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George
Nov 27, 2004

No love for your made-up things.

Silver Alicorn posted:

install gentoo :black101:

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hifi
Jul 25, 2012

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=469746127

FamDav
Mar 29, 2008

wowwwwww thats soooo surprising

woowwwwwwwwwwww

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

i confused xenforo with discourse. i don't really care now except having avatars as thread tags looks stupid

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


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Gary’s Answer
lol

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

FamDav posted:

wowwwwww thats soooo surprising

woowwwwwwwwwwww

well, yeah, it seems a 100% sensible thing to do and the thread was rather of the opinion that it was not going to happen

hopefully it pans out well but who knows v:shobon:v

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

well, yeah, it seems a 100% sensible thing to do and the thread was rather of the opinion that it was not going to happen

hopefully it pans out well but who knows v:shobon:v

it'll be _fine_

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?




Was it radium with a wig and fake moustache on ?

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
literally the best thing that could have happened.

eschaton
Mar 7, 2007

Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?
long as I can still use awful.app rather than visit some web site

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

eschaton posted:

long as I can still use awful.app rather than visit some web site

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vodkat
Jun 30, 2012



cannot legally be sold as vodka

well colour me surprised :(

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

nope. awful.app or bust.

hifi
Jul 25, 2012


lowtax already spends zero dollars on the forums apps so instead of that we're going to get a new semi anonymous admin to program something in their language of choice (mumps)

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


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hifi posted:

lowtax already spends zero dollars on the forums apps so instead of that we're going to get a new semi anonymous admin to program something in their language of choice (mumps)

lol, i do not need all the extra offsite attention that comes with being an admin on these forums. plus im one of those pesky pc skeleton warriors rich hates

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
Goldmine

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


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Smythe posted:

Goldmine

havent you been paying attention the forums are the opposite of that

SO DEMANDING
Dec 27, 2003


hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *wheeeeeze* hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

The Management posted:

nope. awful.app or bust.

on second thought, agreed. if it doesn't suck half my battery down in 30 minutes it's not an authentic awful.app forums experience

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

this is so much more funny in light of

cis autodrag posted:

no he's paying the guy.

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


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The Management posted:

this is so much more funny in light of

i sincerely hope he was smart enough to arrange payment-on-delivery this time.

vodkat
Jun 30, 2012



cannot legally be sold as vodka

cis autodrag posted:

i sincerely hope he was smart enough to arrange payment-on-delivery this time.

what does your heart tell you ?

TerminalRaptor
Nov 6, 2012

Mostly Harmless
did he disappear, or was he ever there to begin with?

NeoHentaiMaster
Jul 13, 2004
More well adjusted then you'd think.

TerminalRaptor posted:

did he disappear, or was he ever there to begin with?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbusENG6hCE

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Jan 6, 2012


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TerminalRaptor posted:

did he disappear, or was he ever there to begin with?

there was a screenshot of like 6 hyperlinks on a page with no styling whatsoever which he claimed was proof that he was 80% done with the backend.

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
radium'd again

TerminalRaptor
Nov 6, 2012

Mostly Harmless

cis autodrag posted:

there was a screenshot of like 6 hyperlinks on a page with no styling whatsoever which he claimed was proof that he was 80% done with the backend.

pretty sure that was just a fever dream


was there also a midget who talked backwards?

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮

problem solved

CrazyLittle
Sep 11, 2001





Clapping Larry

cis autodrag posted:

there was a screenshot of like 6 hyperlinks on a page with no styling whatsoever which he claimed was proof that he was 80% done with the backend.

new forums were supposed to use markdown but also still be compatible with old bbcode and sa custom smilies

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


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CrazyLittle posted:

new forums were supposed to use markdown but also still be compatible with old bbcode and sa custom smilies

lmbo

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

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Slippery Tilde
lol wait til the xenforo guys see whta theyre dealing with

ass
Sep 22, 2011
Young Orc
hey reddit's code is open source

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice
open new forum, setup subforums, migrate users + emoji, and done

don't migrate posts. actually, delete the old forum and we can pretend all of my posts never happened. clean loving slate y'all.

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

i don't think that'd be wise really, would shed more posters than you'd think. besides, it really would not be rocket science to have a clean implementation handling new threads (and in time then all threads), while dragging the old stuff along for as long as needed when it comes to stuff like buying emotes or filling out reports or whatever the hell

like, while it is understood that the code is problematic etc. i don't really feel any special need for new software from the actual users perspective. it is a bit of a ye olde thing to have a forum of this kind at all, but i don't think it would be the least bit sane to try to move it onto google wave v. 2 or something like that

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

well from a user's perspective you might get free avatars, pms, search, whatever else a new forum has

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

i think you are confusing technical problems with monetization here

Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

i mean, i guess a really good outcome of the upgrade would be that lowtax could use the new clean slate to implement a feature which pays everyone $5 for each post they make as well, but i am not sure xenforo actually has the solutions for all the problems with that

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

avatars probably but my understanding is pms and search use significantly more resources than something not bolted on to 2001 era vbulletin

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CrazyLittle
Sep 11, 2001





Clapping Larry
search is bad because there wasn't any proper handling of metadata so old-old search was a raw plaintext against the entire db. choochachako did a bunch of improvements to it so you can make some metadata searches like userid. it's still not up to par with a proper implementation of a modern search algorithm

pms have no proper pagination in the UI like posts do so the query either loads your entire pm box or it loads zdr's hacked fix of only the first 50

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