🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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Discourse, amirite?
Filed under: I wrote the thread title in the original obnoxious all-caps, but the forum software "fixed" it for me., Thread squatting
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Hey guys let's make a forum and let it have endless scrolling as it's main and killer feature.
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Cynics...
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Terrible, terrible idea.
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Banning fencing club from university campus because you're afraid of their "swords."
That's not a Rape Culture joke, I swear.
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Brilliant idea, my lad.
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Yes but can your forum do THIS?
You picked the right thread (sorry, topic) to post this under.
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Yes but can your forum do THIS?
@codinghorror - how can I work out to whose post you were replying to? Even if it's to the first one?
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If the post has quoted text, it is considered a reply to that post. Yes this means one post can "reply" to as many other posts as it contains quoted replies to.
If the post has no quoted text, but the user pressed the "reply" button on a specific post, it is considered a reply to that post. Since there is no quoted text to hint at which post this is a reply to, we place the "in reply to" expandable button at the top right of the post.
(There is one caveat to the above paragraph: to reduce noise, we suppress this indicator if the post is directly under the post it is replying to. It is super common for replies to chain to the post above them, and I believe that locality makes this connection clear. You can turn this suppression off in the settings if it's bothersome.)
These connections are bidirectional. So if you see a quote expansion, or an "in reply to", you'll also be able to find a corresponding "reply" expansion on the thing it was in reply to.
If a post is not a reply to any individual post, either by quoting or clicking the reply buttons on other posts, it is a general reply to the topic.
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So, from that logic...
You didn't quote any text at all, so no back links there.
I see no "In reply to" button on the post.
You clearly weren't replying to Nagesh, since he wasn't talking about forums (or anything, or to anyone in particular it seems) so your 3rd para doesn't apply. Or if you were replying it was a non-sequitur..
So it follows that you didn't reply to any individual post.
But the content of your post indicates either (a) otherwise (since it looks like a reply) or (b) it's in the wrong thread.
/me puzzled.
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There is one caveat to the above paragraph: to reduce noise, we suppress this indicator if the post is directly under the post it is replying to. It is super common for replies to chain to the post above them, and I believe that locality makes this connection clear. You can turn this suppression off in the settings if it's bothersome
See above ↑To elaborate, that suppression is also only in effect if there is only one reply and it is directly under the post.
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Non-sequitur it was then. It wasn't clear.
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Well, it was kind of a reply to the theme of the topic which as defined by the first post is..
@joe_edwards said:
Discourse, amirite?
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Well, it was kind of a reply to the theme of the topic which as defined by the first post is..
Perhaps you should have quoted it then....? ;)
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Eh, the first post defines the topic. I wasn't replying to him personally (NO OFFENSE @joe_edwards ) , just the overall theme of the topic as defined in the first post and the title.
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Eh, the first post defines the topic.
Really? I thought it was generally the topic title - in this case "The bad ideas thread" [but see below]. And by (our) convention, any post in a thread so titled may have bugger all to do with other posts within the thread. Except for the fact that the subject under discussion is generally considered to be a bad idea.
just the overall theme of the topic as defined in the first post and the title.
Ah. The oft-quoted advice about lurking before posting springs to mind... We, as a group, rarely stay on-topic within a thread, and barely bother changing thread titles, forking threads or anything like that.
Unless you're suggesting we forcefully change the group dynamic to fit the model Discourse uses....?
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Yes. I demand that everything change to suit my needs immediately.
Or sooner.
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Discourse told me there were no new posts in this thread. I guess it only shows the blue count if I have replied, but that's not very useful, is it?
The title is coloured black, sure (a bad indicator, but whatever, I can see it), but sometimes there's a black title and there are 0 new posts; or the new post is the one that I just wrote; or the one new post is one that I just read.
It's like the freshness indicators are broken an unreliable for every thread state permutation!
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I just got a "There's 1 new topic" notification. For this thread that I already saw and read.
I also got a blue "1" next to it, despite not replying to it until now.
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We don't generally track topics for users unless they
- spend a lot of time in the topic
- reply to the topic
- explicitly set the topic to "tracked" in the notification panel at the bottom
Or if they created the topic, which I should have mentioned. We do assume people are unusually interested in topics they created.See your user preferences to define the meaning of "a lot of time" and "new".
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See your user preferences to define the meaning of "a lot of time" and "new".
I've set "Consider topics new when" to "you haven't viewed them yet"I've now set "track topics" to "always", but I didn't do that at first because it didn't seem like an applicable setting to me when there is a page that "clearly" shows all the most recent things (I love Vanilla for its overview list).
It also reminded me of special email notifications of some other forums where I'm not very active (like a forum for a specific game), and am indeed only unusually interested in the topics I've posted in. Since I'm unusually active here, I don't need special tracking, so I ignore settings that deal with it.
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We, as a group, rarely stay on-topic within a thread, and barely bother changing thread titles, forking threads or anything like that. Unless you're suggesting we forcefully change the group dynamic to fit the model Discourse uses....?
You can't really expect new software to do everything exactly the same as the old one.
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I realise that. But at least some semblance of similarity would be nice, wouldn't it?
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It has text, and a reply button and things like this.
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So much for all that equality then...
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Paid Menstrual Leave
So much for all that equality then...
As long as the guys can get paid leave the week before, this sounds great.
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One flaw I am also noticing is that the conversations tend to get lost unless you're quoting the previous post.
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codinghorror said:
There is one caveat to the above paragraph: to reduce noise, we suppress this indicator if the post is directly under the post it is replying to. It is super common for replies to chain to the post above them, and I believe that locality makes this connection clear. You can turn this suppression off in the settings if it's bothersomeSee above ↑
To elaborate, that suppression is also only in effect if there is only one reply and it is directly under the post.
I'm sorry if I'm being dumb but where is this on your profile? I don't see an option about the in reply suppression.
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"Don't wash your jeans," says CEO of Levi Strauss.
I don't even want to think about what my jeans would smell like after a year of ballsweat and mud/dirt/road salt/grease/oil and spilled food or drinks.
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I don't even want to think about what my jeans would smell like after a year of ballsweat and mud/dirt/road salt/grease/oil and spilled food or drinks.
Phew, yeah, they'd probably smell like updog.
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Filed Under: One Box Foiled Again
From my quick perusal of the source, Onebox only works with a whitelisted set of domains set in the config yaml. I was disappointed, too, because I was trying to find a way to exploit that for lolz. Still, there might be a way..
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- Cover up botched brazilians, misbehaved shaves, and unveiled vajayjays
- Choose from 3 fun colors
- Comes with medical grade adhesive strips
- Hilarious & original joke gift or white elephant
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Hilarious & original joke gift or white elephant
This usage makes sense. Though my favorite part is that the package claims this is "reusable."
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Comes with medical grade adhesive strips
Good. Otherwise a piece of unwashed synthetic fabric made in China, dyed an unnatural color using God knows what chemicals, and taped to one's nether regions might be unsanitary.
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Skimping on the foundation
I love how all the windows have slid open.
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Skimping on the foundation
I love how all the windows have slid open.
Is that a real thing? Looks like gimp work to me.
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Looks like gimp work to me.
It would explain a lot if the guys who built it were all wearing gimp suits.
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Buying trains too big for your stations.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303749904579575851220114542?mod=e2fb
Filed Under: :goberserk:, Merde
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Skimping on the foundation
I'm amazed the build hasn't crumbled. I guess they didn't skimp on internal steel structure.
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