YAIB (Yet Another Infiniscroll Bug)
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Continuing the discussion from The Official Likes Thread: Off Topic - Even When It's On Topic:
Also found yet another infiniscroll bug scrolling through the "Mediocre Post" badge page. Yay for two in a row.
Scroll through the badge page. Right click -> Open in new window to see how many likes the post has. Close window. Continue scrolling down. See the same post you just looked at presented in the list again.
I started noticing this when I had scrolled to posts from around mid-August. Since the new window opens on top of the badge window, I'm not sure whether Discourse jumped the scroll back to somewhere further up the page, or whether it reloaded the same chunk when I continued to scroll down.
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Of course, the badges page is going to be troublesome because of how many such badges are awarded; I dread to think about the Nice Post page now.
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the badges page is going to be troublesome because of how many such badges are awarded
Mediocre only has about 600. That's not an abused badge, so it's not unreasonable to think that a "civilized" forum with a substantial user base could accumulate a lot more than that.
I dread to think about the Nice Post page
Obviously, we abuse the B*****m out of that, and no malfunction there would surprise me, but this is supposed to forum software for the next 10 years. Imagine a forum like BoingBoing or dotNET Foundation ten years from now; it's not unlikely they could have generated that many badges.
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That's precisely my point. We power through things that would stress the system and we will naturally find its weak spots that way. The smaller badge page having problems, though, that's unexpected.
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The smaller badge page having problems, though, that's unexpected.
That didn't seem to me to be what you were saying before. I thought you were saying you did expect problems there. Oh, well. We're in agreement now.
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Oh, I expect problems because Discourse. The lesser page was less expected, the heavier page much more so.
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Why did liking post 6 cause Discourse to scroll the window back to post 1?
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Why did liking post 6 cause Discourse to scroll the window back to post 1?
Because Discourse.
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I'm waiting for the infinirscroll bug where it just seemlessly loops back to 1 without jumping the scroll up.
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Because Discourse.
Well, yeah. That's a given. I was wondering what specific fubared logic was responsible for it. No, I don't expect you or anyone here to be able it answer that; it was mostly a rhetorical question.
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I should get MarvinBot in here. "No, I'm fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer."
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I dread to think about the Nice Post page now.
27,819.
Makes manually awarding badges a pain as well. Been getting script unresponsive errors for some people for quite a while.
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People like me, perhaps?
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I should get MarvinBot in here. "No, I'm fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer."
I'm sure thinking about it would make his diodes hurt even more than they already do.
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Yes, even the ones he's asked to be replaced.
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Yes, even the ones he's asked to be replaced.
they never did end up replacing those diodes did they?
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Nope. But at the end, [spoiler]he was feeling good about things[/spoiler].
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Nope. But at the end,
indeed. twice, or thrice (i can't remember which) the age of the universe when he went, but finally feeling good about things.
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Exactly. The universe was kind to Marvin.
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the people in the universe.... not so much
Indeed. Adams was planning on a sixth H2G2 book when he had a rather unfortunate gratuitous existence failure
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gratuitous existence failure
didn't he have a partial draft of that book that was completed by Eoin Colfer?
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didn't he have a partial draft of that book that was completed by Eoin Colfer?
I don't know. Certainly the comments in The Salmon of Doubt don't indicate that was what happened.
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we believe it is a thing: http://smile.amazon.com/Another-Thing-Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-ebook/dp/B002WGC8PU/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1&qid=1414173737
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Oh, it was a thing - except I don't think Adams wrote anything that would have made its way into it. The editor's comments in Salmon of Doubt - while Adams was writing the third Dirk Gently novel - seem to suggest that Adams had some ideas for the sixth H2G2 book, but that nothing concrete was going on.
FWIW it reads like bad fan fiction.
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that's a shame then.... because i like colfer's other work.
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Yup, Artemis Fowl is fun, but Colfer is really not right for that particular endeavour.
I'd have much preferred Jasper Fforde to have tackled it. Take a look at The Eyre Affair (the first of the Thursday Next series), I think you'll see why.
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bookmarked for later reading.
i shall do just that kind cookie monster.
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It's suitably bonkers in a clever way, and it's not quite written for Young Adults the way Artemis Fowl was.
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i am a bibliovore! if it's in print i want to read it!
i've even read a set of encyclopaedia from end to end once.
that was a rough bout of insomnia....
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The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten are the principle series, though there's a second arc I haven't started reading yet.
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stop! my wallet can't afford that many books! not all at once!
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Then read just the first one and see if you like the style.
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.... you did see that i'm a bibliovore right?
as if i could stop at one?
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Yes, but you might find it's a bit much for you the first time... pace yourself
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pace..... myself?
nul comprehendo.
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One book at a time, dear literary fox.
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you can do that?
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i've even read a set of encyclopaedia from end to end once.
I tried that once — never made it past A.
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did i mention iot was a really bad case of insomnia?
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Yes. Yes, you did.
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i must try this new information out!
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Yes, try it out with one book!
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why not optimize and try it on several books at once?
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Because causality is a thing?
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says the timelord?
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why not optimize ant
Seems to me ants are already pretty well optimized for their environmental niche.
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s/t/d/gi
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says the timelord?
So says the Time Lord writing a novel that specifically involves time travel where at least two paradoxes have already occurred, one even specifically borderline lampshaded.