With something like this, how do you handle the period of time while copying? I mean you can't really leave it running as it wouldn't be in a consistent state. A "under maintenance" page instead? Copy to a fresh folder and when done tell the webserver to serve the new location?

Yes I know it, and sometimes use it for a little. But the vast majority of things it presents to complete to me feel rather unimportant. My leisure time isn't exactly plenty, and then I rather do other things I see more value in. Even surface type is mapped most of the time, and I don't take the effort to map surface quality because it is not used for anything. Maybe I'll make an App at some point that infers surface quality automatically while road biking from the acceleration sensor in the phone mounted to the handlebar...

Why would you be surprised? This is just an ordinary "company pulls the plug on proprietary thing that they think isn't worth it". If you want to rely on a something, do not use something where some entity can pull the plug for everyone arbitrarily. There's no gain for Microsoft from people using this, neither for playing games nor for developers. It's not like they run an Android app store where they can get revenue or anything. At most this is a marketing blip for drawing people to Windows where they can molest them with ads, but this feature is not in any tech news anymore, so why put anymore work in it?

I don't get your second paragraph. There are many markdown editors, and you can use their inbuilt methods or pandoc to convert that to epub/pdf/whatever. What features are missing from those editors?

I think with that OP referenced a city close to where they live

Ohhh yesss, I've been scratching a nostalgia itch recently too with turbo, tilde and mc. I'll absolutely try these, looks awesome! Maybe some fitting hardware would be cool too, like finally getting something with risc-v, a nice clickety-clacky keyboard and an epaper screen...

The most unfortunate of which for me is remote development. So convenient, nothing compares :(

Für sowas kann ich empfehlen mit ner großen Styroporbox bei nem Restaurant aufzuschlagen. Da bekommt man zum Teil für 5€ so viel Eis dass man es fast nicht mehr tragen kann

I like your second point, and already started polishing the thing more than I would have for just my own purposes. It's a good way to make it easier for somebody to take it on in the future. And it's also a measure that the original creator more likely has the will to implement while focusing on building the thing, i.e. before they moved on to other things. Also for my current project I try to keep it simple. It may not be the prettiest, most configurable or universal tool. But it has a short code and minimal dependencies. Thank you for your comment, that made me think about how traits like this can become very valuable for others.

Your first point I do anyways, and the third I'm not sure about yet. Maybe documenting such things as issues preserves them decently.

One of Germany's public broadcasting services also started running an instance for anyone part of the federal media network: https://ard.social/about

Translation:

ARD.social is a basis for ARD's appearances in the #Fediverse network, an amalgamation of various platforms and projects. Regional and nationwide brands, broadcasts, programs and institutions of the federal media network can create profiles at ARD.social. The Mastodon instance ARD.social is operated by Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR).

Also the Tagesschau, which is the most important television news show in Germany, is there.

I bet worst schmoo is grease from fingers tho. Either way alcohol or soapy water does the trick

What issues do you have running it via firefox? It seems fine for me, although I didn't try with chrome