ᴡɪᴛᴄʜʏ🥀ʟɪᴢᴀʀᴅᴘᴀɴᴛs @egypturnash@mastodon.social

An early holiday gift from @egypturnash - a giant-ass Amazon-breaking book, with a timely illustration in the back.

Hey all you stylish dragons. We're going down for a bit so I can push some style tweaks I made.

As always, watch @egypturnash for further news if we're not back in aa few.

Hey all, I'm taking Dragon Style down for a little update - it's been pointed out that there's no length limit on a CW, so you could toot out a 7777-character-long CW if you wanted to.

I'm sure everyone here is far too polite and sensible to want to do such a thing, but nonetheless, very soon you won't be ABLE to do so even if by some inconceivable circumstance you WANTED to do such a thing.

As always: keep an eye on @egypturnash for updates if dragon style has been down for more than a few minutes. 💓

Hey y'all, I'm taking dragon.style down for a few minutes to push the first quick try at a New Toots On The Bottom mode.

It is a little awkward and experimental, and will not be the new default. :)

As always if the system is still down a while from now, please see if I've said anything over on @egypturnash.

Aaaand we're back. Dragon.Style has had its first two customizations done: a custom style, and a slightly larger limit on toot length than the default.

Well, okay. A much, much larger limit. I raised it to 7777 because, well, sometimes the magnificence of a dragon's utterances simply cannot be contained within a mere 500 characters.

But I recognize that smaller creatures may not be prepared for the majesty of such a large comment. So I have also made a small feature: if you try to write a toot that's longer than 777 characters, it will not be posted unless you put a CW on it, because I really don't want to have this instance blocked for completely flooding people's timelines.

I have also put in a simple custom style that I think is much more suitable to lengthy toots than the default. If you hate it you can hit the ⚙ above the toot box to get to the settings, and change the Site Theme from "Soft Rumblings in a Quiet Cavern" to "Mastodon Default".

Also the custom style makes boosted toots slightly smaller and in Comic Sans, because it makes me giggle.

(Known issues:
* wide left margin on mobile screens
* things get weird when the toot entry box grows to be taller than your screen

I'll fix these soon. Right now it's bedtime.)

Enjoy, and thanks for being a part of dragon.style! :heart:

Hot damn this rules so hard https://octodon.social/media/qDQ6MgccJwgley4CD9E

Since I begged for this feature, I should probably advertise it.

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