• (disco)

    @apapadimoulis There's some sort of is_deleted = 0 clause missing in a query somewhere:

    [image]

    This comment shouldn't be visible here: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/comments/Sorry,-but-You-Cant-Do-the-Math

  • (disco)

    So there's a 'Return to Article' link at the bottom of the comments preview... I think there should be one at the top too.

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK
    Zecc:
    b) (preferably) Don't jump to the end of the thread on Discourse.

    Agree. I got the bottom of the page, and had to scroll up. I didn't read any comments on the "preview" page because I usually read the lot. Why read 2 lots of the same thing?

    Zecc:
    If I wanted that to open a new tab I could have done so myself. It's not like your target readers are browser-illiterates.

    And we could "preview" the top comments by opening the comments page. But common sense seems to have gone out the window at TDWTF lately. Apparently Alex thinks the target audience is now the same as the people writing the code featured in the content.

    RaceProUK:
    So there's a 'Return to Article' link at the bottom of the comments preview... I think there should be one at the top too.

    Or get rid of the preview page. Utter waste of time. You get to wait for an intermediary page to load, and manually click the next page button.

  • (disco) in reply to tin

    This is the only time this site has actually made me say "What the fuck?" out loud.

  • (disco) in reply to tin
    tin:
    Agree. I got the bottom of the page, and had to scroll up. I didn't read any comments on the "preview" page because I usually read the lot. Why read 2 lots of the same thing?
    And of course the scroll bar doesn't work properly when you scroll back. I drag the scroll bar **all the way to the top** and I don't see the top of the thread until I do it again several times. 100 FAIL points for that one, guys.
    tin:
    And we could "preview" the top comments by opening the comments page. But common sense seems to have gone out the window at TDWTF lately. Apparently Alex thinks the target audience is now the same as the people writing the code featured in the content.
    That is, terrifyingly stupid people.
    tin:
    Or get rid of the preview page. Utter waste of time. You get to wait for an intermediary page to load, and manually click the next page button.
    And then you have to fight with the terrifyingly stupid misuse of the browser's scroll bar.

    And WTF is up with the reply window anyway? The text I'm typing hides behind the button to send the reply, and the preview window is almost off the bottom of the browser window, and it cannot be rescued.

    Browser: Firefox ESR 24.0 on FreeBSD 9.2. Fix your shit, guys.

  • (disco) in reply to eViLegion
    eViLegion:
    This is the only time this site has actually made me say "What the fuck?" out loud.

    Have you read the entire TDWTF archives? There's plenty of WTFOL stories in there.

  • (disco) in reply to Arantor
    Arantor:
    Have you read the entire TDWTF archives? There's plenty of WTFOL stories in there.
    Sure, but I think he means the site itself rather than the content. That was certainly my reaction.
  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic
    Steve_The_Cynic:
    Sure, but I think he means the site itself rather than the content. That was certainly my reaction.

    Honestly... I haven't looked at the new site much, because I have more fun in here than I did there. Came for the stories, stayed for the community. Long may this continue.

  • (disco) in reply to tin
    tin:
    Or get rid of the preview page. Utter waste of time. You get to wait for an intermediary page to load, and manually click the next page button.

    I was going to post this after reading today's story and finding this worse-than-useless intermediate page instead of the real comments link. Either put the comment preview in the same page as the article, or have a link directly to the thread.

  • (disco)

    Congrats Alex, your site now looks like a parked domain.

  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic
    Steve_The_Cynic:
    I drag the scroll bar all the way to the top and I don't see the top of the thread until I do it again several times. 100 FAIL points for that one, guys.

    You're Doing It WrongTM.

    Apparently expecting Discourse to work like every other web page and every other application in existence is not something @codinghorror cares about.

  • (disco)

    Wow, way to totally make me never want to come back here again. Had to create an account I don't want on a forum I'll never use just to make this one point.

    BTW, I second just about every complaint above. This re-design was very poorly thought out and obviously not vetted by actual, you know, readers.

  • (disco)

    I think the site looks okay except for all the whitespace. My 22" 1080p monitor feels like an old 15" 1024x768 screen and that's not cool. I hate scrolling all over the place just to read a few paragraphs.

  • (disco)

    There are 63 replies with an estimated read time of 5 minutes.

    So, we're now supposed to become speed readers?

  • (disco) in reply to some_damn_yank

    probably a side effect of the bots reading at the speed of electrons. the number gets more accurate the longer the thread is around because we only have about 10 bots and none of them read a post more than once.

  • (disco) in reply to tin
    tin:
    Or get rid of the preview page. Utter waste of time. You get to wait for an intermediary page to load, and manually click the next page button.

    This, a thousand times, this.

  • (disco)

    GOD DAAAMN IT!

    God damn it.

    I drop off TDWTF a short while after Discourse got rolled out, and come back to this? Fuck. No. Nope. Nyuuuuuuuup.

    EDIT: Although one good thing about the new look is the fact that now I know how Mark Bowytz looks, and somehow, it's exactly as I had envisioned him. Not in a good way. So there's that.

  • (disco)

    The "view article archives" link at bottom of main page isn't working? I'm getting a 500 error for http://thedailywtf.com/articles.

  • (disco) in reply to nightware
    nightware:
    The "view article archives" link at bottom of main page isn't working? I'm getting a 500 error for http://thedailywtf.com/articles.

    Same for the "Other Articles" link at the top of the main page.

    Different page, even.

  • (disco)

    hmm... I went looking for the repo to make a fix and issue a pull request.

    i didn't want to discosearch for the repo so i went to github and searched for thedailywtf figuring that i'd find it that way. Nope, but look who's in second place!

    [image]
  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    Did you get the actual repo in post 19 here?

  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev

    yes. that's how i found this thread to post that image on.

  • (disco)

    So no more being able to scroll through full articles on the homepage?

    Comments on article page are delayed by multiple days only censored popular comments.

    Responding to discussion requires opening a new tab on discourse?

    No anonymous commenting?

    No search?

    An abominable 50% width layout?

    A reply box that is utterly and horribly broken?

    A preview box that is utterly and horrible broken?

    Well, I'm glad the site dedicated to technology WTFs doesn't embrace the bullshit "change for change's sake" paradigm.

    Congrats -- you've given Slashdot Beta a run for it's money in the fail department. :(

  • (disco) in reply to Anonypony

    Don't forget: Search being disabled because it's broken. https://github.com/tdwtf/WtfWebApp/issues/56 Because going live with a new version before finishing it is apparently en vogue these days.

  • (disco) in reply to aliceif
    aliceif:
    Don't forget: Search being disabled because it's broken. https://github.com/tdwtf/WtfWebApp/issues/56 Because going live with a new version before finishing it is apparently *en vogue* these days.

    It's been voguish every since Google starting called everything beta.

  • (disco)

    It's barely usable, so it must be Version 1.0™!

  • (disco)

    I wonder... has anyone tried anything interesting with the new site code and the Sidebar WTF category, like the things tried before?

  • (disco) in reply to Arantor
    Arantor:
    I wonder... has anyone tried anything interesting with the new site code and the Sidebar WTF category, like the things tried before?

    Just necro'd a topic with profanity in its title. :grinning:

  • (disco) in reply to chubertdev

    That wasn't what I meant, but good effort :laughing:

  • (disco) in reply to Arantor

    It's a first volley.

  • (disco) in reply to Arantor
    Arantor:
    I wonder... has anyone tried anything interesting with the new site code and the Sidebar WTF category, like the things tried before?

    http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/div-style-transform-rotate-5deg-i-wonder-if-the-sanitization-works-now-div/4174

  • (disco) in reply to PJH

    Yes, I saw that after I posted.

  • (disco)

    I was getting pretty tired of the "2003ish" vibe the site had.

    Great, now everything's pretty much square and flat for more of a 1993ish vibe. You know, like Windows 8.

  • (disco) in reply to joemck

    I thought it had more of a 1996ish AOL vibe...

  • (disco) in reply to Arantor
    Arantor:
    I thought it had more of a 1996ish AOL vibe...

    Not enough psychedelic GeoCities background images.

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat
    FrostCat:
    psychedelic background images
    Something like my profile background? I also have a high-res version of it, if someone here wants to make a PR with it, you can have it: [image]
  • (disco) in reply to aliceif

    Nah, more like this http://www.geocities.ws/adam_mort/rupert_wallpaper.html or maybe http://web.archive.org/web/20040315063144/http://www.geocities.com/tnrustic/

    Yours is close though.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    probably a side effect of the bots reading at the speed of electrons

    Well, bots could read at the speed of electrons and pretend they spent one hour on each post...

  • (disco) in reply to FrostCat

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Peripheral_drift_illusion_rotating_snakes.svg/2000px-Peripheral_drift_illusion_rotating_snakes.svg.png

  • (disco) in reply to PJH

    BELGIUM! That is one instant headache creator.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    probably a side effect of the bots reading at the speed of electrons. the number gets more accurate the longer the thread is around because we only have about 10 bots and none of them read a post more than once.
    'Course when you study it, you discover that in a wire carrying a "normal" amount of current, electrons sort of drift down the wire at something like one or two millimetres of net average displacement per second... Or maybe you meant the "orbital" speed of electrons in atoms - a gold atom's two innermost electrons might well be "travelling" at something like 58% of the speed of light...

    Edit - PJH [image]

  • (disco) in reply to Arantor
    Arantor:
    I thought it had more of a 1996ish AOL vibe...

    Enter AOL keyword BRILLANT

  • (disco) in reply to PJH

    +\

    OH GODDESS! IT BURNS! IT BURNS US!

    FLEE WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

    :running:

  • (disco) in reply to PJH

    So pretty! I should use that as a background somewhere.

  • (disco) in reply to aliceif
    aliceif:
    I should use that as a background somewhere.

    Preferably somewhere I don't have to see it

  • (disco) in reply to aliceif

    Google 'rotating snakes' - there's a few color schemes.

  • (disco) in reply to VinDuv
    VinDuv:
    Well, bots could read at the speed of electrons and pretend they spent one hour on each post...

    sockbot pretends to spend 4242 ms reading each post. why that number? well i read HHGG and i like that number, it's also oned more thing that makes it easier to detect the use of SockBot.

  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic
    Steve_The_Cynic:
    'Course when you study it, you discover that in a wire carrying a "normal" amount of current, electrons sort of drift down the wire at something like one or two millimetres of net average displacement per second... Or maybe you meant the "orbital" speed of electrons in atoms - a gold atom's two innermost electrons might well be "travelling" at something like 58% of the speed of light...

    have a flag for pedantry good sir.

    While i was aware of that particular fact (although not the one about the orbital speed, mainly because i don't think of electrons in orbits because it turns out that's really a wrong way(or at least a very unhelpful way) to think about them in nuclear physics) I chose to use the colloquial meaning of the phrase which is "how fast electric current travels down copper wire", or "very very very close to the speed of light"

  • (disco) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic
    Steve_The_Cynic:
    And of course the scroll bar doesn't work properly when you scroll back. I drag the scroll bar **all the way to the top** and I don't see the top of the thread until I do it again several times. 100 FAIL points for that one, guys.
    Lame workaround: press the Home key.
  • (disco) in reply to alphanum
    alphanum:
    I also especially enjoy that classic discussions are now a little spiced up with html tags, as for example http://thedailywtf.com/articles/comments/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean
    Sadly they appear to be locked to additional comments. (Fortunately I think I've already commented on all the old-style posts that I want to.)

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