Anyone knows of a #Mastodon app that allows you to do drafts one or more #threads ? (Not facebook - actual threads) @feditips ? 🙏
Edit: to be more specific: I’d like to be able to create a thread in the app, so a sequence of posts (not just 1 post) that can each have text, images etc. and are in a specific order, and if need be save it and come back to update it later, and eventually post it.
Also, I am using iOS and desktop (Windows). If you check the comments you’ll see that Fedilab seems to allow this but for Android.
@dcm@apps that’s great! Thanks:) it seems that this is not for iOS which is what I’d need (should have mentioned in the question) but I’m sure it will be useful to others.
@elduvelle #Fedilab supports this. Just use the plus button next to the text area to add another post. They will get uploaded at the same time ad replies to each other.
@elduvelle@feditips@mammoth I haven’t really used it yet but it looks like it automatically divides your thread into posts as you type. It also has a Save as Draft feature 🙂
@yuvalne@feditips Maybe? Personally I like Mastodon and the thread form has a lot of advantages (you can boost / comment on each post, it helps organize ideas, most people are lazy and don’t read long texts anymore…)
@elduvelle@feditips
I understand and agree there are advantages, but there are also disadvantages for this method, namely needing to struggle with threads (even Fedilab gets its threads messed up sometimes), needing to change your wordings so they fit in 500 character chunks, etc.
it's a matter of taste. my ADHD brain gets overwhelmed by three 500 chars long threads sometimes, and at other times reads whole articles. this isn't really solvable, there's only good enough.
@elduvelle@feditips Metatext used to allow you to compose a whole thread of posts all in one go and then post them when you’d finished. I imagine that @Feditext will support this as well, when it’s ready. It’s the successor to Metatext after the original author withdrew for personal reasons.
@elduvelle@feditips there was some desktop focused on journalism with that feature. Can't remember name.
Or you can use instance with big post char limit and don't make threads
@MrClon@feditips that is a good point. Actually my instance has a 10000 character limit :) but what I like with threads is you can associate 1 or more images with each post, which helps organize the ideas better than having 1 giant post and max 4 images at the end.
@elduvelle@feditips Ivory let’s you create unlimited drafts, so you could write out a bunch of toots and then publish them one after another. It’s not as intuitive as the way Toot! But it sorta has the same effect
@wonkothesane@feditips oh I see! So technically not a thread where the individual posts have a set order?
IceCubes which is what I currently have also has unlimited single drafts but not thread drafts :(
@wonkothesane according to some earlier comments it doesn’t (fully)- you can draft 1 thread but you can’t save it, do other stuff, and then come back to it later. It’s better than nothing I guess!
Just to be clear, Toot! lets you write threads in advance, but there's no way to save them for later. If you want to do something else before publishing the thread, you have to discard the thread completely.
@elduvelle@feditips@rootfs it's as clumsy as Microsoft Teams. I can invite someone to my team on Teams or a chat with the team in Teams but that's not a Teams team it's a chat.. 😵💫🥴
Yeah, as someone pointed out these new names like "Threads", "Meta", "X" etc are guaranteed to cause confusion and they're impossible to filter out because of this.
@rootfs@feditips apparently toot doesn’t allow to save the thread as draft (so that you could do other stuff and come back to modify it or eventually send it later):
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