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Ah, the new format hurts my eyes.
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1996 AOL didn't have the GeoCities thing going on.
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Those were the days, eh?
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Oh dear. Having been one of the Guides on this side of the pond:
Keywordshould be capitalisedAOLprefix before keyword didn't come in until near the end not long before they got rid of the Guides.Admin
Did you know AOL's software is still sort of a thing? My stepmum uses it.
SRSLY.
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Suspected, but largely ignorant. I ditched them as an ISP about 10 years ago when I resigned from the programme.
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Not entirely terribad 10 years ago as ISPs in this country go but much worse these days.
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Well the Guide programme was in a wind down around that time, and I couldn't continue to give a commitment, so I resigned and ditched the addon I wrote for it.
Just had a look at the bugs group I created on Yahoo for it - there are sources (well for a couple of versions) there. Might download them some time and see how crap a programmer I was back then when I was learning VB....
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An increase in the minimum dynamic width for the main site would be nice. Any chance you'd add this for us?
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GNTFY
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I was all set to ask what the sidebar has to do with a sidebar anymore, and then remembered that there is a front page.
I always access the site by going to the tab I left open from the last time I was here, refreshing, clicking the link above the article (which was the latest one when I was last reading) to go to the next one...read...check the featured comments...go read the full comment thread if I feel like it...then glance over at the sidebar to see whether there are any sidebar entries with titles I feel like looking at.
So...from my perspective, the new site has the following degradations:
I used to be able to hit one page and branch off from there to every part of the site in which I cared to participate. Now one of those branches (sometimes) requires scrolling it didn't before, and the other three all require at least one additional click. Overall I'd say my user experience has degraded about 30%. Maybe it'll grow on me.
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You could even submit code on GitHub if you really wanted...
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Well, they broke a workaround I've been using for a long time. Many webmasters break the ability to distinguish visited links from unvisited links. Fortunately, the bookmarklet "zap colors" removes all of the color schemes that a webmaster applies, so once again you can see what's been visited and what hasn't been. However, under "The New Look", using "zap colors" on the main page renders everything in the right-hand column invisible. So there's no way for the surfer to see which articles have been visited and which haven't been.
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People who do that deserve a kick in the shins.
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It was actually broken - the browser would send you to the top of the "current page" which then wouldn't always load the posts above it.
But they fixed it. With Javascript!
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(1) Or "nuts", "goolies", "nads", etc. Whatever you call them, being kicked there hurts more than being kicked in the shins. I've never seen anyone fold up and fall on the floor after being kicked in the shins. I nailed someone in the nuts by accident once (in a jujitsu training session, tyvm) and he sort of folded up and fell over. Then there was the guy I once saw who had withdrawn from a jujitsu grading exam because he kicked himself in the nuts.(2)
(2) No, I don't know how he managed that. I didn't see it happen.
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They do have a bugtracker (which surprisingly isn't Discourse).
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The duck raises an excellent point.
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The quack, you say?!
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What the cluck are you talking about?
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If I'm a duck raising an excellent point, surely I need to quack?
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Actually, what I didn't get is why @kilroo called you a duck. Is is a rubber ducking reference?
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I dunno. I figure he'll explain it eventually.
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It confuses me, too. Maybe @Arantor's avatar got discoreplaced with @faoileag's?
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seagulls can quack, or something very much like it.
true they tend to scream more than teh quack, but they can quack.
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We saw quite a few seagulls in Brighton. It's not a quack they make.
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It's more a squile
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Is it GBOL over there? :stuck_out_tongue:
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BRITISHISMS_NOT_FOUND
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I was trying to be nice.
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Thing is you can't talk about it in absolutes. There are plenty of times you would legitimately not want to care about visited vs non visited, e.g. generic navigation or navigation that is likely to be hit multiple times where remembering visited vs non visited is of no use to you.
Or if the navigation provides other hints as to read status, like an actual unread indicator.
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There are approximately 0 circumstances under which I would not want to have visited vs non-visited links distinguishable.
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How about, say, the profile menu on this site while logged in?
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You know, I said "approximately" for a reason.
Having said that it certainly would not bother me, @codinghorror's so-called aesthetics aside, if the links had different colors, even there.
I will point out that currently-unread and read threads--or whatever the criterion is--in the topic list have different colors, so even he realizes there's value in it.
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No, they sometimes have different colours. Discoursistently so.
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Exactly.
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No, only sometimes. It's not even consistent as to what the criteria is for it.
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Sometimes counts. :\P.
Wait, Discourse, :\) displays :) but :\P displays :\P? WTF? @pjh or @codinghorror care to explain?
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=P is a good enough replacement for :P
Filed under: <span> to the rescue!
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\ doesn't always escape like it does in, say, C?
Dunno. A quick
grepon the source for some obvious stuff didn't lead me anywhere promising.Admin
In fact, it does so with discoursistency.
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I was surprised too. :\) isn't hard to type so I assumed--obviously I didn't have the right Discurse frame of mind--:\P would. I find it interesting and annoying that :\P and :\P both display the same (I put two backslashes in the first of those, and in the smiley in my first line) so something is definitely screwy.
Hey, one of you nerds please find me something like that doesn't take up space, please.
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&zwsp;for zero width space?Admin
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:&zwsp;P
Guess not. (if I wasn't clear, I'm looking for something that will let me display a colon-p smiley, similar to the colon-right-paren one, and hopefully one that's not so much more effort to type. Hey, another frigging bug-like thing. Why did it render the &?
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:P
ooh, something like a winner.
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:<span>PFiled under: <span>, <span>, wonderful <span>