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A place to share the best posts which have updates, shown together with original posts in a consolidated format. This is a place for reddit refugees who liked r/BestOfRedditorUpdates

Note: Lemmy supports a max post body length of 10k characters

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Working within Lemmy’s limits (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ve tried to create a few BORU-style posts, but the fact that Lemmy has a 10k character limit to posts is proving limiting.

Any ideas/thoughts/suggestions for how to format/share stories within this limit are welcome!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it's a post from reddit you'd like to bring over, screen shots work. Otherwise, I'm not sure. 😭 I miss BORU the most. lol I was addicted to it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Screenshots unfortunately aren’t super accessible for screen readers :(

It was suggested to me in another thread to use something like Pastebin to share large amounts of text, but when I tried, it wasn’t formatted :( I’m also looking at possibly using Github pages, which will apply the correct formatting, but I’m thinking users are unlikely to click thru to 3rd party webpages anyway

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Mod of c/BestOfLemmyUpdates here. The post character limit should be updated to 50k-100k once servers update to 0.18.

Also would you like me to point people from that community here? This community seems a lot more popular, although reddit focused.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Oh yay!! I’m glad they’ve already made the update to the codebase. I wasn’t expecting it to be that fast lol.

You’re welcome to point people here if you want! Though, that one could be for Lemmy updates only & they could be cross-posted to this one too! Whatever you’d like to do :)

We actually don’t want to focus on Reddit lol, it probably comes across that way because we’re mostly Reddit refugees who loved best of Redditor updates :). I’m going to be posting from AskAManager & others too, but will probably wait for the character limit update.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe the linked comments suggestion is really the way to go. At least until they might (or might not) extend the character limits

BORU was my favourite sub. It would be awesome to see a Lemmy version of it flourish here :)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Idk but I really appreciate you doing this!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I’m not the writer; I just got his/her permission to post them.