3 Quick Tips About Getting Started With Ello
September 27, 2014
1. ELLO SUPPORTS MARKDOWN FOR TEXT FORMATTING
Ello allows you to do some formatting to your text using a subset of John Gruber's Markdown syntax. It's not the full Markdown syntax, but a good bit of it. You can read more at:
https://ello.co/wtf/post/using-ello-markdown-to-format-text
You can see some of my Markdown experiments in an Ello post.
2. ELLO SUPPORTS A WIDE RANGE OF EMOJI
You can use a wide range of emoji in your Ello posts. You may want to bookmark:
http://www.emoji-cheat-sheet.com/
To use an emoji you just type the text in your Ello post, for example ":smile:" will give you a smile. I've seen many different emoji being used in posts.
3. GIVING A "BREAD" EMOJI IS A "LIKE" OR "+1"
C.C. Chapman clued me in that while Ello doesn't have a "Like" or a "+1" (yet, anyway), apparently the convention has developed that people will leave you a "bread" emoji in a reply to say they like this. So if you suddenly see comments with bread emoticons, that's what is going on. To leave one yourself, just type ":bread:" in the comments.
(And I'd love it if someone on Ello could explain how that convention came about...)
UPDATE 28 Sep 2014: @brdr on Ello says the 'bread' emoji usage originated with German Ello users and spread throughout the network.
Those are just a few of the things I've discovered in my playing around with the site. If there are other tips you've learned, please feel free to leave them here as comments... or leave them in response to the link to this post on Ello.
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