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12:01 AM

@abatishchev You may be interested in this question (late to the party, apologies!)

What the dickens is text like this, and how does one make it stop?

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michaelb958

@jmac It's Zalgo text or something, made famous by The One True Regex And HTML Answer.

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A: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool th...

jmac

I'd read that answer, and it was amusing.

And apparently Zalgo is the right keyword, SO teaches us how to do it:

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Q: How does Zalgo text work?

I've seen weirdly formatted text called Zalgo like below written on various forums. It's kind of annoying to look at, but it really bothers me because it undermines my notion of what a character is supposed to be. My understanding is that a character is supposed to move horizontally across a line...

Can we kill that question so as to bury this information in the depths of the internet such that it will never re-emerge?

(I don't have delete or close privileges on SO because apparently google-visualization is not as cool as jquery -- unsung heroes, all of us)

Joshua

2:39 AM

meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/49769/… remains unresolved. The site layout has changed and I no longer know where things are.

Jeroen Vannevel

4:19 AM

Is it possible to block certain people on chat so you won't see their messages in the channel?

Undo

5:06 AM

Gah, an answer with a link to a page with a comment that contains a link to what the OP is after. Talk about fragile!

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A: Web Socket on Phonegap

http://remysharp.com/2010/10/04/websockets-in-phonegap-projects/ Read this

Tim Stone

5:17 AM

@JeroenVannevel Yes, just click on their avatar somewhere and use the "hide posts" or "ignore this user (everywhere)" option.

animuson

5:56 AM

> Congratulations on choosing Oblivion on Blu-ray™!

Ummm. Thanks? Did I win something?

jmac

6:23 AM

Know what meta needs? More questions about the top bar and close vote queue.

jmac

6:43 AM

And the masses have answered with two new posts on the top bar in the 20 minutes since I said that.

Bart

9:19 AM

For the fun of it, we should synonymize top-bar with status-declined

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Duncan

9:58 AM

If I look at a suggested edit, by clicking edit(1) at the bottom of a question, can I get a permalink to that suggestion?

Ah, got it. I need to copy the URL that the edit(1) link links to.

michaelb958

10:22 AM

The Meta reaction to the fancy new almost-black bar seems to be along the lines of

Bart

"Omg, this is like the most like horrible thing ever. Make it stop, it's hurting my eyes. I'm so distracted by everything being so in my face. But I can't find any of it. It's hiding everywhere. Sure it's organized and easy to reach, but it now takes two whole clicks. You obviously did not consider the design. Can it please be as orange as it was before, even those it really hasn't ever been that way. But that's how I remember it, though I never really pay attention"

Duncan

Across the world, computer geeks are deciding upon black feature walls in their bedrooms, without really knowing why...

michaelb958

> Eeeeek!! The new topbar sucks

Duncan

Strange ebay message just received:

just writing to inform you that i have received the phone and i'm quite happy with its state...plz i'm i allowed to insure it with my bank insurance

It's like trying to decipher an SO question. Is there a question there? Is that just a nice status update about his insurance situation? Strange...

Bart

10:38 AM

Perhaps you can supply him with a hardware specific WTFPL license?

michaelb958

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Q: Starring a message in chat that has a tag late in the message causes an empty tag box in the star list

Well, that's a decent title. Now what the heck am I talking about? Caused by starring this chat message. Seems to me like the box shouldn't be there at all since the tag is not part of the shortened blurb. It functions like a normal tag, with the hover effect and everything, and actually...

bug tags chat chat-stars

Oded

Cheese has been moved. Deal with it.

Bart

Alkmaar cheese market. The most pointless tourist attraction ever

Oded

True enough

Bart

Dammit, now I want cheese though. Way too expensive over here.

Oded

10:47 AM

@Bart so, perhaps Alkmaar isn't that pointless after all ;)

Bart

Haha, luckily we're no longer stuck in the days of central cheese markets

jmac

@Bart If you think cheese is expensive there, I invite you to visit Japan.

(bearing in mind I have no idea where 'there' is, but I'm guessing it is cheaper than cheese in Japan)

Duncan

I wonder if the value of Japanese cheese went up or down once it started to glow in the dark.

bluefeet

11:32 AM

@Oded everyone needs a little wine with their moved cheese.

Bart

@bluefeet there's no shortage of whine on Meta today. Ah sorry, wine.

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bluefeet

@Bart I know, it is actually getting a bit ridiculous.

Duncan

Does data.stackexchange.com not auto-link to other accounts? I just signed in with my Google account but ended up as a "jon.doel" user.

Strangely, it picked up on my avatar.

Ahah...

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Q: Account not linked with data.stackexchange.com

I created an account @ data.stackexchange, but it never got linked w/ my SO account. This not unlike any other SE site I create an account in: it will say that my account is already linked w/ other SE sites (mostly SO, I think), and reward about 100 pts... Is this meant to be? ps: my recently c...

support status-bydesign stackexchange linked-accounts

If we star any more of your posts, @Bart, your head won't fit through the tavern door :-)

Richard Tingle

12:19 PM

Meta just went down, presumably under the sheer weight of people freaking out about the new bar

Oded

Apparently the bandwidth that black takes is much higher than we thought.

Bart

12:35 PM

@Duncan You can't hold back awesome

Jeroen Vannevel

1:44 PM

@TimStone Thanks, found it!

Duncan

3:49 PM

Can moderators see what happened to comments? I.e. are deleted comments visible at all?

I'm trying to understand what happened to my comment on this answer. I pointed out that guido was incorrect (as did another user), yet our comments have vanished leaving just the erroneous one.

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