It still looks a bit quirky in Kbin sadly (especially on mobile where it gets very squished), but at least it should work in Lemmy now.

So it seems like the table formatting bug as finally been fixed in Kbin. In other words, the inline lists are back!

They are probably reusing a component that happens to sort its entries alphabetically, since that is most commonly the expected behaviour. If the form is configured in a CMS, whoever built it might not even know it’s happening and has entered the data properly, but it gets resorted in the presentation layer. It’s also not impossible that the behaviour of the component has changed at some point and this particular case didn’t have test coverage or wasn’t actually part of the specification.

So they have a bunch of users that have been freely paying them money for virtual coins that you can literally only use to display a few pixels of a gif next to a comment.

Their absolute genius move towards profitability is then to forcibly stop making these people give them free money and also erase those virtual coins that they spent money on with absolutely no compensation whatsoever. Not even a shitty award or literally anything at all.

It’s funny, I’m not sure if I should actually be impressed that they are not engaging in any marketing dark pattern whatsoever; they are just straight up alienating the people who were until now been practically giving them money for doing nothing.

So for some reason the inlined tables didn’t format at all in this post. I’m generating them automatically, so I have no idea why they didn’t work this time. Probably some project that contained some invalid character in the name or description.

The Google Docs still works however. Meanwhile, I’m gonna see if I can find what the issue could be.

Edit: It seems like there’s a bug in Kbin that somehow breaks the tables (even when posting to a Lemmy instance). Until that is fixed, I guess the Google Docs will have to do, sadly.

Yeah it’s always a project to get new people started with Mumble. It doesn’t feel like it should be so difficult, but people always struggle.

Ironically, I struggled immensely with forcing Discord to stop messing with my system audio settings, which is apparently something apps are allowed to do in Windows.

It seems like the formatting kinda works. On Lemmy it looks alright to me, while on Kbin the columns are a bit squished, but otherwise it appears to hold together. I’ll see if I can refine it a bit next week.

As long as it’s not literally a toggle that you can interact with.

I can only imagine the horrors of accidentally clicking in the editor while selecting some text and quietly changing certificateIsValid = false; to true or something like that.

JetBrains have some quite extensive VC tooling built into their IDEs which I use almost exclusively. I used to do everything in the terminal, but I find it so much quicker and simpler to do it directly in the IDE.

It actually came to my attention recently that Lemmy/Kbin does in fact support markdown tables similar to Reddit. The issue is that there is no preview function, at least on Kbin.social which I’m using, so it’s very difficult to see that it’s formatted correctly.

In theory, it should be possible to use the same or at least similar markdown that I’m generating for Reddit, but I’m quite heavily relying on abusing Reddit specific quirks in order to get the formatting to look right.

I’ll see what I can do next week.