Post, I choo-choo-choose you!
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The standard button in Discourse to "like" a post is heart? A pink heart? Really?
Symbols mean things. That's why they're useful, obviously. What does a heart mean? In western culture, a heart (especially a pink one) signifies romantic intent. When you see a bumper sticker that reads "I ♥ NY", precisely nobody reads that as "I like New York". It means "love". I LOOOOOOOOVE New York.
You know what I don't love? Other peoples' posts. I "like" them. I am thus dissuaded from clicking a big pink heart under someone's post, no matter how much I may have enjoyed reading it, because this is not a freaking dating site, and I am not a 13-year-old girl doodling in the margins of her Trapper Keeper.
So for the love of god, get rid of the heart and replace it with something sensible. 👍
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Filed under: Someone's taking things way too seriously.
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But hearts are qt and kawaii~~ ^_^
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┌∩┐(◣_◢)┌∩┐
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I'm pretty sure something like a thumbs-up might send the Facebook lawyers in. Hell, the verb "like" might get a cease-and-desist someday.
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I'm pretty sure something like a thumbs-up might send the Facebook lawyers in. Hell, the verb "like" might get a cease-and-desist someday.
Bah. Facebook may have a lock on their specific Like graphic, but the concept of indicating approval via a thumbs-up has prior art of a few centuries.
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Can we also put a button next to the button?
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May I suggest as the new heart, here.
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May I suggest as the new heart, here.
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the concept of indicating approval via a thumbs-up has prior art of a few centuries.
It's also an obscene and insulting gesture in certain Middle Eastern cultures (as well as in Australia), so Nagesh probably wouldn't like it, which means we should probably start using it.
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Can we also put a button next to the button?
Seconded. I'm gonna have much easier time getting a good score with those!
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It's also an obscene and insulting gesture in certain Middle Eastern cultures
Hmm, interesting, did Facebook change the glyph on like for that locale?I hope is not obscene anywhere.
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Rubber stamp
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the concept of indicating approval via a thumbs-up has prior art of a few centuries. @Quietust said:
It's also an obscene and insulting gesture in certain Middle Eastern cultures (as well as in Australia), so Nagesh probably wouldn't like it, which means we should probably start using it.
I've lived in Oz for almost 10 years and have not seen evidence of the thumbs up being seen as insulting or obscene. I'm trying to recall if I've seen native Australians using the thumbs up but it's not something that stick in the mind...
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I think you just invented Australian quoting.
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Almost - the reply should have been at the top though...
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I think you just invented Australian quoting.
I'll pretend I did that on purpose like when Ronald told me I put my links in weird places...
@Ronald said:
Besides the extra space, it's a weird place to put the hyperlink. The psychological meaning of weird hyperlinks placement is slightly creepy, it feels like watching a kid's drawing where people have eyes but no mouth.
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I put my links in weird places.
That's even weirder on Discourse; it puts the click-count between the e and the i.Bug: Right-clicking the link without following it increments the click counter.
Edit: Only for me, apparently. It's back to 1 when I refresh the not-a-page.
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more than likely.
"3 users have given your comment the rubber stamp of approval"
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http://unicode-table.com
I don't even... I ... what... WHO MADE ALL THESE!?!?! I mean, these are like a standard and what not, right?
Well, whatever. Now we can do this without an image: 💩
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Questioning the existence of a site that requires basic technical skill and one metric buttload of spare time?
Are you sure that you run this site? o_O
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Well, whatever. Now we can do this without an image: 💩
Feature request: Modify Discourse's username Regex so I can use that character in my username.
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I guess I am more in amazement / embafflement by the sheer amount of unicode characters. Late to the party, I guess.
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they should just have one character for every possible pixel on/off in the represented dimensional area, no need to have it organized by character set.
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Now we can do this without an image: 💩
Except for the problem of lack of font support. I don't know what character that's supposed to be; it's just a box on my screen. (Chrome using the default (I think) sans-serif font, Arial)
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Except for the problem of lack of font support. I don't know what character that's supposed to be; it's just a box on my screen. (Chrome using the default (I think) sans-serif font, Arial)
Same for me. I expected something that looks like a box to be dirtier.
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I'm starting to think that the concept of posts and replies are not adequate to represent conversation streams here. We need something that supports multi-dimensional threading system, has the user friendliness of git, and the utility of Go.
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Maybe you should switch to a real browser like IE11.
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Kegger. I'll bring some chips.
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Bug: End doesn't work.
By design. There is no end to Unicode, as the character set is expanding faster than the speed of JavaScript.
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Bug: Unicode has become an unstoppable, compiled entity
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next version of Discourse:
self-spawning threads for the isolation of thread derailment
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self-spawning threads
We already have those -but apparently it's wrong to delete those though, but ok to delete those where users have actually spent time composing replies.
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Every sperm is sacred!
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I've lived in Oz for almost 10 years and have not seen evidence of the thumbs up being seen as insulting or obscene.
My mistake - it was apparently only prior to World War II that [i]thrusting[/i] your thumb upward meant "up yours".
Then again, this did come from [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbs_signal#International_usage]Wikipedia[/url], so the likelihood of it being true is always a bit suspect.
On a side note... Bug: The "onebox" ignores anchor points, so linking to the middle of a page will preview the very top of it (which is why I made sure the above link was not oneboxed).
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FYI, http://unicode-table.com uses infinite scrolling
"stamp"http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/5370/index.htm
Yep, and it's just as broken as it is in Discourse.
I get the chrome "Aw Snap this page was coded by incompetents" error when I scroll down "too fast".
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Yep, and it's just as broken as it is in Discourse.I get the chrome "Aw Snap this page was coded by incompetents" error when I scroll down "too fast".
Yeah, I was getting that quite consistently as well.
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We already have those -but apparently it's wrong to delete those though, but ok to delete those where users have actually spent time composing replies.
self-spawning, without mod or user intervention?
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Feature request: Modify Discourse's username Regex so I can use that character in my username.
I think it just let me do it! But I don't see 💩 in every instance of my username yet. Or actually, any, except for the top banner...
Oh, apparently I changed my name and not my username. Except the name field is only shown in the top banner area, and not in posts, so no one else can see what I did. WTF
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Oh, apparently I changed my name and not my username. Except the name field is only shown in the top banner area, and not in posts, so no one else can see what I did. WTF
You can also see it when you click on your avatar and, for some reason, in event history (I see @mikeTheLiar as "Worst of the worst" for example).
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That's even weirder on Discourse; it puts the click-count between the e and the i.
Why does Discourse even have a link click counter? How is that such vital information that it's been deemed worth the visual noise it imposes? Seems like yet another "because we can" feature.
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Rubber stamp <img src='/uploads/default/2027/0b2758271f0908d5.png' alt="Rubber Stamp" />
I support this whole heartedly.
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