I have no idea what you mean by this talk of other threads. This is Discourse, there is only one thread, and it is infinite.
Zylon
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RE: Vote of No Confidence
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RE: Post, I choo-choo-choose you!
That's even weirder on Discourse; it puts the click-count between the e and the i.
Why does Discourse even have a link click counter? How is that such vital information that it's been deemed worth the visual noise it imposes? Seems like yet another "because we can" feature. -
RE: Poll: Infinite Scrolling
The psychological burden imposed by infinite scrolling really can't be emphasized enough. As anyone who's ever been tasked with "Clean your room!" knows, attempting to take in a large task all at once is vastly, disproportionately more daunting then when subdivided into smaller, more immediately manageable goals. That's what pagination does for people. "Oh my, this thread is a hundred pages long! Well... I'll just read the first couple pages..." and off you go. Cheerleading for infiniscroll is thinking like an engineer, not a human.
And of course, infiniscroll will also always and forever be saddled with the fundamental defect that it fights the way web browsers want to work, breaking find-in-page and turning the scroll bar into a spastic, unreliable tool.
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RE: Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?
@SpectateSwamp said:
I found quite abit about Mac desktop search. It needs some competition and a good search to autit it's results. Everybody needs a good audit.
Wow. Suddenly it all makes sense.
SpectateSwamp is a Scientologist.
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Post, I choo-choo-choose you!
The standard button in Discourse to "like" a post is heart? A pink heart? Really?
Symbols mean things. That's why they're useful, obviously. What does a heart mean? In western culture, a heart (especially a pink one) signifies romantic intent. When you see a bumper sticker that reads "I ♥ NY", precisely nobody reads that as "I like New York". It means "love". I LOOOOOOOOVE New York.
You know what I don't love? Other peoples' posts. I "like" them. I am thus dissuaded from clicking a big pink heart under someone's post, no matter how much I may have enjoyed reading it, because this is not a freaking dating site, and I am not a 13-year-old girl doodling in the margins of her Trapper Keeper.
So for the love of god, get rid of the heart and replace it with something sensible. 👍
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RE: Vote of No Confidence
I'd just like to point out that Discourse somehow manages to break Firefox's "Find in Page" functionality. If this has already been mentioned, sorry, I couldn't find it.
And what the hell is up with the first post in some threads quoting a subsequent post? At least, that's what it looks like. Discourse seems to play fast and loose with time and space.
And and, is Discourse really so starved for horizontal real estate that they couldn't fit "ago" next to the relative post times?
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RE: Overheard at Work
Overheard too many times on the internet-- "The Atari 2600 was a 4-bit system."
SIGH.
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RE: Post, I choo-choo-choose you!
I am so confused by the juxtaposition of these two statements. I mean, posting troll links seems a very legitimate use case
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RE: Oh, I couldn't build it, so I checked it in.
No, it bloody well does NOT "beg the question". Cripes.
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RE: Gimp 2.7.2 Splash Screen
@Weng said:
Another upside to working with Adobe products: they went ahead and licensed the Fraunhofer codec. No shitty-assed LAME.
Troll: -1
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RE: Oh, I couldn't build it, so I checked it in.
No, it bloody well does NOT "beg the question". Cripes.
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RE: She's dead, Jim
@HardwareGeek said:
This is a situation in which I miss Discurse's like button.
There is no like button, there's only a "love" button. (seriously, it's a pink heart. I don't know how else to interpret that)
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RE: Why are topic dates sometimes blue?
Ditto. In a sea of grey text, the blue draws the eye VERY effectively.
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RE: Post, I choo-choo-choose you!
I am so confused by the juxtaposition of these two statements. I mean, posting troll links seems a very legitimate use case
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RE: Post, I choo-choo-choose you!
I've grown to like it. For example, how many of us will get rickrolled despite knowing that's exactly what the link does? or... does it?
Okay, so one use case is that people who post troll links like it.Any legitimate use for it?
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RE: Post, I choo-choo-choose you!
You just responded to Nagesh. About spelling and grammar.
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RE: Post, I choo-choo-choose you!
That's even weirder on Discourse; it puts the click-count between the e and the i.
Why does Discourse even have a link click counter? How is that such vital information that it's been deemed worth the visual noise it imposes? Seems like yet another "because we can" feature. -
RE: Poll: Infinite Scrolling
It's not really infiniscroll though, because the entire document is loaded in memory all at the same time, so there's a 1:1 correlation between your position in the document and the position of the scroll bar thumb. An infiniscroll document, OTOH, is like a glass that refills itself. Every time you think you've gotten to the bottom-- nope, there's more!
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RE: Discussion thread for Full list of currently supported emoji
Emoji, god help us. Apparently DailyWTF is turning Japanese, I really think so.