Posts

Posts are updates and notes you can write inside a hoard or community. They support Markdown formatting, allowing you to create rich, expressive content with headings, lists, links, code blocks, and more.

Creating a Post

1. Navigate to a hoard or community page.
2. Open the Posts tab.
3. Click New Post.
4. Enter a title and write your content using the Markdown editor.
5. Choose a visibility level (hoard posts only):
   • Public: anyone can view it
   • Friends: only your friends can see it
   • Private: only you can see it
6. Optionally attach images.
7. Click Post.

The Markdown Editor

The post editor includes a formatting toolbar and a live preview so you can see exactly how your post will look before publishing.

Toolbar

The toolbar provides quick-access buttons for common formatting:

Button	What it does	Markdown syntax
Bold	Makes text bold	**text**
Italic	Makes text italic	*text*
Heading	Inserts a heading	## text
Link	Inserts a hyperlink	[text](url)
Ordered List	Starts a numbered list	1. item
Unordered List	Starts a bullet list	- item
Code Block	Inserts a code fence	```code```

You can also select text and then click a toolbar button to wrap the selection with the appropriate syntax.

Preview Mode

Click the Preview button to switch from the text editor to a rendered preview. The preview updates in real time as you type. Switch back to Write mode to continue editing.

Supported Markdown

Posts support the following Markdown elements:

Element	Syntax	Example
Headings	# H1 through ###### H6	Section titles
Bold	**bold**	bold
Italic	*italic*	italic
Strikethrough	~~deleted~~	deleted
Links	[text](url)	Clickable hyperlinks
Images		Embedded images
Ordered lists	1. item	Numbered lists
Unordered lists	- item	Bullet lists
Inline code	`code`	code
Code blocks	```lang	Multi-line code with syntax highlighting
Blockquotes	> quote	Indented quotations
Horizontal rules	---	Visual dividers
Tables	`	col

Markdown in Comments

Comments on posts also support Markdown, with a few restrictions:

• Headings are not rendered, so heading syntax displays as plain text
• Images are not rendered in comments
• All other inline formatting (bold, italic, code, links, strikethrough, lists) works the same as in posts

Disabling Comments

Post authors can turn off comments on their own posts. Open the post's edit dialog and switch on Disable comments. This hides the comment box for everyone, including you, and blocks new comments from being posted. Existing comments stay visible; switching it back off lets people comment again.

The Posts Timeline

Posts are shown on a timeline rather than a flat list. They run newest first, grouped under a heading for each month, with each post's day marked on the rail down the left. The dotted stretches of rail between posts stand for the time that passed between them, so a quiet year looks quiet at a glance.

A year index sits beside the timeline (above it on narrow screens). Click a year to jump to that year's newest posts. The section you land on lights up briefly so it is easy to see where you ended up.

Posts on Your Profile

Your profile has a Posts tab that collects everything you have posted, across every hoard and community, on one timeline. Each post says which hoard or community it was posted in, and the name links back there.

Other people see the same tab on your profile, but only the posts they are allowed to see. A private post stays yours alone, a friends-only post shows to your friends, and posts in hoards they cannot view do not appear.

Content Limits

Post content can be up to 10,000 characters long. The editor displays a character count when you approach the limit.

Plain Text Compatibility

If you write a post without any Markdown syntax, it will display exactly as you typed it, with line breaks and whitespace preserved. Existing posts created before Markdown support was added will continue to display correctly.

Safety & Security

All rendered Markdown is sanitized before display. This means:

• Scripts, iframes, and other potentially dangerous HTML are automatically removed
• Raw HTML typed into posts is escaped and shown as text
• Event handler attributes (like onclick) are stripped

You don't need to worry about this as a user, since it happens automatically in the background.

TIP

You can write posts using plain text just like before. Markdown formatting is entirely optional.