Thank you for letting me back in, Discourse!
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So... long time lurker, then long time poster, then... long time... expelled?
Basically, as the discourse forums came, i tried to re-register. It said i'll get an activation mail.
Which i got about 5 days later and noticed another 5 days later, so the activation link wasn't valid anymore.
So I had it re-sent.
Which I'm not sure if it ever came.So I thought "fuck you, it's not as my comments had any value anyway", and went on unregistered and unposting for about half a year or something.
And now I really felt the urge to vote in the numpad usage poll, so I clicked it, and... YAY, I can login with facebook! KTHXHI.
Round of applause for discourse for finally letting me in, please!
(But I do really like the realtime preview. Except afaik, star text star should be bold, and underscore text underscore should be italics.)
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As far as I can tell, the email activation stuff is currently broken, judging from the recent difficulties I've had registering sock puppet accounts.
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As far as I can tell, the email activation stuff is perpetually broken, judging from the recent difficulties I've had registering sock puppet accounts.
FTFY
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I blame @apapadimoulis's email server.
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Except afaik, star text star should be bold, and underscore text underscore should be italics.
spec.commonmark.org disagrees.
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What are we blaming Spark Mandrill for again?
The fact that I knew that name without looking it up doesn't say a lot for me, does it?
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The fact that I knew that name without looking it up doesn't say a lot for me, does it?
No, but it says alot[1] ABOUT you.
[1] Yes.
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Isn't that the mail robot thingie that keeps breaking?
Filed under: Maybe he got shotgunned by a penguin
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Wasn't it * for bold, / for italics, _ for underline?
Not even sure which markup language that was...
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Wasn't it * for bold, / for italics, _ for underline?
Discurse uses _ for italics, in defiance of common sense, but it ALSO uses *, because @codinghorror or someone else is an utter moron. You want bold, you use **.
I don't even know how you /get/ underline, but apparently it's not with /.
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With voodoo magic.
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but it ALSO uses *, because @codinghorror or someone else is an utter moron
Technically, it uses
*
for<em>
which is kinda reasonable; it's the W3C/browsers manufacturers' idea to putfont-style : italic
for emphasis.
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Discurse uses _ for italics, in defiance of common sense, but it ALSO uses *, because @codinghorror or someone else is an utter moron. You want bold, you use **.
I don't even know how you /get/ underline, but apparently it's not with /.
And if you want both bold and italics you can use three stars and hope Discourse doesn't decide to randomly mismatch them.
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Yup, there probably is no way to do it.
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I like the WTF at the end of the post. As far as I can tell, his examples produce the same output.
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It looks like CDCK has fixed some parsing bugs since @PJH last updated that.
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It looks like CDCK has fixed some parsing bugs since @PJH last updated that.
This. Updating that post is on my todo list.
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It looks like CDCK has fixed some parsing bugs since @PJH last updated that.
Wait, WHAT?
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s/fixed/changed/
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It looks like CDCK has fixed some parsing bugs since @PJH last updated that.
I figured that would be the case.
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The question is, is the number of new bugs they introduced less than, equal to, or greater than the number they fixed?
InB4: Yes.
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I knew some smartass would say it. It might as well be me.
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You know he's right though.
Oh, I know. I was going to reply exactly that until I saw the INB4...
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Oh, I know. I was going to reply exactly that until I saw the INB4...
Is there a "INB4 WIN" badge yet?
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Oh, I know. I was going to reply exactly that until I saw the INB4...
I was just worried that somebody would reply before I submitted my ninja edit, and I'd end up with an INB4 fail, but it turned out to be a few minutes before you replied.
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Wasn't it * for bold, / for italics, _ for underline?
I thought underline was italic, maybe I'm just too used to Word.
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bold, /italic/, underline ?
Nah.
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Oh, I know. I was going to reply exactly that until I saw the INB4...
Ah, so it was jealousy, not something else.
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Hmm, well, all email goes through Mandrill and the SPF and DKIM look correctly configured in the test email I just sent.
Possible things were wacky in the early days, but email should be working, unless we hit some Mandrill limits or something.
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I've had a few complaints about registration emails not arriving, but I'm still getting mails.
@accalia and @Arantor are two others who've had problems recently and I've had to manually activate accounts for.
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I'm getting mail from discourse on any of the accounts that i've registered:
sockbot, jsbot, tcotcdck, zoidberg, sockadept all get emails now that they are active. all but sockbot and sockadept (the oldest) needed multiple sends ofer multiple days for the activation emails, Zoidberg required manual activation, because he never got the acitvation emails.
now that he's active he's getting mail occasionally.
it's really weird. I'm wondering if i'm on a softbounce list or something in mandril because all those accounts get delivered to the same inbox through the magic of email aliases...
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Can't you do this? (__*)
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Discurse uses _ for italics, in defiance of common sense, but it ALSO uses *, because @codinghorror or someone else is an utter moron. You want bold, you use **.
I don't even know how you /get/ underline, but apparently it's not with /.
Markdown was like that all along. The only way you can blame CDCK for this is for selecting to support MD in the first place; MD is pretty weird in places. (You can also blame CDCK for bugs in the implementation, but this isn't one of them. The spec itself is busticated.)
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Markdown was like that all along. The only way you can blame CDCK for this is for selecting to support MD in the first place; MD is pretty weird in places. (You can also blame CDCK for bugs in the implementation, but this isn't one of them. The spec itself is busticated.)
I think using Markdown by itself would have been fine. Reddit doesn't have any issues with it.
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Markdown was like that all along. The only way you can blame CDCK
I'm not blaming CDCK per se, I did say "@codinghorror or someone else." Since Markdown was like that all along, let's lay blame at Mark Gruber's feet instead, assuming I remembered the right person.
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I'm not blaming CDCK per se,.
I should hope you are not maligning or great and glorious forum software, long may the developers live.
That would be blasphemy if you were!
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Dalek Voice DO NOT BLASPHEME DO NOT BLASPHEME
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do i have to make a dalek bot?
i can....
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No, you don't.
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ok, i don't have to, but should i?
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If you do, CybermanBot would have to be a thing too, bellowing DELETE DELETE and sparring with DalekBot about how the CybermanBot is better at dying.
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I loved that scene.