Still, I hope you can find a better job soon.
What, are you jobs-ist or something?
Still, I hope you can find a better job soon.
What, are you jobs-ist or something?
Pages are arbitrary, why does everything need to be split into 50 item chunks, why not 25 or 102?
How is "one chunk" any less arbitrary than n chunks of m items each?
Correct solution: allow the user to choose
The problem I have with pagination is that it's a barrier to reading, and reading is fundamental.
I'm seriously curious - what do you mean by that?
I'm assuming it is coming from some sort of hypothesis that changing pages destroys reading, but have there been any kind of studies done that show this, as opposed to perhaps the hypothesis that the human brain may actually process information better in pages? After all, we use paragraphs, because if we didn't then reading would be almost impossible.
Also, isn't this a forum, where discussion is fundamental?
(the implied permalink)
This strikes me as another one of those "discoverability" faux pas: why on earth would I, with no prior information, think a glyph indicating a value indicating the time since a post was made - so it changes all the time - would a) be a time stamp of when the post was made or b) represent a (permanent) link to the post?
U+1F425
Why the hell is this (and others like it) defined as a character in a language?
I guess we should be glad @ben_lubar isn't on the Unicode committee or we'd have Dwarf Fortress glyphs defined as Unicode scalars...
On the bottom right of the composer there's a "hide preview" link.
Well, yes, but I had to take an extra step to click that link. Adding clicks to do things is A Bad Thing.
I will say, though, that at least Discourse has one thing right: when you scroll down, the very top of the screen doesn't scroll off, so you can still get to those "menu" options without having to scroll all the way back to the top.
how come you did not get too_many_usernames as your account name?
My account name is indeed the full too_many_usernames. See the rest of the discussions on the foolish reasons why the display name is truncated. So I guess my whole name will show up again when they remove that silly 15-character restriction.
The design guideline is this: remove barriers from things you want people to do. We want people to read and listen as much as possible before talking. Therefore, we remove the next page button as it is a barrier to reading.
Ok - at least now I understand the design philosophy at which you're aiming. In all honesty though I think it fundamentally doesn't work for places like TDWTF. Or places like textbooks where you want position identifiers to go find reference information - anything which needs interaction.
Note in my earlier post where I said that infinite scrolling kind of makes sense for read only information - and you specifically mentioned Slate and Ars Technica: new sites - traditionally read-only media.
At TDWTF forums, we aren't here to listen as much as possible before talking - we are here to poke fun, reply to things that piqued our interest or curiosity, in a very nonlinear manner, and as fast as possible - things for which "infinite scroll" is not well-suited, because infinite scroll is extremely linear.
Why does a face with X for eyes, conventionally indicating death, represent 'astonished'? Is he astonished that he's dead?
(512mb with swap will work, barely, but it is not really suitable for use by any other human beings, whereas 1 GB can run a small discussion community with ease)
What the heck is the software doing that it needs that much memory to run "well"?
Filed under: 640k ...
Wait, what? On a whim I decided to check back in today to see what happened to the forums and was like, "Oh look! Discourse is gone! Maybe I'll come back..."
So this is just a temporary thing?
One weakness of summary is that it tends to favor earlier posts which naturally have more likes, replies, views, read time, incoming/outgoing links, etc. I've talked with @eviltrout about weighting the bottom of the topic more to compensate.
You'd probably be better off having a human editor decide what is a good summary, rather than some algorithm. The algorithm will be as wrong as the person, but more difficult to change.
@many folks said:
a Progressive
What, an insurance company franchise?
Still, I hope you can find a better job soon.
What, are you jobs-ist or something?
You guys know that you can't do function calls in a hardware-based conditional breakpoint, right?
(edit: clarified breakpoint type)
Why does a face with X for eyes, conventionally indicating death, represent 'astonished'? Is he astonished that he's dead?
My blog posts usually have a bunch of citations and research.
Control groups? Falsifiable hypotheses?
Most research, isn't.
(512mb with swap will work, barely, but it is not really suitable for use by any other human beings, whereas 1 GB can run a small discussion community with ease)
What the heck is the software doing that it needs that much memory to run "well"?
Filed under: 640k ...
U+1F425
Why the hell is this (and others like it) defined as a character in a language?
I guess we should be glad @ben_lubar isn't on the Unicode committee or we'd have Dwarf Fortress glyphs defined as Unicode scalars...
I count this as a bug: I can't login using the long username*; it only lets me log in with the email address.
I didn't try the short username, because I stubbornly deny the existence of that limited form.
*Or perhaps it's randomizing my password; I don't know...
I'll have you know that my username is camelCase, thank you very much.
Someone really needs to invent camelopard-case.
I'm also one of those strange "semi-regulars" like @cconroy . . . always around, but only posting a few things here and there since way back in MMV.