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is it still being written in some dumb language only six people in the world use?
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wide stance posted:Radium gets a massive amount of poo poo however at the end of the day he built the forums that people still pay money to post on because it has the best look and feel on the internet, thanks in large part to him. Parts may be hacked and duct taped together but it has no real effect on the users. changing the copyright date at the bottom of the page broken the forums
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Feb 5, 2017 11:51
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:they weren't ints, they were actual strings of 1s and 0s that he was simply calling bitfields. and yet bitfields aren't used in places they would actually make sense - like keeping track of who has platinum or archives. buying platinum moves your entire account from the normal group to a separate platinum group. users with both platinum and archives are a totally separate group to users who have one but not the other. this is also why you lose the upgrades when you get banned - because your account is moved to the banned group and it doesn't record whether it was previously in the normal, archive, platinum, or archive+platinum group. Sweevo fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Feb 6, 2017 |
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Feb 6, 2017 14:35
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everyone who has actually seen the codebase says it's an unmaintainable abortion. i'm more inclined to believe them than someone who reads about one trivial problem and thinks "hurr its just lots of little things, fix them and it'll be fine"
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Feb 6, 2017 16:52
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we scared chef fatwood back to snack overflow because nobody liked his six course idea
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Feb 6, 2017 19:01
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or it'll be like titan. it'll start out being totally custom forum software and then after a few years lowtax will claim that it's really a lot back end stuff the user never interacts with, but it works great trust me. and the actual forums will carry on being a broken piece of poo poo
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Feb 18, 2017 18:09
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Uncle Enzo posted:was there a good reason given as why the forum's rewrite wasn't publicly hosted on github or similar? people could help maybe. understand why the old code can't be distributed due to some being proprietary, but getting a copyright agreement and licensing from new contributors should be straightforward? because lowtax wants someone to actually write it, not 5000 people doing concept art or starting the wiki
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Feb 20, 2017 01:29
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvHbXoNFMz4&t=214s
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Feb 26, 2017 13:26
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Ploft-shell crab posted:I absolutely, 100% believe that half a forum is completed "my uncle works at nintendo and has the best forum software. he let me see it and i put some of the ideas into my code, but my uncle saw it and said i'm not allowed to show anyone in case he gets fired"
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Mar 4, 2017 14:16
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Clockwerk posted:my precious treasure trove of shitposts~ whatever shall I do without it unfortunately this is what half the forum actually believes
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Mar 5, 2017 18:11
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people are going to flip their poo poo if the post button is two pixels to the left, so god forbid you don't port over the vital stuff like the posting gloryhole or saclopedia
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Mar 5, 2017 18:47
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zen death robot posted:also I don't think it would have been a particularly bug free version in two months but hey that's me his code is great. he said so. no you can't see it, stop asking
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Mar 7, 2017 21:41
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but how will the forums survive without the completely mis-remembered accounts of the lovely in-jokes gbs ran into the ground for a week in 2001?
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Mar 10, 2017 17:47
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i'm glad lowtax decided not to use the elixir guy, because that guy clearly though he was writing a glorified homework project
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Mar 28, 2017 16:29
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Jabor posted:discord's gonna gradually turn to poo poo as they decide to monetize it more and more. isn't irc mostly warez and porn now, like usenet?
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Apr 3, 2017 14:06
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LastInLine posted:same the problem isn't people coming to the forums and thinking "hey i'm not paying $10 for this, it's badly coded!" it's that the forums are held together with spit and string and any time there's a problem it costs lowtax thousands of dollars to fix because someone has to wade through the byzantine nightmare to even work out what the problem is. just because it's working right now doesn't mean its going to stay working forever, and as things stand it probably wouldn't take much before lowtax either can't afford to fix it, or just says "gently caress it" and shuts things down.
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Apr 3, 2017 21:29
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the lepers colony would have been fine if people could actually see why someone was probated, instead of it being a pile of monkeycheese crap because "lol i posted a bunch of pictures i'm so wacky and random"
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Apr 3, 2017 21:56
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:just tried setting up discourse, and holy hell it is the worst kind of duct-taped together over-engineered under-thought crap. a million random dependencies, a ton of details that must be "just so" for it to work, and horrifying performance and resource use for what it actually does six course, by chef fatwood of snack overflow
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Apr 13, 2017 15:21
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cis autodrag posted:most folks i talk to like the forums in spite of lowtax rather than because of him. the most visible forum has a toxic culture that drives away new registrations and lowtax comes back in a tone deaf rage to remind us that "gay" and "tranny" are funny words and the sjw mods were ruining his site. it's not 1997 anymore but his sense of humor never moved past there and he'd be better of leaving the site to zdr and a few others to run. this, but also maybe start cracking down on the people who immediately poo poo on every single thread because everything has to be a pissing competition over who can care the least and how loudly they can tell everyone about it
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May 1, 2017 14:32
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Sagebrush posted:fyad's current title is probably turning away potential new registrations fyad still exists?
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May 4, 2017 11:25
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LinYutang posted:How is the infrastructure for the forums so hosed that the server clocks are managing to get out of sync because instead of fixing anything lowtax spent a decade going "lol these forums are broken isn't that funny", and then wondered why everything was still broken
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May 8, 2017 10:56
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rear end posted:I'm pretty sure he bought the car many years ago before he became broke anyway. when did the office close? i want to say 2010 because i think that's when he gave away loads of unsold SA march to anyone who came to collect it
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May 8, 2017 11:03
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there's not going to be a new forum lowtax has quit in a huff for the 15th time and he'll come back in 6-12 months and pretend the whole "rewrite" thing never happened
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May 11, 2017 11:38
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yes, and it sucks. the front page used to at least draw people in. now it's all weird poo poo where you can't even tell what the joke is supposed to be, or its part #23 of something that was mediocre the first time
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May 11, 2017 23:15
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bring back weekend web bring back awful link of the day do more reviews of crappy stuff stop having every third update be "lol trump"
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May 11, 2017 23:48
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a month is about how long it will last before lowtax has another tantrum and gives up
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May 25, 2017 16:48
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Sagebrush posted:otoh he doesn't seem aware of the third way, which is "moderate and be active in the forums but grow the gently caress up and quit blooblooing that your userbase predominantly thinks it's uncool to call people trannies." no but you see four GBS edgelords think it's funny therefore nothing will ever change. they can never explain how, or point to any examples of when it was funny, but four people stuck in 2001 is exactly who lowtax thinks the forums should be aimed at
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remember when lowtax had a meltdown because nobody liked adbot?
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