Matt @matt@writing.exchange

@mrb Fixed for good! 😄

@Luke Good to know! Glad it worked out

@mrb Thanks! Restoring the page now

@Luke Hey, sorry for the delayed response here. Do you have something like Cloudflare in front of this, or anything that would be stripping out whitespace?

By the way, if you don't mind asking this on the forum (https://discuss.write.as), our support people and community can help out a little quicker -- and it'll benefit anyone else who has this issue in the future.

@zleap @design_RG @globcoco Discourse has strict default settings in place to prevent spam -- that's what you're seeing here. I just bumped up your user trust level, so you shouldn't hit those limits anymore.

@maique No worries! We don't need to be completely restricted to writing here, and cross-posting is fine. The local timeline can be a little quiet otherwise, but it shouldn't hold you back from posting as much as you want. For many people, the most action is in their Home feed.

Thanks for asking, though!

@Luke Just manually pressing Enter twice will give you a separate paragraph with space between. Is that what you're looking for? Or single line breaks within paragraphs?

@maique Just reviewing the queue now -- you're all set here!

@jonw Yep, it'll be called @remark_as, if you want to keep up with it.

Subscribed to your Substack site too. Also enjoyed your article about writing on Medium.

@SeventhMagpie Absolutely! This is kind of what I'm getting at, all the different ways commenting can be used. I want to make something that fits each situation: a way to say "thanks" / acknowledge a post, a way to start a large conversation, a way to have a private one (maybe literally using email!).

@jonw 100% agree. I'm designing a blog commenting system, and this is exactly the sort of point I'm getting at. From blog comments to social media, most social software seems to take a robotic, one-size-fits-all view on human interaction. I think very basic design decisions give us all the harmful effects we see.

This was a great read, thanks for sharing. I'll definitely be keeping it in mind.

Social media has shown the need for different kinds of interactions around content online. But "likes" are cheap and poisonous, chat isn't connected to content, and all platforms still stop at: "here's all the replies" 🤷

Are there any blog commenting systems made for different kinds of conversations? E.g. "I enjoyed this." vs. "Could you clarify?" vs. "Here's an essay on why you're wrong..."

I feel like all systems are just a variation on: "here's a text box, and here's everything anyone has entered into it in relation to this post." (Decentralized version only adds: "here's what people said elsewhere.")