Posts made by WTFE

The period belongs after "qualms" I suspect.

You're going to think I'm being snarky (largely because I am to a point), but I love that this is happening:

Please, America, make me happy and elect President Donald "The Hair" Trump!

This is genuinely new information for me.

Better quality link.

How do I get to the groups themselves? When I go to the groups item at the top, I can get information about the groups (like members), but not the actual contents as far as I can see.

I haven't seen it in any skin I've tried. I don't think @Shebakoby is talking about the "go to last message read" thing but rather the old thing where the last message you were in was shaded differently than the rest of the messages before and after.

@Coin said:

I leave this here with no comment or opinion other than "Wow".

Then let me expand.

This is typical Kotaku (and other) writing in that it is short on facts, short on any kind of fact checking, short on reality. It's just like the "facekini" shit that littered the net a few years back in that it took a "trend" that was so minimal people in the same city as where the trend was purportedly rising had no fucking clue that such a trend existed.

This is typical "hurr hurr hurr them furrners shoor is funnAY" reportage. The evidence against it comes from the article itself. "...An HR manager at an internet company in China..." Could that be any more vague? How 'bout you name the "Internet company in China"? Or the HR manager, for that matter. The entire article is long on speculation and short on fact. (Their attempt to pretend to highlight this themselves exacerbates the problem rather than mitigating it.)

Anybody involved in writing, editing, or publishing a pile of shit like that deserves to work at Kotaku.

@Glitch said:

Okay, the arrows should now appear as white against that blue background. You should just need to do a hard refresh, @WTFE. You can also click on the actual "1 out of 152" which should give you a popup input that allows you to specify exactly which post you want to go to.

Visible now. Thanks.

There used to be a way to navigate to the end of a topic when the "click here to get to the last thing you saw" button failed. What's the current trick? I'm not seeing a three-dot menu for that kind of stuff…

I don't see a skin called "aces".

I know that nodebb is dedicated to the latest and greatest in hipster tech, which thus means "eventually consistent" databases and their ilk, but this is getting a little preposterous:

This is a(n obviously) annotated screenshot of the "unread" section:

Can you see a problem? (Hint: Sesame Street did many segments on this very issue!)

For the record, this was after a full refresh and waiting for everything to settle down traffic-wise.

@TNP said:

@Cobaltasaurus said:

Such as bad gateways showing up for no reason

Ever since the upgrade, I'm getting bad gateway errors many times a day. I wasn't before the upgrade.

Bad gateways 100% of the time for four solid hours here. This is literally the first thing I've been able to read all evening.

Just for contrast to my ranting over the utterly shitty UX upgrade experience, this is a feature that actually makes sense to have in a software upgrade. Instead of randomly changing shit that worked fine and that people have gotten used to in its existing form, this is actually new functionality that cannot be adequately done by existing means. (Of course, this being a web app by people who are painfully obviously in the Silly-cone Valley "change at all cost!" culture future upgrades will fuck everything up, but we can enjoy it while it lasts.)

I'd like to see groups for "task forces" as we identify things that could be worked on. For example should there be a large enough consensus for making a new MU* client, a group of people could be formed to hammer out the details and start working on it. If a project for making a real, proper, easily-configured "MUSH: Batteries Included" starts up, again, people interested in it could form a think tank to discuss it.

The Play-by-Post thing is interesting, but perhaps a bit across purposes with a board explicitely labelled by name as being for MU*es? (I'm not opposed to the idea, just wondering if it's a fit.)

Having a group that is just for WoD players would be nice; it would cut down on the 90% of the stuff I don't read here.

General topical interests allowing finer splitting of areas of interest would be nice. Reading is one such one mentioned, but equivalent groups could exist for movies, music, comics, video games, etc.

@Glitch said:

@WTFE I'm going to assume you're only half talking to me

Yeah. The half where I'm saying people who randomly change the UX of a site every fucking second week piss me right the fuck off.

Oh. That's pretty much the whole rant, isn't it?

For the most part, the UX is pretty much unchanged

Well, except for the part where it looks ugly as shit, where it randomly decides to look different on each visit, where everything has been moved around or hidden behind cryptic "three dots" menus, etc. You're right. Aside from, you know, about 85% of the UX, the UX is pretty much unchanged.

This upgrade actually allows a little more in the way of customization for users by letting them select a color palette that might be more pleasing to them.

Yay! I can select a colour palette! Maybe I can make mine shit brown to reflect the lovely new user experience!

As for the more ranty half of the post, your lawn is looking particularly fine today.

Just stay the fuck off of it.

Great. So I can edit TNP's post, but not mine. (Hint: LOOK FOR THREE DOTS NEXT TO MY MESSAGE YOU UTTER FUCKING DOLT!)

I have cleared the cache a thousand fucking times. Welcome to the world of web apps where there may be a million fucking undocumented places they stick shit.

As for three dots ... you have my screen shot. WHAT FUCKING THREE DOTS!?

Since there doesn't appear to be an "edit" link any longer, I've had to supplement this by double-posting. (Yay! Progress!)

This is what causes me to lose my shit over this latest change:

That is the look and feel precisely every second time I open any window in this "upgraded" forum software. One click and I get a new look that I could get used to, annoying as it is (because you just KNOW that once you get used to it some dunderheaded fuckwit will change everything all around again!). Next click I get this fucking monstrosity. Next click, back to something tolerable. And so on.

@Glitch said:

As a heads up, however, the forums will be upgraded on a periodic basis.

Why? Why the fucking fuck do you have to constantly change what works? This is the single most maddening fucking thing about the whole move to web apps: every fucking DAY some dumbass somewhere has decided to change the entire UX of a site I use just because, hey, it's been the same for two months. Time for change.

Fix bugs, sure. Add features, sure. BY WHY THE FLYING FUCK DO YOU FEEL THIS UTTER NEED TO CHANGE THE ENTIRE USER EXPERIENCE EACH TIME YOU HAVE A FUCKING BRAIN FART!

This most recent change is STILL fucking up every second page I visit on it. It looks hideous half the time (and yes, precisely half), but hey, at least the new forum software is a third the speed!

Welcome to the fucking age of fucking progress.

I'm going to add to the sounds of hatred here. I'm really, really, really, really not liking this new look and feel. It looks uglier (by far!) but hey, at least it goes about a third the speed of the already-slow older version!

I've been wanting to use this. What we have here is…

I couldn't possibly afford this myself, but I've spread it around in my circle of sarcastic-with-too-much-money friends. Your friend will probably make a handful of sales of this by the end of the week from that channel.