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Cheers, everyone. It's so wonderful to be here. There is only one tiny problem,
I am trying but failing to understand how to properly format blogs, add media, etc.
The idea of personal blogs is so wonderful because on the MySpace of yore
blogging is how so many of us in the community communicated...
creating unique experiences that incorporated media and text, birthing
blogging is how so many of us in the community communicated...
creating unique experiences that incorporated media and text, birthing
whole new worlds... You entered someone's blog and it was a total immersion
in an alternate space and time. The dream that became the reality...
However, whereas text editors on other sites allow you to upload media directly from your computer and import it to the blog, this text editor appears only to allow you to hyperlink/hotlink images that are hosted on other sites - many times linking is impossible because the images don't have their own url. Of course, there are sites like Photobucket that will host shareable pictures for a price, but it's a wholly unnecessary step.
Another current limitation is the lack of ability to preview a blog before posting it.
And we also seem to be limited in font types, background colors, etc. It would be far better to customize our blog pages like we do our profiles. This is a capability we had on MySpace and it enhanced both the bloggers and the subscribers experience exponentially. I'll show you an example of my old blogpage from MySpace which I found on the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine. (I was a popular blogger back in the day). Click here to view my original MySpace blog page. (I would format it differently now, of course, but the ability to format blogs there was incredible).
I realize it's early days on SpaceHey & I do want to stress how impressed I am with young An's generosity (and remarkable coding skills) in creating this forum, and I'd be so grateful to find potential sanctuary from the tyranny of the Facebook like button, all the censorship, all the intrusion of privacy, the stalker-like mentality that has us witness each other's every damned sneeze, cough and fart, the godawful way Facebook & others media sites use their member's personal information as commodities, auctioning us off like slaves to the highest bidder - and all those horrible algorithms that dictate who and what we could see and when - I know many who are weary of the censorship on other sites, but if we really want to steer artists and writers and other content creators away from Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and the like... some serious tweaking will need to be done with the text editor and the customization of blogs, and also, you will need a viable mobile interface. Right now, the site seems optimized exclusively for desktop view, making most of the frames on the profile pages and everywhere else on the site virtually unusable when viewed on mobile browsers. Don't get me wrong... I love the idea philosophically because there is no doubt in my mind that mobile platforms are inferior experiences and discourage true engagement and interaction with media and with a site's fellow members, but currently the site is a hot mess to navigate by phone for most prospective subscribers (since about 99% of the web's subscriber base in social media have their faces superglued to their phone screens and rarely use anything else to surf la onda electronica). I myself use a phone in the morning, for instance, before I am out of bed... when I am feeling hazy and lazy and not quite ready to meet the day (which happens too often, sadly. Haha).
Anyway, this is a test.... this is only a test... this blog will self-destruct in 60 seconds;)
However, whereas text editors on other sites allow you to upload media directly from your computer and import it to the blog, this text editor appears only to allow you to hyperlink/hotlink images that are hosted on other sites - many times linking is impossible because the images don't have their own url. Of course, there are sites like Photobucket that will host shareable pictures for a price, but it's a wholly unnecessary step.
Another current limitation is the lack of ability to preview a blog before posting it.
And we also seem to be limited in font types, background colors, etc. It would be far better to customize our blog pages like we do our profiles. This is a capability we had on MySpace and it enhanced both the bloggers and the subscribers experience exponentially. I'll show you an example of my old blogpage from MySpace which I found on the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine. (I was a popular blogger back in the day). Click here to view my original MySpace blog page. (I would format it differently now, of course, but the ability to format blogs there was incredible).
I realize it's early days on SpaceHey & I do want to stress how impressed I am with young An's generosity (and remarkable coding skills) in creating this forum, and I'd be so grateful to find potential sanctuary from the tyranny of the Facebook like button, all the censorship, all the intrusion of privacy, the stalker-like mentality that has us witness each other's every damned sneeze, cough and fart, the godawful way Facebook & others media sites use their member's personal information as commodities, auctioning us off like slaves to the highest bidder - and all those horrible algorithms that dictate who and what we could see and when - I know many who are weary of the censorship on other sites, but if we really want to steer artists and writers and other content creators away from Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and the like... some serious tweaking will need to be done with the text editor and the customization of blogs, and also, you will need a viable mobile interface. Right now, the site seems optimized exclusively for desktop view, making most of the frames on the profile pages and everywhere else on the site virtually unusable when viewed on mobile browsers. Don't get me wrong... I love the idea philosophically because there is no doubt in my mind that mobile platforms are inferior experiences and discourage true engagement and interaction with media and with a site's fellow members, but currently the site is a hot mess to navigate by phone for most prospective subscribers (since about 99% of the web's subscriber base in social media have their faces superglued to their phone screens and rarely use anything else to surf la onda electronica). I myself use a phone in the morning, for instance, before I am out of bed... when I am feeling hazy and lazy and not quite ready to meet the day (which happens too often, sadly. Haha).
Anyway, this is a test.... this is only a test... this blog will self-destruct in 60 seconds;)
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Frosty
Yo we're theme siblings! I too chose the first one on the list ;)
I'm only a hour or two into fooling about with my profile, yet so far a simple copy/search for individual lines of code within the HTML gets you over the target right away.
Yr profile does look good on my windows laptop, but the embedded youtubes stretch too far & are cropped a little on my android. An apparent solution-
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5445491/height-equal-to-dynamic-width-css-fluid-layout
I pasted that (The 4th comment with a 453 score) into the 'width' line of the embed code & it has resolved the issue across my 3 devices.
I have no idea what optimisation actually is or what I'm doing.
*Confused shark emoji*
Yay! I shall give it a try. I actually used a different template from some cute little chica whose hobby seems to be making different layouts, but I stole the background cover from Francisco's template which is the one used, because I couldn't find a background that wouldn't tile, even when I put in code that told it not to, but it still looks awful on my iPhone... the whole page just scrolls weirdly with the container boxes allover the place, so I'll try your code snippet trick & keep my fingers crossed. xo
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Is this what you used?
width: 100%; height:100%; top: 0; left: 0;
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It definitely makes it look better on the iphone, but it is too small on the desktop view. I'm going to reset it, but thank you. xo
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Huh, I checked the code & it has vanished the Height/width bit altogether. I shall investigate & report back in the next 6 to 12 months.
Surely the embed is HTML & I'm trying to insert CSS like a primate with square pegs & round holes?
Awesome :D
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Haha! Well, I'm betting most of the coders around here use some form of Frankenstein-like piecemealing together. on my soundcloud embed I used this
width="100%" height="100%" scrolling="no" frameborder="no"
and it worked. I maybe can try it on the Youtube embed
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width="100%" height="100%"
maybe just the above will work using the = and the quotation marks may make a difference.
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Nope... disaster aspect ratio too too narrow... I'll keep the width at 100% and set the height in pixels and see
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Okay THIS worked
width="100%" height="315"
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I have the vaguest memory of similar things happening on proper spazz now n then. Perhaps it removes the "does not compute" bit then defaults to spacehey code we aren't privy to? Which coincidentally scales properly on the small side.
Where are the non-satanist nerds when you need them, eh.
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Surely this the sane answer.
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width="100%" height="315"
^^^try it^^^
Just worked for me. I set the width in terms of % and the height in plain old pixels
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""Okay THIS worked
width="100%" height="315"""
I skimmed over this problem when searching for my original link, there was discussion of writing it as a ratio, but I didn't read the thread
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Man, this is clunky as fuck. I love it.
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I don't read threads about this stuff... tooo confusing... I just plug in values and see what happens. Haha
by C.C.; ; Report
Looks good. GIF's are making eyes - etc.
Hi! Thanks so much for stopping by... Yes! They are easy to link in the blog because Giphy.com (along with other .GIF hosts) generates a url for each one , but most of the still images we find online don't allow hotlinking anymore. If we had the capability of uploading/embedding images, videos and/or soundfiles to blogs, it would go a loooong way in increasing blog appeal.
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