Topicle ^Beta

I'm looking through site rules and have some concerns about #6 - "Do not editorialise titles"

This is a really good rule for news-oriented communities, where the reason people are subscribing to it is to get a feed of current articles worth paying attention to, without submitter hyperbole hyping it up or distorting it.

But it kind of sucks for education- and discussion-oriented communities around more niche topics, where what makes the article relevant or interesting to the community isn't always clear from a headline often written for a much broader audience. Not being able to add any context to any titles anywhere on the site feels extremely limiting for what kind of content and communities will be able to flourish here. Is there any reason this needs to be a site-wide rule, rather than something community moderators can decide on a community-by-community basis?

I would increase the default size of the textarea for creating a new text post. I know it can be resized but it's a confusing and cramped default. The larger, lighter-background bottom area (with the save draft / submit post buttons) draws the eye first and looks more editable than the textarea does. Screenshot attached (Chrome, Windows 11, 1920x1080 screen).

Is there any way to control the list of communities in the top? There's lots of stuff in there that I'm not subscribed to and don't want to see. I'd rather have just my subscribed subs there, or a list of "pinned" subs I can order myself, so I can have easy access to the specific communities I want to browse.

Thank you!

Could Topicle not force all-lowercase usernames? It's an unwanted surprise to find my username "JayHN" turned into just a blob of a word, "jayhn." I've only been on the site a few minutes but I've already seen several multi-word usernames that are much-harder-to-read messes without any capitalization in them.