📖 Teh Official Discopædia (Forums Dictionary)



  • Discouragement Fund
    noun

    alt. Discourse Encouragement Fund

    A fund used to pay independent developers who contribute to the Discourse codebase [source]. This is supposed to be a Good Thing™ since Discurse is technically OSS, but since TCotCDCK is making money off of this bloated monstrosity, it's really only right that they pay people who contribute to their software.

    [citation]


  • Trolleybus Mechanic

    Dismediately

    A discodev's version of "immediately". Everything happens immediately, because it happens when it happens. The 30 seconds of load time doesn't count.

    Related to: Windows boot time.

    Citation: https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/1309770


  • Considered Harmful

    Discourse Derangement Syndrome
    noun

    A mental condition in which the concept of Discourse starts to infect every thought a person has. The person will become convinced that every wrongdoing against them is caused by the developers of Discourse, and that every badly written program they use is influenced by Discourse. Eventually they begin to believe that every new person they meet who does not hate Discourse is a developer of Discourse. May lead to death.

    Note: It is unknown whether this syndrome is caused by Discourse, or by prior existing derangement.

    [Citation]



  • Boob
    noun

    A solid-colored, circular user interface element in the lower right corner of a user interface, usually with some other shape overlaid on top of it.

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  • 3px
    noun

    The number of pixels too narrow your browser is right now. Everything will be better if you just make your browser 3 pixels wider.


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  • ♿ (Parody)

    This is an import from the old memes thread, and not entirely sure what belongs here @abarker

    TRWTF is PHP
    Also known as TRWTF is Java, TRWTF is Javascript, TRTWF is VB, or TRWTF is PERL. This is brought on by haters who don't know the language well enough. Most functional programmers think with a stick up their behind part. So any other language is TRWTF.

    TRWTF (The Real What the Fuck)
    No specific origin
    Also known as TR‌:wtf:. Expression used in article comments (and sometimes in forums topics presenting a WTF) to denote that the commenter thinks there is a detail in the story even more egregious than the ostensibly presented WTF, this detail being considered TRWTF; the poster may or may not be dismissing the "original" WTF as not really being a WTF, but expresses that TRWTF tops it.

    Wooden Table
    origin: Web 0.1
    Expression used as a shorthand to designate (as a WTF) a rube-goldbergian publishing process, typically on a web site (sometimes actually involving a wooden table, as in the original post, but not necessarily). Also used for emphasis when discussing a rube-goldbergian process in general: "it only lacks a wooden table", for instance. Notable for having been used by Raymond Chen outside of TDWTF.

    "Brillant" Paula Bean
    origin: The Brillant Paula Bean
    Often simply brillant. Typically used as an exclamation for emphasis in response to WTF code. Note the lack of the second "i"; putting it in is similar to failing a triforce on 4chan.

    FileNotFound
    origin: What Is Truth?
    Also FILE_NOT_FOUND, file_not_found, etc. The mythical ternary truth value; you can count on there being a comment remarking the lack of this alternative whenever booleans are discussed (and sometimes when they are not).

    Clbuttic
    origin: The Clbuttic Mistake
    Exclaimed at least once in response to all search-and-replace censorship reports.

    FTFY (Fixed That For You)
    no specific origin
    This is typically a quoted reply to a post, with subtle changes made to the quote for comedic effect.

    Irish Girl
    origin: BustedTees ad campaign, circa start of 2008; here is the T-shirt product page
    Before Alex switched to hand-picked sponsors, an ad campaign from BustedTees ran on The Daily WTF. It pictured the "Irish I were drunk" tee on a model, a lovely redhead (named Erica Sullivan). She was an immediate hit with The Daily WTF readers. She has been referenced (under the fan nickname Irish Girl) and her image appeared in a variety of contexts in the community, but a persistent one was the (image) comments to Mandatory Fun Day (see that entry). The Daily WTF is not the only community on which she made an impression, many others noticed her, often before she became a meme on The Daily WTF, such as the College Humor community, which led to a College Humor interview with her; she is most often known elsewhere as the "BustedTees Girl" (the "Irish" tee having probably been released in 2008, therefore after these communities noticed her)

    Mandatory Fun Day
    origin: webcomic series
    Written by Alex, drawn by George E. McDougall, then Mark Bowytz. Some (like me) liked it, others did not, but is still referenced to this day. A lot of image manipulation and meme creativity occurred in its comments, culminating in Magenta Kong.

    Frames Securely Mediate, By Design
    origin: I am right and the entire Industry is wrong
    Also Secure multi-mediation is the future of all webbing, etc. "Advice" is given in an email to liberally use HTML frames, culminating with the following: Frames securely mediate, by design. Secure multi-mediation is the future of all webbing. The expressions get instantly adopted by the community, often put as a humorous way to solve whatever problem it is posted in response to.

    President's Sick Daughter
    origin: Human Heat Sink
    Also just president's daughter. Notional damsel in distress involved in many imagined plots, the sillier the better; she must often be saved from a fatal disease, but she can also be kidnapped, or in other danger, or can even be the adversary.

    Proven Fix
    origin: The Proven Fix
    A fix which has been mathematically proven (on paper) to be correct, and therefore needs no testing before putting into production, but turns out to not actually work. Suggesting that there may have been an error in the claimant's proof usually leads to defensive maneuvers, a blathering meltdown, and ragequit over having to work on a defective system that still didn't work after it had been fixed, even when the fix was proven to be correct.

    Embedded System
    origin: nice_num, mean_programmer and The c-bitmap
    Also without a filesystem, no filesystem, etc. Most visitors of The Daily WTF program enterprise software, and that is where most WTFs tend to come from. But The Daily WTF is read by programmers (and even non-programmers!) of all backgrounds. "nice_num", for once, seemed to come from the embedded world., and reaction to it was binary: some commenters piled on the "WTFs", while others who had some embedded background said this was exactly the way to go to implement that functionality if there was no built-in way to do it (which was impossible to tell from the context provided) and the "WTF" was thus not a WTF. But when the "C-bitmap" was posted, this time the background was clearly an embedded project, and commenters with an embedded background all piled on to say this was a perfectly reasonable solution for an embedded system, which probably didn't have any filesystem and so any other way to load resource data. Unfortunately, it was then picked up as a snide remark by some to ironically justify WTFs afterwards (sometimes just referencing the embedded bit, sometimes also referencing the lack of a filesystem), including and especially if the WTF had nothing to do with embedded constraints and the lack of a filesystem in particular. Full disclosure: I am an embedded developer and it may have colored the description of the meme, but I am right nonetheless.

    Lyle Can Do Better
    origin: Anything You Can Do Lyle Can Do Better

    Now What?
    origin: Hypothetical Question

    No Quack
    origin: No, We Need a Neural Network

    SSDS
    origin: Why is Everybody so clueless…, and this for the background

    Bert Glanstron
    origin: Tables Turned
    Also In case you can’t tell, this is a grown-up place, banned from your mommy and daddy’s modem, etc.

    X Is Y. Z, But It Is (Still) Y
    origin: forum topic columny name

    Directive 595 Part 4 Is As Follows
    origin: Directive 595

    TDEMSYR
    Don't ask. This doesn't even make sense you retard!

    NodeBB (⛔ 👶)
    "no baby", the unofficial emojified NodeBB logo/name.

    [X] is a barrier to reading
    Snarky response to any disliked Discourse feature or misfeature, real or imagined. E.g. "next page buttons are a barrier to reading".

    sexy
    Everything is sexy. Especially dinner plates.

    Community Server
    (Former) backend software used for the Daily WTF forums. "Not taken seriously by the community" would be a nice way to put it: it is constantly abused (with such constructs as "signature guy", see that entry), mocked, blamed for everything, etc. Kept being used for a long time at least in part due to a lack of alternative forum software available on the .NET platform.

    Post Cunt
    Spelling mistake typically made by Nagesh. This is in spite of fact that Nagesh knows how to spell count correctly. Post count is an overrated feature of forum sometimes used to distinguish old-timer from noobies. This of course is not a correct representation of this forum.

    Pendantry
    Ironic misspelling of pedantry, often accompanied by images of pendants.


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