"We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever"
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https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/info/news/ArenaNet-Launches-New-Forums
The "new features that forced us to start over because they're so good" list consists of things the old forum did and some added gamification stuff.
As I understand it, their old forum ran on Ruby on Rails. I wonder if anyone around here has any experience importing from a Ruby on Rails forum...
Bonus points: the game's official patch notes are stored on the old forum, so those are going to go away forever in a few months.
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At least they didn't go with D
elgiu
rse
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Mobile Support: Enjoy an improved forum experience while using your mobile phone or tablet.
It's not responsive, it uses mobile user-agent sniffing (or similar) to provide an entirely different experience.
EWWW
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@hungrier said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
At least they didn't go with D
elgiu
rseMight as well have...
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@boomzilla said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@hungrier said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
At least they didn't go with D
elgiu
rseMight as well have...
That's OK.
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@boomzilla It worked for me, I guess I got the "500 OK" status
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That's an interesting header...
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X-Via: 5605efcc46607b763d519b81701beb388e0ada7d
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X-Nosy-Parker: Maybe you should be reading this instead: https://www.vanillaforums.com/info/hiring
X-Op: hitAlso PHP ewww....
Edit: D+ on MozObservatory, more ewww.
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@twelvebaud said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
X-Nosy-Parker: Maybe you should be reading this instead: https://www.vanillaforums.com/info/hiring
I've seen things like that in HTML source as well, although I don't remember where.
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@hungrier said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@twelvebaud said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
X-Nosy-Parker: Maybe you should be reading this instead: https://www.vanillaforums.com/info/hiring
I've seen things like that in HTML source as well, although I don't remember where.
In 2015, it was everywhere.
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we're just gonna delete the old one
:-)
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@hungrier said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@twelvebaud said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
X-Nosy-Parker: Maybe you should be reading this instead: https://www.vanillaforums.com/info/hiring
I've seen things like that in HTML source as well, although I don't remember where.
Slashdot had Futurama-style custom HTTP headers a long time ago, back when it was still popular.
I once found this easter egg in "one of those sites that are very much not safe for work":
Leave it to nerds to look at the technical parts instead of the naked flesh parts.
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@twelvebaud said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
Edit: D+ on MozObservatory, more ewww.
Well...
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@atazhaia how can you pass 4 test and still score 0? Is it written by one of those horrible uni professors who give away negative points?
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@gąska Seems the test works by deducting points from 100 rather than adding from 0. So tdwtf got a score of -105 if I add it all up manually.
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@atazhaia That's exactly how my Advanced OOP professor scored assignments! Everyone started with 100 points, and there was this list of errors one could possibly make, each kind of mistake worth a given amount of negative points. It was C++, so the list was huge.
Edit: and you've had to score at least 50 points to pass.
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@gąska said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
at least 50 points to pass.
That's not that bad... Be glad it wasn't 60!
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@1 not much difference, considering each allocation-related bug was -5...
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@gąska said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@1 not much difference, considering each allocation-related bug was -5...
If your program exits in less than a second, don't even bother freeing memory.
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@ben_lubar At least they're being honest about it, unlike another forum maintainer I could name but won't, who promised to make the old forum available read-only over two years ago, but continues to refuse to do so because 'it'll take too long'.
It's almost as if they want to bury something uncomfortable...
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I saw the thread title and the first thing I thought of was the announcement I got by email this morning about GW2's forums.
The one that puzzles me, though, is that it will apparently support SSO of some sort. Your forum login is already your game account name/password(1), and it already shows that when you post, so I don't see what's changing here.
(1) Well, mine is, and I've had one since the game opened. Well, before it opened, and since it opened before it opened(2), that's not bad.(3)
(2) Not really, of course, but the Head Start people were able to start actually playing three hours before the originally-planned "official" opening time. I still have the character I created at the beginning of those three hours.
(3) They already have experience of dumping forums: the forums would open during each Beta event, then close at the end and be wiped ready for the next one.
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@dcoder said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
I once found this easter egg in "one of those sites that are very much not safe for work":
Leave it to nerds to look at the technical parts instead of the naked flesh parts.
It doesn't have too, it just has to burn hot enough to weaken the steel to the point the stress it is currently under exceeds the weakend ultimate tensile strength of the building. once it does that it's all *imitates crashing jenga blocks*
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@ben_lubar If you're writing C++, then every manual allocation - whether you free it or not - should be -5 points. Subtract another 10 if its assigned to a raw pointer rather than a smart pointer (subtract 20 if its std::auto_ptr)
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@gwowen said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@ben_lubar If you're writing C++, then every manual allocation - whether you free it or not - should be -5 points. Subtract another 10 if its assigned to a raw pointer rather than a smart pointer (subtract 20 if its std::auto_ptr)
It sounds like you're under the illusion universities teach modern C++. I was "taught" C like it was still 1970s when I had that class in... '07? Ish? I forget.
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@onyx Heh. I suspected that might be the case. The particular strain of C++ code that is just C where every malloc() is replaced by "new" and every free() by "delete".
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@1 That's not that bad... Be glad it wasn't 60!
Yeah, that was after they changed the Senate filibuster rule.
/lame US politics joke.
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@accalia said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
It doesn't have too, it just has to burn hot enough to weaken the steel to the point the stress it is currently under exceeds the weakend ultimate tensile strength of the building. once it does that it's all imitates crashing jenga blocks
Blah blah blah whatever you fucking NARC. Next you'll be telling me there's wind on the moon, right? Go back to the Pentagon!
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@accalia said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@dcoder said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
I once found this easter egg in "one of those sites that are very much not safe for work":
Leave it to nerds to look at the technical parts instead of the naked flesh parts.
It doesn't have too, it just has to burn hot enough to weaken the steel to the point the stress it is currently under exceeds the weakend ultimate tensile strength of the building. once it does that it's all *imitates crashing jenga blocks*Crashing jenga blocks don't fall vertically.
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@gwowen said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@ben_lubar If you're writing C++, then every manual allocation - whether you free it or not - should be -5 points. Subtract another 10 if its assigned to a raw pointer rather than a smart pointer (subtract 20 if its std::auto_ptr)
We were forbidden from using STL. The only class we were allowed to use was string.
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@gąska said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@accalia said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@dcoder said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
I once found this easter egg in "one of those sites that are very much not safe for work":
Leave it to nerds to look at the technical parts instead of the naked flesh parts.
It doesn't have too, it just has to burn hot enough to weaken the steel to the point the stress it is currently under exceeds the weakend ultimate tensile strength of the building. once it does that it's all *imitates crashing jenga blocks*Crashing jenga blocks don't fall vertically.We don't build skyscrapers out of jenga blocks.
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@coderpatsy said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
We don't build skyscrapers out of jenga blocks.Maybe you don't.
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@coderpatsy said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@gąska said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@accalia said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@dcoder said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
I once found this easter egg in "one of those sites that are very much not safe for work":
Leave it to nerds to look at the technical parts instead of the naked flesh parts.
It doesn't have too, it just has to burn hot enough to weaken the steel to the point the stress it is currently under exceeds the weakend ultimate tensile strength of the building. once it does that it's all *imitates crashing jenga blocks*Crashing jenga blocks don't fall vertically.We don't build skyscrapers out of jenga blocks.Jet fuel can't melt Jenga blocks.
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@hungrier said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@coderpatsy said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@gąska said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@accalia said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@dcoder said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
I once found this easter egg in "one of those sites that are very much not safe for work":
Leave it to nerds to look at the technical parts instead of the naked flesh parts.
It doesn't have too, it just has to burn hot enough to weaken the steel to the point the stress it is currently under exceeds the weakend ultimate tensile strength of the building. once it does that it's all *imitates crashing jenga blocks*Crashing jenga blocks don't fall vertically.We don't build skyscrapers out of jenga blocks.Jet fuel can't melt Jenga blocks.Only because they catch fire first.
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@lorne-kates said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@accalia said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
It doesn't have too, it just has to burn hot enough to weaken the steel to the point the stress it is currently under exceeds the weakend ultimate tensile strength of the building. once it does that it's all imitates crashing jenga blocks
Blah blah blah whatever you fucking NARC. Next you'll be telling me there's wind on the moon, right? Go back to the Pentagon!
....... aaaaaaaaaaaaaand that means it's time to move on from this thread....
/me mutes self.
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@accalia said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
....... aaaaaaaaaaaaaand that means it's time to move on from this thread....
............ seriously did you seriously think I was serious, seriously?
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@lorne-kates and don't call me Shirley!
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@accalia said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@dcoder said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
I once found this easter egg in "one of those sites that are very much not safe for work":
Leave it to nerds to look at the technical parts instead of the naked flesh parts.
It doesn't have too, it just has to burn hot enough to weaken the steel to the point the stress it is currently under exceeds the weakend ultimate tensile strength of the building. once it does that it's all *imitates crashing jenga blocks*TOO SOON
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@wharrgarbl said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
we're just gonna delete the old one
:-)
Why are you smiling. It should be @fbmac smiling instead. But yeah, you made sure to delete him, too!
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@pleegwat said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@hungrier said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@coderpatsy said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@gąska said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@accalia said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@dcoder said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
I once found this easter egg in "one of those sites that are very much not safe for work":
Leave it to nerds to look at the technical parts instead of the naked flesh parts.
It doesn't have too, it just has to burn hot enough to weaken the steel to the point the stress it is currently under exceeds the weakend ultimate tensile strength of the building. once it does that it's all *imitates crashing jenga blocks*Crashing jenga blocks don't fall vertically.We don't build skyscrapers out of jenga blocks.Jet fuel can't melt Jenga blocks.Only because they catch fire first.
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@gąska said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
We were forbidden from using STL. The only class we were allowed to use was string.
Yeccchhhh.
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@gwowen of course there was easy workaround - implement
vector
,unique_ptr
andshared_ptr
yourself.
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@gąska said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@atazhaia That's exactly how my Advanced OOP professor scored assignments! Everyone started with 100 points, and there was this list of errors one could possibly make, each kind of mistake worth a given amount of negative points. It was C++, so the list was huge.
Edit: and you've had to score at least 50 points to pass.
I've read a study and a field test about how grading everyone with an "A+" (or equivalent) at the semester's start and then only deduct from then onwards can lead to better results.
Because for some weird reason, having to work towards something motivates humans less than already possessing something and having to work to prevent it from being taken away.
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@rhywden this only works on people who are bad at maths.
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@gąska no it doesn't Loss aversion is a very strong motivator, even for people who think they're too smart for that shit
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@jaloopa except I always translate the origin point so that 0 points is my personal target, and work from there. When I've got 20/25 points on a maths test in high school, I felt like I've got -5 total. You need 22/70 to pass Polish language finals, so when I've got 37 points, it was like 15 points total. If there is a test where a score can get negative, but I don't have to get any particular score, I make it so the lowest possible score is 0.
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@gąska Absolutely noone except you does this.
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@rhywden I'm used to being the only person good at maths.
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@gąska said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
@rhywden I'm used to being the only person good at maths.
I dare say that you'll still be subject to this strategy. Subconscious decisions and all that.
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@rhywden I think of numbers in a very different way than most people. I know I'm still suspectible to many mind tricks, but I like to believe I'm mostly immune to ones that involve maths.
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@gąska said in "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever":
I know I'm still suspectible to many mind tricks, but I like to believe I'm mostly immune to ones that involve maths.
I bet you're also immune to advertising.
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@heterodox no I'm not. I won't buy some kind of product because it's advertised, but I when I want to buy a product, I'd probably pick a brand that had most advertisements (assuming it's not prohibitively expensive).