• (disco)

    My #1 request for Discourse: Auto-tag and auto-ignore posts by the whiny babies endlessly complaining about Discourse instead of the topic.

    Earth to autistic crybabies who can't handle anything different: It's not going away, it's still better than what came before, posts that "TRWTF is the forum" got old years ago, and you all look like my great-grandpa trying to figure out AOL. It's been weeks now, get the hell over it.

  • (disco) in reply to foxyshadis
    foxyshadis:
    Earth to autistic

    Do you not know what autism is or something? I'm autistic and I was one of the first proponents of Discourse.

  • (disco) in reply to foxyshadis

    Please, try to show a little sensitivity. I had a son who was autistic crybaby, and let me assure you, it was no laughing matter. :goberserk:

  • (disco) in reply to greg
    greg:
    Hopefully my general bitching^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H bug reports will help turn it into a great platform.
    Given codinghorror's interesting new development paradigma of ["Complaint Driven Development"][1], your bug reports will indeed help improving Discourse. If the platform will ever merit the label "great" is a different story.

    And since we are debating Discourse again: so when I add a link, the box prompting me to enter that link is pre-filled with "http://". This at a time when copying an url from the location bar at firefox will always include "http://" as well. Ok, just a minor nuisance.

  • (disco) in reply to foxyshadis
    foxyshadis:
    Earth to autistic crybabies who can't handle anything different: It's not going away, it's still better than what came before, posts that "TRWTF is the forum" got old years ago, and you all look like my great-grandpa trying to figure out AOL. It's been weeks now, get the hell over it.
    Earth to a whiny crybaby who can't handle it if other people whine about other things: they are not going away, they are the community, complaints about whiny crybabies are centuries old, and you just look like a teenager who has not yet learned that "new" does not automatically equals "better". Every shift in technology will be like this, get the hell over it.
  • (disco) in reply to foxyshadis
    foxyshadis:
    My #1 request for Discourse: Auto-tag and auto-ignore posts by the whiny babies endlessly complaining about Discourse instead of the topic.

    Earth to autistic crybabies who can't handle anything different: It's not going away, it's still better than what came before, posts that "TRWTF is the forum" got old years ago, and you all look like my great-grandpa trying to figure out AOL. It's been weeks now, get the hell over it.

    Okay, Jeff, you can come out now. We know it's you.

  • lurker (unregistered)

    Now that discourse seems to be back, I don't think I'll bother visiting this site anymore.

  • (disco) in reply to M_Adams
    M_Adams:
    Thank Crom their products are generally top rate

    Aren't they the company that disabled features in their latest smart TV firmware update unless you agree to be spied upon?

  • (disco) in reply to ben_lubar
    ben_lubar:
    I'm autistic
    I didn't know that. And now that I do, I realize it doesn't change anything. :shrug:
  • (disco) in reply to Zecc

    Are you really that surprised?

  • (disco) in reply to c__
    c__:
    I once tried to undo a multiple-typo in my last word, and it promptly undid the whole "previous action", which apparently was "typing any number of paragraphs into the reply box". At least it taught me never to try the undo function without previously having Ctrl+A & Ctrl+C.

    Redo normally recovers from the brokenness that is the composition window...

  • (disco) in reply to mikeTheLiar
    mikeTheLiar:
    Are you really that surprised?
    I'm neither surprised nor vindicated. It's like if I just learned my boss' first car was green: I went "huh" and then realized it doesn't really mean anything.

    Besides, I'm not the world's leading expert on autism, so I don't really know the implications of being autistic.

  • (disco) in reply to Zecc
    Zecc:
    so I don't really know the implications of being autistic.

    Well, it might have made some of my jokes at Ben's expense slightly awkward.

  • (disco) in reply to foxyshadis

    It is very standard for communities making major changes in their platform to have transitional periods of up to 60 days where the main topic of conversation is the change.

    The good part of this one is that these guys are digging up lots of legit bugs that we needed to fix anyway.

    The conversation about the change will trail off naturally over time, and any big change means losing some members of the community in the process -- but also gaining new ones. It's just how these things work.

    Change in a community is difficult to the square of the number of active participants, times the number of years the community has used their current software.

  • (disco) in reply to end
    codinghorror:
    Change in a community is difficult to the square of the number of active participants, times the number of years the community has used their current software.

    Times pedantic dickweedery factor of the community, which in this case is admittedly over the roof.

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    over the roof

    Ahem, that's “through the roof”.

    Yours, pedantic dickweedally…

  • Neil (unregistered)

    I think the idea is that the new comments are currently only enabled for Error'd articles for now.

  • Lyle (unregistered)
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