stet/keith question or whoever is in charge of code these days

The time lapses between posts are written out now instead of being indicated numerically. It distracts me every time I see it, like a rogue eyelash in my peripheral vision that I can't get ahold of.

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The time lapses between posts are written out now instead of being indicated numerically. It distracts me every time I see it, like a rogue eyelash in my peripheral vision that I can't get ahold of.

― 2 Kisses and 3 Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Wednesday, August 24, 2016 11:55 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

weird because for me it's the way it's always been

is it me or is the text a lot crispier looking?

looks nice

i like the spelled-out durations and am looking forward to tuomas reposting them in finny

maybe we could have it say "twenty-two time minutes ago" so that I don't mistake "minutes" for units of angle

when is the anglocentricism going to stop

we should be more friendly to other languages

vive la revolution

Stupid bug in Zing has borked it, sorry about that. Quick fix is to delete it and reinstall.

Search will be back once the indexes are rebuilt, coming soon

And search should be back!

you're doing god's work stet

stettycakes

search is a no worky slowy

Are you doing a complex search? Basic ones are rattling along for me here. The index doesn't get updated in real-time though, so you can't see new posts instantly in search

Searched your terrible ideas

Seems a bit slow but could be my connection

I used to have to press submit twice now it works first time

Godlike prowess imo stet

the "x minutes ago" portion of each post now spells out the numbers? this is charming, but is it intentional?

Yeah, it's a new bit of Keith code that.

i much prefer the numerals so i would like to be given a choice but if this is just how it is now i will live with it

also i just noticed: i have images off; this used to mean youtube embeds were also turned into links, but this no longer seems to be the case

Yeah, I messed up the filter for those; will fix that but not tonight

Yeah, it's a new bit of Keith code that.

― stet, Wednesday, August 24, 2016 9:37 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cool, i'm into it

I'd prefer if it stays this way.

wonder what's changed

"x minutes ago" portion of each post now spells out the numbers? this is charming

charming, yes, but it does take more mental effort to derive the information, just as it would if the code changed to display:

August Twenty-Fourth, Two Thousand Sixteen, Six:Fifty Nine Post Meridian

you can handle it, big guy

i have images turned off but still get youtube embeds. no big deal, just fyi

I preferred the numbers as well.

This has apparently affected Mobile Device Interface somehow? When I try to access it through Firefox on Android, I get a message that begins:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it.

Can't find the Mobile Device Interface at all, actually. Was it nuked?

Oh yes, nuked. I'll see if I can rehabilitate it if you use it a lot.

Actually, I probably won't. Google are punishing us for not having a mobile-friendly main site, so fixing that is probably the best solution of all

the "numbers written as words" is the best new feature in forever, please keep

plz convert all units of time to minutes

ninety-eight minutes ago
five hundred twelve minutes ago
five million, seven hundred eighty-five thousand, five hundred sixty minutes ago

(one minute imago)

The 'numbers written as words' thing is making me feel like Laura Linney's co-worker in You Can Count On Me post-Broderick.

Let's poll this amirite

stet, is there any programming magic you can do to fix all these shit opinions?

Marge Simpson: Look at this place. The house number is spelled out with letters.

Max Power: Get used to it, honey. From now on we'll be spelling everything with letters.

I love server restarts because it means blog view will work for at least a few days before wandering off again.

I pointed out the flaw in Keith and stet allowing posting functionality many years ago in a classic post in a classic suggest ban thread

Yeah, I've always found the presence of that stupid 'Submit Post' button bothersome.

why would anyone prefer words to numbers in this case? it's horrible imo. "27" can be digested much quicker than "twenty-seven"

whoa, YouTube videos are embedded now! (even if images are turned off!) took me by surprise

i think i like it, actually

My god the digestion

I like the words, but think it probably should be a style option.

Youtube embeds on images off is definitely a mistake (why would you be okay w/ youtubes if you're not okay with images?) but I see stet is aware of the issue.

The numbers as words thing just means that the message signature is even more often longer than the message, especially when reading on my phone because it's narrow.

The message 3 above this one is one line of text, 3 lines of metadata

can any value above forty be expressed in scores, please?

have we ever discussed moving the board over to discourse.org

i kid i kid

Is this update available in the US? to all? Is it an artifact of the maintenance?