The NEW Official Unofficial Discourse bug tracker!
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Defeating ExpertsExchange wasn't a "challenge", it was fucking trivial-- nobody had done anything to improve that site in like 10 years.
Beating ExpertSexchange has nothing to do with whether the software running the site is any good, it's purely a matter of content and not intentionally making it hard (or impossible as the case has been at times) to get the answers without paying.
Any plain old free site that simply DOESN'T HIDE THE ANSWERS is going to have a better usage rate than ExpertSexchange.
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gamified site
Yeah, but gamification is baaaaaaaaad, m'kay? @codinghorror told us so when we asked for the post count back. Those naughty users will go racing to see who can get the most on their post count indicator. Because what's important is posts read. But we don't get a "posts read" counter, either.I'm not sure where badges come into this, though. Or racing to get that thread to $SYMBOLIC_CONSTANT, or $PALINDROMIC_NUMBER or $LEET_SPEEK_NUMBER. Or trying to get the all-important "most posts in the thread" position at the top of the "page".
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Funny enough, I have much better performance when I use this site on mobile instead of on my quad-core Xeon workstation PC.
Probably depends on mobile configuration. Might be a magical RAM or CPU limit above which everything smooths out.
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Yeah, but gamification is baaaaaaaaad, m'kay? @codinghorror told us so when we asked for the post count back.
So he changed the "leader" (whatever the fuck it's called now) to look at the gamification numbers, then declared gamification is baaaaad. What a dick.
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No, it was the other way around. First he told us gamification is bad, then they implemented a bunch of gamification stuff. This is because they have no plan, no design, beyond "make it awesome, dude!". They're winging it.
On (and preferably not in) the other hand, you're right about his dick status.
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I'm not sure where badges come into this, though. Or racing to get that thread to $SYMBOLIC_CONSTANT, or $PALINDROMIC_NUMBER or $LEET_SPEEK_NUMBER. Or trying to get the all-important "most posts in the thread" position at the top of the "page".
Speaking of which, I need to remember to get 80085 when the time rolls around.
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I'm coming for you baby!
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I don't know if it's possible, but it would be a real good idea to get the page titled differently if you want to make it more obvious than meta.d. Something like "The Unofficial Discourse Bug Tracker" rather than "thing-that-sounds-like-a-mame-based-os/discoursebugs"
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Where do I go to report issues in the issue tracker?
To the issue tracker. "Create new issue" once you are there and logged in.
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The Unofficial Discourse Bug Tracker" rather than "thing-that-sounds-like-a-mame-based-os/discoursebugs"
masamune is a famous japanese swordsmith. i don't know what a "w os" is though.
or is it masa mu new os?but yes, it'd probably help if the page title only referenced dicsourse.
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I'd have to move if off bitbucket (or maybe more accurately, create a landing page that gets the data from bitbucket, then refers it off)
The format comes from bitbucket directly, because it's
Username / Repository Name / Issues / Issue title
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MasaMune - Correct
WoS - Well of soulsRelics from 1999 username selection.
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Unless you guys know some google analytics tricks that I could put in sitemap or other to fix the titles?
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I'm coming for you baby!
Just remembered... isn't "Discourse" as a word trademark currently on "abandoned" status? There was some discussion about that here, but I CBA to Discosearch...
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I don't think you can trademark common dictionary words?
http://www.inta.org/TrademarkBasics/FactSheets/Pages/TrademarksvsGenericTermsFactSheet.aspx
Since Discourse is marketed at 'telecommunications' I think there's a strong enough correlation to be ineligible for trademark. (IE: Apple -> Computer is fine, but Discourse-> Telecommunication should not)
@apapadimoulis attorney.
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I don't think you can trademark common dictionary words?
My bad. It was "Discourse Forum". Found the post by @HardwareGeek by Disocsearch tm, btw.
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Yeah, liked that, too. Although... only three turtles?
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They never said where it was down from.
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They never said where it was down from.
And for all we know, they're standing on a giant, slightly grassy, turtle.
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Now, trademarking "Dicsourse Forum" and then sending Jeff C&D letters would be a valid waste of money. Far more entertaining than paying to set up a bugtracker.
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And for all we know, they're standing on a giant, slightly grassy, turtle.
I see possible schisms there. There might be adherents of the view that the lowest turtle (which is standing on another turtle nevertheless) is a giant, extremely guano adorned turtle.
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Now, trademarking "Dicsourse Forum" and then sending Jeff C&D letters would be a valid waste of money. Far more entertaining than paying to set up a bugtracker.
As much as I like the idea (no better way to teach somebody a lesson about some important aspects about running your own business), I can't see it happen.The trademark might be abandoned, but you can't just register it like that for your own forum software. There will always be a case of "prior use" and your claim could be contested.
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Just remembered... isn't "Discourse" as a word trademark currently on "abandoned" status? There was some discussion about that here, but I CBA to Discosearch...
It was "Discourse Forum". And yes, it is currently listed as abandoned on trademarkia.
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Yeah, I know. I would have got away with it if it weren't for that meddling reality.
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Dicsourse Forum
I demand royalties, I have prior usage proof that I invented the term Dicsourse.
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And for all we know, they're standing on a giant, slightly grassy, turtle.
Gamera is friend to all children!!!
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My issue here is you are all complaining, "you need a new tool" when the issue you have is "you need different process"
Tools do not dictate process.
@Sam: you need a new tool. Forum software is not sufficient for tracking bugs. Take this topic (and it's predecessor) from your own forum as evidence.
- As of this post, that topic is drifting into the need to indicate the status of a bug when it is closed. Wouldn't it be much easier to have a field for Status, instead of expecting a team member to enter that data in a new post?
- If you have a bug tracker linked/integrated into source control, it becomes trivial to add a link to the relevant commit for the bug/feature (the main focus of the topic I referenced earlier). This is something that some of your team members do consistently, others do intermittently, and others see no need for.
- In a bug tracker, you can specify priority for each bug/feature. I don't see any non-trivial way of doing that when using Discourse for tracking bugs and features. And after watching they way you guys implement new features and attack bugs (somewhat along the lines of "ooh, shiny!"), you need a prioritization method.
And those are just the advantages I thought of while reading the topic I referenced at the beginning of this post! I can guarantee that you would find more benefits if you start using an actual bug tracker.
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@matches: Just a heads up that I added a bug to your issue tracker.
https://bitbucket.org/masamunewos/discoursebugs/issue/58/user-card-in-filtered-topic-displays
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I get emails on these. I have a few I need to file soon. (4-5 now)