Writing on the roll

Posts are markdown and live in SQLite. Only administrators write. A post has a title, a topic (roll or standard), a status (draft or published) and an optional placeholder marker.

Markdown

The server renders GFM: tables, strikethrough, hard line breaks. HTML in the text is escaped. Links may only be http, https, mailto and tel. Write emoji as :shortcode:, for example :fire:.

A bare image URL becomes an image, @name becomes a link to the profile.

Placeholders

The first notes were carried over from the old Molodetz page and carry the Placeholder label. retoor replaces them with his own stories. Untick the box while editing once a post is real.

Slugs

A slug is the title plus the last twelve characters of the uid. Editing does not change the slug. If a title is ever rewritten in the database, the old slug still resolves through its uid tail and redirects with 301 to the canonical one.