The little blue circles with the numbers...
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...whose Discourse-nomenclature is utterly worthless to me. Ergo, blue circles.
By what twisted logic are they displayed?
Any logic?
Or should I just go back to looking for my stupid mouse because trackpads are the worst.
Waves cane.
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Blue Circles indicate posts that have been posted since you last visited a topic (and the * is when you never visited the topic at all
Filed Under: Because Discourse | I hope I understood your question correctly
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yep, and if you have visited the topic, are not up to date and there are new messages the blue number is how many new messages since you last visited, and the grey circle is how many unread messages there are between when you stopped reading and the blue circle starts counting from.
and no that's no les crazy then it sounds. WTF designed this forum?
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That does not seem to be true - for most values of "true".
I've got all kinds of topics showing up, activity <1m, <2m, no circles.
Am I alone?
Yes, that's a bullet train. I guess. Because there is no sad or scared, and it suggested bullettrain side when I started DEpressed.
And : ( gets, you :( frowning.
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you also have to be watching a thread for them to appear.
the rules for how a thread gets watched are roughly:
- You are OP
- You have posted in the thread
- you've spent x time reading the thread (x seems semi random)
- you've manually clicked the watched status
- thread is in category you have set to autowatch
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It also depends if you have a topic muted (instead of watched) / open in the background / the moon aligns with the correct stars.
There are Options to mute whole categories in your Preferences (not sure if that link works).
For me it actually works quite consistently. Unless Topics are being necro'd in which case the system dies.Filed Under: @accalia was faster, damn
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yep, and if you have visited the topic, are not up to date and there are new messages the blue number is how many new messages since you last visited, and the grey circle is how many unread messages there are between when you stopped reading and the blue circle starts counting from.
and no that's no les crazy then it sounds. WTF designed this forum?
Except when Dicsores gets confused, and displays a blue circle with a number less than the total number of posts for a topic you've never read. Sometimes with a "new" too. Or a gray circle that should be blue. Or doesn't update the "sorted" list. Or ...
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- you've spent x time reading the thread (x seems semi random)
There. That's what must be getting me.
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yeah. i think it's supposed to be 5 minutes reading the topic but it counts all posts separately so when discourse sends the read notifications for 4 posts (because that's how many fit in a portrait screen orientation for me) the time gets counted as 20 seconds instead of 5 seconds
so i autowatch topics far faster when discourse is on my middle monitor than either of my side monitors.
Summoning @pjh to confirm the configured time before the topic is watched automatically?
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The time before watching is user configurable. Mines set to as soon as I view the topic.
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See:
http://what.thedailywtf.com/users/accalia/preferences
http://what.thedailywtf.com/users/ijij/preferences
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well bless my dipstick with 10W30, it is configurable!
mine's set to 4 minutes which i guess is the default because i didn't know it was configurable until now.
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that second link doesn't work for me. Error 403
;-P
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Yeah I think that's the default.
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WHAT?
I get a normal HTTP 200, but see @ijij's activity page.
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Ditto, but first link. EDIT: well, yes, but what aliceif said about my page.
Good.
ALL - thanks!
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(ok, i was joking about the 403, it's actually a 303 (because i'm not authorised) redirecting to the activity page. so a logical 403 rather than a literal 403.
i like saying numbers.
403
3.14159267....[and so on])
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418?
/me goes to find the tea for said teapot.
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make some for me too while you're at it? strong and dark, no milk or sugar please.
thanks!
/me brings a 24oz "Mug O Tea" out from behind plan pots (no really that's what it says on it, "Mug O Tea")
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What are you planning with those pots?
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make some for me too while you're at it? strong and dark, no milk or sugar please.
thanks!
/me brings a 24oz "Mug O Tea" out from behind plan pots (no really that's what it says on it, "Mug O Tea")
That's why I went to dig out the 418...
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you've spent x time reading the thread (x seems semi random)
This can be (supposedly) set in your user preferences.
cc: @ijij
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plan things. evil things in that one (very big pot) nice things in that one (very tiny pot)
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Or a gray circle that should be blue.
The gray circle indicates posts past the furthest point you have read in the topic. As with the blue circles, the topic has to be tracked or watched.
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Sanity settings, change these in profile --> preferences
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This.
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The gray circle indicates posts past the furthest point you have read in the topic.
I know what it's supposed to mean; it just doesn't always mean what it's supposed to:
See topic A in "latest" list with blue circle. Read topic B. Return to "latest." Circle for topic A is now gray. Refresh. Circle is now blue.
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I get a normal HTTP 200, but see @ijij's activity page.
If you watch the URL, it goes to preferences, and then apparently decides you're not allowed to see his, and bounces to activity.
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Sanity settings, change these in profile --> preferences
<img src="/uploads/default/7226/171d4ff4a0866c2f.png" width="532" height="312">
why that is not the default is beyond me.
I assume because Jeff hates his users.
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why that is not the default is beyond me.
A couple of them I understand. Updating the URL spams your browser history, but not updating it breaks the back button; back button working is probably better for a new user. Enable quote reply breaks something else — I can't remember what — but I think that is the default, anyway. New tab is a personal preference; could go either way as default. Same with viewing post revisions. But the others, yeah, those should be the defaults.
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I meant the top 2 things really. Though you HAVE to use open in external tab on new links thanks to their accidental MOUSEUP=FOLLOWTHELINK fucking bullshit bug (which navigates you away from the page when you accidentally forget and try to highlight quote a link).
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Didn't realize that option fixed that problem. Just updated my preferences. Although I usually manage to avoid being over the link when highlight quote, by selecting some extra text if necessary. But yeah, sometimes I get bit by it.
Yes, the tracking and "new" options should be the default.
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Enable quote reply breaks something else
Quote reply breaks drag text to url bar type of stuff
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Didn't realize that option fixed that problem. Just updated my preferences. Although I usually manage to avoid being over the link when highlight quote, by selecting some extra text if necessary. But yeah, sometimes I get bit by it.
I find that I generally middle click links anyways. But since that's how I like to do it, why not just make it the default? Especially on a forum, you're usually following someone's link to see what they're talking about so you can come back and comment on it. I can't imagine why you'd want to leave the page.
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But since that's how I like to do it, why not just make it the default?
That's the line of thinking that brought us Discourse, so beware.
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True, but I did back it up with some reasoning. Feel free to argue back about it. Maybe there are people who prefer to wander off, but I still think that's against how a forum works. A better argument might be that it changes the default behavior of the browser, but I think that argument doesn't work well here. YMMV
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so i just changed my watch settings to be like always, and.... wow i have a lot of unread topics now! almost 600 of them!
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i'ma write a bot to read all the older ones for me i think.
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This was somewhat easier to cope with 3 months ago when there were fewer topics to read.
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you're usually following someone's link to see what they're talking about so you can come back and comment on it. I can't imagine why you'd want to leave the page.
I tend to click, , click, , click, click, click, , , , etc. It's only when doesn't actually go back to where you were (yes, Dicsores, I'm looking at you) that that's a problem.
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why that is not the default is beyond me. I assume because Jeff hates his users.
Because logic is an obstacle to Discourse.
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true, but like i'm going to let that stop me? :-D
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true, but like i'm going to let that stop me?
I dunno, sometimes you see a sign that says "lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate" and you listen to it.
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"lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate"
"Abandon Hope, All ye who leave lunches unattended"
yep. that sounds about right round these parts!
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http://what.thedailywtf.com/users/accalia/preferences
Playing catchup...
http://what.thedailywtf.com/my/preferences is the generic link which works for anyone logged in.
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and the grey circle is how many unread messages there are between where you stopped reading and when you stopped reading.
and the blue circle starts counting from.and no that's no les crazy then it sounds. WTF designed this forum?
<Post can't be empty.
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Holy necro batman!
Still that is a correct edit. Thanks!
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Holy necro batman!
...so I go back and re-read my OP...
Man, I confuse myself sometimes.
Thanks to those who ever manage to reply to my questions.
Filed under: Apparently I am ESL and Crzy is my first language.