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I love that Gemini recommends writing long lines and letting the client wrap text. However, it seems like this mailing list is still being written in plaintext hard-wrapped at 80-columns. This makes reading the mailing list difficult on mobile. Is there opposition to letting people here format their emails in text/gemini (i.e. long lines)? P.S. I've been subscribed for a while, but I can't find the answer by searching the mailing list messages I've received: what happened to block quote syntax in text/gemini? ~ Aaron
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 10:23:54PM -0700, Aaron Janse wrote: > Is there opposition to letting people here format their emails in text/gemini (i.e. long lines)? I don't think this is a good idea. No email client is going to recognise text/gemini (famous last words!) which means for most people (okay, I don't have hard data, but I'm *assuming* most people aren't reading the list on a mobile device) this will just result in a much reduced user experience. Once rawtext.club is back up you should at least be able to follow the discussion (read-only) via text/gemini! > P.S. I've been subscribed for a while, but I can't find the answer by searching the mailing list messages I've received: what happened to block quote syntax in text/gemini? I think the person/people who was/were really pushing hard for this were really invested in a relatively complicated form of it which was infinitely nestable, so it could be used to represent e.g. deep comment threads, and I wasn't super keen on that idea. As a purely optional line-type with no special semantics, acting just as a styling hint, the way unordered item lists are currently implemented, I think I'm actually fairly unopposed to adding this. Of course it would, like everything else, be strictly line-based, so quoting multi-paragraph content might not format the way people expect... Cheers, Solderpunk
> I think the person/people who was/were really pushing hard for this were > really invested in a relatively complicated form of it which was > infinitely nestable, so it could be used to represent e.g. deep comment > threads, and I wasn't super keen on that idea. Hehe, that person was me. Yep, I've been thinking about it more, and I agree with you. I think it would be just fine to have comments without nesting. Going out of our way to support deep comment threads would help proxies while distracting from the high-value, original content that attracts people (or at least me) to gopher & gemini in the frst place. > As a purely optional line-type with no special semantics, acting just as > a styling hint, the way unordered item lists are currently implemented, > I think I'm actually fairly unopposed to adding this. Yay! > Of course it would, like everything else, be strictly line-based, so > quoting multi-paragraph content might not format the way people > expect... Hmm, we could just use multiple quotes, right? One per paragraph? ~ Aaron
> I don't think this is a good idea. No email client is going to > recognise text/gemini (famous last words!) which means for most people > (okay, I don't have hard data, but I'm *assuming* most people aren't > reading the list on a mobile device) this will just result in a much > reduced user experience. Oh, I meant to suggest we, as a community, write text/gemini while marking it as text/plain. But yeah, apparently some email clients still don't know how to wrap text at a reasonable width? But last time I checked, this is a flamewar topic. ~ Aaron
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