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Patnetters are brain dead!

Ugh, too many things still wrong, so reverting to php site again.

Damn. Just got burned on the switch back. 3 paragraphs on electric vehicles that I'll never get back on that AAA post. By the timing of your comment I probably missed it by 2 minutes. No biggie, but it was probably the best writing I've ever done.

This is far fetched I imagine. But is there anyway to display an icon for a post that is actively being commented on? More specifically, a user is typing in a response to a post or comment. Kind of similar to the iphone or other messenger services where you can tell the other person is typing. And maybe a gauge or something to show the response if multiple people are typing responses? Maybe show the number of people typing comments or a speedometer type gauge that goes up as more people are typing? This would be cool in a forum atmosphere like this, probably more effective with a bigger active user base, but I'm guessing it's far fetched as I mentioned.

Obviously a lot of comments on a post show activity. It would just be cool if in real time it showed who was in the act of responding. Could be dumb, but just checking to see if this chunk of shit I was throwing would stick to the wall.

WookieMan says

But is there anyway to display an icon for a post that is actively being commented on? More specifically, a user is typing in a response to a post or comment. Kind of similar to the iphone or other messenger services where you can tell the other person is typing. And maybe a gauge or something to show the response if multiple people are typing responses?

That's actually a brilliant idea, and not all that hard with my newfound javascript skills!

I'll try to do it. But first, I'm bringing ignore back. Almost done with that.

Sorry about the loss of text, but I don't see how it happened. Why should you have lost anything due to the switch? The sites work almost the same. Back button didn't recover it?

Patrick says

Dan, sorry about the loss, but I don't see how it happened. Why should you have lost anything due to the switch? The sites work almost the same.

I could be wrong, but I think you thought my comment about about the lost comment was Dan (jesus, I've reread this 8 times and I don't know how to word it better). I was typing in a long response in the AAA post from earlier today, that I believe I started on the node version. When I clicked to finalize the post there was some error message about no thread or comment and all my text disappeared. I then came here and saw you said you where switching back because of bugs. So I assume my comment box was on the node version when I started typing and prior to finalizing you switched it back to the php version. I'm guessing I clicked post (or whatever it is) after you switched back to php and that's why the error message came up. No biggie, I ultimately got my wisdom out there in that thread.

OK, we are back on the node version of the site again.

Fixed every bug I knew about. No doubt there are more. Please comment here about them, or email me at p@patrick.net

Thanks.

HEY YOU says

I keep checking. No ignore,yet?

Ah, that's done now.

You can ignore people by clicking their icon or username and then click "ignore" on their page.

I moved the #random link to the header, so you can easily click it over and over to get random posts from the past.

Patrick says

You can ignore people by clicking their icon or username and then click "ignore" on their page.

Also, if you ignore someone, you will not see the blinky new comments icon for a post if the ignored user is the most recent commenter in the post:

https://github.com/killelea/node.patrick.net/commit/ed61536b67790bed308c62d4b23613c5239a4484

We know you don't care about patrick.net.
HEY YOU & TenPoundBass haven't been permanently banned.
I know some of you are smiling.

I can laugh harder at myself than many others can.

@Patrick, you got rid of ban. Tolls being ignored can still comment on the author's thread. Ignore is a worthless function. We need ban.

Shit, there was a bug stopping some people from posting comments. I think I fixed it, but please let me know right away if such a thing happens to you. Write p@patrick.net

Patrick says

Shit, there was a bug stopping some people from posting comments.

Bug or feature?

Dan8267 says

@Patrick, you got rid of ban. Tolls being ignored can still comment on the author's thread. Ignore is a worthless function. We need ban.

I disagree, it is so much better to just hit ignore and remove all the noise from the excess posters (spammers). A reasonable adult is capable of ignoring trolls. Patnet doesn't need to cater to the safe space crowd.

He switched to Arm and Hammer back when the russkies rigged the elections...

PeopleUnited says

Dan8267 says

@Patrick, you got rid of ban.

PeopleUnited says

Dan8267 says

@Patrick, you got rid of ban. Tolls being ignored can still comment on the author's thread. Ignore is a worthless function. We need ban.

I disagree, it is so much better to just hit ignore and remove all the noise from the excess posters (spammers).

Ignore and ban are not mutually exclusive.

@Patrick, bring back ban.

marcus says

Some of us prefer not to see a few people's posts.

Speak for yourself!

ban
noun: official forbiddance
synonyms: boycott censorship embargo injunction prohibition refusal restriction interdiction limitation proscription stoppage suppression taboo a thou-shalt-not don't

I love the fact that on Patnet the above are used very sparingly and the snowflakes can't hide in a safe zone but rather must be held accountable by the other users for what they say by allowing anyone to respond in a civil manner like people do in a civilized world. The ban was always a bad idea and the ultimate form of incivility. Ignore is the epitome of civility on the other hand, allowing the children and the immature throw their tantrums and allowing us the civil people of Patnet to not respond to their idiocy or stoop to their level. This isn't a court room or a church service. It is a website for the exchange of ideas free from censorship. It is one of the last hold outs in an age of increasing censorship, intolerance and opposition of true free thinkers. Thank you for bringing back ignore and retiring the ban.

I liken it to this, suppose the KKK had a rally and the media didn't cover it. Hardly anyone would notice and therefore there would be no disturbance. Just let the racists have their puny rally and then be on their way. Suppose black lives matter had a march and the media didn't cover it it. Hardly anyone would notice and therefore there would be no disturbance. Just let the racists have their puny rally and then be on their way. Ignorance is bliss in these cases. There is NO NEED TO BAN people or comments just because you disagree with them, even if they are vile and hateful comments. Just ignore them. Or shun them with a strongly worded civil comment if you must virtue signal, but banning is not the answer. Tolerance is.

Hashtags don't work.

#example

Dan8267 says

Hashtags don't work.

#example

Thanks, will fix today.

Unignore does not work for user "null". Possible SQL injection vulnerability. Normally, I'd take advantage of something like this, but I'm too busy.

What's up with

please edit this and post just one video at a time, thanks

Multiple videos per post makes sense. Why prevent that? How are multiple posts better?

It was just simpler to implement. I suppose I should allow several, but not, say, a dozen.

Patrick says

Dan8267 says

Hashtags don't work.

#example

Thanks, will fix today.

OK, hashtags are fixed, with the requirement that the hashtag be the first thing on a line. When first on a line #housing will get transformed into a live link to the topic housing.

A hashtag added to a post will classify that post as within that topic. If there is no hashtag, the post will go into 'misc' until the author adds a tag.

Topic links (prev, index, and next) will be at the top of each post. So you can easily flip to the previous or next post within a single topic.

Site is still mostly not working on my phone. Android using Chrome or Dolphin.

Booger says

Site is still mostly not working on my phone. Android using Chrome or Dolphin.

Crap, what happens? Do you see nothing, or does the submit button for comments fail to work, or what?

BTW, I have fixed * for making things bold and underscores for making things italic and two (yes, two) double quotes around text to make it show up as a

blockquote

#first #second #third
#secondLine

So one hashtag per line then.

Patrick says

Crap, what happens? Do you see nothing, or does the submit button for comments fail to work, or what?

Usually the page just doesn't load, and I see nothing. On some occasions, the first page loads, but nothing else works.

Dan8267 says

So one hashtag per line then.

Only tags which start a new link will be linkified, and in a post (as opposed to a comment), the first one will set the post topic.

I tried to do more, but the regexp processing is kinda nasty because the hashmark could be part of a url, say. So it was simplest for now just to match a hashtag at the beginning of a line: https://github.com/killelea/node.patrick.net/blob/master/node/patrick_net.js#L302
Also, here are the currently acceptable html tags in a comment or post:

https://github.com/killelea/node.patrick.net/blob/master/node/patricknet.js#L340

Booger says

Patrick says

Crap, what happens? Do you see nothing, or does the submit button for comments fail to work, or what?

Usually the page just doesn't load, and I see nothing. On some occasions, the first page loads, but nothing else works.

Damn. Usually?

I have an old Android phone with Firefox and it works OK there. Are you on wifi or the phone data plan when this happens, or both?

Patrick says

I tried to do more, but the regexp processing is kinda nasty because the hashmark could be part of a url,

Wouldn't that be solved simply by requiring whitespace, newline, or start of string to be before the hashtag?

I solved it by requiring the hashtag to be the first thing on a line:

let hashtagPattern = /^#(\w+)/gim

How would the regexp look to match whitespace, newline, or start of string?

/(?<=[\s>]|^)#(\w*[A-Za-z_]+\w*)\b(?!;)

It's a bit longer, but it handles start of string, end of string, start of line, in mid-sentence, and filters out where # is not the start of the word (that's the \b). See this demo.

Patrick says

I have an old Android phone with Firefox and it works OK there. Are you on wifi or the phone data plan when this happens, or both?

Works on Wi-Fi, not when using mobile data.

OK, that's really interesting!

Maybe your mobile provider is blocking patrick.net. I'm on TMobile and that works. Who are you on?

Cricket. It's working right now. Difference is that it was trying to go to Patrick.net, so I tried typing in www.Patrick.net and it started working again. I have no fucking idea why this seemingly fixed it.

Very, very minor thing, but I don't think the comment count on the user profile is accurate. See these screen shots. My comment count has stalled since the switch to node I believe.

WookieMan says

don't think the comment count on the user profile is accurate

You're right. Will fix. Thanks for pointing it out.