Request: IPv6 support for thedailywtf.com (and forums)
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A thousand and one thanks to you!
and i guess @ben_lubar can have... i dunno 768 thanks. ;-)
EDIT: corrected spelling. i don't know what Thnaks are but i doubt @ben_lubar wants them.
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What's the over/under for how many of the old threads will be immediately necro'ed?
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I look forward to getting bumped to 2^13.
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I look forward to getting bumped to 2^13.
i'm sad that i never was let into CS.... I was catching up to the top runners, but this will open the gap wider than it's ever been!
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yes. i realize we're years and years away from absolutely needing IPv6.
It depends where you are. The US has some way to go, but East Asia is really having to bite the bullet. (I think the EU is somewhere between those two extremes.)
ISPs will implement NAT
given that IP blocking is completely ineffective at a determined technical user, even on IPv4
But it does a lot of good nonetheless. An IP block just makes the spammers go and find an easier target elsewhere, but that's what you really want in the first place.
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But it does a lot of good nonetheless.
exactly! i'm trying to say that it will continue to be exactly as effective on IPv6 as it is on IPv4.
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I guess Discourse is stable enough now??
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I always wondered what happens to NAT if/when IPv4 goes dark. NAT provides a lot of security (albeit somewhat through obscurity) right now.
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I always wondered what happens to NAT if/when IPv4 goes dark. NAT provides a lot of security (albeit somewhat through obscurity) right now.
NAT is supported for IPv6... although i'm not entirely positive what the benefit of that is. would be better to make a firewall that configured itself to stand between all the clients behind it (just like in IPv4)..... but then i'm no network expert, i just want to be able to use IPv6 for the bots. ;-)
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I believe typical home routers offered here for IPv6 trials are configured to reject incoming connections by default, giving the same protection as NAT.
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I always wondered what happens to NAT if/when IPv4 goes dark.
Those two things (NAT and IPv6) aren't mutually-exclusive. So I'm wagering the answer is: jack shit.
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I guess Discourse is stable enough now??
...I chuckled...
On a more serious note, for what I suspect's needed for the import, it's been stable for ages.
I look forward to getting bumped to 2^13.
Depends on whether the old CS stuff gets dumped into current categories or a restricted one..
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With the badge junk here, restricted would probably make things less wonky. Does your post counter only eliminate by topic number or can it do categories too? As dumping things in a category of CS, with different sub categories for the old divisions would prolly make most sense. Though I've no idea how @ben_lubar's import thing was set up.
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IIRC it has a "this post was imported from this other post" ID, so it should be simple enough to block imported posts from those badges.
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Does your post counter only eliminate by topic number or can it do categories too?
Both. Categories by dint of not appearing in the badge_posts view, topics by dint of having a certain UUID being mentioned by certain members.
More are excluded by the former than the latter.
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IIRC it has a "this post was imported from this other post" ID, so it should be simple enough to block imported posts from those badges.
Could you expound on "simple" please Ben?
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This post is deleted!
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Uh-huh.
And given the current site-badge queries, how do I exclude those either prior to, or after, import?
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I assume you'd do a join on this table.
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I assume you'd do a join on this table
Hmm. That table's new to me - I'll have to look when there's slightly more blood in my alcohol stream..
Or just simply ignore the issue altogether and accept the fact that those of us who've been around for years (and years and years) get a slight advantage on those who got dragged in on the forum change, and see what happens...
I mean, it's not as if we're unaccustomed to things
breakingmisbehavingacting weirdly around here...I'm quite taken with the latter option, if anyone's interested...
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Replying because there's no downvote button.
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Snacks with a lisp?
cons (snacks, lisp)[1]
Nope, don't get it.
[1] I know that syntax is probably correct. Shut up or accept your whoosh.
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I'll correct you for a pedantry badge.
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I'll correct you for a pedantry badge.
I don't have enough accounts to guarantee that.
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I don't have enough accounts to guarantee that.
theres a thread with a bunch of sock puppet accounts and their logins.... ;-)
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theres a thread with a bunch of sock puppet accounts and their logins
I assume they have the same limits as your bots, though.
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I assume they have the same limits as your bots, though.
in that they are unlikely to be counted... well yes, true.
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Depends on whether the old CS stuff gets dumped into current categories or a restricted one..
True, though I thought the original plan was to map them directly. That was before the badges, of course.
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Or just simply ignore the issue altogether and accept the fact that those of us who've been around for years (and years and years) get a slight advantage on those who got dragged in on the forum change, and see what happens...
The scale is significantly off. In all the years of CS, I think there are only 3 posters with more CS posts than I have in ~7 months of Discourse posts.
Though having a lot of "extra" posts that don't count toward the badges is nice e-peen, too.
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The scale is significantly off. In all the years of CS, I think there are only 3 posters with more CS posts than I have in ~7 months of Discourse posts.
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huh.... i've been active just over 100 days here and already i have more total posts than all but 4 CS posters (all but 6 if you only count my badge elligable posts)
wooow
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/t/1000. We had nothing like that over there.
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Just posting takes a lot more time. Consider, you have to basically go to a different page to see a preview. It takes for freaking ever after hitting the post button. And often it would take several minutes before your post would show at all.
I think there would be mucho problemos if we tried to go back to something like the CS experience, even with all of Dicsource's warts.
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It takes for freaking ever after hitting the post button
How many times was the whole tag-cloud passed around? And how many copies of said cloud in each trip?...
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/t/1000. We had nothing like that over there.
well yes... but in about three and a half months i still have over 4k posts that are in unrestricted un-UUID'd topics...
ust posting takes a lot more time. Consider, you have to basically go to a different page to see a preview. It takes for freaking ever after hitting the post button. And often it would take several minutes before your post would show at all.
aye. and it refused to let me register too... or i would have a fair few posts there to migrate.....
I think there would be mucho problemos if we tried to go back to something like the CS experience, even with all of Dicsource's warts.
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Incidentally @ben_lubar, are you transferring over the join-dates from CS for those members for whom you find a match?
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and it refused to let me register too
Can't see anything in the queue, or registered, for your domain in there.
That said, all registrations over there are currently moderated (and should be queued - there's currently 604 - largely - spammers waiting) at the moment
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IIRC it has a "this post was imported from this other post" ID, so it should be simple enough to block imported posts from those badges.
Is this taken into account when calculating the number of posts needed for TL3?
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Can't see anything in the queue, or registered, for your domain in there.
i used @gmail.com when i tried there as i hadn't gotten my domain yet. same email prefix.
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Is this taken into account when calculating the number of posts needed for TL3?
I believe we decided that it would, since the posts would (mostly) be very old, and the critical TL3 stuff looks at the last 100 days.
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the critical TL3 stuff looks at the last 100 days.
This.
Those not marked
(all time)
are for the past 100 days:
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I tried to register with gmail too over at CS, but nothing.
At least, I'm fairly sure I did.
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I registered with GMail no problem.
Unfortunately, I registered in the brief period after deciding that LastPass was a good idea and before losing my LastPass password, so I think I had two posts
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I used GMail for CS as well and had no problem signing up so not sure why it was problematic for others.
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i think my trouble was that my registration got rejected (possibly because when i first tried i had no history of commenting in front page articles, i was spotty at best until the end) and my email was just remembered and denied the couple of subsequent times i tried (i never did think about possibly using one of my other email addresses.....)
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Wow, @apapadimoulis used to post a lot on the CS forums. Discourse has even driven him away!
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or it was.... y'know owning a business so no more time for play....