Official forum improvement requests thread
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If you enable someone to get a bunch of votes (and not through them criticising you), some amount of reputation should be forwarded to you based upon the proportion of original content in the response.
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Integration with TurnItIn.com for implementing the above ^^
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The idea of a "garage" and "lounge" category that applies only to entire topics is sheer folly. Clearly, those should be attributes applied to individual posts.
This eliminates the need for jeffing: just post your trolleybus reply and mark it as "garage", then they will remain invisible to users who have not opted to view the garage.
There will be no need for putting personal stuff or flamy bait in new threads. Starting threads is work.
Then there is also the possibility of having lounge posts that are also garagy, which is sure to please.
These markers are naturally copied to all replies to the post that has them.
Thiled under: ThThThThThTh
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Topics are so last century. Merge the entire forum into one continuous Stream of conversation.
This in combination with the above; allow categorization (or "Tagging") of the subject, such that subjects a user doesn't care for can be hidden, and subjects they find important can be highlighted in the forefront.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Topics are so last century. Merge the entire forum into one continuous Stream of conversation.
This in combination with the above; allow categorization (or "Tagging") of the subject, such that subjects a user doesn't care for can be hidden, and subjects they find important can be highlighted in the forefront.A forum I used to go to converted to a similar sort of idea a few years ago. They still had topics, but instead of categories they went to a tag system. By default, new topics would have the equivalent of the "General" tag, and you could specify other tags based on what you were talking about. Users could also suggest tags for topics, so e.g. if you made a topic about pokemon, someone could suggest the pokemon tag and you (the topic creator) would see a notification about it, and optionally apply the tag to your topic.
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Downvote downvotes.
I feel like this isn't original…
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@kazitor workaround:
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@Gąska What if there are multiple boomzilla's in the downvoter list?
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@JBert said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Gąska What if there are multiple boomzilla's in the downvoter list?
Then multiple new chat windows must be used!
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@JBert
Just pester them all until one of them caves inOr you get banned ... whatever comes frist
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We need
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@CHUDbert
No
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@izzion cousin of yours?
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@hungrier fun fact: Ekans and Dratini are in the same egg group - it means they can have offsprings.
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@Gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@hungrier fun fact: Ekans and Dratini are in the same egg group - it means they can have offsprings.
And make a great breakfast too I suppose?
More emojis!
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@DogsB Ugh; misread that as Parity Parrot…
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@Gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@hungrier fun fact: Ekans and Dratini are in the same egg group - it means they can have offsprings.
that's a shiny ekans
you can tell because it's gen 1 and also the most awful shade of green possible
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@ben_lubar The copyright on the site is incorrect. You should probably bump it to 2020 so you don't have to fix it until 2021.
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@DogsB Why do copyrights have an end year anyway? What does it mean?
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@DogsB said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@ben_lubar The copyright on the site is incorrect.
Evidence:
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@sockpuppet7 said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB Why do copyrights have an end year anyway? What does it mean?
The date is supposed to be whenever the covered work was first published. If it gets updated then you use the [first published]-[last update] form to show that. But our IP people said it wasn't important and the work is covered anyway (if it can be) regardless of date being correct or being there at all.
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@Cursorkeys said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
But our IP people said it wasn't important and the work is covered anyway (if it can be) regardless of date being correct or being there at all.
Correct; if you're curious about the mechanism:
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@heterodox I had the same discussion with IP people that @Cursorkeys had, and they gave me the same response. I did remember that copyright was automatic (no need to mention it or register your work in any way), but I forgot why the date did still matter (a bit). Your link reminded me of the reason: copyright may have an expiration date (e.g. 25 or 50 years, depending on the type of work), so every time the work is changed, you refresh the date to extend the copyright duration. The date isn't strictly needed (you could prove the date in any other way), but it's at least an indication. Makes sense.
Although I wonder how many code/webpages reach the 25 years old mark, let alone 50... (using the widely accepted start date of 1989 for WWW, a web page could at most turn 30 this year!)
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@remi said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
so every time the work is changed, you refresh the date to extend the copyright duration.
Mmm, depends on the change, but that's the theory.
Although I wonder how many code/webpages reach the 25 years old mark, let alone 50... (using the widely accepted start date of 1989 for WWW, a web page could at most turn 30 this year!)
Well, you could be publishing a work online that had been published traditionally prior to the WWW existing. This is an example of a change that doesn't extend the copyright duration-- change of the presentation medium wouldn't do that.
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@heterodox True. Plus, anyway, the 25/50 years are just two numbers I saw while skimming the page and I have no idea whether they would apply to web pages.
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@remi said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
no need to mention it or register your work in any way
yeah, the US government is trying to fix this feature
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@ben_lubar Phaw, that's easy, just repeal the Berne Convention. There is no way this would go wrong.
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@remi said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
I did remember that copyright was automatic (no need to mention it or register your work in any way), but I forgot why the date did still matter (a bit).
Registration increases the level of damages you can claim (whether that is worthwhile to you…). The date matters in work-for-hire cases, as the clock starts ticking there immediately on publication (whatever that means!) instead of on the date of the creator's death.
I recommend putting the date (or at least year) of creation in anyway, as files do tend to get copied around and their exact provenance lost. You might think “that'll never happen now we've got
$VCS_OF_CHOICE
” but I've seen it happen too many times already even with VCSs and putting the creation year in is really not a very onerous requirement.
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@dkf said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
I recommend putting the date (or at least year) of creation in anyway, as files do tend to get copied around and their exact provenance lost. You might think “that'll never happen now we've got
$VCS_OF_CHOICE
” but I've seen it happen too many times already even with VCSs and putting the creation year in is really not a very onerous requirement.That's what we do, but the discussion came around one day we noticed how out-dated some of the dates were (because we never bothered to change it), and we then started discussing (between devs) what we should do. We ended up involving someone from IP to get a "definitive" answer, and the answer was indeed "you don't need to put a date (or worry about the date being up-to-date), but if you do it can help in some cases and if you forget to update it it's unlikely to ever be an issue, so put a date, update them if you think about it, but don't worry about it."
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@remi said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@ben_lubar Phaw, that's easy, just repeal the Berne Convention. There is no way this would go wrong.
Multilateral conventions are
evilunfair. Let's do bilateral negotiations on everything!
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@remi Our VCS actually auto-updates the copyright year. And warns if it finds a copyright string for a different company, though I'm not sure it's very good at finding those.
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@remi said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
it can help in some cases
When I was in postgrad, it would drive me crazy when I wanted to cite a site (that's fun to say) but there was no date anywhere on the site. I had a bookmarklet that did
alert(document.lastModified)
as a last-ditch effort to get some approximation in those cases.
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Figure out what the hell makes the mobile view sometimes hide the forum/post toolbar under the browser toolbar. Also it would be great to figure out what causes it to go into this infinite jump-backwards reload loop on mobile (it randomly reloads and jumps back X posts every time).
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@Zenith said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
what causes it to go into this infinite jump-backwards reload loop on mobile (it randomly reloads and jumps back X posts every time).
I can answer this! Every time the websocket disconnects (and shows the offline toaster, even for a millisecond) it will reload the page from the current URL when reconnected.
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@sockpuppet7 said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
What does it mean?
It means nothing unless they stop extending the copyright period every time Mickey Mouse is about to go public domain.
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Feature request: increase signature length to 2000 characters
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@pie_flavor what difference would that make.
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@topspin right? There's no reason not to.
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@dkf said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB Ugh; misread that as Parity Parrot…
Rawk! Polly wants a CRC.
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@Cursorkeys said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@pie_flavor said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
We should re-enable animated avatars.
That would re-introduce the @tufty problem. The animated lemon was OK but the one before was not.
TBH I prefer it if, generally, things don't animate on webpages.
Edit: Ohhhhhh, I see now
just out of curiosity, what was the @tufty problem?
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@pie_flavor said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Cursorkeys said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@pie_flavor said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
We should re-enable animated avatars.
That would re-introduce the @tufty problem. The animated lemon was OK but the one before was not.
TBH I prefer it if, generally, things don't animate on webpages.
Edit: Ohhhhhh, I see now
just out of curiosity, what was the @tufty problem?
I can't actually remember what he had before the lemon. It was an animated thing, but it wasn't good. Lotus seed pod maybe?
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@Cursorkeys said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@pie_flavor said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Cursorkeys said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@pie_flavor said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
We should re-enable animated avatars.
That would re-introduce the @tufty problem. The animated lemon was OK but the one before was not.
TBH I prefer it if, generally, things don't animate on webpages.
Edit: Ohhhhhh, I see now
just out of curiosity, what was the @tufty problem?
I can't actually remember what had before the lemon. It was an animated thing, but it wasn't good. Lotus seed pod maybe?
I don't think we ever had animated lotus seed pods
I think it was just really flashy and distracting/seizure-inducing
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Luckily I had a tab that still had my version of the custom CSS for the loading spinner:
.nprogress-busy body { background: #015b9f center center fixed; background-size: contain; background-image: url(https://what.thedailywtf.com/assets/uploads/files/1572470113907-wtdwtf-spinner2.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center; height: 100%; overflow-y: hidden; } /* This fixes mobile, but breaks scrolling to the target post. Use with care? */ .nprogress-busy #content { display: none; }
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Remaking a better spinner for a brave new world
Dark theme version:
.nprogress-busy body { background: url("/assets/uploads/files/1573276127946-spinner.gif") center center / 8rem no-repeat fixed, url("/assets/uploads/files/1573276128151-yourposts.png") center 80% / 60rem no-repeat fixed, #272b30; }
Light theme version:
.nprogress-busy body { background: url("/assets/uploads/files/1573276127932-spinnerb.gif") center center / 8rem no-repeat fixed, url("/assets/uploads/files/1573276128154-yourpostsb.png") center 80% / 60rem no-repeat fixed, #fefefe; }
And for a more accurate caption, add one of these:
e.g.
.nprogress-busy body { background: url("/assets/uploads/files/1573277519537-redline.png") center 80% / 61.5rem no-repeat fixed, url("/assets/uploads/files/1573276127946-spinner.gif") center center / 8rem no-repeat fixed, url("/assets/uploads/files/1573276128151-yourposts.png") center 80% / 60rem no-repeat fixed, #272b30; }
It still doesn't center on mobile, but what can you do?
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I humbly propose a working back up system.
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@Luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
I humbly propose a working back up system.
You misunderstand, this thread is satire.
@ben_lubar said in Official forum improvement requests 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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@Tsaukpaetra
That or my satire just past you
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
I humbly propose a working back up system.
You misunderstand, this thread is satire.
@ben_lubar said in Official forum improvement requests 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.
He went offtopic with an actual improvement.
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@Luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Tsaukpaetra
That or my satire just past youMaybe. I'm all out of sorts trying to recover data. Not enough resources to allocate for the higher-level functions.