Notices by Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social), page 36

@jacobgorban Yeah, Russian

@ninjawedding yes

@staticsafe @ykzts https://docs.joinmastodon.org/administration/configuration/#statsd

I finally got tax returns for last year, I am so relieved. Only took them 6 months, I was worried I messed something up

@frandavid100 @wrenpile Yes, I just didn't want to have to explain how that works so I opted for the simplest explanation

@wrenpile Yes, that's the intent

@wrenpile For super long posts like line breaks after every letter etc

@eevee You've got twitter:image, and we parse og:image

I know follower counts are looked down upon in the community but what I really want to see is artists getting in the 10K range. Don't think I've seen anyone above 1.5K?

It's deployed, refresh for changes if you're annoyed by the "read more" cut-off

Going to double the threshold when "read more" kicks in and deploy in a moment.

@mcc aesthetic

Cool I found its origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bear_and_the_Gardener

It means unsolicited favour that doesn't turn out well.

Does the "bear's favour" idiom exist in English?

@noelle @natecull Right. I'm frustrated because it's the people submitting those patches and putting the pressure on who should be learning this lesson, but they won't, because their responsibility ends after they submit the pull request.

Sometimes I really wish there was just a way to stop people from submitting pull requests on GitHub unless they're on a whitelist.

@noelle @natecull I'd love it if people could occassionally back me when I refuse features like that, so I don't feel like Hitler-vs-the-people. In this case I'm not a fan of "read more" at all but I like my version of it much more than what's in glitch-soc and what was proposed by the author of the patch.

We could either drop the feature again if there is support for dropping it, or we could adjust when it kicks in a bit more.

@noelle @natecull I was against this since the start (see https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/658) which actually gave start to the glitch-soc fork in the first place iirc

But people kept asking for it, e.g. https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/7973 and https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/255

And when another person re-submitted it *again*, especially with constant pressure "why don't you merge this" "when will you merge this", I gave it a makeover to save you from the worst UX (see https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/8205)

@noelle @natecull It's pixel-height based, not characters (it's very difficult to do it based on character count) and calibrated to cut off after 500 characters (but paragraphs are not taken into account, so if it was a single block of text)

@noelle I updated today. What do you mean distress? People were begging me for it for a very long time.