit. Switching between these styles can help one think about something differently. Setting up multiple places doing similar things like I have leads me to forget to share the same info in multiple places - or waste time having to share the same thing in multiple places! Both sides of that can be annoying.
• Markdown. I dislike BBCode.
• A more flexible permissions system. Instead of all permissions being solely from the top-down where the owner (me) has to set up groups and such if someone wants to have their own space, allowing users to make their own areas and decide what criteria allows entry or whatever.. I'm bad at explaining what I mean.. I guess I'm thinking a bit like a chat app, where you have private messages and groups, and the users make their own groups and such. Going back to styling.. that's "just another style" in a way.. But.. making it default to public groups, with the ability to make private stuff would be useful. Also deciding within any particular area that "just this post" is public or private can be useful too. There's weird risks here with accidental revelation of private data when it comes to allowing granular permissions.. I'd have to think about it a lot more / plan it more.. but I want flexibility.
• No automatic conversion of emoticons. I hate that shit.

don't_know wrote: ↑Mon Apr 21, 2025 6:18 pm you have not stated what you have expected.

and worse in what way?

tangent wrote: ↑Mon Apr 07, 2025 1:52 am I didn't expect this to be good or easy, but it's a bit worse than I expected.