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.
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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: Advertising fail
@jasmine2501 said:
Looks like Arabic to me too. It's an ad for a contest LG is running to win travel to "anywhere you want" for 80 days. It is a very slow site... in English here
[b]The Websense category "Malicious Web Sites" is filtered.[/b]
Huh.
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RE: *(**foo** bar)* ignores bolding
So the answer to riking's "why the hell?" question would be, "Because the less-than sign isn't being escaped."
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RE: If you ever wondered whether or not "AI" is actually "BS"...
@bridget99 said:
@esoterik said:
Expert systems are, at best, just a subset of artifical inteligence.
But according to a lot of the materials I've looked at while defecating, Expert Systems are actually one of the most successful parts of AI. If this is the good part, what's the bad part? Skynet? Microsoft SharePoint?? The mind recoils.
Get a Chinese room, you two.
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RE: Did I miss the thread about the new Firefox redesign?
@LoremIpsumDolorSitAmet said:
Also, I like Morb's new sig that makes me agree with them.
It's the only way he could get anyone to agree with him. A bit sad, really.
I also like how Firefox now has a fucking POWER BUTTON on the "hamburger" menu. Because really, the title bar close button is just so 2010s.
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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)