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Left and right arrow keys now cause navigation to previous and next page of threads or comments.

Patrick says

Left and right arrow keys now cause navigation to previous and next page of threads or comments.

Now you tell me. I just got taken off a page I was typing when I used an arrow key to move the cursor.

Oh shit.

Thanks for telling me @HeadSet

So what I need to do is detect that the text box is not selected. Or maybe I should just drop this whole idea.

@HeadSet

OK, now I detect that the text box is not selected before using the l/r arrow keys to navigate.

Please let me know if it's still broken in some way.

Works perfectly!

You can now upload pdfs from your local computer. The result will be a link that says "view pdf" that people can click on to see it, like this:

view pdf

You can change that link text if you like to make it more descriptive of what you uploaded.

The same 10MB limit applies, as with images and videos.

I have a suggestion of a feature I actually saw on another site that I think might be good for Patnet and Patrick's sanity. I don't use Twitter, I use Nitter to read twitter posts. On thing I've noticed on Nitter is that YouTube links are redirected through: https://redirect.invidious.io/ which supposedly doesn't track you like YouTube would. I'm not an even intermediate in computer wizardry, so it's probably way more work than I imagine it is.

It's still a good site regardless. I keep coming back, right?

DhammaStep says

I don't use Twitter

I just signed up!

Twitter has a lot of "anti-vaxers" now.

Please follow me there, though I suspect my new account is already shadow banned because search auto-complete for patrick_dot_net does not work, even if you type "patrick_dot_ne" up to but missing the last "t".

https://twitter.com/patrick_dot_net?ref_src=patrick.net

Better way to embed videos and tweets

@charlie303 True, I don't do anything when someone posts a YouTube link except make it clickable. I don't trust Google, nor their subsidiary YouTube.

If I were to let them embed an html frame on patrick.net, then they would have vastly expanded powers to spy on what users are viewing. I don't think they allow plain video tags with YouTube as the source.

But for Rumble and some other sites I do trust, I transform a link into a video tag, because they allow that and because it doesn't give up much info about patrick.net users.

Patrick says

charlie303 True, I don't do anything when someone posts a YouTube link except make it clickable. I don't trust Google, nor their subsidiary YouTube.

If I were to let them embed an html frame on patrick.net, then they would have vastly expanded powers to spy on what users are viewing. I don't think they allow plain video tags with YouTube as the source.

But for Rumble and some other sites I do trust, I transform a link into a video tag, because they allow that and because it doesn't give up much info about patrick.net users.

Fair enough.

I try to type a description for YouTube videos but I just feel a clickable thumbnail is more eye catching.
I will learn more about the HTML commands iFrame and embed.

Thanks

I put "instant comments" back in, in a simplified way.

So if you have a thread open, and there is a new comment on it, you'll see the new comment without reloading the page.

I used to have a separate websocket server for this, but it was ugly and didn't work that well. Now I just have a poll going on in javascript, so each 10 seconds, the open page checks whether there were any new comments within the last 10 seconds, and if so appends them to the comments, just above the comment box.

Let me know if you see any bugs.

I added a red dot to the tab when there is a new comment, so if you have multiple threads open in multiple tabs, you can see when there are new comments in any of them.

The dot goes away on page reload, or when you make a comment, which is also a page reload.

Patrick says

Please follow me there, though I suspect my new account is already shadow banned because search auto-complete for patrick_dot_net does not work, even if you type "patrick_dot_ne" up to but missing the last "t".

https://twitter.com/patrick_dot_net?ref_src=patrick.net

https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1618667912377810945?ref_src=patrick.net

Dave Rubin
@RubinReport

Accounts aren’t just hit with labels that are obvious to insiders. They now found more “secret” labels which are causing shadowbans. My account was hit with all three; “Recent abuse strike,” “Recent misinformation strike”, “Recent suspension strike.”

I have a suggestion for having categories.

I follow a bunch of little known people on the Internet who have had fairly good track records on news and events, it it would be nice to be able to make threads dedicated to them.

You already have a thread for each politician I think, wouldn't it be nice to be able to group them?

For example, when you create a post, you could have a pull down (or a write in) list of categories it belongs to, then pull up a page with just those categories. So something like

"News: Ryan Dawson" as a post or "Politician: Rand Paul", etc.

Here's a list of people I frequently pay attention to:

Rivero - Bitchute
Rivero - Odysee
Jimmy Dore - Bitchute
Jimmy Dore - Rumble
Glenn Greenwald - Rumble
Richie Allen
Fight For Freedom (Richie Allen)
Computing Forever
Sargon of Akkad
Black Pidgeon Speaks
The Salty Cracker
Pull The Pin Already
SGT Report
Republic Broadcasting Network
Patrick
AwakenWithJP
The Last American Vagabond
MRCTV
Ryan Dawson (odysee)
Ryan Dawson (bitchute)
Vee
Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
Matt Orfalea
The Duran
The Corbett Report
Andrei Martyanov
Spoon
The Vigilant Fox
Redacted News
Razor Fist
Straight Calls - Douglas Macgregor

I keep this list, because "signing up to follow" is kind of pointless when sites deregister you all the time.

Sure, I'd be happy to have a thread dedicated to each of those.

So you're suggesting categories, like hashtags?

Patrick says

Sure, I'd be happy to have a thread dedicated to each of those.

So you're suggesting categories, like hashtags?

Yeah, something like that.

Maybe have a pull down for categories and then after that, allow people to just see a mainpage with just those topics.

People should try to re-use "categories" and "tags" where appropriate. Basically, allow organization based on topic. For the example I gave, it would be "news sources" or something.

I had a friend who had an idea where he wanted to make a website that would just follow journalists, and their stories, to weed them out as being wrong or full of shit where they would be caught in lies. His idea was that eventually what you'd be left with is reliable reporters. He gave up on it when he drew the conclusion that there are no reporters in "mainstream media", they are all full of shit.

Here is ONE reporter thought that STARTED on mainstream, before his ethics made him leave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceobsac7LE8

He is the only person I've ever seen give Obama a real interview.

Hashtags are back. So now if you precede some string (can include underscore characters) with a # mark, the site will automatically create a link to search for that sequence of characters in threads, and thread search result will also give a link to search comments.

This helps to classify threads and comments. So you can make up something rather long like #a_new_tag and include that to make people aware that they can search for other threads or comments with that tag.

How do I donate?

I don't have time to engage with what must be a wonderful community.

Love the memes, they make my day. Every day. If I get Patrick.net memes, I don't really need to read a lot of crap - or I know what to read.

Looked for donation button, link, maybe I'm thick, but couldn't find.

Cheers,

JC

@8621e2ea

I don't have a donation button. You could mail a donation to:

PO Box 85
Menlo Park, CA 94026

Thanks!