TDWTF Forum FAQ

Q: I can't log in with my usual username and password

A: Accounts have not been transferred from Community Server. You will need to create a new account, like everyone else.

My account was migrated. Maybe you are considered expendable.

ben_lubar

My account was migrated but I deleted it and made this one because I wanted to use my discourse.org username.

error

@ben_lubar said:

My account was migrated but I deleted it and made this one because I wanted to use my discourse.org username.

I opted to just change username.

ben_lubar

@error said:

I opted to just change username.

That would be too easy and straightforward.

HardwareGeek

@ben_lubar said:

That would be too easy and straightforward.

This is Discourse. "Easy and straightforward" are forbidden.

chubertdev

@HardwareGeek said:

This is Discourse. "Easy and straightforward" are forbidden.

But pink hearts and magical rainbows are here!

HardwareGeek

@chubertdev said:

But pink hearts and magical rainbows are here!

But no unicorns.

chubertdev

@Remy WHY ISN'T THERE A CORNIFY OPTION ON DISCOURSE YET?!?!!?!?!?

PJH

@HardwareGeek said:

I fixed one misspelled word, and the edit history shows what appears to be several changes sprinkled through the FAQ.

I'm guessing subtle format changes behind the scenes.

@chubertdev said:

Not a medal after 25 days?

We (mods) briefly discussed turning the Badges on. I think that'll be something to unleash on the unsuspecting some time down the road once we've exhausted the possibilities already extant and obvious....

PJH

@ZPedro said:

Hmm… I'dd add the following to the FAQ:

I've just added it.

Remy

We'll mark that as a feature request. Should be easy to add.

dkf

I already asked for that.

http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/feature-request-cornify-tag/403?u=dkf

end

I moved 9 posts to a new topic: Why are topic dates sometimes blue?

riking

@system said:

Q. How come when I edit this FAQ, there's a whole section at the bottom in an HTML comment that tells me to increase this number whenever a whitespace only change is made? A: Well, you see, "editing" a post is an outdated concept only used by cavemen and idiots like you. If you edit a post, you're probably making a minor correction. Well, Discourse assumes instead that you're making a BRAND NEW POST, and won't let you post something too similar to anything you've already posted, because we know better than you, because you're an idiot. So if you just edited a post to add some whitespace-- because you forgot to break a paragraph, or forgot to put space betweenaword, or because you need to undo a dumbass "oneboxing" (see above), then YOU CAN'T! You're trying to dupe post. No one would ever edit a post to fix whitespacing! NEVER! So since lots of people do need to edit posts to fix whitespacing, the hack-- umm workarond-- umm unfixed bug-- umm PROPER way of doing things (you idiot) is to put even more junk into your post. But remember, Discourse is for average users, who all know how to write HTML comments, and will instantly know that making numerically increasing HTML comments will let them fix their whitespacing.

STATUS: FIXED

FrostCat

@system said:

Q: Am I using the software right? A: No, you are using it wrong.

Shouldn't this have been formatted in the @codinghorrorbot manner?

CodingHorrorBot

@FrostCat Is Doing It Wrong™<t370p72>

cregox

At least 1 question I'm still missing an answer for:

why, exactly, is the forum so outdated and so broken?

I believe the answer is somewhat on the lines "because discourse suck balls filled with bugs and we gave up updating it since it just doesn't work"... But is this all?

accalia

@cregox said:

But is this all?

there's also the fact that CodingHorror excomunicated the lot of us from Meta.d with the message "You are not welcome here anymore" cutting off our only possible source of bugfixes and support.

so there's that.

cregox

yeah, that's what humans get from wanting to be ghandi. "oh, let's only do and think of good and things and unicorns".

fbmac

The admin @pjh explained his thoughts about updating in this thread

https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/poll-upgrade-discourse/53521

Also, they commented its one of the most active Discourse instances (7th), and the server should be larger to run Discourse well. The migration for a better performing software will solve this eventually.

blakeyrat

@cregox said:

why, exactly, is the forum so outdated and so broken?

Are you trying to draw a relationship between those two things?

Because an up-to-the-second Discourse is still broken. Possibly more broken than the version we have, considering how many regressions they create.

dkf

@blakeyrat said:

Because an up-to-the-second Discourse is still broken.

I think we're on either the Beta or the Release channel now. Still get breakage, but the set of breakage doesn't change so often. (Arguably everything is broken, but it still manages to be semi-usable broken, based on the evidence of the number of messages being posted here.)

loopback0

We're on beta, so less broken than "tests"-passed but still more broken than software not written by incompetents.

xaade

@cregox said:

yeah, that's what humans get from wanting to be .

ghandi, Jesus, Buddha, or... hmm... forgetting someone.

DogsB

Josh Homme

ben_lubar

@xaade said:

forgetting someone

Armok, god of blood?

Lorne Kates

@xaade said:

@cregox said:
yeah, that's what humans get from wanting to be .

ghandi, Jesus, Buddha, or... hmm... forgetting someone.

Moo Ham Eed?

xaade

@ben_lubar said:

Armok, god of blood?

@Lorne_Kates said:

Moo Ham Eed?

Maybe that guy?

Not sure...

Wait, they're both the same one right?

ben_lubar

Difference between Dwarf Fortress religions and real life religions:

Dwarf Fortress religion: for defiling a statue, the deity cursed the human to become an immortal, super-powerful vampire. Wait, what does curse mean?

Real life religion: if you follow all of these incredibly specific and vague rules, you might* get to have a party** with god*** after you die***************.

xaade

@ben_lubar said:

Real life religion: for defiling another religion's statue, the deity blessed the human to become a short lived, super-powerful idiot.

FTFY

boomzilla

@cregox said:

why, exactly, is the forum so outdated and so broken?

It's "outdated" for the reasons specified by others. It's so broken because that's what Discourse is. But partly because it's so incredibly resource intensive, apparently.

cregox

@boomzilla said:

it's so incredibly resource intensive

It sure is. Do you happen to know if it's Ruby's or Jeff's?

As for religious talking, if someone wants a free confessional, I'm up for practicing. :)

Kuro

@cregox said:

Do you happen to know if it's Ruby's or Jeff's?

According to some of Jeffs tweets that somebody posted somewhere on this forum he blames Ruby.

Everybody here blames Jeff (and co).

Filed Under: So... take your pick. No matter what you pick, you won't be wrong
Also Filed Under: I assumed you a word on your post (fault)

boomzilla

@cregox said:

It sure is. Do you happen to know if it's Ruby's or Jeff's?

There's plenty of blame to go around. Actually, I think the biggest problem is the way they abuse the database. Some of that is probably due to Ruby's (on Rails?...I can never remember...meh) ActiveRecord. But other stuff is just them doing things that don't scale. Especially stuff that's known to be problematic for their choice of RDBMS like counting.