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Hi there.

This is, admittedly, just a test post to try the Plume platform. 

I’m a happy #fediverse citizen living at @Chaos99@mastodon.technology, but I’m missing the opportunity to share longer pieces, maybe with a few more formatting options and media support.

I had my own blog back in the day, but I lost the will to maintain the back-end on my own for what were longer and longer stretches of time without anything published, so I closed that down.

In the end, for what would have been 3-4 posts a year, even joining Wordpress.com for hosting seemed out of proportion.

Also having a growing aversion to centrally controlled for-profit platforms, I never joined Facebook/Meta. 

I’ve evaluated  https://writefreely.org/ before, but it was missing one key feature: You could not save drafts of your articles on the server. As I’m using this explicitly to write down longer takes, this isn’t usually done in one sitting. So working on an article might happen over time and using several different devices.

W̶r̶i̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ t̶h̶i̶s̶, I̶ h̶a̶v̶e̶ t̶o̶ r̶e̶a̶l̶i̶z̶e̶ t̶h̶a̶t̶ P̶l̶u̶m̶e̶ i̶s̶ n̶o̶t̶ o̶n̶l̶y̶ a̶l̶s̶o̶ m̶i̶s̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ t̶h̶i̶s̶ f̶e̶a̶t̶u̶r̶e̶, b̶u̶t̶ i̶t̶ d̶o̶e̶s̶n̶’t̶ e̶v̶e̶n̶ s̶u̶p̶p̶o̶r̶t̶ i̶m̶a̶g̶e̶s̶, l̶e̶t̶ a̶l̶o̶n̶e̶ o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ m̶e̶d̶i̶a̶. S̶o̶ t̶h̶i̶s̶ a̶c̶c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶ w̶i̶l̶l̶ t̶o̶o̶ g̶o̶ i̶n̶t̶o̶ h̶i̶b̶e̶r̶n̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ a̶g̶a̶i̶n̶ u̶n̶t̶i̶l̶ t̶h̶e̶ p̶l̶a̶t̶f̶o̶r̶m̶ a̶n̶d̶ t̶h̶e̶ s̶o̶f̶t̶w̶a̶r̶e̶ h̶a̶s̶ g̶r̶o̶w̶n̶.

 
So the draft option is a bit hidden, but Plume seems to support this. Same goes for adding images, which seems to be a two-part process (add to gallery, then add to post). Also, paragraphes (or rather the empty lines in between) or somehow removed after saving. Most problems I see are more to how the editor is working and how many options it does present. So this is actually promising and I hope I will return soon for more tests.

 
Thanks for your time,
Chaos

 
PS: The image is, of course, only for testing purposes.

PPS: This is an edit after publish to see if this generates a new event on ActivityPub.