📖 Teh Official Discopædia (Forums Dictionary)
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Infinispinner™
nounThe eternal spinning "document loading" indicator displayed while Infinispinning™.
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Discount
noun, verbThe inability of Discourse to keep full track of certain numerically-based values, such as time and post counts. See Discoday, et al.
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Distemper
nounThat feeling some of us get whenever we run into Discobugs.
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Insanitize
verbWhen something gets sanitized discoursistently and/or in a way that isn't sane.
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Identical
adjectiveSimilar in a specific way, but different in most details.
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Discohate
nounHate aimed at anything connected to Discourse, such as the Discodevs or Discourse itself.
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Discolog™
verbTo log that an error occurred, but without any sort of information that might be useful to find the cause of the error.
c.f. Discologging where stuff that should be logged, isn't.
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White Screen of Death, abbr. WSOD
nounA completely blank screen presented by Discourse, as opposed to actual content. WSODs appear at random. Sam, the only DiscoDev to do any serious digging into the cause of WSODs, believes that they are caused by ASCII/UniCode encoding issues.
To add further pain to these issues, once a victim of a WSOD gets to the actual content, it is not uncommon for the victim to experience a Discoload.
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Discoload
verbTo load at a location other than the one expected. For example, if you expect a topic to load at post 386, it may discoload at post 356 instead.
noun
An occurance of discoloading.
See also: jellypotato
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CSS Customization
nounA modification of Discourse's features to better suit a specific community's needs. When posted on meta.d to share with other communities who might find it useful, CSS Customizations are known to cause feature removal, workflow breakage, and acrimonious debate1.
1Evidence of acrimonious debate often cannot be found in the wild for more than a few hours, as all such debates are quickly
won by Jeffclosed, with stealth deletions of all opposing opinions (see "Jeffed").
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Clown Barf
nounTCotCDCK's internal code-name for the original Discourse user interface design, which was colorful and warm.
Synonym: Clown Vomit
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discoprove
verb- To make a discoprovement.
- To "prove" an assertion by appeal to authority, where the authority is your own blog post.
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Server cooties
nounThese build up bit by bit while the Discourse server serves Discourse. Eventually, enough server cooties accumulate so that Discourse forgets to show text in various places, loses Unicode in title edits and generally results in lots of 429 and 500 errors for users.
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Discolocalisation
Nounsee: Discolocalization
Discolocalization
Nounsee: Discolocalisation
Discolocali(s|z)ation
NounA partial or complete failure to localise text on Discourse properly.
[citation]
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Discologging
VerbThe inability of Discourse to log important changes or errors.
[Example]
c.f. Discolog, where useless stuff is logged.
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Discotruncate
verbTo truncate in an unusual manner, normally because of dodgy Unicode handling.
Example:
[img]http://what.thedailywtf.com/uploads/default/12685/2b8da64cceb20b04.png[/img]
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Discomascot
nounAn animal which poops rainbows, it is the official mascot of Discourse. Since "Discourse is rainbows", this seems very appropriate. As seen in here, it appears that the Discomascot is a pug. Others contend that the DIscomascot is a unicorn, as shown in here.
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DiscoCustomer
nounSomebody was thinking: "I have a community problem, let's use Discourse!". Now he has Infini-problems. *
References: ¹
* For a closer approximation, see this post.
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DiscoVeto
noun- When a DiscoDev ignores sensible advice and keeps developing Discourse.
- Standard operating procedure for Discourse development.
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Disnew
adjectiveThe state of a post or thread that has been read but Discourse insists that you have not read
e.g. moved posts, using multiple computers.
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Discomath
nounMath that is improperly applied by Discourse which results in it finding an incorrect answer. e.g. 2 + 2 results in 73514
see also: Numberwang
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forumpointzzz (with varying amounts of zedz)
noun
The currency popularly used by forum software to encourage participation of members .
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Discomoment
noun- The phenomenon that allows two events to happen simultaneously at different times
- An unspecified amount of time, which could be between a Discosecond and several Discodays
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Discotest
noun- The opposite of a test
- Somewhere between not tested at all, and might have been tested but probably wasn't.
[Citation]
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accalia
verb- To post without first checking said post for spellar and gramming
- To post posts that don't make a lot of sense to anyone [cite]
- To go on a wild like spree [cite]
- To give off the appearance of being evil without actually being evil
accalia
noun- Creator of the @sockbot series of forum bots
- A spellar or gramming error esp. one that only foxes would make
- @RaceProUK's queen
Synonyms: typo
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I'f
contractionFully expands to "I would beg to differ". Since "I'f" is easily mistaken for a typo of "If", it can be used as a polite way to disagree with someone.
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Discoshedding
nounNavel gazing discussions on Meta.d about how best to ruin some particular feature or display detail.
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Wankerar
nounOne who autolikes posts.
Synonyms
Autowanker
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Discriteria
nounCriteria applied by Discourse to statistics, resulting in what appears like an error.
[Citation]
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Jeffinition
nounSomething defined by Jeff, not necessarily expected to make sense.
See also: Jeff
[Citation]
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ClownCode
nounThe mutated hybrid of white-listed HTML, BBCode, and Markdown implemented by Discourse.
See Also: Clown Barf, Clown Spittle
[Citation]
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DiscoGuts
nounThe guts of Discourse. Presumed to look like a rainbow assortment of Silly String because, after all, Discourse is rainbows™.
[Citation]
http://media.zurchers.com/catalog/category/silly.jpg
Image found courtesy of @aliceif
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Dischorse
noun1. First used [Citation] A dischorse is better expressed as a meme. An answer to question about a problem directed at higher authority, such as a Discodev, when it can be answered without further explanation because the answer is obvious.
Usage Example:
Question:
"Might be just poor naming and it could be that. But I'd rather hear it from the horse's mouth"
Answer:
pfff
2. Alternative name for Discourse, coined by @loopback0, later used in frustration over buggy poll editing. [Citation]
In this case, Dischorse may be represented as a pair of emoji, with the most common being . Other variations may be formed by combining icons from the table below [citation]:
Disc Horse
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Discoparsing
verbEditor's note: All discorendering samples were obtained from try.discourse.com on 5 April, 2016. Breaking of the previously working third example was a surprise, but not entirely unexpected, given the fact that we are talking about Discourse.
The process of detecting things like BBCode, HTML, and Markdown in a raw post. Because of discoursistency, nesting these elements can cause unexpected results. For example, the following will display correctly:
[quote] Sample quote 1, without any code. [/quote]
As rendered by Discourse:
However, insert a code block into the quote, and things will become problematic.
[quote]Sample quote 2, with a small code block. ``` n = 2; ``` This will not work [/quote]
As rendered by Discourse:
Then again, if you add an extra line break to the quote, it used to start working again:
[quote] Sample quote 3, with a small code block. ``` n = 2; ``` This will work [/quote]
As rendered by Discourse:
[Citation]
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Jefficial
nounA standard, practice, design, or other object or concept that is approved by @codinghorror
[Citation]Coined by @nightware
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GCourse
nounAlternate name for Discourse. Stems from the all too frequent argument for/against features: "That's how GMail does it!" Use of this term indicates that Discourse is not trying to be different, just GMail for forums.
[Citation]
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Server Herpes
noun- Anything written in PHP and MySQL. Presumed to be worse than JavaScript + Ruby. A Jefficial definition.
- (uncommon) What Server Cooties turns into when there is more downtime than uptime.
[Citation]
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Whoosh Whoring
verbIntentionally appearing to miss jokes in order to gain whoosh badges.
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Discofix
nounThe fix that does not stay put because of someone tinkering with something else.
[Citation]
Do not also see: Unit testing, integration testing, any kind of testing at all…
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Improvinate
verbImprove and innovate in such a way as to do neither
Usage:
I understand spoilers are an important core forum feature and we want to improvinate this.
See also: Anything but Discourse
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Discokerning, Alternate: Diskerning
nounThe application of font kerning in a manner intended to increase text ambiguity.
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(to) Discokern, Alternate: Diskern
verbTo apply Discokerning
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Discobeta
noun