Are Lemmy-style ":::" tags for spoilers in the community sidebar text for the Piedfed WebUI. (piefed.social)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social to c/piefed_help@piefed.social

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In Lemmy, you hide text blocks behind a spolier ":::" tag:

Go to: https://lemmy.world/c/hardware, and you'll get the following via the (default?) Lemmy webUI:

Sidebar with Lemmy UI

If you go to https://piefed.social/c/hardware@lemmy.world (!hardware@lemmy.world) via the Piefed webUI you get the following view in the same siderbar:

Sidebar with piefed UI

If possible, it would be helpful to have the spoiler tag work in Piefed webUI as well.

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[-] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 4 weeks ago

We've hard support for those spoiler things for a long time but there was a bug with it because /c/hardware uses the ::: tag in unexpected ways.

It's fixed now. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

[-] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 2 points 4 weeks ago

Thanks for the quick turn-around!

Cheers!

[-] Zorsith 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Tbh its still weird to me after coming to Lemmy from reddit that they reinvented the wheel for comment formatting syntax.

From "> ! ! <" to :::

[-] wjs018@piefed.social 6 points 4 weeks ago

The lemmy-style spoiler syntax is a huge pain tbh, and very limiting in that for something to be a spoiler, it needs to be a separate paragraph. Adding || in-line spoilers || was one of my first contributions to piefed because I found it so annoying (that won't render as an in-line spoiler on lemmy).

The markdown-parsing library used by piefed supported using the same syntax as telegram/discord, with || spoiler here ||, so that is what I used for the feature even though I prefer the reddit/stack overflow style spoiler syntax better.

this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2025

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