Posts made by Derp

@runescryer said in Hog Pit as read only:

@derp It's not exactly a 'secret' part of the board. Keep it as a pinned Announcement: 'We have some sections of this Board that are Opt-In. Here are those sections and their focus; here is how to opt-in to them...'

Maybe? But then they'd still have to actually read that there is a part there.

As compared to a person who wants to opt out of a category only having to take a single action:

You go into the category, and in the top right corner, you just toggle that box down to 'Ignoring'. Nothing shows up for you in Unread or Recent. It just goes away, save for the link on the main dash.

I think one of them is much more fair to new people than the other, personally. But again, I'm just one opinion.

@runescryer

It's certainly a discussion that could be had.

That said, though, I'm not a fan of the idea. I'm also not a fan of the Hog Pit being opt-in, rather than opt-out. Opt-out should always be the default.

I don't like the idea that there are 'secret' parts of the board that you can only get to if you know to join a specific group and then go look for them. To me, that just feels like we're hiding the ball.

Especially when it's easy to turn off notifications and unwatch entire categories. Nobody ever has to see a Hog Pit post show up in their unread, or a Politics post. They can choose to opt-out of those a lot easier than it is to opt-in to them. You have to know there is something to opt into in the first place.

ETA: Obviously that would be a discussion with more than just me, and my voice is only one voice. Not even the important one. Just my thoughts on the matter.

Guys. Before we get too far down this rabbit hole...

@ganymede said in The Hog Pit and the Politics Boards -- SHUT DOWN:

After a short conference, we have decided to cut access to the Hog Pit and the Politics thread until we have had a chance to fully discuss recent events.

Emphasis mine.

That's an important qualifier.

PICARD. OMG. That last episode, man. Right in the feels. The whole damn time.

STRANGE NEW WORLDS -- Is glorious. Pike has all the charm and charisma you could hope for in an old-school star fleet captain. BEWARE MAJOR SPOILERS FOR DISCOVERY all through the first episode.

Halo -- I have never played the games. But this series is dark dude. Like holy shit. And I'm here for it.

@rightmeow said in RL things I love:

I'm going to my first ever drive-in movie. I'm super excited. I bought a million snacks and got blankets and that's all.

I'm just bouncing here and squeeing happily before heading out in like half an hour.

I love them! I go to the one near me all the time. Every year they do a sunset-to-sunrise old-school monster movie marathon where people bring tents and stuff. It’s just the best thing.

I did nothing.

I suspect it's a browser thing where the old version just hadn't caught up with the new stuff and it was mismatching.

It kind of looks like a mismatch somewhere. Try clearing your cookies and try again, see what it does?

In Edge and Chrome it's Ctrl+Shift+Delete to get there. I don't remember what it is in other browsers.

@misterboring said in Can't Get into a single specific thread:

Weird.. I wanted to express my joy at my meditation cushion and pad. I guess the forums don't want me to.

What are you seeing when you try to open it?

@macha said in RL things I love:

@derp So many names I love on that list.

I know right?

I love seeing pictures of Rob Halford and his huband. And Dolly Parton is on there being a freakin' queen. Just so many deserving people.

In something a little lighter, the 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees are in! Check them out here:

https://www.rockhall.com/2022inductees

@misterboring said in Hog Pit as read only:

You might have to wait for someone else to fork his repository and update it on your their own since I don't think he's doing anything with nodebb anymore.

FIFY.

I'm frankly not committed enough to that particular plugin to go in and try to reverse engineer it and figure out where it's broken. Block User still works just fine, and that's native nodebb. I don't have to worry about that one breaking unless it breaks for everyone, everywhere, and then the node team can work on fixing it. If someone else comes along and fixes it, or someone makes something different, we can give that a shot.

So, since I'm the guy that set this up in the first place:

I'm pretty sure that this was working. It wasn't working during the transition because a lot of the groups got set to be openly visible. Their specific settings didn't get transitioned over with the new account. I had to go in and manually lock down some of them.

When someone mentioned that the Hog Pit was no longer opt-in, I was asked to go back and make it so. So, that's what I did.

You're right in that it has nothing to do with a plugin on that one. That's just a setting in nodebb.

What's currently broken re: plugins is the Ignore User function (that little eyeball thing next to the username) because it hasn't been updated for ages and ages and hasn't been compatible with nodebb since at least at least December. I know that one was really popular, but there's nothing we can do about that one until the plugin developer makes an update.

I'm only wading into this one because Ganymede has requested that these topics be locked in her announcement. I'll let her figure out how she wants to handle the rest of it when she gets back.

Subsequent topics will continue to be locked, per her instructions.

This looks awesome! Keep us posted!

@sunny said in Forum wonk:

Get an error every time I try to upload a new profile picture; it says permission denied at copying from temp -> profile. May be because I used the picture editor, will report back on that, just realized.

Yeah. direct uploads are busted for some reason. I don't know why. All the appropriate file permissions are in the right place and yet we keep getting weird permission errors. I think it's reporting a symptom based on another cause but I've yet to track it down.

Other things currently broken:

• Copy/pasting files into posts (for now just use the image link button and paste the url). Same issue as above. We should not be getting a permissions error. We are getting a permissions error. I'm thinking it's some other kind of error that it's just reporting as a permission error because it failed to move a thing. Still looking into it.

• Ignored users. It's a plugin, not a base node feature, and it hasn't been updated. It is not compatible with the last year-or-so versions of nodebb, and was broken before the move. Until they update it, nothing to be done there.

• Searching. This one is also baffling to me. It only searches back from the day the forum was installed, but the indexing is clearly there because none of the links to old-as-hell posts have broken. So it can see them. It can find them. But it doesn't search for them, and this is a setting apparently deep within the bowels of node that I haven't quite figured out yet.

@greenflashlight said in Forum wonk:

@derp said in Forum wonk:

As in, it's showing the preview box of that link like if you hover over one? Even when you aren't hovered over it?

Yeah. It doesn't happen often, and sometimes mousing over the link will make the preview go away. Other times I have to F5 to make it go away.

Weird. I'm trying to reproduce it and I can't make it stay.

Do you mind sharing what browser/OS you're using? Maybe I can try to re-create it there. The only other thing I can think to do would be to turn off the preview feature, which I think I can do without too much fuss, but seems like a cannon-mosquito type situation.

@greenflashlight said in Forum wonk:

Sometimes when Solstice has posted in a thread, the page is covered by a preview of the anime thread linked in their sig. Sometimes I can make it go away, sometimes I can't.

As in, it's showing the preview box of that link like if you hover over one? Even when you aren't hovered over it? Just want to make sure I understand what's being said.

@tinuviel said in Active Games?:

line by line...

UPHILL, IN THE SNOW, BOTH WAYS!

@macha said in Active Games?:

@testament Until a guest logs in, sees only a handful of folks, and thinks that no one plays there. It's a vicious balancing act.

Not necessarily. There are other metrics of game activity than a gigantic WHO list. If you can see that there are regular logs being posted, for instance, that's a pretty sure sign, as well as like, active forum posts, etc.

I think that the whole 'screen needs to scroll with names' before people take a game seriously mentality is slowly shifting into different realms, but a lot of us old players are just so set in our ways that we don't really think about how it might change for newer generations versus what we're used to seeing in that situation.

I'm not really sure that we're talking about the same things though.

Most of us are familiar with the concept of racism, but in your original fantasy works you aren't really talking about race. You're essentially talking about different species that are just lumped into the 'races of men'. You aren't really talking about the kinds of differences you'd see in something like Japanese versus Kenyan, you're talking about differences even more pronounced than between Homo sapiens and neanderthal.

The various sapient creature types in classical fantasy are designed from the ground up to register in the uncanny valley, marking them as distinctly inhuman. They are supposed to strike us as 'other', so if you look at it through a lens of what we see as racism, then -- I mean, yeah, you're gonna see racism, because they are being other-ed and compared.

I don't think there's an actual answer to that. I know that Pathfinder 2E is trying to make them more like actual races of men and less like different species but it feels really forced and kind of ham-fisted, the way they did it. But I think so long as you are using a model that is obviously and meant-to-be something other than 'generic human' you will always see those types of comparisons, just based on human instinct.

Notably, though -- you rarely see the humans at the top of the food chain there. They are typically the weaker of the options available in whatever way. So I think that the directionality matters, as in the original example. If a "superior" species is being condescending to a human, does the directionality of it make a difference? Doesn't it then become just another tool to show that it's unpleasant to be on the receiving end of such criticism?