Request: IPv6 support for thedailywtf.com (and forums)
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Nah, never was too active … I’m def more active here, esp since I can reply via email!
CS was where all of the articles, etc lived pre-2008 or so; so that of course that inflated my count quite a bit.
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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.....)
CS registration has only been, to my knowledge, moderated for two periods. Outside of them, anyone could register...
The first was a few of years ago when I was a modling (mods got sick of my reporting every spam... I figured that they (morbs IIRC) thought that since I reported every spam before they got to it, if I was mod and could sort them myself, less for them to sort out.)
Some time after that it got disabled, spam started again but not as bad.
I personally reenabled it about mid June/early July, cos the only people registering and posting were spammers.
Let's say 3 years between the two?
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or it was.... y'know owning a business so no more time for play....
where's that "murdered the joke" badge...
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where's that "murdered the joke" badge...
True. It's more likely the low post count is a side effect of salmiakki. Like using an overworked laptop on your lap, but different.
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Wow, @apapadimoulis used to post a lot on the CS forums. Discourse has even driven him away!
I've always thought, or recieved the impression, that Alex treats the boards as largely read only with the occasional write.
i.e. he knows what's going on, but doesn't randomly, or always, is seen on the forum.
At least that's why I'm assuming why I got grandfathered in as admin here...
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True, though I thought the original plan was to map them directly. That was before the badges, of course.
Suggestion: Map them directly, but qualify the relevant badge queries with an "and postDate >= discoEpoch" term. There have been posts to the old forums since the epoch, but not enough to significantly affect any badges.
Edit: Um, or this...
@ben_lubar said: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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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)
It took me a matter of a couple of weeks to beat the number of posts I had in 7 years on CS (635 or so)
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Just posting takes a lot more time.
Yep--I mentioned this a while ago. I said something to the effect that for all its warts, Discourse make it a hell of a lot easier to post.
I think that's when Jeff came by and posted that crying indian picture.
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Yep--I mentioned this a while ago. I said something to the effect that for all its warts, Discourse make it a hell of a lot easier to post.
Discourse is better than CS, but it still has a lot of annoying warts. I posted a few times on CS, but I got tired of having to use Firefox just for that, so I gave up.
Of course, with Discourse performance on Android lately...that could happen again. The latest Disocupdates have been rubbish. I think we need to be bumped back to the stable branch to avoid some of this.
Of course then everyone would just bitch about not having the shines new features...
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Going back to a stable release doesn't mean less bugs—it means different bugs.
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In theory, it should mean less bugs...
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@Intercourse said:
Discourse is better than CS, but it still has a lot of annoying warts. I posted a few times on CS, but I got tired of having to use Firefox just for that, so I gave up.
I remember using Chrome with CS, which was the “write raw HTML experience!” because the horrible browser sniffing code decided that the browser knew nothing about javascript…
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I remember using Chrome with CS, which was the “write raw HTML experience!”
Yep, me too. I was so used to that I thought, and still think, nothing of using HTML markup here to get around Discourse's broken markdown parsing. I'll use markdown for simple stuff I know works, but if in doubt, HTML FTW.
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@Intercourse said:
In theory, it should mean less bugs...
I imagine it means having the same bugs for a long time instead of a daily changing cast of new and exciting bugs.
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_indeed! @Intercourse
Filed under... i've hidden summoned someone here. i wonder if they'll get the notification?
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Speaking of which, I found another one:
___\____ ***\****
(Where the number of spaces is just enough to show both hashes)
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___\____ ***\****
(And then this one has `s on the line directly after)Now, with one less space:
___\____ ***\****
_ *Then this is that first one, once normal and then followed by one in code formatting on the next line. With lots of spaces at the start. Somehow the underscores are on the wrong line.
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___\____ ***\****
Basically, if the hash covers a formatting symbol, that symbol doesn't apply it's formatting. This isn't at all how I expected this to work.
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You expect hashes?
***
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No. You misspelt his name.
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I assure you it was spelled correctly at the time.