Thanks for taking the time to check it out, I will look into what I can do to improve those issues. It’s basically impossible to get usability insights like this when you’re the only person working on something, so this is much appreciated, thank you!
You can share a link here if you would like. ConfabUI is written in Svelte though, so I’m not sure how nice it would be to integrate with React.
I’ll use this comment to address some questions I’m getting on the demo:
Why not a wysiwyg rich text editor? Markdown is for nerds like us. Comments are for all.
Simple reason is that a plaintext markdown editor was easier to implement. I decided plaintext was “good enough” for the kind of site Confab is intended for. If there is enough demand for this, I’d be happy to look into implementing a better editor in the future. Edit: The current editor has graphical icons for all the rich text features which automatically inserts markdown snippets, so even a user who doesn’t know markdown shouldn’t have too much trouble using it.
Thanks!
The reason for breaking to the next line on mobile was definitely horizontal space constraints. The anonymous usernames can get a bit long, and there also needs to be space next to the username for badges.
And I’m fairly sure I later added “Posted” for the mobile layout to make use of the extra space that moving to the next line allowed for.
Like promotional emails? Not at all.
I’ve added features that allow admins to prevent their instances being used for spam. These are explained in the abuse mitigation section of the docs.
Rate limits can be set for authentication emails to minimise spam. The only other type of emails sent to users are reply notifications (when someone else replies to their comments). This is enabled for each user by default (if admin has enabled this feature on a per-location basis and globally), and can be disabled by users on the main panel.