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Test photo

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And not working in real view. NM.

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Dropbox wants to prevent hotlinking. There is no solution for embedding a preview that involves dropbox.

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Testing polling limitations

  • Jimmy
  • Timmy
0 voters
  • Joey
  • Bobby
0 voters
  • Arnold
  • Henry
0 voters
  • Roberto
  • Ian
0 voters
  • Rita
  • Irma
0 voters
  • Greg
  • Gregory
0 voters
  • June
  • Ira
0 voters
  • Blanche
  • Igor
0 voters
  • Daphne
  • Kenneth
0 voters
  • Ricardo
  • Harrison
0 voters
  • Benny
  • Mike
0 voters
  • Jerry
  • Eunice
0 voters
  • Robbie
  • Inez
0 voters
  • Carol
  • Margaret
0 voters
  • Durwood
  • Victor
0 voters
  • Frank
  • Debbie
0 voters
  • Rita
  • Edward
0 voters
  • Gloria
  • Alice
0 voters
  • Louise
  • Beth
0 voters
  • Boris
  • James
0 voters
  • Bunny
  • Marcus
0 voters
  • Max
  • Yolanda
0 voters
  • Chris
  • Pat
0 voters
  • Hubert
  • Eugene
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  • John
  • Stephanie
0 voters
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What limitation did you think you were testing? It seems very unlikely there’s any limit to the number of polls, nor their number of choices.

Yes, there’s an upper limit, but it’s imposed by something like total RAM available to your browser, or a maximum post size in Discourse that we know is lots and lots.

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I wanted to make sure I could create 25 individual polls in a single post.

mmm

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Ctrl-alt-del

hello

it’s so big

hi it’s so tiny

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\small \def\p{\phantom{█}} \def\y{\color{#FFD700}█} \def\k{\color{#FF99CC}█} \def\c{\color{#00FFFF}█} \def\b{\color{#0000FF}█} \def\w{\color{#FFFFFF}█} \begin{gathered} \texttt{\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\k\k\k\k\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\c\c\c\c\p\p\p\p\p\p} \\[-10pt] \texttt{\p\p\p\p\p\y\y\y\y\y\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\p\p\p\p} \\[-10pt] \texttt{\p\p\p\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\p\p\p\p\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\p\p\p\p\p\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\p\p\p} \\[-10pt] \texttt{\p\p\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\p\p\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\p\p\p\c\w\w\c\c\c\c\w\w\c\c\c\p\p} \\[-10pt] \texttt{\p\p\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\p\p\k\k\w\w\k\k\k\k\w\w\k\k\p\p\p\w\w\w\w\b\b\w\w\w\w\b\b\p\p} \\[-10pt] \texttt{\p\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\p\p\p\p\k\w\w\w\w\k\k\w\w\w\w\k\p\p\p\c\c\w\w\c\c\c\c\w\w\c\c\p\p} \\[-10pt] \texttt{\p\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\p\p\p\p\p\p\k\k\w\w\w\w\k\k\w\w\w\w\k\k\p\c\c\c\w\w\c\c\c\c\w\w\c\c\c\p} \\[-10pt] \texttt{\p\y\y\y\y\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\k\k\w\b\b\w\k\k\w\b\b\w\k\k\p\c\c\w\w\c\c\c\c\w\w\c\c\c\c\p} \\[-10pt] \texttt{\p\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\p\p\p\p\p\p\k\k\k\b\b\k\k\k\k\b\b\k\k\k\p\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\p} \\[-10pt] \texttt{\p\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\p\p\p\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\p\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\p} \\[-10pt] \texttt{\p\p\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\p\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\p\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\p} \\[-10pt] \texttt{\p\p\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\p\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\k\p\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\c\p} \\[-10pt] \texttt{\p\p\p\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\y\p\p\k\k\k\k\p\k\k\k\k\p\k\k\k\k\p\c\c\p\c\c\c\p\p\c\c\c\p\c\c\p} \\[-10pt] \texttt{\p\p\p\p\p\y\y\y\y\y\p\p\p\p\p\k\k\p\p\p\k\k\p\p\p\k\k\p\p\c\p\p\p\c\c\p\p\c\c\p\p\p\c\p} \\[-10pt] \texttt{\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p\p} \end{gathered}
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Cool!

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Hawaii Hawaii is
Hawai`i Hawai`i
Hawai`i blah blah blah Hawai`i

What is it about that back apostrophe (or grave accent, or whatever it’s called) that causes Discord to muck up my post?

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Back apostrophe is the markdown control code for "This is preformatted computer text to render in a non-proportional font.

‘So this sentence is in ordinary single quotes and looks like this’
And this sentence is in back-quotes and looks like this

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Computer nerds also use 3 of them together to start and end code blocks with syntax coloring, like:

```javascript
console.log("hello world")
```

becomes

console.log("hello world")
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double dWavelength = 238.0;

Cool

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It’s useful in the right context, no? (And annoying in others)

You can either leave out the language name and Discourse will try to guess it, or you can specify an explicit one out of the supported default list: discourse/config/site_settings.yml at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub

e.g.

```c
int main() { printf("hello world\n"); return 0; }
```

```cpp
int main() { std::cout << "hello world"; return 0; }
```

```csharp
System.Console.WriteLine("hello world");
```

```java
class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.print("hello world"); } }
```

becomes

int main() { printf("hello world\n"); return 0; }

int main() { std::cout << "hello world"; return 0; }

System.Console.WriteLine("hello world");

class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.print("hello world"); } }
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I would also like to know more about the teeny tiny Mark Twain impostor…

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@Karen_Lingel It’s part of this other thread where they’re discussing kids dressing up as famous people from Missouri: What are your thoughts on this school assignment (kids dress as famous Missourians - even some pretty bad ones) - #28 by HeyHomie

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My answer was a half-answer in that it explained the problem, but didn’t give the solution. I was unexpectedly rushed for time halfway through. Sorry 'bout that.


The solution for any/every time that your input produces unexpected formatting changes is to prepend the offending character with a backslash “\”

    This sentence is in back-quotes and looks like this
    vs.
    `This sentence is in backslash back-quotes and looks like this`

Same backslash thing works if you want to surround some text with e.g. asterisks.

    This part has asterisks around it and turns italic whether I want that or not.
    vs
    This part has *backslash asterisks* around it and displays the asterisks as such.

Which also leads to needing a special way to display a backslash:

    There’s a single backslash between these two quote marks: "".
    vs.
    There’s a double backslash between these two quote marks: “\”.

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Posting from commandline client – GitHub - ducks/discourse-tui: A TUI built in Rust for browsing Discourse forums · GitHub

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Note that if you try that for yourself (with writing access), it seems to mark all topics as read.