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A: Cannot post comments on SE app on iOS

As of today, the registrations on Stack Apps for all our prior apps were disabled. This state also disables write access for them, which effectively makes all the apps read-only now. This is one step being taken as part of our decommissioning of the mobile app infrastructure.

Looks like the apps are finally dead dead

Meta Andrew T.

4:15 AM

@JourneymanGeek still good for reading HNQ and ~~enjoying drama~~ reading meta? :p

Journeyman Geek

@MetaAndrewT. hah

the alternative app's probably nicer for reading

but I use the responsive view cause I also moderate on the move

Shadow The Kid Wizard

5:16 AM

@Luuklag Wizard Powers

But yeah, it just lists those who voted to close as off topic.

@KevinB YouTube vid, accept cookies and it will show.

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Q: Not accepting targeting cookies leads to YouTube videos not loading in blog posts, resulting in huge gaps

Background: I've never accepted all cookies on Stack Overflow. Note: I do not block any cookies. When I'm viewing this latest blog post for example, it has 7 huge gaps between paragraphs where the YouTube videos should be, which makes it harder to read as I have to scroll the blank space in order...

(I still didn't accept cookies, I love finding such bugs. ;))

(Weird part is, so far only two things don't show up as result: the YouTube vids in blog posts, and the registration page of Ambassadors project)

@rene 120 (!) happy bday? :D

Shadow The Kid Wizard

6:58 AM

@JamesENL k

@JourneymanGeek and now? :D

Journeyman Geek

26K

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Nice!

So in five more years, 60k?

Journeyman Geek

oh

today

60K would be almost a marathon

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek almost? You mean more, marathon is 42.2km

No?

Journeyman Geek

steps not kilometers

actually no, more than a marathon

Shadow The Kid Wizard

7:03 AM

Pretty sure each step of adult is around 1 meter

And yours are surely bigger than average. (Steps! ;))

So, time for...

!!/marathon

SmokeDetector

@ShadowTheKidWizard No such command 'marathon'.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

:(

Journeyman Geek

lol

I walk 20 km once a week :D

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek morning or evening?

Journeyman Geek

that's not marathon training

Morning

Shadow The Kid Wizard

7:05 AM

Well turns out there's "International Walking Day"

Journeyman Geek

..... actually...

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Kids schools are into it for few years.

Dates don't match to the actual day, but who cares. If there's motivation to do sport, it's good. ;)

Poor Shog...

Jan 14, 2011 at 16:08, by Shog9

If I tried to run a marathon right now, I would expect to fail, and then die

Journeyman Geek

lol

Its been 10 years

so... he might fail faster, then die.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

11 and half years actually.

Luuklag

7:20 AM

@JourneymanGeek or the outdoors life did him good an he will finish now

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag Running a marathon and fighting a bear... :D

Luuklag

haha or ride on it like a real man

lost souls are roaming free again today

Journeyman Geek

7:38 AM

@Luuklag got 2. any more?

Luuklag

no not right now

Journeyman Geek

ah ok

Luuklag

just that there've been a lot recently

Journeyman Geek

ah

I'd point out its enough of a problem there's literally a userscript to deal with it ._.

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek Hmmm yeah, is it that automated comment?

Journeyman Geek

7:44 AM

@Luuklag closes (optionally) downvotes, comments, deletes

IT SLICES AND DICES! IT JULIENNES! IT DEFENESTRATES AND REVITALISES!

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek the downvoting part seems kinda pointless if you have mod powers though

But I guess its good for regular users, to push it off of the front page

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag I usually turn that off

Luuklag

8:29 AM

anyone else getting offline for maintenance?

hmmm already back online

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag that's what he said

:P

Luuklag

who said, Vladimir Putin?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Anyway, @M.A.R. is this your doing?

:D

@Luuklag yeah he love to do unusual things

Luuklag

@ShadowTheKidWizard thats one big fart xD

Journeyman Geek

9:02 AM

I have no idea what that is but it dosen't look good

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek methane

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag That raises more questions

Like how much beans were involved??

Luuklag

haha

@sha where is this located?

Journeyman Geek

@M.A.R.'s house? :D

More seriously with all the stuff going on I hope its just... an accident, and not an 'accident'

Luuklag

9:20 AM

@journ, could you close that feminism question as dupe of this: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/377120/…

@JourneymanGeek its quite normal to see these kinda things. Usually at oil wells etc.

@JourneymanGeek esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-5P/…

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag no need

tripleee

9:47 AM

flag-pls spam web hosting webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/140748/…

Luuklag

9:59 AM

@JourneymanGeek yeah deletion works too xD

Journeyman Geek

10:48 AM

hm

Is the 'new' reputation change being bold a new thing or have I just completely not noticed? >_>

@Luuklag the post got reposted from a new account so... if you see em, just flag em as spam or RA

M.A.R.

@JourneymanGeek I'll have you know my GI tract is in a very good condition

@ShadowTheKidWizard mine have healthy, natural color.

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek maybe a side effect of the inbox redesign?

Ill see if I can see something in the inspect when I have a new upvote

M.A.R.

11:03 AM

@JourneymanGeek that upvote was given by a verified✔ user

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag Oh more of "is that new, or is it something I never noticed before"

hm

Inbox does it too

Meta Andrew T.

i don't have new notification or rep change ;_;

M.A.R.

They want to ruin your retina with too much bold

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek want to @mention me somewhere, or just post a comment to my newest question?

M.A.R.

@MetaAndrewT. I get really random upvotes that I assume are by voting rings trying to hide their traces, because they eventually get reversed

Journeyman Geek

11:08 AM

@Luuklag done

M.A.R.

@j

Luuklag

Journeyman Geek

anyway, its not a big thing

M.A.R.

The unread and the bold

Journeyman Geek

Just annoyed I'm not sure if its new or not :D

M.A.R.

11:10 AM

I've been getting it for a while

Journeyman Geek

ah ok

Meta Andrew T.

ah yeah, the notification title is bold, but I think it's been like that for long time

Journeyman Geek

I don't remember the reputation one being bold

Meta Andrew T.

err, just now I opened and closed the inbox for 10 times and the red dot didn't disappear until I reload

Journeyman Geek

I mean I like it but I also usually do it to clear out the notification :D

Meta Andrew T.

11:17 AM

(deja vu)

~~https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/382857/241919~~

Luuklag

11:48 AM

hmmm productive spammer there

hmmm should be enough to autoflag IMHO. @tripleee could you enlighten me on this?

Luuklag

1:20 PM

Anyone care to have a look at this answer: meta.stackexchange.com/a/383258/361484 To me a clear NAA, especially on an 11yo question. Perhaps others feel differently?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag hehe, close call! That's actually gas pollution, one of the biggest in the world, and it's in Iran. ;)

4km trail

No worry USA also has, and many others, it's not something against certain country. :D

@JourneymanGeek no accident, it's industrial pollution that affect the global warming.

Luuklag

@ShadowTheKidWizard yeah Methane is quite more harmfull the CO2 in that aspect

however Methane breaks down quicker I think

Shadow The Kid Wizard

It's a catch 101 thing, to fix it, Iran will need lots of money, but they can't have lots of money due to the ban.

@Luuklag dunno, but I'm pretty sure they need to spend lots of money to fix it, either way.

Luuklag

@ShadowTheKidWizard The could set it on fire, that would fix a large part of it ;)

quite cheaply

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek yup brand new, though might be a leak of a feature that shouldn't yet be public.

Premature Feature.

Luuklag

1:29 PM

Hmm thinking of that bold, didn't it have a background fill before

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag if it was so easy surely it was being done, so it means there's a catch, probably the fire would cause even worse chemicals to be created and spread all around.

@Luuklag don't think so, but if the background is light color, might have just missed that all those years, my monitors not showing such colors unless I look in very specific angle.

@M.A.R. unless you eat carrots?

BTW, @Luuklag stackstatus.net is broken for me, and many other people who visited the old page and their browser keeps broken domain forever. Where did you see such a link?

To make it work, must add www. before the domain.

stackstatus.net works.

Luuklag

@ShadowTheKidWizard huh where?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag that's what I asked ;)

You had the broken link in your new feature request, I fixed it.

Luuklag

1:45 PM

ah in that way, yeah probably just typed it by hand

Mithical

@JourneymanGeek I'm not seeing anything like that.

Journeyman Geek

@Mithical ....

I'm starting to wonder if I'm seeing stuff early now

Tinkeringbell

@JourneymanGeek Gimme a vote and I'll check for you :P

Journeyman Geek

Ok check :D

Tinkeringbell

Not just you :)

Not sure if that's new or just old though... can't remember.

Mithical

2:00 PM

I'd ask someone to drop me a vote so I can screenshot, but I'm not sure I should ;)

Tinkeringbell

@Mithical Meh. Try? :P

Oh wait. Sandbox doesn't count XD Try again :P

Feeds

Introducing the Ask Wizard: Your guide to crafting high-quality questions

Brendan Cleary on October 27, 2022

Learn about the workflow designed to help users ask their first question on Stack Overflow.

Luuklag

@Feeds Introducing the One-box wizard: Your guide to crafting high-quality One-boxes

Mithical

Luuklag

@Mithical Thats what I remember seeing

so there was a change!

Journeyman Geek

2:08 PM

Right, and I am not senile :D

Tinkeringbell

Ah. And what happens when you check from MSE, like Geek and I did? :D

Mithical

Now it's bold.

(Didn't catch a screenshot.)

On a reloaded page, the inbox notificatiion is also bold now:

Journeyman Geek

Ah!

Tinkeringbell

So things are bold on MSE, and unbold on Lit (and possibly other sites)

Mithical

Journeyman Geek

2:10 PM

MSE does get deployments first

Mithical

Nope, I think it's just that the page I was on has been open since before the deployment.

Tinkeringbell

Ah, that's also possible yeah.

Mithical

rev 2022.10.26.42986 has highlights, rev 2022.10.27.42994 has bold.

I... don't actually like the design change, it's much harder to tell what's new and what's not.

Journeyman Geek

I think that qas highlighted

Luuklag

So who is going to write a post to have this reverted?

Journeyman Geek

2:13 PM

Personally I'm less bothered than confused

Mithical

@Luuklag I just posted a different report, so feel free.

Kevin B

@Feeds buggy

How does the ask wizard "... help avoid duplicate questions from being asked on Stack Overflow. "

Luuklag

2:33 PM

@Mithical if no-one did so tonight I might. Need to finish some things first

Mithical

Hmm. The red notifier isn't updating (either new or read) until a page refresh.

Kevin B

(given it's dupe search isn't any better than the old form)

Mithical

(Ugh, I was trying to open the rep notification thing using the keybaord shortcut, and it wasn't working. I couldn't figure out why despite having just reported the reason why. The focus was still in the inbox despite having closed it.)

Renato C.Francisco

3:06 PM

0__0

Tinkeringbell

3:33 PM

?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Feeds usually new major features are announced before being launched, but hey, at least it's still fresh. And oneboxed! ;)

@Luuklag waste of clicks, they won't revert it.

@KevinB it shows list of related questions

@RenatoC.Francisco hello to you too, assuming you mean "Hi, how are everyone?" in this weird message. ;)

oh well now I'll have to use the full ping for @rene otherwise there would be innocent victim. :D

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowTheKidWizard As my mom likes to say: "Use your words" ;)

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Tinkeringbell when you cry nonstop and refuse to tell what's bothering you? :P

Tinkeringbell

@ShadowTheKidWizard Usually when kids younger than me do that, yeah :P

Though I'm sure she must've used the approach for me too, I can't remember;)

Shadow The Kid Wizard

lol

Anyway, something about this user feels odd, if a mod can do some quick check I'd be grateful.

Dunno, something in the combo of name+writing style, feels familiar, as if that user already was there before and nuked.

One answer is fine, one isn't, which is also weird.

Mithical

3:48 PM

@ShadowTheKidWizard inbox notifications changed from this: i.stack.imgur.com/dWnpG.png to this: i.stack.imgur.com/heGkY.png

Kevin B

@ShadowTheKidWizard so did the old one

tis the same widget

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Mithical oh that's tiny design change, thought you meant the big changes they announced recently are live for you.

Mithical

Something must have changed besides the design, because it broke things :)

Shadow The Kid Wizard

(think it wasn't pinned here, but it was featured for about a week or so.)

Mithical

Yeah, those haven't rolled out yet, but this is prep for that.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

3:52 PM

@Mithical or unwanted leak, it's not very rare.

When you bake a cake, sometimes the ingredients cause a mess in the kitchen. ;)

@KevinB well, in the wizard it's more organized. Or should be. :)

i.e. there are actual steps, you can't continue until you completed a step.

3 Positions, 4 Days, 1 Candidate so far. Who will save Coffee from doom?

I'm 10000% sure that if I apply, two more mods in other sites will also apply and win, that already happened like 3 times. :D

Luuklag

4:07 PM

You got the rep on Coffee then @Sha?

So, I'm officially without a pc now. Just turned in my things. Starting a new job on tuesday :)

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag yeah, as usual from few silly posts. :P

@Luuklag congrats!! Have the best of luck, and lots of rest until you start. :)

Mithical

Can someone go to edit a post using the "e" keyboard shortcut, and then try to cancel it with "esc" and tell me if it works?

Kevin B

works for me

doesn't "deselect" the question, but it returns to the question

Mithical

hmm, not working for me in answers

Kevin B

works for me on answers too, same behavior

edge

Shadow The Kid Wizard

4:22 PM

@KevinB case?

Mithical

4:53 PM

@ShadowTheKidWizard my bad. SOUP prevents the bug from happening :D

(I did test the keyboard shortcuts bug without userscripts, though.)

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Mithical huh, that's one strong soup. :D

מרק סבתא

;)

rene

5:12 PM

@ShadowTheKidWizard Hi!

@Luuklag Do you remain PC-less or does the new job come with "benefits"?

Luuklag

5:39 PM

@rene I have an appointment on Tuesday to take delivery of a new gov issued phone and computer

rene

Cool!

Luuklag

Wonder what its gonna be though, either a mac or a dell. I opted for a mac, but someone filed paperwork otherwise. So its going to be a surprise xD

M.A.R.

5:55 PM

@ShadowTheKidWizard too late, already took it personally

Renato C.Francisco

6:19 PM

thanks @ShadowTheKidWizard

Tinkeringbell

6:56 PM

@M.A.R. can I borrow some of that? I've been nauseated all evening now :(

Thomas Markov

8:14 PM

Has there been an uptick in off topic questions on meta today?

Kevin B

8:28 PM

probably due to the inbox bugs

people get sent to stackexchange, get lost, endup on meta

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

10:38 PM

Is Anil Dash still on the SE Inc. board of directors?

Luuklag

11:15 PM

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog Dash was an advisor to the Obama White House’s Office of Digital Strategy, served for a decade on the board of Stack Overflow, the world’s largest community for coders, and was on the board of the Data & Society Research Institute, which researches the cutting edge of tech's impact on society

Sounds pretty past tense to me

Source: anildash.com/about

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