Why hasn't this abomination died yet?
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the Stockholm-syndrome experience I've had here.
FYI, it's Discourse Syndrome. Read the Discopædia.
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You can disagree, but I still disagree with your disagreement. For the second part, I'm partly amused by the fact that there are 100 posts on this, which I am not reading btw and probably off topic most of them anyways. Btw how to partially quote? It was easy on CS... and no, I'm not learning markdown, or BBCode. A good forum software should have a decent WYSIGYG editor and if we are changing from a crappy software to another, there should be at least some improvements
I guess I should write something else because this crap doesn't let me post, even after I deleted the previous post, yeah keep telling me how awesome Discourse is.
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how to partially quote?
On PC or phone?
On PC, double-click the first word of your partial selection, then Shift+ (cursorkeys) until you have the text you want, then hit the quote reply floaty pop-up thing.
Or, hit Reply on the message, then click the button in the top-left corner of the reply window and delete the bits of the quote you don't want.
On mobile? Try a long press, select text and hit sometimes works...
Filed under: putting 500 errors to good use
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The overall layout is essentially the same as [insert forum software here]
So? Are we not supposed to aspire to something better?First post at the top, the rest in chrono order in a list? Seems pretty sensible to me.
Infinite scrolling? That seems sensible to you?
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Thanks, I got the hang of it
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So? Are we not supposed to aspire to something better?
How would you lay out a forum then?
@serguey123 said:Infinite scrolling? That seems sensible to you?
And that has to do with layout, why?
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@serguey123 said:
Infinite scrolling? That seems sensible to you?
And that has to do with layout, why?I actually wouldn't mind if there was a user parameter which controlled the number of posts simultaneously injected into the DOM, so I could choose to have 3 or 4 big pauses when reading down a topic, rather than lots of little pauses. Also it'd be nice to be able to get a couple of pages back up the topic to re-read something without triggering a load.
While I'm here, I'd also like a rainbow that farts unicorns.
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That I'd agree with ;)
Infiniscroll doesn't really bother me. but I can see the benefit of configuring it.
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How would you lay out a forum then?
I? I'm not an UI guy, mostly backend, systems and DBs, you need help from somebody that is actually good at this type of stuff, unlike 90% of software that seems to be designed by guys that don't care about this at all. I also hate the flat look the design has, but that is just me.And that has to do with layout, why
Are you really asking?
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Translation: "This is shit but I'm going to be a dick and not bother to tell anyone why"
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I thought being dicks was a given in this community ;)
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You can disagree, but I still disagree with your disagreement.
I agree.
For the second part, I'm partly amused by the fact that there are 100 posts on this, which I am not reading btw and probably off topic most of them anyways
We're amazingly focused when the topic is complaining about discourse.
Btw how to partially quote? It was easy on CS.
It's relatively similar. Highlight stuff and you should get a reply button that pops up. May not work on all platforms, especially mobile. Sadly, you don't get the formatting. This is one way that CS was decidedly superior.
yeah keep telling me how awesome Discourse is.
Eh...you can deny that it's less of a hassle to post here than with CS and I'll tell you that you're wrong. Because that's my experience. And if you think I'm telling you how awesome discourse is, then that's your prerogative.
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Infinite scrolling? That seems sensible to you?
If you're used to pagination it seems weird. It's not really worse than pagination, though, IME. There isn't really a great solution to loading lots of content.
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Translation: "This is shit but I'm going to be a dick and not bother to tell anyone why"
That's like 90% of @serguey123's postings since forever. The rest is @darkmatter style concern trolling.
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Infinite scrolling? That seems sensible to you?
Yes. I read posts. Scroll down to read some more. How easy can it be? I don't like some silly consequences of this implementation.
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On PC or phone?
On phone? Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
I managed a partial quote once on my phone. Discourse seems to have specifically designed their moronic "quote this!" floater box thing to interact badly with Windows Phone's text selection mechanism. If they had tried on purpose, I don't think they could have made it worse.
And of course it'll never be fixed because Atwood's "market share LOL we don't give a shit if our software is shitty shit that doesn't fucking work, because I'm an incompetent fuckwit who if there were any justice in the world would be driven out of IT on a fucking rail. After the tarring and feathering, of course."
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If you're used to pagination it seems weird. It's not really worse than pagination, though, IME. There isn't really a great solution to loading lots of content.
THE SCROLLBAR DOESN'T WORK!
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Atwood's "market share LOL
FWIW, text selection on Android is terribad too, so I think it's a "It doesn't have a piece of fruit on it so I don't care about it" rather than just a Windows Phone thing
Filed Under: IOS might be bad too, don't have an iDevice to test that
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On Android it's a lot better than Windows Phone, based on what people here have said about Windows Phone.
On Android it generally works.
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Which phone / browser?
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Which phone / browser?
Moto X 13/Chrome
Nexus 7 13/ChromeTBH I haven't tried in a while, maybe they made it better. I remember trying to before was excruciating, with things jumping around the page and stuff
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Not tried it on my Nexus 7 for a while but it works fine on my S5 with Chrome.
Dischorse used to be a lot worse in general on mobile than it is currently.
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Discourse is tolerable on my Photon Q, but then again, I have a HW keyboard, so it's probably as close to a PC experience as you're going to get on a phone. My Samsung Captivate generally took 10 seconds per interaction which was incredibly annoying, but that phone was problematic in ways not limited solely to Discourse...
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It's twitchy with an LG G3 on Lollipop. Moving the front of the selection is problematic, moving the back of it is nearly as problematic, and the popup reply button almost never appears.
Plus I don't know what is going on with the highlight but it likes to highlight individual letters, like a brick wall, instead of one block. Very weird.
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Jolla with Firefox for Android. It doesn't detect a selection at all.
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It's 4 spaces here, which is a bit more sensible
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list
eight spaces
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list
four spaces
not list
four spaces
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Because that is sensible and intuitive!
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But look what it can do without any escaping!
`````````````````````````````````
Isn't that enough to make up for it not making any sense in any way?
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I wanted to write a comment earlier about how PowerShell uses
`
as an escape character rather than\
.I don't think
`
can be backtick quoted in any sensible or meaningful way. Sure, you can try shit like````
[````] or`\``
[\``], but you're just as likely to break the parser. I had to resort to
`
` or which is clumsy and irritating.I also just found another Markdown bug while I was writing this comment. If you use
<code>`</code>
instead of<code>\
` then the unbackslashed backtick is still syntactally live, waiting to strike...Properly escaped
`
renders like this`
which is what you want.
Unescaped
which is strange and terrible.</code> renders like this <code>
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Markdown actually supports
`` ` ``
as a way to escape n backticks. Just put n+1 on each side. For some reason, ths forum's implementation of Markdown fails to implement that correctly for multiline fenced code blocks, but does it correctly for inline code.
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Also, WhyTF is the editor not set to monospaced font?
#reply-control .wmd-controls #wmd-input, #reply-control .wmd-controls #wmd-preview-scroller { font-family: "Lucida Console", Monaco, monospace; }
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Why is there no Noto monospaced font? I really like the sans and serif versions of the font.
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I'm surprised that the list of languages the default Latin font supports doesn't include lojban. ASCII has about 4 times as many printable characters as lojban uses.
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At least you don't have to contend with scrollbars from two different widget sets....
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Well, the bottom one is the browser's, the right one is some custom JS thing, no?
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Already done, 3 days ago...
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And Bell invented the telephone.
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In the 1920s, they used to hold live orchestra performances over the telephone— there was some special number you could dial (it was probably like '14' or something) and you could listen to live music over the phone.
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Antonio Meucci may have something to say about that…
Independently invented, that's my point.
But I don't care if I have a fucking point anymore.
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In the 1920s, they used to hold live orchestra performances over the telephone— there was some special number you could dial (it was probably like '14' or something) and you could listen to live music over the phone.
One day in the future....
In the 2010s, they used to use forum software as bug-trackers... imagine.
Filed under: "Come here, Sam, I need you." - Jeff
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The 2010's were one of the more retarded eras of human endeavor, for sure...