Official forum improvement requests thread
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@loopback0
It wouldn't be TRWTF with working backups, would it.
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Wait a second, didn't we have someone caching all the posts? He could write a restore function to the userscript that could recreate all the missing posts (one at a time every ten seconds)! Or better: enlist everyone to run a puppet userscript that listens for chat messages and his script will transfer posts that way so said user will post it again automatically!
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@Tsaukpaetra yeah, @anotherusername did.
Filed under: blame @Gąska for breaking those backups.
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You can of course change the background colour at the end to match your needs, and there are dark versions of the text and spinner for light backgrounds here
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Inspired by a discussion elsewhere:
- Allowing people to create coroutines instead of threads.
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@Zerosquare said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Inspired by a discussion elsewhere:
- Allowing people to create coroutines instead of threads.
We call this "de-railing" and it's already implemented.
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I’m sure there’s some awesome logic how this list gets filled with irrelevant suggestions, but if you type
@g
It should always include the resident Pole with funny letters I can’t type.
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@topspin said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
It should always include the resident Pole with funny letters I can’t type.
@Gaska works though.
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@loopback0 said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@topspin said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
It should always include the resident Pole with funny letters I can’t type.
@Gaska works though.
FLAGGED FOR LIBEL!
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@Gąska
But ... without the Polish working, who will fix my sink?
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Feature request: whenever someone hot links an XKCD comic, it should add the alt text.
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@Zecc or replace it with a Rosie
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@Zecc error_bot does that
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@hungrier No, I mean the forum should add it to the person's post.
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i looked for it here but i havent found it..... where is @ben_lubar's suggestion to federate with mastodon?
he's made that suggestion, yeah?
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@Vixen said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
i looked for it here but i havent found it..... where is @ben_lubar's suggestion to federate with mastodon?
he's made that suggestion, yeah?
Must have been The Quixotic Ideas Thread
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@JBert said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Vixen said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
i looked for it here but i havent found it..... where is @ben_lubar's suggestion to federate with mastodon?
he's made that suggestion, yeah?
Must have been The Quixotic Ideas Thread
the....... what?
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@Zecc said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Feature request: whenever someone hot links an XKCD comic, it should add the alt text.
I thought that the dumbbox has it, but I guess not.
But while I'm here, a followup suggestion: automatic temp bans for people who link xkcd comic images instead of the comic page itself.
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@Zecc said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Feature request: whenever someone hot links an XKCD comic, it should add the alt text.
Why should a person's looks determine whether alt text appears?
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@Zecc said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
hot links
I'm hungry.
Edit: The first person to upvote this post was even @hungrier.
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@antiquarian said in Official Funny Stuff Thread - Trolleybus Edition:
I'm sure we could make him an honorary Texan.
Request: Create area_usa_tx group. And maybe area_usa_tx_honorary.
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@HardwareGeek said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@antiquarian said in Official Funny Stuff Thread - Trolleybus Edition:
I'm sure we could make him an honorary Texan.
Request: Create area_usa_tx group. And maybe area_usa_tx_honorary.
are you sure you meant to post that in this thread
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@ben_lubar It's a request, and it's for an improvement to the forum. Or "improvement." Yeah, it's more of a configuration change than a feature addition, but I'm not sure where else to request such a change.
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@HardwareGeek said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@ben_lubar It's a request, and it's for an improvement to the forum. Or "improvement." Yeah, it's more of a configuration change than a feature addition, but I'm not sure where else to request such a change.
I think Ben's referring to the OP.
@ben_lubar said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Just kidding this thread is actually the
Bad forum "improvements" that will not be added
thread
This is a thread for suggesting "improvements" to the forum that will not be added but we'll pretend we're serious for comedic effect.
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@loopback0 Ah, I didn't realize that. I probably hadn't read the OP since about
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The kind of toasters really needs:
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Improvement request: an actual hamburger menu:
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@Zerosquare said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Improvement request: an actual hamburger menu:
Well then at minimum you should suggest some decent hamburgers
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"Flanders News" embeds should have their picture replaced by Ned Flanders, and the text should be doodly-fied
e.g.
@Luhmann said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
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Every time you enter a thread at risk of showing the necro banner if you post to it, an unskippable advertisement that fills the viewport on top of everything must be played, followed by my favorite song.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
my favorite song.
We're no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guyI just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understandNever gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
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@Vixen Welcome back, you silly animal.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
you
sillysexy animal.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Vixen Welcome back, you silly animal.
I'm back.... for now at least.
I haven't been into the office in 10 weeks thanks to COVID
I also haven't worn any clothes to work in 10 weeks as well.
I promise those two facts are unrelated.
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@PleegWat said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Zerosquare said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Improvement request: an actual hamburger menu:
Well then at minimum you should suggest some decent hamburgers
He's keeping with the spirit of hamburger menus being awful
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@Vixen said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
i looked for it here but i havent found it..... where is @ben_lubar's suggestion to federate with mastodon?
he's made that suggestion, yeah?
Jeff Atwood thought of it first and I immediately decided against it
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@ben_lubar said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Vixen said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
i looked for it here but i havent found it..... where is @ben_lubar's suggestion to federate with mastodon?
he's made that suggestion, yeah?
Jeff Atwood thought of it first and I immediately decided against it
why do I get the feeling that if Jeff set up a mastodon instance he'd very quickjly find a large number of instances not only defederate/refuse to federate with him, but also hard block his instance?
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@Vixen said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@ben_lubar said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Vixen said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
i looked for it here but i havent found it..... where is @ben_lubar's suggestion to federate with mastodon?
he's made that suggestion, yeah?
Jeff Atwood thought of it first and I immediately decided against it
why do I get the feeling that if Jeff set up a mastodon instance he'd very quickjly find a large number of instances not only defederate/refuse to federate with him, but also hard block his instance?
I certainly would
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@hungrier said in Update: the new admin/moderation team and changes discussions will begin soon:
@Gąska said in Update: the new admin/moderation team and changes discussions will begin soon:
@HardwareGeek oh. I never thought of that. I think the real solution is to bother @julianlam for a real spoiler functionality.
I haven't thought this through all the way but an nsfw image plugin could look something like this: Flag your image somehow in the source, output
<img data-not-src="http://notworksafe.biz/filthy.jpg" class="nsfw" />
to the baked post. The nsfw class would show some placeholder image and use jquery magic to set the src when cilcked.I was thinking similar, but simply rehash the details tag.
Simply find them with RegEx, swallow everything but the Summary tag, add that to the details tag as a data-attribute, a jquery on-click function for the details would append the actual content and erase the data attribute.
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Are we going to get editing capability back?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Simply find them with RegEx, swallow everything
bold italic flashbacks
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Simply find them with RegEx
This is the right topic for that suggestion.
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@Zenith said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Are we going to get editing capability back?
Probably. I'm not sure why it's gone at all, TBH. I suppose someone was worried that people would hastily edit out "bigotry" from their posts, if any could be found. I'd assume not before the new admin team is installed, though.
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@boomzilla said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Zenith said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Are we going to get editing capability back?
Probably. I'm not sure why it's gone at all, TBH. I suppose someone was worried that people would hastily edit out "bigotry" from their posts, if any could be found. I'd assume not before the new admin team is installed, though.
Well it's been almost an hour and the post you're quoting still shows options in the menu. It just seems to have disappeared from older posts. I've been hesitant to post anything without full knowledge of what the
rulesmechanics were changed to because I clearly can't proofread very well.
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@Zenith my experience is that I can freely edit all my posts except those in Garage, which I can't edit at all.