Letter Boxed

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A refugee community for r/NYTLetterBoxed

Don’t put the answer in the title!

You can give a clue in the title of your post, but please don’t ruin the game.

Spoiler tag your solutions.

There are two ways to do this, take your pick:

1. NSFW your screencaps.

NSFW blurs images so answers aren’t revealed automatically when you load the front page.

(This is a workaround since Lemmy doesn’t support spoiler-tagging image posts.)

2. Use the body spoiler code.

If you don’t want to NSFW the whole post, you can spoiler within the body text and put your solution there. Here’s the format:

spoiler

![](https://link.to.image.com/example.png)

You can upload your screencap directly into the body text. Just hit the picture icon in the formatting bar and it will insert that second line of code for you. So all you have to enter manually is the

spoiler spoiler at the top.

(I understand this is a bit fidgety, so if you’d rather just stick to the NSFW method for now, that’s perfectly fine.)

Thanks and enjoy!

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16: Remix (self.letterboxed)
submitted 1 year ago by WandersFar to c/letterboxed
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::: spoiler spoiler

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14: Hide The Sausage (self.letterboxed)
submitted 1 year ago by WandersFar to c/letterboxed
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::: spoiler ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) BILK KNACKWURST

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14: Sound Bite (self.letterboxed)
submitted 1 year ago by WandersFar to c/letterboxed
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::: spoiler spoiler

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15: Promotional Pamphlet (self.letterboxed)
submitted 1 year ago by WandersFar to c/letterboxed
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::: spoiler spoiler

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13: White Knights (self.letterboxed)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by WandersFar to c/letterboxed
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::: spoiler Or Princes Charming…

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14: Undescended Testicle (self.letterboxed)
submitted 1 year ago by WandersFar to c/letterboxed
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::: spoiler It’s just not ready to hang out.

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16: Elemental Vest (self.letterboxed)
submitted 1 year ago by WandersFar to c/letterboxed
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::: spoiler It would make a terrible breastplate.

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15: Oblivious Citrus (self.letterboxed)
submitted 1 year ago by WandersFar to c/letterboxed
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::: spoiler The Japanese fruit suspects nothing!

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14: Waterboarding (self.letterboxed)
submitted 1 year ago by WandersFar to c/letterboxed
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::: spoiler spoiler

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14: Joyful Union (self.letterboxed)
submitted 1 year ago by WandersFar to c/letterboxed
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::: spoiler Almost like a marriage…

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15: The Hippie Within (self.letterboxed)
submitted 1 year ago by WandersFar to c/letterboxed
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::: spoiler The smell precedes you…

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16: Frivolous Tumult (also spoiler test) (self.letterboxed)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by WandersFar to c/letterboxed
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::: spoiler spoiler 16: Frivolous Tumult

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testing spoilers (startrek.website)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/letterboxed
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spoiler

Test

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Letter Boxed is no longer NSFW! (self.letterboxed)
submitted 1 year ago by WandersFar to c/letterboxed
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You no longer have to risk seeing porn on your frontpage just to participate here! Yay?

The reason I switched NSFW on was to protect you from accidental spoilers. The Lemmy platform does not have a native spoiler image tag yet, and I thought if the whole community was NSFW, then the image blur would apply automatically on new posts, similar to how AutoModerator spoiler tags all new posts on Reddit.

What I wasn’t counting on was app support, or lack thereof. Some apps ignore the NSFW tag altogether, the answers don’t get blurred regardless, so the tag is pointless.

Worse, other apps don’t show NSFW communities at all, not unless you dig into their settings, and they each handle things a little differently. I couldn’t figure out how to get here on some apps at all.

I also think being NSFW lowered our visibility on the platform as a whole. It makes sense that if most people hide NSFW by default, they’d never even know we exist.

So for all these reasons, I decided to uncheck NSFW for the whole community again.

That said, please do continue to mark your screencap submissions NSFW so you get some blur support at least. It may not be consistent across apps, but it’s the best we can do until Lemmy implements a proper image spoiler flair.

Thank you for reading, and I hope this makes the community easier to use going forward. Happy two-solving!

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Let’s try that again… (self.letterboxed)
submitted 1 year ago by WandersFar to c/letterboxed
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So I tried to enable NSFW-tagging on images so we could hide the answers on the front page…

But apparently that wipes all previous posts from the community. >.<

No warning or anything, just gone!

Oh well. Take two, I guess.

If you post your answer as a screencap, you can now use the NSFW tag to hide the solution on the front page.

If you post as text you can use the ready-made spoiler tag.

spoilerIt will look like this if you’ve done it right.

Enjoy!

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Spoilering images? (self.letterboxed)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by DharmaCurious to c/letterboxed
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Is there a way to blur the images other than the nsfw tag? We're gonna get a reputation. Haha. Also, if you have show nsfw unchecked, it doesn't just blur, it won't show at all.

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What's your strategy? (self.letterboxed)
submitted 1 year ago by robolemmy to c/letterboxed
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I've been doing the crossword, spelling bee, and wordle for a long time, but I just started doing letter boxed about a week ago. Any tips to help me get better?

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Finally made it! (self.letterboxed)
submitted 1 year ago by DharmaCurious to c/letterboxed
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Happy to be here, and I thought I'd post a simple hello in honor of the new... Sub? What do we call these here?