elisi | Imzy

So, I am slowly trying to get on top of stuff. (Had to go back to skip=100 to catch up on my flist...)

And remembered that I signed up to Imzy. (Partly just so no one else would take 'elisi'.)

Apparently you can only follow communities, not friend other users, and I think that means that elisi is a community? Please let me know if you are there and I'll add you.

I also found this article: Imzy: Can an Ex-Reddit Exec Really Hack the Online Abuse Problem?, which helped explain a lot of why the set-up is the way it is. (The Whys behind the Whos are always useful.)

Oh and I have ~~five~~ two invites [left] if anyone wants one. :)

(The name is good. It sounds whimsical and odd. And does anyone know how to customise beyond adding a userpic? I've looked, but not in any depth.)

ETA: Right, so I went ahead & created a Doctor Who meta community:

Mirrorleaf

Come join me! :)

ETA2: Omg, managing/setting up a community is so much better/clearer than setting up a personal account. Like, you can find stuff, and it makes sense!!

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Oooh, a meta community -- though yeah, unfortunately not an area I'd be able to write about.
Also, not much is currently happening, as the show is on hiatus until 2017...

But I shall try to talk about whedon 'verse stuff if I remember! :)

The thing that bugs me the most though is their choice to use markup for posts and comments instead of HTML
I don't even know what markup *is*. So, I guess that's something I can feed them back on. As I have only done one post so far, I can't say I noticed, but I probably would as soon as I tried to do something more complex.

Actually I didn't until recently either. The advantage I can see in markup is that it's not language based but relies on characters, which is helpful if you've got multilingual users. At the same time I find it less intuitive for that very reason. Not all of HTML commands are direct but some (like strong or cite) are. I'm also not clear how automated readers interpret markup whereas HTML is in use everywhere.

Still none the wiser. ;) Guess I'll have to learn as I go along.

Sorry! For example making something italicized in markup would look like *yourwords* whereas in HTML it would be yourwords.

They do have a text editor that you can bring up in comments by clicking the Aa link at the bottom of the comment field. In posts, it defaults to presenting those same options at the top of the text box.

So I don't know that it will be hard to work with necessarily, but it does impact whether you can just copy and paste the same formatted text from one site to the next which right now I could do at DW, AO3 or Tumblr.

And of course I pasted that forgetting that DW would convert my < i > and < /i > into italicized text...

LOL

Sorry! For example making something italicized in markup would look like *yourwords* whereas in HTML it would be yourwords.
I figured it was probably something like that, but an example was lovely. (And I didn't mean to suggest that you ought to explain!)

They do have a text editor that you can bring up in comments by clicking the Aa link at the bottom of the comment field. In posts, it defaults to presenting those same options at the top of the text box.
So like Rich Text? (I'll have a look next time I post something. Don't mean to keep asking. /o\)

So I don't know that it will be hard to work with necessarily, but it does impact whether you can just copy and paste the same formatted text from one site to the next which right now I could do at DW, AO3 or Tumblr.
Yeah, it certainly puts paid to my vague idea of crossposting - or even re-posting old stuff to Imzy. It's HTML'd up the wazoo!

NP! Yes, I think it's much the same as what LJ/DW offers (I always have my text box set to HTML so I often forget it's even there). But for communities of people sharing fanfic or even long meta posts, this seems like an unfortunate decision.

One positive thing is that Imzy offers very long posting options and comment options (80,000 characters or nearly 30 pages of text for posts, 20,000 I think for comments) so most stories would fit comfortably in a single post, and it's ideal for comment fic.

On the other hand wikis tend to use a form up of markup (to make things more confusing there are various kinds) and a lot of fandoms do use wikis or may even be centered around one. So for those people it may be handy in archiving stuff on one. But right now the searchability of Imzy and communities seems very limited given the restrictions on tags, at least for the kinds of things that fanwork creators want. Still, that hasn't stopped the use of LJ and Tumblr which are even worse atm, so ::hands::

I always have my text box set to HTML so I often forget it's even there
Same here! I can work with the HTML and fix it if something's wrong, but Rich Text frustrates me...

One positive thing is that Imzy offers very long posting options and comment options (80,000 characters or nearly 30 pages of text for posts, 20,000 I think for comments) so most stories would fit comfortably in a single post, and it's ideal for comment fic.
Well, it is very much centered around communities & discussions (it's like... the anti-Tumblr, I think *g*), so that makes sense.

But right now the searchability of Imzy and communities seems very limited given the restrictions on tags, at least for the kinds of things that fanwork creators want. Still, that hasn't stopped the use of LJ and Tumblr which are even worse atm, so ::hands::
*nods* Guess we'll have to wait & see!

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