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yawaraf says

Patrick,

Could you add, below the comment box, a quick summary of the html tags and other formatting tags that you accept?

@yawaraf

OK, did that. How can I make it prettier or more useful?

Thanks. I like it.

For visuals I might surround each tag with the angle brackets or separate the with commas.

Allowed html tags: <a> <b>
Allowed html tags: a, b, blockquote

Also add them to the edit comment page.

Use the title tag to show the user a short explanation when holding the mouse over it.

<span title="bold">b</span>

Clicking on the tag inserts it together with the closing tag, if necessary. If text is selected, then the tags are put around the text.

Bonus if you can somehow, for each tag, link a page that give a full description of the element. I wouldn't know how to do that without cluttering the page.

Stout says

Could you use a more subtle watermark on memes? The big white banner on the bottom is a bit much.

@Stout

OK, now I'll just print the "selected by patrick.net/memes" on the bottom of the image itself instead of adding a white banner. This text will sometimes get blurred by the image itself, but sometimes will work fine, eg:

You might want to make preparations to move PatNet to the dark web.

I'll keep this site going one way or another.

Do we have a Completely Retarded Thread?

Not sure where to post this one:

Anyone want to try to embed a Tweet?

https://www.wikihow.com/Embed-a-Tweet

1. Go to X. Find a Tweet to embed on your site.
2. Click on the down arrow icon (v). Select Embed Tweet from the drop-down list.
3. Remove the media From the Tweet (optional), if desired. Uncheck the Include media checkbox to hide media (photos, GIFs, videos) which displayed alongside the Tweet.
4. Hide the original Tweet from a reply (optional). If the selected Tweet is a reply to another Tweet, you can hide the original Tweet by unchecking the "Include parent Tweet" checkbox.
5. Copy the HTML code from the pop-up screen. Paste into your blog or website.
6. Done. Now you can see the Tweet on your website!

If it doesn't work, please email me the HTML you pasted and I'll figure it out.

Testing. 1, 2, 3..

You don’t hate journalists enough. pic.twitter.com/qQKW5ycqvf— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) August 13, 2024

Shouldn't it look like this?

I even got this while trying to post this comment:

Thanks for letting me know. I guess I'm being too aggressive against the robots.

OK, now I allow 30 requests per minute instead of only 15.

I think There should be atleast two tabs.
USA
WORLD

@patrick
People with international topic don't want to bore USA centric readers.

FarmersWon says

People with international topic don't want to bore USA centric readers.

That's just your posts, for the most part.

Patrick says

Thanks for letting me know. I guess I'm being too aggressive against the robots.

OK, now I allow 30 requests per minute instead of only 15.

Well, I am a 'power poster'. I can post per minute really fast. Probably faster than the bots.

I'm actually a bit confused as to how nginx rate limiting works. Here are the relevant lines:

limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=ratelimit:10m rate=30r/m; # 30 requests per minute, to match robots.txt "Crawl-Delay: 2"
limit_req_status 429;
...
limit_req zone=ratelimit burst=10 nodelay; # commented out in dev, uncomment in prod!

I think I'm saying create a 10 mb memory area called "ratelimit" and limit each ip address to 30 requests per minute, but allowing up to 10 requests at once and not just delaying requests that exceed that 10 to match the rate limit.

"When the 'nodelay' parameter is set, requests that exceed the burst limit will be rejected immediately with a 503 Service Unavailable error, instead of being delayed."

@Patrick

For the link to the latest images, can you add the #footer param to it?

Because it is at the bottom of the last page of them where the actual latest image is.

@DemocratsAreTotallyFucked

Sure thing, done. Though I used #last because that's more consistent with how that image thread works. Oversight on my part not to have it there to begin with.

Patrick says

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked

Sure thing, done. Though I used #last because that's more consistent with how that image thread works. Oversight on my part not to have it there to begin with.

Cool! Just tested it. Works great.

@Patrick

Tried using the font size attribute here:

https://patrick.net/comment?comment_id=2118924

But it just gets stripped out.

@DOGEWontAmountToShit

True, font size is not one of the allowed attributes:



The reason is that people could then make a post unreadable by making the font in a comment ultra-huge.

But with a bit of work, I could allow the size attribute and put a cap on it.

Patrick says

But with a bit of work, I could allow the size and put a cap on it.

Ok.

Do you have what is allowed or not in any master list? If so, can you post that here?

It would be good to know before I try to use any of them.

On the other hand, could be a waste of time as I am one of few PatNetters who actually embeds HTML in his posts/comments.

That is the master list. You can see which tags and which attributes are allowed.

Remove "share" buttons. They are stupid and should never be used; everyone can already copy links, and does so if they want to send a web page to someone. Everyone might not have known this in 2012, that "share" buttons are always bad unless they are only "reposting" on the same site (like Facebook). But they do now. (This is a reply to talking about "share buttons".)

The "quote" button is not always functional. Which is very bad when reading a topic with 500 posts over the course of 7 years, when you hit the "quote" button to a new tab for everything you want to reply to. And then it's gone and now you don't have people posting because many people don't want to read the entire hours-or-days-long thread a second time to get the posts they want to reply to back. Except that just now, the "quote" button didn't even work when I just pressed it (without opening in a new tab).

Also, the "quotes" are unclear when you are reading them. There should be a box aroundthe m or some visual indication that it is a quote. Currently, if you read only the last page of a topic and each post quoted words from prior pages, you would think that each member is just writing every word in his post himself.

Rayvn says

Also, the "quotes" are unclear when you are reading them. There should be a box aroundthe m or some visual indication that it is a quote.

There is, at least on the desktop. It's the grey bar on the left of the content and it's indented when quoted.

I don't like posts with links at the top and then the content of the article in block quote. If I'm interested I'll click the link and read it. Slowly disliking memes as well. I just scroll past at this point. I like reading words, not picture books. Can't appease everyone, so not bitching.

Rayvn says

Remove "share" buttons.

Thank you @Rayvn !

I really appreciate suggestions will look at these tomorrow. I have memes to push out today.

I would like a feature that displays who has me set on 'ignore'.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

I would like a feature that displays who has me set on 'ignore'.

Ditto. They can't see our post/comments anyway logged in. It's nice to see who got so butt hurt. I get pissed with DOGE at times. Not gonna ignore him though. No person sees eye to eye 100% of the time.

Also lurkers old users come back with troll accounts that have certain writing styles that can be spotted. I've bitched about this before, but it's why I don't like username changes. Your original should always be there but do something like wookieman as fuckyou or whatever new name. I hate it when people run from a bad take they made.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

I would like a feature that displays who has me set on 'ignore'.

Yes. And who the devil would have Patrick on ignore?

HeadSet says

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

I would like a feature that displays who has me set on 'ignore'.

Yes. And who the devil would have Patrick on ignore?

Maybe a better idea is to rescind ignores by users that were outed as bots or otherwise banned.

stereotomy says

Maybe a better idea is to rescind ignores by users that were outed as bots or otherwise banned.

Or were just outright wrong and ran from the site.

I worked hard for my "ignores". I wanna keep 'em.

... but yeh, knowing who did it would provide some humor.

Misc says

I worked hard for my "ignores". I wanna keep 'em.

... but yeh, knowing who did it would provide some humor.

I beat you on ignores. lol. I've only ignored known bots. Otherwise I don't ignore active users that put out good or bad comments. I'll respond to a bad comment, but it doesn't move me or lose sleep over it. Ignoring is childish if being honest (besides bots)

Listening to others take can open your eyes. I think a lot of my ignores are because of the fucking swearing I do. And I do get it that it might upset people, but I'm always going to swear so fucking get over it.

If you ever think of changing the site's byline, here is a good one:

'None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.' - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Rayvn says

Remove "share" buttons. They are stupid and should never be used; everyone can already copy links, and does so if they want to send a web page to someone.

@Rayvn

You're right. I have now removed the "share" buttons.

Rayvn says

The "quote" button is not always functional. Which is very bad when reading a topic with 500 posts over the course of 7 years, when you hit the "quote" button to a new tab for everything you want to reply to. And then it's gone and now you don't have people posting because many people don't want to read the entire hours-or-days-long thread a second time to get the posts they want to reply to back. Except that just now, the "quote" button didn't even work when I just pressed it (without opening in a new tab).

@Rayvn

True, I never did figure out how to do quotes on an iPhone. It just doesn't let you copy text into a buffer like browsers on a desktop do. If anyone wants to look into the code, just do a "view source". I'd appreciate help. It's all just me.

Also, it never occurred to me that people would try to use the "quote" link to open a new tab. I intended it to be used only on the same tab.

How should I do quoting?

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

I would like a feature that displays who has me set on 'ignore'.

I think this would contribute to the problem that kills forums: personal insults.

Patrick says

How should I do quoting?

When I disappear I'm usually on vacation. I don't care how the site does on phones. Works 100% fine on an iMac. I might take a dump and make a comment, but that's rare. The comment.

Patrick says

I think this would contribute to the problem that kills forums: personal insults.

I don't think so. I think soft skin kills forums. DOGE and I get along maybe 50% of the time, maybe more. I like argument or I'd leave. As long as I'm not calling him a cunt or something (I'm not) what's the big deal? You got the ignore feature anyway. You have the choice to not see each other. Or the choice to log out and see it which old and current users do that use ignore.

I do think it would be nice to know who the weak are. I know all the quitters after a decade plus. I know probably 30-40% of ignores are because of my swearing. Get fucked. Just words at the end of the day. Maybe make it so you can however private message the person that ignored you. I know I can be better but swearing is a thing for me. Or was it something else. Rarely have I gotten angry at a user and usually it was justified.

Patrick says

I think this would contribute to the problem that kills forums: personal

How so?

There would be the temptation to personally insult the person ignoring you.

Patrick says

There would be the temptation to personally insult the person ignoring you.

What's the difference between insulting someone who is ignoring you vs not?

Both are not allowed anyway.