:wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
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Talk about feature creep—I heard a vicious rumour that the next version of Discourse will probably contain a fully-fledged webserver...
What does that mean though? The only installation mechanism is docker, and discourse is just the glue sticking dozens of third-party components together.
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It was a secret bug report!
Don't you mean a WHISPER report?
Holy shit, Disocurse-- pressing CTRL-U starts a list, instead of underlining-- like in every WYSIWYG editor in existence?
I know how I'm tagging this one.
Filed under: How's the new forums coming?
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@Lorne_Kates said:
Don't you mean a WHISPER report?
Actually more like a flag report.
Meaning I flagged a topic for reopen and then @riking was like "Oh, you want to submit a bug? I will use my AWESOME MIND READING POWERS and work the bug so you can't/won't have to submit it"
This - btw - is a good way to keep your forum/tracker bug-free!Sadly I can't screenshot that conversation anymore for ... reasons
Filed Under: REASONS!
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On the vein of the topic title:
The most recent poster to the Game Gifting thread when that was snapped was FrostCat, and for the two threads not showing last posters were HardwareGeek and ben_lubar.
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Also, I just noticed, they seem to have had a discoursistent purge of the existence of WTDWTF.
This is rude, not banning (it is their right), but renaming.Am I the only one who gets this? I stole the line from my favorite user here
I bet there is money on the table, and this banning has nothing to do with trolling, or even negativity not much, just with in the .
- A new potential VC is allergic to it, and cannot see her money being spent on such unholy names
- An acquisition/IPO is in pipeline and the public image is fragile
- In a meeting to potential investors they cannot list current notable users (thus rename)
So obviously the fix is to purge the name and any association with it, because any civilized discourse requires censorship, obviously.
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Works for China.
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I bet there is money on the table
lol.
I bet the hypothetical money will stay on the table.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I bet the hypothetical money will stay on the table.
I don't care where the money is so long as Jeff loses his shirt. Metaphorically. The thought of angsty naked pictures of him turning up, well… anywhere, makes me somewhat nauseous.
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I wonder how much load their avatar generation can handle before it starts to crumple.
We could always stress test it ...
Filed Under: Yes, I know where the evil ideas thread is.
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That is interestibg. By setting up a number of discourse instances, run a few bots, we csn bring every paying instance of discourse to a halt.
lots of accalias here, but my fingers are freezing...
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I think @abarker was thinking more along the lines of
while curl ...; do :; done
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A new potential VC is allergic to it, and cannot see her money being spent on such unholy names
Samsung?
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Serving static images is too complicated. I give up.
https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimizing-letter-avatar-rendering/33082/53
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is hostile towards themes that decide on diff image sizes
So, since we know that user-uploaded avatars get resized server-size to a few different resolutions... how does that work with "themes that decide on diff image sizes"? Is there a setting for that? If there is, why not just generate a huge version and resize according to theme on first rebake?
I just... what the shit?
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It's just Discodev bullshit for "we've done it the stupid way now so we're not changing it to the simple less retarded way".
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what the shit?
Literally all they need to do is to keep a single avatar size for all the letter/color combinations, and run the whole "avatar uploading" process on that on user signup.
Yes, that means a bit of wasted storage with all the duplicates,, but if that's an issue then you're going to run into problems anyway once people start uploading their own avatars.
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Maybe in Discourse 2.0 they'll support full Unicode for anonvatars instead of just the Latin alphabet.
I mean, just LOOK at their infrastructure! They're
EwokTDWTF proof.
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Enterprisey? TIE fighters with both blasters AND
iptables
?I'm sold on the maturity of this
teamproduct!
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It's not THAT enterprisey. Needs moar
on the backend.
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A huge lumbering thing that can get completely fucked by a small payload at an inconvenient time? Don't they call those
Sideqik
these days?
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That's Dischorse in general.
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Samsung?
Not, unless Samsung wants to package Discourse with Tizen.
If that is the case, please do not disrupt that plan. I am so dying to see one more of those true- stories from @NeighborhoodButcher.
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It's just Discodev bullshit for "we've done it the stupid way now so we're not changing it to the simple less retarded way".
Ladies and gentlemen, the sunk cost fallacy.
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Combined with the "Jeff is a phallus"-y.
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Maybe in Discourse 2.0 they'll support full Unicode for anonvatars instead of just the Latin alphabet.
Paging @Gąska!
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FUCKING HELL, I'VE CANCELLED THIS DRAFT LIKE FIVE TIMES NOW, WHY IS THIS SHIT STILL THERE AND OCCASIONALLY WITH missing {{link}} value OR SOMETHING
Filed under: oh, I'm on mobile, that's different
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Filed under: oh, I'm on mobile, that's different
Confirming I had that shit happen before on crossposting. Found no way to get rid of it except posting something or other to the affected thread.
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Why is "Sign Up" and "Remind..." a link that looks like a button, but "no, thanks" a link that looks like a link?
Current practice-de-jour for web-UI .
Don't you have to make sure the two colors come out with fairly low contrast? I mean, not too easy nor too hard to read for most people. Just...questionable, you know?
There's fairly simple formulæ for that.
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Fairly simple, you say? Not suitable for this project.
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Why the plural?
.. because threre's two equations mentioned on that link?
W3 deems that text and backgound colors have sufficient contrast when the brightness difference is over 125 AND the hue difference is over 500. If one of the two tests fails, the colors do not have sufficient contrast.
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There's something bogus about that. The "hue difference" is just the sum of the difference of the color values - so the hue difference between light grey and dark grey is large, even though I'd say they are same hue. Likewise:
That's grey on white, passing the brightness test but failing the hue test... It may be that the contrast is actually too low for it to be acceptable, but calling it a hue difference problem seems like a .
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Did I imagine your text as being "There's a fairly simple forumulæ"?
/me slowly wanders off to sit in a corner....
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Did I imagine your text as being "There's a fairly simple for
umulæ"?Possibly, though with further thought, it was clumsy/sloppy copy on my part in using that contraction, it would be more correctly written "There are fairly simple formulæ"
Filed under: Paging Mr. Freud. Mr. Freud to the white courtesy quote please. Mr. Freud...
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I think @abarker was thinking more along the lines of
while curl ...; do :; done
Really, I was just thinking that anything putting a load on the letter avatar server would be a benefit. Though solutions with less effort are preferable.
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It's just
Discodev bullshit for "we've done it the stupid way now so we're not changing it to the simple less retarded way".Discologic.STFY
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calling it a hue difference problem seems like a .
That is the strangest definition of "hue" I've ever seen. By normal definition of hue, rgb(255, 254, 254) and rgb(1, 0, 0) have exactly the same hue, red (very low saturation very different brightness/value, obviously, but the same hue). But that definition gives them a difference of 762.
Also,
passes with a hue difference of 508, but
fails with a hue difference of 500. Can you even see a difference in color between them? I can't.I'm not saying the formulæ aren't useful, but their usage of the word "hue" differs from normal use, and it is a bit confusing. Also, their pass/fail determination draws a distinction without a difference for borderline cases.
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Expanded quotations:
The last one, with the body text of the expanded quote, is giving Discourse some serious benefit of the doubt, and picking the very darkest, highest contrast parts of the anti-aliased letters. Effectively, though, I think the text is rather lighter in color:
Picking, say, the left side of the "o" as a more representative sample gives
The basic body text of Discourse has adequate contrast, but by this objective standard (however good or flawed it may be), most of the rest of its UI fails.
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I've had this discussion with
He surprisingly didn't care ;)EDIT: they use this test: http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
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Picking, say, the left side of the "o" as a more representative sample
That'd be the wrong thing to do; it's doing subpixel rendering.
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Did someone disable the letter avatars?
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Huh?
EDIT: Damn, missed my chance at a placeholder joke...
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I can see the letter avatars in Chrome, but no amount of F5 mashing, cache clearing, or browser restarts bring them back in Firefox. Visiting the URLs directly works normally.
@NedFodder said:EDIT: Damn, missed my chance at a placeholder joke...
I thought that was your attempt at a placeholder for a joke.
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FWIW, I can see them just fine with Firefox.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@NedFodder said:
EDIT: Damn, missed my chance at a placeholder joke...
I thought that was your attempt at a placeholder for a joke.TODO: Insert placeholder joke here.
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I have no idea what is going on, but the zero size avatars are making my DiscoExperience more DiscoTacular than normal.
TODO: Add @NedFodder counter-joke here.
Filed Under:
<it's discotacular, get it?>
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the zero size avatars
Well, I guess we don't need a CDN to generate letter avaters anymore!
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Check if you have an extension blocking them because it's a third-party domain seen on multiple other domains that's serving etagged assets.