We’re trying out a new comment system that’s more up to date and less creaky than what we were using. Our favorite tools, such as image uploading and editing are still available, but different.
For uploading see the icon on the bottom right of the comment box…
This system allows editing of your comments without a time limit. It pops up when you hover your cursor over the bottom right corner of the posted comment.
Deleting your comment is different. At the beginning of comments at the top of the page to the right of the number of comments there’s an icon for “My comment and settings”. Click that and you’ll your see recent comments listed in case you want to delete any.
The floating green button on the left is where you can click to add your comment wherever you are on the page (it also displays the number of comments).
The features aren’t as intuitive as I’d like but this seems to be a more smoothly operating comment platform than the collection of outdated tools I had cobbled together.
Please add your thoughts, questions, suggestions in comments. Happy Trails!
MESSAGE TO LURKERS
I’ve set up guest access for commenting without registering and logging in. Just add your thoughts and click the captcha box (name, email, website are optional).
Attribution: Not the Same Old Dumpster Fire by Pat Byrnes, PoliticalCartoons.com
too much of a reach? meant to be metaphoric of learning how to use the new comment procedures.
more testing to see if I’ve got the hang of this. here’s Horsey’s ‘toon and op ed 1/3/25
for longer than usual op ed click here:
Curiouser and curiouser | The Seattle Times
Be interesting to mess around with this. I see I still can’t post an image from my phone. Rats – have to figure out how to reduce the size to 2Mb.
i see what you did there
…one day, a troll will
come and wreak havoc, it’s why we can’t have nice things 😭
pogo,
iced or snowed in? or both?
Anyone have a recommendation for a free access photo editor that allows compression of the size of a photo? The ones I’m seeing are $12/mo to $5/week, and my photos aren’t THAT interesting.
Pogo what’s the weather in your knack of the woods Thursday and Friday? ((Axing for an amigo))
Meta (Facebook) goes farther along the Trump rump smooching road. News Alert: Meta gets rid of fact checkers and makes other major changes to moderation policiesMeta will be making major changes to its content moderation policy on Facebook and Instagram, getting rid of fact checkers and replacing them with user-generated “community notes,” similar to Elon Musk’s X, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday.Meta’s newly appointed Chief of Global Affairs Joel Kaplan told Fox on Tuesday that Meta’s partnerships with third-party fact checkers were “well intentioned at the outset but there’s just been too much political bias in what they choose to… Read more »
Anonymous, yes I’m experimenting with guest access. Could be dangerous.
At least I can still work the delete button.
Pogo, I upped the file size limit. See if that works for you
“Input is too short.”
”Input is too short.”
It tells me “input is too short” but if I type in those words it posts.
Ivy, it requires at least 3 words in a post for some reason. That’s on my punch list to change.
Ms Liz biz
Back in the dog house
I am a community note contributor on twit. Most of the time it is trying to kill magat cn swarm designed to overwhelm a Dem post. Usually we are successful.
We use other names so we cannot be identified. Some idiots want to do damage to us when a bad cn is prevented from displaying.
REMEMBERING JIMMY CARTER — Former President Carter will lie in state at the Capitol starting later today. A rundown of the schedule: 2:15 p.m.: President Carter’s remains arrive at Joint Base Andrews and will travel by motorcade to the U.S. Navy Memorial in downtown Washington. 3:30 p.m.: A horse-drawn caisson will carry Carter’s remains to the U.S. Capitol. Upon arrival, his casket will be carried into the Rotunda. (NYT’s Peter Baker reports that Carter “will be placed on the same catafalque that bore ABRAHAM LINCOLN after his assassination in 1865.”) 4:30 p.m.: Members of Congress and other dignitaries will join the Carter family for a service in… Read more »
Thanks for the Carter sked update, Ivy.
Sturg, I asked a friend 😉 who said it’s 30 degrees, cloudy and just about a foot on the ground. Sunday was a doozy. Snow all day and into Monday morning. Just about every government-related entity is closed today in most of the state. Roads are OK, though – prolly took me two or three minutes longer than usual to get into work. Let me listen to Sir Paul sing “I’m Down”, so all’s good. I spent an hour with a SunJoe (SnowJoe?) snow thrower clearing the 6’x30′ sidewalk in front of the office and the driveway entrance. So between… Read more »
You tell lies thinking I can’t see
You can’t cry cause you’re laughing at me. I’m down.
I’m really down.
Checking for the YouTube trick.
That was easy.
That McCartney fella could write a song and sing it pretty good too. Prolly still can.
By the way you will see comments you haven’t read yet highlighted in yellow
Logging back in after being logged-out was not a problem.
Testing our guest access. Anyone not registered or logged in can comment. Captcha couldn’t be easier. Just include a name and click a checkmark into the “I’m not a robot” box. Email and website boxes can be left empty.
Heck, even the name box can be left empty, and the platform just automatically says “Anonymous”
today’s meme…
How the roads doin’ out there?
I may get the hang of most of the new features, but as far as photos go, I have to cry UNCLE!!
Pogo, did you try putting the magic three words on your post? Any three will do.
Pogo, what error message if any are you getting with file uploads? I increased file size limit to 100 meg.
First Felon face on screen, his lips are moving but I have it on mute.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mark-zuckerberg-meta-trump-fact-checking-free-speech-1235227351/ “On Tuesday, Zuckerberg announced in a video statement that Meta will be ending its fact-checking program in favor of a “Community Notes”-style approach to digital misinformation in an effort to combat “censorship” on its platforms. Community Notes, a user-powered fact-checking system implemented on X (formerly Twitter) after billionaire Elon Musk took over the platform, is itself deeply inconsistent and often riddled with misinformation.” “Zuckerberg added on Tuesday that Meta would “get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse,” and instead focusing content violation enforcement on… Read more »
Trump’s girlfriend judge is at it again:
Our back porch.
[pic would be here]
It just cogitates.
Eureka – it loaded, but reeeeaaalllly slowly.
So many billionaires slithering up to the orange idiot makes me wonder what is going on in the less than one percenters. What communications are taking place, and, I wonder if there is blackmail involved. We do know some are on the manifest to epsteins rape children flights, so that is obvious. Other would be from putties russia. But all these dirty oligarchs, with complicit media, are ignoring that the guy is out of his mind. Perhaps they are counting on nobody realizing what they are seeing. Don’t believe your lying eyes. Some day, some point in time, reality has… Read more »
You did it Pogo. Back porch pic is awesome!
Yep, poobah. Emailed it to myself and pulled it out of the Pics file in Word. I apparently need to learn patience (like that’s going to happen at my age).
Pogo, but still couldn’t upload from your phone directly to here?
I’ll try from my phone to test it.
I like that we can flip newest comments to the top.
Links to Bluesky posts can be posted here and full post displays (probably works with X also)…
Yes Ivy i like that order option too. On our old platform I had to make that choice for everyone, but this one lets users choose. There are a lot more user-driven features on this platform.
Snowy stuff on cars. I need a garage I guess. (Works from my phone. Took about 30 seconds to download…patience)
Still working on pasting URLs that automatically convert to links. Some work, some don’t. This one does..
‘Trump no longer in control’: GOP fearful that MAGA base will kill public support
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-immigration-2670757320/
Looks like Bezos has gone all in on the entire Dumbass empire.
Yep, Pogo, smart phone photos are file hogs, take a while to upload, but they do look great. I actually changed my camera settings to lower resolution, smaller files that upload fast and only a professional photographer would notice any loss in quality.