Petition To Move Off Latest
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@PJH: What version are we on?
Edit: Nevermind, Boomzilla already answered.
As he also pointed out, the Docker updates thread is a more granular record of which version we're on. Presuming - of course- none of the other admins who go messing around in /upgrade also forget to update it (Sam does, others don't.)
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Sorry but I just don't think the Stable edition can actually have more bugs than Latest. And if it does, they will be minor ones.
There is a chance that major bugs are only being kept out of stable because of our efforts. Bugs such as the small text issue on Firefox. Currently, WTDWTF is the testing safety net for Discourse. If we take a step back to stable for a month or two, Jeff & Co might adopt some of the sane testing and development practices we've suggested to them (just out of a desperate need to slow the bugs). If they did that, then being on latest might not be such an overwhelming surge of bugs and regressions all the belgium-ing time. If that happened, maybe the community here wouldn't mind being on latest.
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Ok - who's up for an experiment - since I'm actually off work (when I normally update) from COB today until (in practise) Jan 5th, how about I stop updating until then?
I would create a Poll to garner peoples' opinions on the matter, but... well.
Edit: Not sure if it'll prove anything though - I don't particularly expect many commits to be made in that period either. How about Feb 5th...
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Aside: browser bug? Possibly not, per se, but I don't know how to prevent it from doing that.
That's not a bug, that's actually a feature! Since about this time last year, the Omnibox has been getting suggestions from Google about "search engine keywords." Allegedly there's a setting somewhere, but last I read it's either "on" or "off", no "only use my default search engine you incompetent fool!"
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I've known about it for a while. You'll see it with Wikipedia too, and I think I've seen it for a few other sites. I just would like--in this case--the ability to disable it for this search.
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I'm on board with the theory of the experiment. I would think it would be a less jarring experience to not have a constantly shifting set of bugs (assuming the frozen set of bugs doesn't have anything showstoppingly major).
(As an aside, I would slightly prefer the start of the extended freeze period to come as close as possible to the commit that DC "blesses" as a -beta or -stable release, under the theory that releases tagged onto those branches should have a lower chance of show stoppers).
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Ok - who's up for an experiment - since I'm actually off work (when I normally update) from COB today until (in practise) Jan 5th, how about I stop updating until then?
The only issue I see with this is the silent site updates making it uncontrolled. It might force the discodevs to actually perform some testing to keep their paying customers from complaining.
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assuming the frozen set of bugs doesn't have anything showstoppingly major
- We rarely use polls (and the trout has indicated he'll be fixing it 'shortly' - I may include it before any freeze depending on whether 'shortly' is closer to DiscoMinutes than DiscoDays.)
- 3389dae361af79b04c9c8e7057f60cc6 is easily worked around
- I seriously doubt much is going to improve on the mobile front any-time soon
Have I missed anything that's current?
only issue I see with this is the silent site updates making it uncontrolled
I have no control over if they happen - but I can detect if they have.
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Ok - who's up for an experiment - since I'm actually off work (when I normally update) from COB today until (in practise) Jan 5th, how about I stop updating until then?
well that sounds like the best xmas gift ever! no new bugs for a couple of weeks!
wait! not! that's the worst gift ever! :-P
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well that sounds like the best xmas gift ever! no new bugs for a couple of weeks!
wait! not! that's the worst gift ever! :-P
Bi-polar much?
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Ah, Christmas Hulk! How I shall miss thee!
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Ah, Christmas Hulk! How I shall miss thee!
you know, when i change my avatar you still know it's me! ;-)
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Who are you again?
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Commander @accalia Shepard, and i've got a galaxy to save!
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and this is your favourite forum on the Citadel?
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and this is your favourite forum on the Citadel?
not just the citadel, the whole fracking galaxy!
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When mocking that screenshot, I found that fake-o dialog is anchored to the bottom of the window, not the top.
As seen on many phones in landscape ...
Also seen in Chromium with default zoom set to 150% FWIW.
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abarker:
they plan to adopt CommonMarkdo they plan to drop the htmlbbcodemarkdownlike mess they have in favour of common mark or just wedge it in there as commonhtmlbbcodemark?
Here's a mad idea for a user preferences menu:
Which formatting system(s) would you like to use when composing comments?
- Plain text
- HTML
- BBCode
- BBCode with broken bits of HTML tags for variety
- Common/Mark/Down
- Submit comment via PDF upload.
- Wooden table
- FILE_NOT_FOUND
- All of the above
- None of the above
- Select randomly per comment
Last option is primarily to retain some element of surprise when posting, for purposes of nostalgia if nothing else.
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WTForum is scheduled to have end-user-selectable cooking services
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you know, when i change my avatar you still know it's me!
That's part of the fun with me.
Actually, half the reason I started changing avatars was to confuse morbs.
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Which formatting system(s) would you like to use when composing comments?
- Plain text* HTML* BBCode* BBCode with broken bits of HTML tags for variety* Common/Mark/Down* Submit comment via PDF upload.* Wooden table* FILE_NOT_FOUND* All of the above* None of the above* Select randomly per comment
Wow. Quoting sure fucked that up. Leaving it there for @codinghorror's delectation, even though I only wanted the frist and last lines so I could say "Raymond Chen uses that last one to pick smart pointer libraries in his sample programs.
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Not sure I see your point with the image:
(oopsie, I scrolled in IE, but it looks just like chrome, i.e., all the line breaks are gone.
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Not sure I see your point with the image:
Unexpanded quotes have a lot of formatting stripped - the formatting comes back if you expand the quote.
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Unexpanded quotes have a lot of formatting stripped - the formatting comes back if you expand the quote.
Ah. Well, TIL two things.
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There was a lot of stink. We got new bugs all the time.
Now we get less new bugs, but more Server Cooties and 50x errors and still find new bugs.
Speaking of which.... highlight the text, hit Quote Reply, get the quote in the edit box. Click a link from a Onebox to navigate to the other topic. Edit box vanishes, post not even saved in the original topic.
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highlight the text, hit Quote Reply
This didn't even work for me most of the day today.
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highlight the text, hit Quote Reply, get the quote in the edit box. Click a link from a Onebox to navigate to the other topic. Edit box vanishes, post not even saved in the original topic.
I believe this is working as designed. (Stupidly designed.) If the post contains nothing but a quote, you haven't added any contribution of your own. Thus, when you navigate to a different topic, you obviously don't care about the post and want to abandon it, so Discourse doesn't bother asking you. (Unlike after you've navigated to the other topic and posted it there. When you return to the original topic, the edit box reappears, and Discourse gives you grief about abandoning it, even though you already posted it.) Just type "asdf" or something before leaving the topic, and the edit box will follow you to the other topic.
Because that just makes so much sense.
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But it doesn't do it if I navigate using the normal forum controls.
EDIT: and it behaves exactly the same if I add text.
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Ok then, I got nothing.
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Discourse.