We’re nearing the end of the season, so as usual, there won’t be much new this and the coming weeks.

A quick disclaimer regarding Backerkit: They have redesigned their website again, which of course broke the crawler. I will try to get it working again as soon as possible, but until then, there won’t be any Backerkit projects included in the lists.

It still looks a bit quirky in Kbin sadly (especially on mobile where it gets very squished), but at least it should work in Lemmy now.

So it seems like the table formatting bug as finally been fixed in Kbin. In other words, the inline lists are back!

They are probably reusing a component that happens to sort its entries alphabetically, since that is most commonly the expected behaviour. If the form is configured in a CMS, whoever built it might not even know it’s happening and has entered the data properly, but it gets resorted in the presentation layer. It’s also not impossible that the behaviour of the component has changed at some point and this particular case didn’t have test coverage or wasn’t actually part of the specification.

So for some reason the inlined tables didn’t format at all in this post. I’m generating them automatically, so I have no idea why they didn’t work this time. Probably some project that contained some invalid character in the name or description.

The Google Docs still works however. Meanwhile, I’m gonna see if I can find what the issue could be.

Edit: It seems like there’s a bug in Kbin that somehow breaks the tables (even when posting to a Lemmy instance). Until that is fixed, I guess the Google Docs will have to do, sadly.

Yeah it’s always a project to get new people started with Mumble. It doesn’t feel like it should be so difficult, but people always struggle.

Ironically, I struggled immensely with forcing Discord to stop messing with my system audio settings, which is apparently something apps are allowed to do in Windows.

It seems like the formatting kinda works. On Lemmy it looks alright to me, while on Kbin the columns are a bit squished, but otherwise it appears to hold together. I’ll see if I can refine it a bit next week.

Edit: Oof, Kbin really doesn’t handle tables well on mobile. At least it looks alright on Lemmy.

It actually came to my attention recently that Lemmy/Kbin does in fact support markdown tables similar to Reddit. The issue is that there is no preview function, at least on Kbin.social which I’m using, so it’s very difficult to see that it’s formatted correctly.

In theory, it should be possible to use the same or at least similar markdown that I’m generating for Reddit, but I’m quite heavily relying on abusing Reddit specific quirks in order to get the formatting to look right.

I’ll see what I can do next week.