Tsaukpaetra Button
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This is a just a thought, FWIW. I'm not volunteering to implement it. ;) If there was a way of indicating what you've actually read, poor Tsaukpaetra would not have to like everything. I think it would be of value to the rest of us also. The existing forum software makes a valiant attempt to bring you to the last read item in a forum, but it's difficult for it to figure out where you were when you respond to replies, etc.
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@tharpa said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
This is a just a thought, FWIW. I'm not volunteering to implement it
Extreme caution. How many of years of IT made you this way?
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@stillwater said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@tharpa said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
This is a just a thought, FWIW. I'm not volunteering to implement it
Extreme caution. How many of years of IT made you this way?
Actually, it's more from volunteering with non-profits, even before IT. Ideas are plentiful; volunteer sweat not so much. Plus, I had an idea here once before, and someone, not unreasonably, suggested that I implement it. I politely declined.
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@tharpa Very wise. I've suffered so much pain because I usually suggest ideas but do not know how to say I'm not implementing this shit. Wish I'd known.
@tharpa said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
but it's difficult for it to figure out where you were when you respond to replies,
This. This is a huge problem when you have to reply to something that is 30 posts above the last post. Painful.
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@tharpa said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
This is a just a thought, FWIW. I'm not volunteering to implement it. ;) If there was a way of indicating what you've actually read, poor Tsaukpaetra would not have to like everything. I think it would be of value to the rest of us also. The existing forum software makes a valiant attempt to bring you to the last read item in a forum, but it's difficult for it to figure out where you were when you respond to replies, etc.
Discourse, of course, needs no such button, because it remembers the read status of every single post and I have not ever experienced it making a mistake on that front.
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@pie_flavor Does it surprise you at all that we've experienced problems with Delgiuse's blue dots on this forum?
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@tharpa said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
If there was a way of indicating what you've actually read, poor Tsaukpaetra would not have to like everything
Wait, is that really what he's been doing?
I thought @Tsaukpaetra actually liked what I had been posting. I thought we were bro's dude!
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@doctorjones said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@tharpa said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
If there was a way of indicating what you've actually read, poor Tsaukpaetra would not have to like everything
Wait, is that really what he's been doing?
I thought @Tsaukpaetra actually liked what I had been posting. I thought we were bro's dude!
I suspected as such for a long time, thinking that either he was easy to please or just practising his people skills. But he finally admitted it recently. Swampy had admitted such some time back.
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@tharpa said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
I suspected as such for a long time, thinking that either he was easy to please or just practising his people skills. But he finally admitted it recently.
His signature has pointed it out for some time now.
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@mott555
Yes, but none of us are users here because we're observent about people :P
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@tharpa If you look inside your LocalStorage, you'll see keys like topic:N:bookmark.
If my guess is correct, this is what that "return to the last read post" popup uses.
So what you want to do is to add a button after each post which will set that value, as well as a button that does whatever that popup does, on command.
This is of course assuming you read threads sequentially and will be satisfied with a single per-topic bookmark. I know I would.
And no, I'm not offering to implement this.
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@pie_flavor said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@tharpa said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
This is a just a thought, FWIW. I'm not volunteering to implement it. ;) If there was a way of indicating what you've actually read, poor Tsaukpaetra would not have to like everything. I think it would be of value to the rest of us also. The existing forum software makes a valiant attempt to bring you to the last read item in a forum, but it's difficult for it to figure out where you were when you respond to replies, etc.
Discourse, of course, needs no such button, because it remembers the read status of every single post and I have not ever experienced it making a mistake on that front.
I recommend you go to meta.d and tell them you love their product and are trying to get your favourite site,
what.thedailywtf.com, to switch to it.
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@pleegwat said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@pie_flavor said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@tharpa said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
This is a just a thought, FWIW. I'm not volunteering to implement it. ;) If there was a way of indicating what you've actually read, poor Tsaukpaetra would not have to like everything. I think it would be of value to the rest of us also. The existing forum software makes a valiant attempt to bring you to the last read item in a forum, but it's difficult for it to figure out where you were when you respond to replies, etc.
Discourse, of course, needs no such button, because it remembers the read status of every single post and I have not ever experienced it making a mistake on that front.
I recommend you go to meta.d and tell them you love their product and are trying to get your favourite site,
what.thedailywtf.com, to switch to it.https://meta.discourse.org/t/convincing-a-site-to-switch/92628
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@jaloopa oh this is gonna be gold.
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@jaloopa
is going to pull a @Polygeekery and start burning down people's houses. 
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They moved it from praise to community, so game on on the edits. It's now in hosting
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@stillwater said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@jaloopa oh this is gonna be gold.
They won't bite. He will be banned as soon as Jeff wakes up.
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@polygeekery said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@stillwater said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@jaloopa oh this is gonna be gold.
They won't bite. He will be banned as soon as Jeff wakes up.
I gave them every hint I could, like the Burns avatar
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@stillwater said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
UPDATE: https://meta.discourse.org/t/convincing-a-site-to-switch/92628/2
Ah, hell. I didn't even get to see it!
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Oooh I'm getting a page does not exist or is private error on clicking the link. Somebody found out what was going on already?
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@dcon The response went something like "They were using Discourse already and switched to Nodebb for reasons. Unless the community has changed, you will have a very hard time convincing them"
Italicized in the original post not me.
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@stillwater said in [Tsaukpaetra Button](/post/1380600:
@tharpa said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
but it's difficult for it to figure out where you were when you respond to replies,
This. This is a huge problem when you have to reply to something that is 30 posts above the last post. Painful.
There's a user setting for that, assuming youre complaining about it taking you to the end of the thread when you post something.
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@erufael oh did not know that. My bad :/
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@stillwater said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
UPDATE: https://meta.discourse.org/t/convincing-a-site-to-switch/92628/2
You need to screenshot meta.d rather than link to it.
Content from here frequently disappears there...
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@jbert I was not aware Discourse and the people here had that much of a history they have to remove a post in like < 15 mins. Wtf. What did you all do to Jeff Atwood?
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@stillwater So how many of the user accounts who posted in that little experiment don't exist anymore?
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@stillwater said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@jbert I was not aware Discourse and the people here had that much of a history they have to remove a post in like < 15 mins. Wtf. What did you all do to Jeff Atwood?
There was an astonishing amount of hostility from the fine folks here. People even started personally attacking him on his Twitter account. I never exactly quite understood why, but I think it had something to do with WTDWTF programmers believing he should be more receptive to their "suggestions". Even Alex said that if it was him, he would have amended the license to specifically prevent TDWTF from using Discourse.
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@tharpa said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
it had something to do with WTDWTF programmers believing he should be more receptive to their
"suggestions"bug reports.
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@stillwater said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@jbert I was not aware Discourse and the people here had that much of a history they have to remove a post in like < 15 mins. Wtf. What did you all do to Jeff Atwood?
There's a thread. Search for "discopocalypse"
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@tharpa @Polygeekery Wowwwwwwwwwwwww....Jeff Atwood is angry/hostile AF.
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@doctorjones said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@tharpa said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
If there was a way of indicating what you've actually read, poor Tsaukpaetra would not have to like everything
Wait, is that really what he's been doing?
I thought @Tsaukpaetra actually liked what I had been posting. I thought we were bro's dude!
This has been discussed at length before. I don't use upvotes to express more than passing appreciation of a post. If I don't like it, however, it receives no upvote.
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@pie_flavor said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@tharpa said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
This is a just a thought, FWIW. I'm not volunteering to implement it. ;) If there was a way of indicating what you've actually read, poor Tsaukpaetra would not have to like everything. I think it would be of value to the rest of us also. The existing forum software makes a valiant attempt to bring you to the last read item in a forum, but it's difficult for it to figure out where you were when you respond to replies, etc.
Discourse, of course, needs no such button, because it remembers the read status of every single post and I have not ever experienced it making a mistake on that front.
I've experienced downtime due to that shit denying service.
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@jaloopa said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@pleegwat said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@pie_flavor said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@tharpa said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
This is a just a thought, FWIW. I'm not volunteering to implement it. ;) If there was a way of indicating what you've actually read, poor Tsaukpaetra would not have to like everything. I think it would be of value to the rest of us also. The existing forum software makes a valiant attempt to bring you to the last read item in a forum, but it's difficult for it to figure out where you were when you respond to replies, etc.
Discourse, of course, needs no such button, because it remembers the read status of every single post and I have not ever experienced it making a mistake on that front.
I recommend you go to meta.d and tell them you love their product and are trying to get your favourite site,
what.thedailywtf.com, to switch to it.https://meta.discourse.org/t/convincing-a-site-to-switch/92628
Should have posted a screenshot, it has already been deleted.
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@tsaukpaetra you should upvote every other post to save time
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@zecc said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@tharpa If you look inside your LocalStorage, you'll see keys like topic:N:bookmark.
If my guess is correct, this is what that "return to the last read post" popup uses.
So what you want to do is to add a button after each post which will set that value, as well as a button that does whatever that popup does, on command.
This is of course assuming you read threads sequentially and will be satisfied with a single per-topic bookmark. I know I would.
And no, I'm not offering to implement this.
The bookmark (as it is or was called in the code) is stored for each user on each thread he reads. It gets updated occasionally as you read when it goes beyond its stored value. That's what's used to generate the URLs on the topic list pages.
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@bb36e said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@tsaukpaetra you should upvote every other post to save time
It would take more processing power and memory to do that, and not save any time because I read slightly slower than I upvote.
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@tsaukpaetra said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
I don't use upvotes to express more than passing appreciation of a post. If I don't like it, however, it receives no upvote.
You must've hated my light joke in the news thread, then. :/
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@stillwater He neglected to say those reasons were that they officially declared us persona non grata.
I just wish they hadn't "memoryholed" the whole thing on their side. Pretending nothing happened is just lame.
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@anonymous234 I'm still banned from SO for no discernible reason (that I can remember). I demand a badge! give me my badge.
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@stillwater said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@dcon The response went something like "They were using Discourse already and switched to Nodebb for reasons. Unless the community has changed, you will have a very hard time convincing them"
Italicized in the original post not me.
Nonsense. It was because raisins, not for reasons.
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@topspin said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@tsaukpaetra said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
I don't use upvotes to express more than passing appreciation of a post. If I don't like it, however, it receives no upvote.
You must've hated my light joke in the news thread, then. :/
I don't recall this event. Was it a neuralizer instance pop?
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@tsaukpaetra said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
I don't recall this event.
Not far from the (currently) last post
Was it a neuralizer instance pop?
Don't know what that is.
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@topspin said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@tsaukpaetra said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
I don't recall this event.
Not far from the (currently) last post
Remedied. Somehow that post apparently did not appear at the time I was going through.
I blame iFramely loading the post below it and jellypotateing.
Was it a neuralizer instance pop?
Don't know what that is.
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@stillwater said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@jbert I was not aware Discourse and the people here had that much of a history they have to remove a post in like < 15 mins. Wtf. What did you all do to Jeff Atwood?
They all hate him for some reason. He left to maintain his sanity.
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@pie_flavor said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@stillwater said in Tsaukpaetra Button:
@jbert I was not aware Discourse and the people here had that much of a history they have to remove a post in like < 15 mins. Wtf. What did you all do to Jeff Atwood?
They all hate him for some reason. He left to maintain his sanity.
I used to look up to him and was an avid reader of his blog. Then he showed up here, demonstrated an extremely fragile ego, failed to follow any of his own rather-sound programming advice from his own blog, and banned me for writing up a bug report that he clearly misread. I was one of the polite ones, too, until I got banned. I wouldn't say I hate him, but I no longer have any respect left for him.
