Comment by ๐ŸŒ† skyjake

Re: "Long post option in BBS comments. This could be useful. I'โ€ฆ"

In: u/ps

Yeah, the backslash gets you into the draft composer where you can then add/edit more text to the comment.

๐ŸŒ† skyjake [sysop]

2025-10-25 ยท 6 months ago

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๐ŸŒฒ Half_Elf_Monk ยท 2025-10-25 at 21:02:

I think the way bbs gets around the character limit is pretty clever. I like that it lets me re-order paragraphs in the edit mode... I've done that more than once as I think through what I'm going to say.

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๐Ÿ‘ป ps

Long post option in BBS comments. This could be useful. I'm always counting the bytes when I write a reply; plus, post editing always takes a few bytes for the post ID. The 'GET' request is definitely not useful for messages. I really miss the Titan option, especially for Cyrillic characters, which require more 'special character' encoding length. I dream of creating a forum engine one day, where I would make Titan input the default for messaging. But what about this platform? Are long...

๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 comments ยท 2025-10-25 ยท 6 months ago