:wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
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Let's see what's happening in meta.fail land...
There's a discussion on the necessity of up and down voting, this should be interesting.
What I have experienced is that people will flag posts of people they are in an argument with. I've even had to reduce the daily flag-limit due to flag-abuse.
Based on my experience, I have never -- literally, as in "has never happened" -- seen flagging abused as a method of disagreement on any Discourse I've looked at used. And I have looked at hundreds.Oh really??? You've never seen this behaviour before? I'll just leave this here then to jog your piss-poor memory...
This literally happened just 5 days prior, and the first reply was from
Hmm, honestly not sure what to do in that case.
I don't think a "flag immune" topic approach makes sense.
You could turn up the auto-close flag threshold values in the site settings -- so it takes a lot more community flags from a lot more users >to auto-close a topic -- as long as you're comfortable having the higher threshold everywhere
Turn off flag ability for certain users who are using flags maliciously or irresponsibly.
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Cognitive dissonance:
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lol, Sam brings up "Oh we can probably do it for $20k - 30k."
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@mott555 said:
lol, Sam brings up "Oh we can probably do it for $20k - 30k."
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It would probably take a few months to build properly so 20-30k dollars seems like a pretty reasonable budget for it.
I think this means:
$2k for development
$2k to fix a performance issue and classify it as a "feature" later on
$16-26k for ongoing bikeshedding services
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@abarker said:
@mott555 said:
lol, Sam brings up "Oh we can probably do it for $20k - 30k."
Given their track record that might be spot-on.
At first they'll implement the feature. Then they'll spot a gazillion issues and regressions that have to be fixed. Then they figure out that the feature doesn't work as intended, so they'll slap a "beta, use at your own risk" label onto it and move on to the next customer request.
Filed under: whispers
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@AlexMedia said:
At first they'll implement the feature.
Then they'll spot a gazillion issues and regressions that have to be fixed.Then they figure out that the feature doesn't work as intended, so they'll slap a "beta, use at your own risk" label onto it and move on to the next customer request.Filed Under: FTFY
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@mott555 said:
lol, Sam brings up "Oh we can probably do it for $20k - 30k."
I think he was saying "we won't do it but if you offer 20-30k on the plugin marketplace someone might want to do it for you"
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@Jaloopa He's quoting a real price to develop and test such a feature as bespoke software. Not that they would actually put in that much work, because they don't test, etc. But it's also a price designed to discourage a buyer.
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@Jaloopa said:
plugin marketplace
There are people crazy enough to try and develop Discourse plugins?
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@Onyx Yeah, but they want tens of thousands of dollars for simple plugins. Which makes sense
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@Jaloopa so... If I manage to build a NodeBB plugin for view raw, how much should I ask for it? :P
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@Onyx I'll give you a fiver
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@Onyx I'll buy you Bad Rats.
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@aliceif why do you want to punish me?
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@loopback0 said:
$16-26k for ongoing bikeshedding services
You forgot the $10k for upgrading their cluster monster to cope with 100k+ threads.
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@Jaloopa said:
@Onyx Yeah, but they want tens of thousands of dollars for simple plugins. Which makes sense
nononono-- it only costs $500 of labor to do a Discourse Plugin. But you have to develop it 40 times to keep up with the ever
changingbreaking API.Sidenote: the above is a very funny joke because Discourse doesn't have an API lol.
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@Lorne-Kates said:
Sidenote: the above is a very funny joke because Discourse doesn't have an API lol.
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@PJH said:
@Lorne-Kates said:
Sidenote: the above is a very funny joke because Discourse doesn't have an API lol.
They may have something they CALL an API. But they also have lots of things they call things that aren't actually those things. Like a bug tracker. Or "usable software"
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@ChrisH said:
upgrading their cluster monster to cope with 100k+ threads.
No, that's covered under
@loopback0 said:
$2k to fix a performance issue and classify it as a "feature" later on
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So I clicked on the Unread link to this thread and got my own post Highlighted because I made that post on a different computer.
Fucking hell.
Filed under: Red Boob
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@Lorne-Kates it highlights the last post you've read.
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@ben_lubar said:
@Lorne-Kates it highlights the last post you've read.
No it doesn't. Since it's highlighted my own posts, long after I've read replies to them.
And besides, it should highlight the first unread post if I'm coming in from /unread-- since, y'know-- "unread"
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@Lorne-Kates said:
And besides, it should highlight the first unread post if I'm coming in from /unread-- since, y'know-- "unread"
Yeahā¦the text is wrong. Or, should I say, 'was':
That only applies to en-GB, but last night I updated the same phrase in the en-US and en@Pirate translations, so when they're merged in, it'll be correct for you to. Unless you use en-GB, in which case it should already be correct.
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This seems to be listed as a feature?
set limit on PM topic lengths with two settings, one for users, another for staff
Despite just being a dodgy workaround for:
Refactor topic performance to support topics with 100k posts+ without serious performance impact
Bets on that being moved into another future release?
Also - the Discofuture holds support for those new fangled HTML anchors
HTML anchor support that works for deep linking to headings in a post
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@loopback0 said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
Also - the Discofuture holds support for those new fangled HTML anchors
HTML anchor support that works for deep linking to headings in a post
That's the reason we had a FAQ category rather than a single post/thread.
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I look forward to seeing the ridiculous way they reinvent HTML anchors
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@loopback0 said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
Bets on that being moved into another future release?
No dice. I don't think it'll ever be implemented.
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@loopback0 I'm sure clicking on a hyperlink will fire an ajax call, passing the GUID of the link off to a CDN to be turned into json response with "protocol", "host", "port", "domain", "subdomain", "path", "qeurystring", that will be used to build an URL-- which will then document.location = that url.
Unless it times out.
Also, it will pass the GUID of every other link on the page, just because.
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@Lorne-Kates said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
@loopback0 said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
I look forward to seeing the ridiculous way they reinvent HTML anchors
@loopback0 I'm sure clicking on a hyperlink will fire an ajax call, passing the GUID of the link off to a CDN to be turned into json response with "protocol", "host", "port", "domain", "subdomain", "path", "qeurystring", that will be used to build an URL-- which will then document.location = that url.
Rather neatly missing of the "fragment" part that actually points to the anchor....
What Colour Is Your Bikeshed Today?ā¢
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@PJH said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
@Lorne-Kates said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
@loopback0 said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
I look forward to seeing the ridiculous way they reinvent HTML anchors
@loopback0 I'm sure clicking on a hyperlink will fire an ajax call, passing the GUID of the link off to a CDN to be turned into json response with "protocol", "host", "port", "domain", "subdomain", "path", "qeurystring", that will be used to build an URL-- which will then document.location = that url.
Rather neatly missing of the "fragment" part that actually points to the anchor....
What Colour Is Your Bikeshed Today?ā¢
Anchors are clownvomit old-think.
Instead, the AJAX call will also send the screen height and average font size on the page. The server-side CDN will take the anchor requested, and calculate the scroll-to position. It will then write this, along with a GUID, to the database.
When the document.location happens, and the user ends up on the new page, it'll make another AJAX call with the GUID to retrieve the screen position, and scroll there.
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The problem is caused by the nginx service not being able to find the host avatars.discourse.org
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@NedFodder fail.d went dark?!
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@NedFodder Wait, not being able to get avatars from a CDN (a stupid idea) makes the entire forum fail to start?
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@RaceProUK You never know when they're going to add new letters!
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@loopback0 said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
@NedFodder fail.d went dark?!
I was also surprised. After spending two years getting the tint of blue just so they suddenly introduce a dark theme and have to start all over again?
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Once you go black, you never go back!
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@Mikael_Svahnberg They were talking about it for a while over there, before the Mass Banning Of 2015
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@RaceProUK said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
They were talking about it for a while over there, before the Mass Banning Of 2015
It had happened before. They do that every so often to test the darkness.
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They're testing a new version of Sprockets (no, I don't know either) and apparently testing it needs 3 days of darkness on meta.
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@loopback0 said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
They're testing
Bullshit. You're a filthy fucking lying liar who lies. Stop telling lies, asshole.
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@Lorne-Kates My bad - they claim to be testing.
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We're not actually testing the theme to get it good. We just have the theme up for raisins. Please do not provide actual assistance with testing the theme. All testers will be subject to DiscoRule 40(b).
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@izzion Proof, if any was needed, that they don't concern themselves with trivial issues like usability
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@RaceProUK said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
@izzion Proof, if any was needed, that they don't concern themselves with trivial issues like usability
So someone is paying them to implement a dark theme in an exact color scheme. Gotcha.
Also, fuck you anyone who can't see these colors.
Also also I hope it's an American company paying for this, so they'll get sued under the ADA, and Jeff's post will be exhibit A of malicious intent.
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I found this avatar combined with this topic title funny
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So Jeff took dog-fooding and made it cat-fooding. By that I mean the dry kibble shit that makes cats secretly plot your death while you sleep kind of force feeding.
Not sure if evil genius or stupid. Probably both.
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@MathNerdCNU said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
cats secretly plot your death
so ... normal cat stuff ...
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@izzion said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
We're not actually testing the theme to get it good. We just have the theme up for raisins. Please do not provide actual assistance with testing the theme. All testers will be subject to DiscoRule 40(b).
I thought we concluded the light theme doesn't meet the contrast guidelines either?