Official forum improvement requests thread
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@Gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Zenith my experience is that I can freely edit all my posts except those in Garage, which I can't edit at all.
If you go back far enough in your post history, you'll find older posts you can no longer edit.
TBH I'm not sure if that particular thing is new though.
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@loopback0 you're right. And I verified the barrier is somewhere between 20 hours and 6 years. I only ever edit posts immediately after posting, or occasionally within an hour, so it makes sense I haven't noticed it. Assuming that's all the rules.
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@Gąska Assuming it's the same everywhere (except the Garage) I think it's 7 days.
edit: Like you though I only edit recent posts so wouldn't have noticed if this was a long time thing anyway.
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@Zenith said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@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.Oh. There is a time limit on editing. I know that editing was turned off in some categories but I guess not all of them. This is the setting, BTW:
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@boomzilla Would 0 disable the time limit, or editing entirely?
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@hungrier probably entirely, but would have to test it to be certain.
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@boomzilla That is a bit ridiculous if it disables editing entirely. But anyway, once all this admin/mod stuff is figured out I'd still like to add a forum customization category, either with posts editable forever or with the Wiki/KB plugin enabled to allow editing by anyone (and presumably without a time limit)
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@error said in Update: the new admin/moderation team and changes discussions will begin soon:
It would be neat if we could up-or-downboat moderator actions, specifically. Like the action shows up underneath the post with its own reaction buttons.
I like that! Once a post gets flagged, it turns a different color and lets you react. Get enough reacts or and the post (and responses to it) get jeffed to a new topic in the category that uses that emoticon for its type.
Someone give me some enthusiasm to see about implementing this!
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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
I've never actually learned, can anyone else answer what was the @tufty problem?
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@pie_flavor said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
I've never actually learned, can anyone else answer what was the @tufty problem?
He's either talking about an animated avatar or when he used that picture of a lotus seed pod that grosses a lot of people out when zoomed in with no context.
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@Luhmann said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@JBert
Just pester them all until one of them caves inOr you get banned ... whatever comes frist
Testing a while back suggests the second
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@boomzilla said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@pie_flavor said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
I've never actually learned, can anyone else answer what was the @tufty problem?
He's either talking about an animated avatar or when he used that picture of a lotus seed pod that grosses a lot of people out when zoomed in with no context.
I have an idea for a new avatar!
What ever happened to levisiki? Does he have an alt? Or is he just in the lounge?
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@DogsB he rage quit. And deleted all his posts entirely.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB he rage quit. And deleted all his posts entirely.
There's a certain irony in that. Thanks for telling me.
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@DogsB said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB he rage quit. And deleted all his posts entirely.
There's a certain irony in that. Thanks for telling me.
It actually made quite a mess when he invoked the GDPR and all the posts including topics that he started just vanished into the electronic aether. But yes. it was ironic, In an anvil sort of irony.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB he rage quit. And deleted all his posts entirely.
There's a certain irony in that. Thanks for telling me.
It actually made quite a mess when he invoked the GDPR and all the posts including topics that he started just vanished into the electronic aether. But yes. it was ironic, In an anvil sort of irony.
GDPR? Its mostly anonymous public data on US servers? We just had to remove his non public stuff and and his username from his posts.
*YMMV and my place of employment might be on the hook if their legal counsel proves faulty.
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@DogsB said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB he rage quit. And deleted all his posts entirely.
There's a certain irony in that. Thanks for telling me.
It actually made quite a mess when he invoked the GDPR and all the posts including topics that he started just vanished into the electronic aether. But yes. it was ironic, In an anvil sort of irony.
GDPR? Its mostly anonymous public data on US servers? We just had to remove his non public stuff and and his username from his posts.
*YMMV and my place of employment might be on the hook if their legal counsel proves faulty.
The way it worked here was that everything he had ever written (once he invoked the so-called "right to be forgotten") had to be removed. Or was removed. Whether that's an implementation detail (removing a user account destroys all the content, as if on a cascading
on delete
trigger) or not, that's what happened.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB he rage quit. And deleted all his posts entirely.
There's a certain irony in that. Thanks for telling me.
It actually made quite a mess when he invoked the GDPR and all the posts including topics that he started just vanished into the electronic aether. But yes. it was ironic, In an anvil sort of irony.
GDPR? Its mostly anonymous public data on US servers? We just had to remove his non public stuff and and his username from his posts.
*YMMV and my place of employment might be on the hook if their legal counsel proves faulty.
The way it worked here was that everything he had ever written (once he invoked the so-called "right to be forgotten") had to be removed. Or was removed. Whether that's an implementation detail (removing a user account destroys all the content, as if on a cascading
on delete
trigger) or not, that's what happened.He asked and I pushed the button. I didn't realize it would delete entire threads. I figured it would anonymize his posts or something. Which there now seems to be an option to do, BTW. I suspect other people complained about the delete stuff.
Whatever. We have no shortage of s around here.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB he rage quit. And deleted all his posts entirely.
There's a certain irony in that. Thanks for telling me.
It actually made quite a mess when he invoked the GDPR and all the posts including topics that he started just vanished into the electronic aether. But yes. it was ironic, In an anvil sort of irony.
IIRC what @boomzilla said, he didn't actually request the deletion of everything. Bz just didn't know the button would do that.Ignore what I just said, it's in the post right above this.
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@DogsB said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB he rage quit. And deleted all his posts entirely.
There's a certain irony in that. Thanks for telling me.
It actually made quite a mess when he invoked the GDPR and all the posts including topics that he started just vanished into the electronic aether. But yes. it was ironic, In an anvil sort of irony.
GDPR? Its mostly anonymous public data on US servers? We just had to remove his non public stuff and and his username from his posts.
Turns out American devs know even less about GDPR compliance than European devs.
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@Gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB he rage quit. And deleted all his posts entirely.
There's a certain irony in that. Thanks for telling me.
It actually made quite a mess when he invoked the GDPR and all the posts including topics that he started just vanished into the electronic aether. But yes. it was ironic, In an anvil sort of irony.
GDPR? Its mostly anonymous public data on US servers? We just had to remove his non public stuff and and his username from his posts.
Turns out
AmericanCanadian devs know even less about GDPR compliance than European devs.
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@boomzilla said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Turns out
AmericanCanadian devs know even less about GDPR compliance than European devs.Canada is in North America.
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@Zecc said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@boomzilla said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Turns out
AmericanCanadian devs know even less about GDPR compliance than European devs.Canada is in North America.
So is America.
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Nice try, but we're not going to fall for that stack-overflowing recursion.
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@Zerosquare said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Nice try, but we're not going to fall for that stack-overflowing recursion.
Not with that attitude.
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@Zerosquare said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Nice try, but we're not going to fall for that stack-overflowing recursion.
Vote to close; not a question.
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@boomzilla said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@DogsB he rage quit. And deleted all his posts entirely.
There's a certain irony in that. Thanks for telling me.
It actually made quite a mess when he invoked the GDPR and all the posts including topics that he started just vanished into the electronic aether. But yes. it was ironic, In an anvil sort of irony.
GDPR? Its mostly anonymous public data on US servers? We just had to remove his non public stuff and and his username from his posts.
*YMMV and my place of employment might be on the hook if their legal counsel proves faulty.
The way it worked here was that everything he had ever written (once he invoked the so-called "right to be forgotten") had to be removed. Or was removed. Whether that's an implementation detail (removing a user account destroys all the content, as if on a cascading
on delete
trigger) or not, that's what happened.He asked and I pushed the button. I didn't realize it would delete entire threads. I figured it would anonymize his posts or something. Which there now seems to be an option to do, BTW. I suspect other people complained about the delete stuff.
Whatever. We have no shortage of s around here.
They seem to pop up on a daily basis!
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Need the option to personalize user profile pages, with custom background image and music playlist, MySpace-style.
I'll start with this:
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@topspin said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
MySpace-style.
So by allowing any CSS or HTML to be entered unsanitised? Perfect!
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@loopback0 what could possibly go wrong?!
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I agree with whatever topspin just said.
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Signature guy just gets old, you know.
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A/B testing of post contents.
Write two (or more) variants of your lame joke or extended diatribe, see which ones garner the most boats or replies of a certain style.
Responses to each variant are collated as if to a single post, but the poster has the option to see how they were distributed amongst variants. So A gets two boats and B gets three, the post has a score of five but they can see the distribution.
The potential for abuse… well there isn’t any.
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@kazitor said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
The potential for abuse…
Version A: "Masks are extremely important!"
Version B: "Masks are useless!"And let me manually select who sees what...
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@Gąska said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
And let me manually select who sees what...
I'm assuming you're trying to select in a way that pisses of everybody instead of the other way round, right?
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@topspin no, of course not.
Variant B
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@Gąska
Well, no, metallurgy gets a bit more involved than that. And how, exactly, do you reconcile cosmic ray spallation with the usual approach to work health and safety?
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Gradient vs constant red for nested <del> tags
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@Gribnit said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Gradientbreathing animation vs constant red for nested <del> tagsThere we go.
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@Gribnit
I’ve had this in my custom CSS for years, handles all permutations of nesting better than the default styles and probably even works in blight themes..composer .preview del, .posts .content del, .composer .preview ins, .posts .content ins { color: inherit !important; text-decoration: inherit !important; } .composer .preview del, .posts .content del { background-color: #ff313170 !important; } .composer .preview ins, .posts .content ins { background-color: #31ff3170 !important; }
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Inspired by something @topspin posted elsewhere: floating-point upvotes/downvotes. Instead of two buttons, you get a slider that goes from -1.0 to +1.0.
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@Zerosquare Complex conjugate votes. +0.5 + 0.25i.
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@Zerosquare
∞ 1
+∑ —
n=1 2nAnd irrational and imaginary numbers for those members.
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@Zerosquare said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Instead of two buttons, you get a slider that goes from -1.0 to +1.0.
Combine this with the idea that all emojis should be available as reactions.
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@loopback0 said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
@Zerosquare said in Official forum improvement requests thread:
Instead of two buttons, you get a slider that goes from -1.0 to +1.0.
Combine this with the idea that all emojis should be available as reactions.
What about combining character sequences?
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@Applied-Mediocrity has 0.05 your post in Official forum improvement requests thread
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New improvement request:
For each emoji, list the users who used it and how many times. There is several ways this could be shown, either as some specific page, or as part of the hover text on emojis when reading a user's post (e.g.
:emoji: (42 uses, 2nd-most used emoji of that user, 13th most prolific user of that emoji
).We probably need to add some settings to control what's shown in the hover text -- both what you see when hovering another user's post, and what other users can see when hovering your posts.
This way if someone uses e.g. but usually uses , we know there is something... fishy going on.
We could also easily get the emojis that have never, or almost, been used. That would help maintaining our list of emojis.
For example by ensuring those unused ones are always much more numerous than used ones -- you wouldn't want users to get bored of the same old emojis, right?
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@remi we need a new emoji cloud attack