don't know why I thought it would point right now that I think about it, it points left.
You probably thought something like "it's a new topic branching out of this one".
don't know why I thought it would point right now that I think about it, it points left.
Wait, hasn't it been established that username color for newbies is different?
So this logic must already exist somewhere.
Plus, I think you're discussing implementation logic while I was talking purely cosmetics.
In topic lists, I'd much prefer having my per-topic tracking status be represented as an icon under div.topic-statuses
, much like the padlock for locked status. Or alternatively, next to the "starred" toggle.
The reason is two-fold:
A color value/brightness of the topic title is a terrible representation. A subtle difference in contrast simply doesn't cut it; not just because everyone's screen and lighting conditions is different, but also because their eye sensitivity is different. So hitting the right balance between usefulness and subtlety is hard.
(Main reason) Left aligned icons are much easier to quickly scan than having to zig-zag my eyes along the end of each title.
Apropos reason #2, although I find the blue "new" badge usable, I'd much prefer if it was a stand-alone icon too. It wouldn't be hard to shoehorn "New" as a tracking status, in fact.
Note that nothing stops you from still keeping the different title colors.
On a more serious note, if Discourse tracks the number of posts a user has read we can cross that with a small number of posts made to assign them a "Lurker" or "Voyeurist" badge.
Just figured out they're a 'regular user' - so there's nothing to differentiate them from, say, you.I can understand there being an explicit boolean field isModerator but not an isNewby, but is it really that hard to determine a user's join date and/or post_count? ꖴ_ꖴ
I've amended my post above.
I don't know how the mod trophy is being written to the page and I can't be bothered to find out, but you could use similar logic to add a corresponding icon.
Edit: just wanted to add: I think using a glyph is preferable to using colors, not just because of contrast, but because it facilitates using custom CSS. It's one less rule to think about.
If you just want to know if someone is a newbie, new users have light grey usernames.That's terrible. Make it an icon instead, like the moderator icon.
Edit: as already suggested by dhromed:
@dhromed said:
You can display a wee babby icon below their avatar.
Edit 2: except I meant after the username, so the equivalent to <i class="fa fa-trophy"></i>
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And then you meet an asshole like me who keeps calling it the Super key.I like calling it WinKey.
Winkey, winkey
@ben_lubar "The page at social.microsoft.com says OK."
I only support a Worst Of the Worst bage if it has a picture of a small bratwurst.You've misspelled "bagel".
So, what if your master's thesis accidentally collides with Rick Astley?
I'm going out on a limb here and say I'm probably the only person who read "Frond" as an abbreviation of front-end.
I miss always on top on Windows so much.You're right. I accept your fix. I don't use Always on Top much on my Linux window managers, but it happens now and then.
More importantly: is it so much to ask for Microsoft to let me drag taskbar buttons at will? Grouping by application doesn't make any sense. (I don't know if this has been fixed in Windows > 7 as I haven't had much contact with those)
@Onyx said:
Also, being able to scroll without focusing the window. But I didn't harp on this since it actually is solved, just not on every OS.It varies from application to application too. Can't think of any examples right now though.
I was going to make a joke about the artice about cleavage being disappointing....
But apparently there is a Cleavage (breasts) article and even a Cleavage enhancement article. (Possibly NSFW depending on your employer's policy on cleavages.)
Skimming, I found this bit:
For legal purposes it was noted by the United States federal courts that "anal cleft or cleavage" and "cleavage of the female breast" are so imprecise as to provide no guidance in defining them.
Oh wow, there's even an audio version of "Cleavage (breasts)"!
@http://solarroadways.com/clearingthefreakinair.shtml6 said:
So if anyone tries to tell you that glass is soft, just remind them that even simple window glass is harder than steel. By comparison, it's asphalt that is soft.Oh, so it's harder to leave a scratch on the surface of the road.
But no comment on strength, brittleness and toughness? (Can you tell I just gave a quick glance at Wikipedia?)
Poor Pee-Wee has a YouTube icon stuck on his eye.
Feature request: username history
If anything, I think username history is important to keep as to avoid people reusing someone else's old username, which could produce confusion. Hmm.. then again, it could potentiate username squatters.
C#, Java and PHP all allow unicode identifiers, including certain symbols. JavaScript doesn't.
I miss my signature
What part of "If Steve were still alive, he'd roll over in his grave" don't you understand?
If Steve was alive in his grave he'd be rolling and screaming "Let me out!".
I've used this expression before, myself.
Always-on-top windows.
In particular the Flash updater. My pet theory is that they want reading the EULA to be as difficult as possible.
What is a ziałek and why has it been ponied?
Anyway, did you find the script-generating script?
Wikipedia article on Affordance
I had to reopen the tab to make sure I didn't see a Portal turret and ASHPD.
How it looked on the page:
Design Portal
Original size:
replying to Ye Olde Topic From Anno Domini MMIX, not so normal.
Every time I see <kbd>Alt Gr</kbd> my brain reads it as "Alt, grrr", which pretty neatly sums up the frustration I imagine most Europeans must have with all the diacritic marks that are strewn across their languages and the 53 different keyboards they need to support each one.Could be worse.
Zecc said:
or holding somethingTMI.
Something like a pen or paper.
Or my balls.
@Maciejasjmj said:
Huh, so somebody actually uses arrow keys in games...Although I haven't played those in a while, some Flash games use Z and X and arrow keys. I'm fairly certain I've played games using Ctrl, Alt, spacebar and arrows. Not every game uses a mouse...
I voted "Mostly with my right thumb". There are other instances in which I use my left thumb. Sometimes I "hunt and peck" with my left hand when I'm using my right hand for drinking, eating or holding something.
You're missing an option:
"I always use my right thumb, I just realized after typing a bunch of text; but I know in games I use my left hand because my right hand is busy on the arrow keys."
Good grief. I was editing a post #1 I made, as to reply to a post #2 that was made to reply to #1. It made things too weird, because the reply was before the thing it was replying to. At it seemed for a second like my post had been swallowed.
I'm editing my posts again and replying below:
Also, fun bits:` and ^ are Alt Gr + 7 and 3 respectively. Fun bit is, on every single system I tried, they ALWAYS require you to hit another key before they even show. No, I don't know why.I too need to press space if I want those individual characters, as well as tilde. It's because those are accents that can be used with vowels. Try it, maybe it'll work for you too: àòèìùâêîôûãẽĩõũ.
This is my layout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Portuguese.svg
@ is AltGr+2 as Shift+2 is occupied by ". To get to / I need Shift+7, usually right pinkie+left index. It's the character that irritates me most, because it slows down typing Linux-style paths.
(If you've just expanded this post by pressing the "N replies" button under Onyx's post, just scroll down a bit)
So this doesn't represent your actual keyboard layout?
Now we're discussing the meaning of the word "innate"!
I meant to refer to something which you're born with and don't have to learn or practice. What would you call that?
Why wouldn't magic be a craft, even if it's fictional? Every single story about magic shows it as such; with people going to school and being apprentices.I wasn't saying fictional magic isn't a craft either.
My post starts with "No" but that was because I initially interpreted your post as putting words in my mouth. That's unhygienic*.
*Thank you, working spellchecker.
Edit: uhg, let me clarify. You said:
So you're saying magic is a craft as well.And in my follow-up post I meant to say "No, that's not what I was saying, I was saying something else (but I don't disagree that magic is a craft, in particular real-life stage magic, but also fictional magic [except in cases where magic is portrayed as something innate])".
TrulyErgonomic keyboard
I ask about backspace and tab because I would have preferred to have backspace more accessible than tab, so it seems to me (without having tried the keyboard myself) that switching those around would be more convenient.
Other than that, having ]} to the left and {[ to the right seems counter-intuitive to me, but I'm guessing you're right-handed and have your editor set to auto-close opened braces.@ender said:
Both of my keyboards are actually blankAh, the old trick to avoid anyone else using your computer. :)
So you're saying magic is a craft as well.No, I'm abusing the language to say some people look at programmers as magicians.
But, stage magic is a craft, sure, insomuch as it a profession requiring a specific skill set.
A scrolling mechanism whereby the entire page has a font size of 1px, and as you hover, it fluidly zooms to a readable level, like moving a magnifying glass over the thread, or an extreme version of OSX's utterly obnoxious taskdockbar.Actually, I think a MetalScroll / minimap for a complete topic would be extremely cool.#ideas for Discourse 2.0
How hard would it be to do a server-side render of a page with all the posts loaded, create scaled down copies in known dimensions (say 1200px, 800px, 640px, and add that to the right side of the page? (fit by the browser to viewport height).
Filed under: Completely handwaiving the issue of how to map scroll position to post number; Handwaiving was not a typo
It's a craft.dhromed beat me to it. (and only by 13 hours too!)
I'd go as far as saying that to the eyes of some it's witchcraft.
That looks tiring...Well, that keyboard is in dire need of armrests, but I don't think the mouse would be that tiring. Like @dhromed said, a tilted mouse would work quite well I think.
While on the subject, how about vertical keyboards (and mice)?
(Out of politeness, pictures link to the sites I stole them from. They don't represent any endorsement, they were among the first hits on web and image search)
I modified your image to express visually what I tried to express verbally:
Do what you want, but DON'T FUCK WITH THESE:Tell me about it. I have a keyboard like this:
Tiny backspace, huge delete key that occupies the space left over by an exiled insert key. TRWTF is that I was the one who bought this keyboard.
I am intrigued by this idea. I like it.
But I think I'd reorder and change the size of the keys instead. I know I use the thumbs for pressing Alt, I suspect other people may do so too, so we could take advantage of that. Here's what I'm thinking:
I choose the central modifiers to be Ctrl on the left and Shift on the right because most of the keys I use with Ctrl are on the left (A, S, Z, X, C, V, even W). You still have left Shift in its traditional place and right Ctrl is now hopefully more confortable to hit as it's bigger and closer to your pinkie's resting position.
An unfortunate effect of moving keys like this will be some frustration breaking away from old habits. But people adapt.
In your design you could probably press modifier+space with a single thumb if you wanted to, btw.
PS: eww, single row Enter key.
This is because Lua at least forbids the programmer from writing statements with no effect.Cool. I've used Lua before but I hadn't realized this.@ben_lubar said:
This is valid Go code equivalent to puts("1 2 3");ꖴᨋꖴ ఠ⁔ఠ
By allowing Unicode characters in constant and variable names, Apple’s new Swift programming language will allow programmers whose native languages don’t use the Roman alphabet to write code that makes more sense to them.