Twitter: incompetent to the MAX! RADICAL!
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So yesterday Twitter decided to, without any warning or notice, remove everybody's wallpaper:
http://mashable.com/2015/07/20/twitter-removes-backgrounds/
Bow before the stark whiteness!That a WTF, but that's not the WTF.
The WTF is that I assumed Twitter had done it by accident. Why? Well, because they left the "Design" tab in your user profile active. And if you go to the "Design" tab, and find your wallpaper settings, and hit save you get...
Back to normal!
My theory? They broke wallpapers accidentally (but only on page refresh) as a result of some upgrade, then decided it wasn't worth fixing so told Mashable they did it on purpose. That explains why they didn't also remove the configuration for wallpapers in the Settings menu, and why the configuration settings there still work (because they don't round-trip to the server).
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So yesterday Twitter decided to, without any warning or notice, remove everybody's wallpaper
That's one hell of a FWP.
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Look at the second screenshot. Look at how awesome that wallpaper is.
Look at it.
Spend a few minutes just appreciating it.
Now imagine it went away.
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Now imagine it went away.
It's still a FWP,especially to a guy who's about to, say, receive free vodka.
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I'm not denying it's not an egregiously stupid fuckup, btw.
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I don't think you looked at the image hard enough.
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I will be sure to let all the people in the Middle East being beheaded that their problems aren't (relatively speaking) as bad as they thought.
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So, when will profile backgrounds be taken away from Discourse?
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#user-card { background-image: url("") !important; } .profile-image { display: none !important; } .user-main .about { background-image: url("") !important; }
HTH, HAND, etc...
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So, when will profile backgrounds be taken away from Discourse?
They're just a source of *gasp* color after all.
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I guess we should be happy he never saw mine ...
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Now imagine it went away.
Suck it up, you change-fearing Luddite. Twitter is a huge corporation and none of their stuff is open source. Therefore, they must have done extensive usability testing proving that the professional white background is more productive.
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https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/623744515439001600
This is ironic and surprising on so many levels....
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What a shock. Atwood loves removing customization options.
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BTW I found out by accident yesterday that the wallpaper does work but only if you view an individual tweet:
While fiddling with it, I accidentally erased the pangolin image and found I had no copy of it, sigh, so I had to redo it.
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It's still a FWP,especially to a guy who's about to, say, receive free vodka.
BTW I never got the damned vodka. Fuckers.
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While fiddling with it, I accidentally erased the pangolin image and found I had no copy of it, sigh, so I had to redo it.
This one?
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Yes I guess so.
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BTW I never got the damned vodka. Fuckers.
I can't help it if they cancelled the order on you.
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Could have created a new order with another company. JUST SAYIN'
When I get home tonight I'm going to have to drink soju LIKE A PEASANT.
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Could have created a new order with another company. JUST SAYIN'
Next time, then, don't sound so indifferent to free vodka.
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I didn't get any free vodka!
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I want free vodka. Whose wallpaper do I have to suck?
Also, +1 to the stylesheet that removes the background image on Twitter. One of the first things I dumped into Sylish when I started using Twitter. Because fuck people's seizure-inducers. And fuck parallax scrolling with a chicken-leg that's been rotting since 1990.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Because fuck people's seizure-inducers.
Is @aliceif already taken? I should totally make that the most painful twitter ever.
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@aliceif
No tweets, no followers, no follows, hasn't been active since 2011. I bet you can hack it and take it over:
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@Jaloopa is private, with a single tweet from 2009. I hate that guy, the reason I had to be @Jaloopa23
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@lornekates is some dumbfuck spouting a bunch of bullshit for 5000+ tweets.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
@lornekates is some dumbfuck spouting a bunch of bullshit for 5000+ tweets.
I find nothing in your post indicating that @lornekates isn't you.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
@lornekates is some dumbfuck spouting a bunch of bullshit for 5000+ tweets.
I find nothing in your post indicating that @lornekates isn't you.
I found nothing in his post indicating otherwise.
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[quote="boomzilla, post:30, topic:50142" full:true]
@abarker said:@Lorne_Kates said:
@lornekates is some dumbfuck spouting a bunch of bullshit for 5000+ tweets.
I find nothing in your post indicating that @lornekates isn't you.
I found nothing in his post indicating otherwise.
[/quote]I find nothing in your post that indicates his post indicated that the post was indicating that he had ever indicated otherwise actually indicated anything at all.
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I found nothing in all the replies, but not in Lorne's post.
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Someone hit Like on the comment above this one, and it just reminded me I never got any goddamned vodka.
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Like a post of mine and I'll send you vodka.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Hey, I legitimately ordered it. It's not my fault the store cancelled on me!
Your call, though. One liiiiiitle like and I'll send you a bottle.
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@FrostCat said:
Like a post of mine and I'll send you vodka.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool you 30 times, and you'll get TL3