Vote of No Confidence
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I concur, Jeff's "last seen" here was about the same time the blanket bans happened.
His username was changed. But that doesn't mean that he was reading a lot of stuff.
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I concur, Jeff's "last seen" here was about the same time the blanket bans happened.
To abuse his (then) admin status to rename his account.
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@shadowmod attendance endAh - that won't work, will it?
Sofa laptop down?
Work desktop, and no - he's running.
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Sofa laptop down?
Filed Under: Or whatever laptop shadowmod currently runs on
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Interestingly enough, a few months back I contemplated actually paying for discourse to set up a forum for my students. Looks like we're sticking to IRC and usenet news for now.
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My company is looking at forum software for its member site (approx 600'000 members). I was going to recommend looking at Discourse, but fuck that.
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I would have said no to that even without this. 600,000 members‽ Yikes.
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Golly, did @accalia and @raceprouk pick the wrong week to go off the radar!
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They are aware of whats happening!
Filed Under: I can vouch for them... at least one of them!
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Only over here.
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To abuse his (then) admin status to rename his account.
Ah. I read else-thread that he's not admin, and then I read he'd changed his name, and I thought, "I didn't think users could do that." But that explains it.
Filed under: Admin abuse!
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And here.
I said i'd stay readonly until the 1st, but this.... this situation is too big to stay quiet for.
I'm retracting my vote of confidence, Discourse is not the forum software for What The Daily WTF.
So yeah. there's that.
now if you'll excuse me i have a self imposed "ban" to get back to.
Until the 1st y'all.
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Golly, did @accalia and @raceprouk pick the wrong week to go off the radar!
Oh, believe me, I'm very aware of what's going on:
Not even the fact that I have code in Discourse is enough to escape the fallout of Jeff's asinine behaviour; if there was a way to give up ownership of those PRs, I'd do it quicker than a new bug would be found. Hell, give me a TARDIS and I'll go tell my past self not to bother!There's no excuse for what is, basically, a targetted attack on an entire community. No-one's actions on this site should affect how they're treated on any other site.
Fuck CDCK, fuck Discourse, and fuck Jeff.
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I said once before in a tirade that was, for me, uncharacteristically hostile, over some stupid thing that I no longer remember, that I thought CDCK deserved to go out of business, and that I hoped it would do so. (I think I may have also expressed an opinion that Jeff deserved physical abuse with a cactus, or that the collapse of CDCK should be so financially devastating to him that he should wind up living in a cardboard box under a freeway overpass, or both, or something; I don't quite remember any more. I kinda regretted the last part after Sam called me on it, but I was really angry at the time.)
In light of today's events, I reiterate those sentiments. CDCK, as a business, deserves to fail — spectacularly, or merely fade into obscure oblivion, I don't care. Jeff has repeatedly demonstrated himself to be utterly incompetent at software development, utterly incompetent at UX, and now utterly incompetent at PR. Nobody should ever give him another cent for anything computer-related, and his communication with the public should be limited to, "Would you like fries with that?"
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Never quite understood the whole idea that replies needed to be timely.
Yeah, neither have I.Had to do it before the demise of DC.
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Fuck Jeff up his star hole.
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Have a badger of support.
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Fuck Jeff up his star hole.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lBO23Dh23I
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Bug report: YouTube One Box doesn't work randomly. Should I meta.d?
http://i.imgur.com/3ypP1GG.png
Filed under: I wonder what percentage of ImgUr is just Discourse bug screenshots?
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if (url.contains("thedailywtf")) {
disableOnebox();
}
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if (url.contains("thedailywtf")) {
disableOnebox();
}Cannot repro:
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500 internal server error upon liking ...
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There are quite clearly two boxes there QED.
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Bug report: With "Likes" tab open on Profile page, multiple likes for the same target become separate entries rather than just adding an avatar to a single entry's Like row:
http://i.imgur.com/5HYMQaI.png
Filed under: Bug report: My account on meta.d has not been banned yet, plz fix?
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Huh, that used to only show up when there was a big gap in time. Show a post got 5 or whatever likes and the list of who did it, then a month later when someone was doing a catch up and added one it got a new entry in the log with just that user.
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I don't understand your reason #3
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CDCK, as a business, deserves to fail — spectacularly, or merely fade into obscure oblivion, I don't care.
Anybody cares to do the writeup on, say, BoingBoing?
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Huh, that used to only show up when there was a big gap in time.
That still happens, and is persistent. The issue @Lorne_Kates talks about is goes away on refresh, it's just that teh javascripts don't bother to find the post to which the like belongs when it's streamed in.
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I would have said no to that even without this. 600,000 members‽ Yikes.
600,000 forum members, or just 600,000 customers of the site? In the latter case, that's fine. In the former, you're pretty much screwed-- see what SomethingAwful's using, I think they had close to that.
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I'm surprised the server doesn't just send a list of every post ID you've ever had a like for, considering the retarded amount of information it chucks
updown at the client for other things.
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All of the old toxic-hellstew PHP forums can cope with that. Add another couple of 0s on the end and it might be a different story.
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I know SA's using a toxic hellstew forum but I don't know which one. I also know they basically exploded MySQL with their volume of data about a year ago, and had to hire a bunch of consultants to get the forums going again afterwards.
I think they're number 2 or 3 in the world, as far as forum sizes go.
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Don't forget that Gaia Online started out with phpBB 2 and basically rewrote it.
But really, if you're in the sub-1m user bracket, pretty much any of the 'classic' platforms can cope without too much pain on decent enough hardware.
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Anybody cares to do the writeup on, say, BoingBoing?
Fuck Boingboing, this deserves a writeup on TDWTF.
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600,000 forum members, or just 600,000 customers of the site?
600'000 customers, any of them would be able to use the forum, but I've no idea what the uptake would be.
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Hopefully not a lot, or you'd have a lot less customers.
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Fuck Boingboing, this deserves a writeup on TDWTF.
The point of doing it there is that they are a major customer.
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Huh, that used to only show up when there was a big gap in time. Show a post got 5 or whatever likes and the list of who did it, then a month later when someone was doing a catch up and added one it got a new entry in the log with just that user.
Maybe someone set the "DoNotCoalesceInMilliseconds" option to 500.
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But it is a massive WTF.
How about both? Both is good.
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That was over a year ago, and we are leaving discourse ASAP. I'm not worried about explaining it to you.
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My implementation of read tracking will always take you to the first unread post in any thread. That means if you happen to read (or reply to) a post further ahead in the thread, it's not a big deal, you can just pick up where you left off reading.
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That's a nicer implementation than what Discourse does.
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But surely then the last post you have read is the one further down that you replied to?
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The issue he's talking about is if you somehow enter into the topic below where you read. Like, maybe via a reply notification. Now, how do you get back to where you actually left off yesterday? The discoway is lots of page ups (or page downs) paying attention to when you run out of blue balls. ( ) That sucks. ( )
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The discoway is lots of page ups
The Jeff-Approved™ discoway is to close topics longer than a few posts so the question never comes up in the first place (and anyone who says others will be banhammered).
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SA's using a toxic hellstew forum but I don't know which one.
A quick glance at the bottom of the SA forum suggests it's vBulletin.
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A quick glance at the bottom of the SA forum suggests it's vBulletin.
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I went over there looking for that but didn't see any indication, unless you just recognized the styling or something.