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00:00

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user315433

Badge 83 on Movies is plot-explanation tag badge, confirming the site pre-existed Steward.

user315433

Some of the subsequent no longer exist, presumably because the tags were deleted.

user315433

We wouldn't have this mess if tag badges were enumerated starting from 10000, like Channels.

user315433

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Q: What is up with the duck?

There is a duck on the bottom right hand corner of my ancient laptop. It comes with me where ever I go. What is the purpose of this duck?

support

user315433

Asked half an hour ago. Caching?

Jon Ericson

00:07

Well, it is an ancient laptop and the duck is a thing out of myth and legend.

user315433

The Myth of Great Duck

user315433

What's the SO version of 12 labors of Heracles?

Jon Ericson

Clearly mucking out the close queue is one.

user315433

Yes, that one is the Augean Stables.

Jon Ericson

Blocking sock puppets from a user on Tor is the hydra.

SmokeDetector

00:46

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected, potentially bad keyword in answer: How often should we eat meat? by Ayushman on islam.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: Is inserting a cotton wick into a man's urinary hole to prevent drops sunnah? by Keshav on islam.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: How often should we eat meat? by John on islam.SE

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Offensive answer detected: With no fajr adhan, am I allowed to eat 10 minutes after fajr time for a nafl fast? by Ramesh on islam.SE

bjb568

01:02

@SFTP If all (wo)me/xn are brothers/sisters/siblings.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Genderless he is the old form.

Now it’s mostly singular they.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer: 0xc000000f BCD error in windows 10... Nothings working by Victoria Mathis on superuser.com

Gaurang Tandon

hello! does anyone know why imgur's image size reducer doesn't always work? sometimes the png/jpg whose size I am reducing becomes completely "black", and sometimes it works properly

is it possibly because of my slow internet connection, or is that it's just buggy?

(context for size reducer)

bjb568

Another peaking duck?

Gaurang Tandon

01:19

duck? not I. I am a human :-)

user315433

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Q: Why is there a peeking duck in my profile pic?

In my SO profile, you may see something odd: a peeking duck. I've just recently uploaded this new profile picture of mine. I checked it after the upload and everything's fine. After a few hours, I opened my profile and there it is, the duck has somehow become afraid of the people viewing it. ...

support profile-picture imgur

user315433

@SmokeDetector Is this a counteroffensive from Hinduism on Islam?

Gaurang Tandon

@SFTP okay, so....how does it apply to my question? fyi, when I reduce the size of the images, I never saw my images get cut-off in half. They do become proportionately smaller as expected, but sadly become black :(

should I file a new bug report?

bjb568

shouldiblamecaching.com

Gaurang Tandon

nah, I don't think I should

Adam Lear

01:31

that sounds like something on imgur’s end

Gaurang Tandon

...and now that I'm actively looking for an example image to support my bug report, I can't find any. All png/jpg size reductions are suddenly working :/

@AdamLear hmm yep that's what I was afraid of

since it has nothing to do with SE, so no point in posting a bug report on MSE

yes found!

bjb568

I think you should blame caching.

Gaurang Tandon

chemistry.stackexchange.com/posts/94483/edit

this answer above ^ - type "m" in front of the image's suffix to make it https://i.stack.imgur.com/Onpjom.png

and it turns black!

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: Gentiles, what happens if they break the 7 laws by Brandon on judaism.SE

HTTPS

01:47

@GaurangTandon blame transparency and imgur :)

Gaurang Tandon

@HTTPS well, forget what to blame, tell me how to fix it first :P

HTTPS

@GaurangTandon can only back to HTML syntax, like <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Onpjo.png" width="130" height="100" />

Catija

@GaurangTandon Because it sucks...

If it has a transparent background, changing the size will break it.

Gaurang Tandon

@HTTPS yep, that works perfectly! thanks!

@Catija oh, so that's the issue. Well, they should've checked all the cases, transparent backgrounds are quite popular :(

Catija

@GaurangTandon It's a longstanding issue. Even happens in chat.

Gaurang Tandon

01:53

oh

Catija

I'm pretty sure they've tried to fix it several times and it just breaks again, so they're not really asking any more.

Gaurang Tandon

hmmm right

Catija

80

Q: Profile picture cannot have transparent background

I never liked that SO/SE relied on the external gravatar service, so I was glad to read that it doesn't any more. However, it turns out that one cannot use as profile picture a PNG file with transparent background (something that is supported by gravatar): Above is a screen capture of my p...

bug status-completed profile-picture imgur

HTTPS

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Q: Imgur medium images with too much compression

If we append m (or s) to our uploaded images file names, we get the medium (and small) versions. I noticed quite some artifacts in the medium sized. Original https://i.sstatic.net/Z8pOz.png Medium (artifacts on white on blue, white on purple, and blue/purple edges, blurred text) http:/...

feature-request imgur

Catija

5

A: Preserve image transparency when resizing images

I'm declining this formally because it's been ongoing for years and incredibly unlikely to ever be fixed. The decision to make this change is up to Imgur and Imgur alone. In order to resize and create new images, they have to do image processing themselves. It's their decision whether or not the...

That's the one I was looking for ^^^

Adam Lear

01:56

yeah, I was just about to ask... how are you saving your images

Gaurang Tandon

@AdamLear the usual imgur uploader - i.imgur.stack

@Catija ah, wow, that was pretty fast, it's exactly the issue am facing

Adam Lear

no, before you upload them. or are they copy/pasted into the uploaded?

on an unrelated note, I’m on mobile right now... can someone do me a favor and check that the duck isn’t showing up anymore? :)

Catija

It's not. I noticed a few minutes ago. :)

Gaurang Tandon

@AdamLear well, most of the time they're copy-pasted into the uploader, but I never actually checked if only copy-pasted images have the bug

Adam Lear

@Catija Excellent, thanks!

Journeyman Geek

01:59

@AdamLear no ducks on MSE or SU

Catija

I don't create a lot of images that have transparent backgrounds, but I don't think it matters how it's created... I think that the transparent background is the link. Rory's (usual) avatar goes back and forth between black and white backgrounds - and he likes it that way. :P

Journeyman Geek

I was under the impression that had to do with how MSE resizes things

Catija

It's not just MSE. It's imgur.

Journeyman Geek

....

that was probably what I meant

lol

Catija

I noticed it the first time on Cooking, actually. :P

Journeyman Geek

02:01

kinda oddly low on batteries this morning ;p

Gaurang Tandon

anyway, thanks for the help everyone! :)

Adam Lear

@JourneymanGeek 👍

HTTPS

@SmokeDetector now they're attacking islam.se too?

user315433

I imagined it's a counteroffensive... because an earlier insult on Hindiusm was commented on in eye-for-eye fashion...

Sonic Wizard

02:19

@ShadowWizard chaos-emerald-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308697/…

Actually, since this is yet another dupe of post bans, @JourneymanGeek I think you can be involved here too

Journeyman Geek

@SFTP @HTTPS or someone trying to start a fight

Also, its worth remembering there's folks who hate bramins for well, political reasons.

Its like an indian version of anti-semetism.

user202362

so the duck has gone to a better place with the chicken and the small unicorn?

Journeyman Geek

Yes, the farm

user202362

internet farm <3

Catija

It's the SE farm... What's going to be next... we have our fill of fowl, I think.

Sonic Wizard

02:34

We've had intrusion for a little while now

Catija

Farms need cows? And cows help ducks type.

Journeyman Geek

@SFTP also shouldn't you be bringing this up to, the hinduism, and maybe islam mods?

Sonic Wizard

@Catija Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (actually, by the end of that, the ducks are typing)

Catija

@SonicWizard ... yep. Also, Duck eventually runs for President.

user202362

02:51

on the internet, no one knows you are a fowl living on a farm >_<

ɥʇǝS

how would they type..

quack recognition?

or cluck recognition.. et cetera

Catija

They ... peck ... it out.

user202362

@_@

Journeyman Geek

03:12

They hunt and peck.

William

Journeyman so I do agree WM10 will face its demise some day but it should outlast pretty much with certainty Windows Phone.

If you wouldn't consider Windows Phone already dead

which it certainly is.

Catija

@William ... it's not the mods' decision... Their support of it helps but it's the staff's decision.

William

hmm well then I think meta.stackexchange.com will likely get more views.

Journeyman Geek

I guess the question I should be asking is "is it worth it?"

William

YES!!!!!

The 300 Windows mobile 10 spartans!!

Catija

03:18

More views from people who don't use your site... is sort of irrelevant.

Journeyman Geek

more like all 2 of the people who still use it ;p

From what I've heard, renames are messy

they're mostly second last resorts when a site's a bit sick and rescoping might help

William

I posted the question there 1st and got a grand total of 40 views

... windowsphone.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/381/…

only 1 person voted and actually left a response

I should have posted the question on april fools and if I didn't get support and could said it was an aprils fools joke.

Journeyman Geek

hah, dosen't work that way

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: Is Studying String Theory Permitted According To The Rambam? by Brandon on judaism.SE

William

Please close this question also

-12

Q: Rename unix.SE to opensource.SE

Unix.SE doesn't seem very popular, and there are many reasons for it. But there is another thing that can be improved, and that's the name. I believe that for many (especially young) people, "Unix" is something that is old and not used anymore. If you look at Ubuntu, they position it as an alter...

feature-request stackexchange-2.0 unix-ubuntu

so as not to confuse others

Catija

03:29

I'm going to assume animuson's comment there was from before he was a CM.

William

Could you elaborate does that mean my question is being close for the wrong reason?

ahh because he could have closed it himself

Journeyman Geek

technically that should have a [status-declined]

Sonic Wizard

@Catija Yep, he was an SO mod then.

SmokeDetector

03:58

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted user: Are Christians considered pagans? by Brandon on judaism.SE

Sonic Wizard

04:10

@SmokeDetector fp-

user315433

04:22

Please can someone help me out and try forking this repository and installing the gem locally to see if it works for them? --- I thought Help and Please were blocked in titles, but perhaps it's just my imagination...

user315433

1898 matches for "please help" in title, of them only 283 closed...

HTTPS

MSE Post: Please help adding "please" and "help" blocker on the title

user315433

Maybe it's useful as a honeypot? I looked over the search results, some are closable but if a question has no existing close votes and only ~50 views in 2 years, why should anyone bother? It's as good as deleted already.

user315433

Non-informative titles are a self-correcting problem: nobody ever finds those posts.

user315433

Remember Foursquare? Do people still use it?

user315433

04:33

Ah, they split off Swarm.

user315433

I was more than vaguely aware of it because one of co-founders graduated from SFTP University.

user315433

Okay, random location sharing sans Foursquare: at a bus station, next to Dunkin Donuts which is closed but still has their WiFi on... which I'm currently using.

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Is my BTC gone? by Bitcoin Promotion on bitcoin.SE

Sonic Wizard

05:11

@ShadowWizard chaos-emerald-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308701/…

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308704/…

user315433

After 4 years of running a (11,000 member) public Slack community for @TryGhost — today we’ve decided to shut the whole thing down for good. I’ve got a few interesting observations to share from the experience, and what we’re moving to now instead. And so beginneth the thread:

Tweeted by JohnONolan on April 2, 2018 at 6:20 PM

user315433

Spoiler: they are migrating to discourse.

Journeyman Geek

lol

makes a lot of sense

chat, in general breaks down with too many people, or when enough people stop respecting other's space

SE does better cause we can ignore, and chats seem to settle in with a few dozen regulars at most.

.....

and I go into twitter and see twitter.com/shog9/status/981014012950298626

exact same words ;p

tho I can never remember what dunbar's number is

Sonic Wizard

05:51

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308705/…

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308706/…

Sonic Wizard

06:12

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308707/…

Sonic Wizard

06:23

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Q: Request for script to more easily perform actions relating to marking off-topic questions on Meta Stack Exchange

We get a lot of off-topic questions on Meta Stack Exchange, where users are either confused or are making a bad attempt to sidestep a ban on a main Q&A site. To help ensure a quick closure and deletion of the question, I do the following steps: Cast a recommend closure flag on the question (tho...

discussion script-request closing

rene

Can someone else run the codesnippet here: meta.stackexchange.com/a/216607/158100 I'm somehow IP banned but as far as I know I have nothing running or scraping that could cause that so I'm wondering if that is a wider problem.

Journeyman Geek

@rene seems to work as intended for me

Sonic Wizard

status-completed

@rene Did you try a VPN?

HTTPS

@rene no problem

Sonic Wizard

1 hour ago, by Sonic Wizard

@ShadowWizard chaos-emerald-pls https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308701/question-found-in-the-vtc-queue-‌but-it-doesnt-have-active-close-votes-how-is

@rene ^^

rene

06:36

Hmm, Ok. maybe I picked up a rogue US somewhere. I'll investigate. Thanks.

Sonic Wizard

delv-pls 20k+ meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308707/…

Magisch

06:56

@JourneymanGeek thats because chat with like 20 people at once becomes extremely unuseful quickly

I think it's some kind of self selection

HTTPS

I missed IRC...

Journeyman Geek

@Magisch more or less chat with too many active people is very hard to follow

SE semi mitigates that with excellent 'threaded' conversations AKA replies but

but at some point less... fast moving formats work better

HTTPS

I really missed 100+ users chatting on IRC...

While I was only playing with an in-channel game bot :/

Journeyman Geek

lol

I used to do smaller communities

cv-plz meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308710/owner-of-sprint

Not sure if its some kind of really badly written spam too

Magisch

07:18

@JourneymanGeek This is part of the problem with big discord communities, too

Journeyman Geek

@Magisch Chat simply does not scale ;p

HTTPS

flagged message on ru.SO chat room, wut.

Journeyman Geek

oh

that happens a lot

Sonic Wizard

!!/report meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308710/owner-of-sprint

@JourneymanGeek Probably XSS attack attempt

HTTPS

Well, I went for spam flag because of the username and profile pic...

SmokeDetector

07:59

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: How to avoid snoring? by lioneljohn on health.SE

Sonic Wizard

08:36

Having some trouble responding to this comment

SmokeDetector

09:06

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title: You know best Online seo training in Chandigarh by Vishal Chandel on superuser.com

Magisch

@SonicWizard That entire question is just a big ol' wtf

HTTPS

@SonicWizard Dunno how you'll respond it, but if it were me, I'd probably say "one way of learning from mistake is by ignoring the comments and shrug them off"

SmokeDetector

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Magisch

09:27

@rene In your answer here: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/317130 you say that "If any of these are answered Yes, then I raise a spam flag. " But you provided two mutually exclusive exclusion conditions with "Is it not a personal blog?" and "Is it not a code-repo? " Meaning that if it was just a code repo you'd answer yes to the question "Is it not a personal blog" and vice versa meaning you'd always raise a spam flag if it's not a personal blog and code repo at the same time.

Might not have been your intention

And yes I'm realising I'm nitpicking semantics about a meta answer from 2016

Sonic Wizard

cv-pls meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308712/…

HTTPS

Writing personal blog with GitHub....

Derpy

@SonicWizard only one more

Magisch

at -6 with only 3 cv

Sonic Wizard

09:51

delv-pls 20k+ meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308712/…

user315433

10:08

A really complicated proposal for awarding accepted-answer by 3rd parties.

HTTPS

~~Interestingly it's tagged as support, not FR...~~ wait, it's tagged 3 of them

Derpy

A-R-G-H

Could try to savage, but I am not sure it is worth the effort.

user315433

@Derpy Savaging an asker is always worth the effort.

2

Derpy

I beg to dissent. Even after someone tried to edit the question into shape, it is still poorly written, unclear and probably lacking effort IMHO

Sonic Wizard

@Derpy So, then...it should be closed

Anyway, I have a den now too

Derpy

10:21

@SonicWizard that's what I meant. Either close or delete, probably not worth the effort. And to be fair, that's even a valid option on the triage review queue.

CalvT븃

chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/43770039#43770039

^ another hijacked account

Link to user profile

John Dvorak

What's up with those hijacked accounts?

HTTPS

insecure email

user315433

The proposal Lock user acounts that have been inactive for more than 2 years, (say) should have been considered more carefully.

user315433

I suspect most voters didn't have to deal with those accounts.

rene

10:29

@Magisch you earned a cookie ... basically I have no idea what I'm doing when I'm flagging for SPAM.

Derpy

@HTTPS that's still weird. Why all these "insecure email" pop up now, all at once?

Seems like the old Guild War hack problem.

HTTPS

@Derpy since the infamous troller came back here, to be exact

Derpy

I mean - are we really sure someone hasn't found an actual bug in the system?

HTTPS

If that's the case, why didn't they take over mods, or even CMs...

user315433

<- begins to regret shooting down the proposal for 2FA for SE accounts

user315433

10:38

Actually, no. 2FA is a hassle, and more friction -> less participation.

Sonic Wizard

@SFTP They're making Wikipedia admins sign up for 2FA

You could enable 2FA on your Google account, and use it as your means of signing in

user315433

It's really confusing to have question-audits in LQRQ on SO. What is even the point? The criteria for delete / do not delete an answer are totally different from close / do not close a question. I'm focused on the former, and get tested on the latter.

user315433

On my main Google account I do have 2FA.

Sonic Wizard

@Shog9 Inspect please: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308713/…

user315433

As a result, I avoid logging in to it unless I really have to.

Sonic Wizard

10:42

I in general prefer to use Microsoft services over Google's

Magisch

@rene can I make an edit to remove the ambiguity?

Derpy

@HTTPS because that would give the CMs a reason to act instead of just assuming those are just users that got themselves infected with some virus/rootkit/whatever.

Magisch

11:01

@Derpy Pretty sure they're looking into it as we speak

user315433

Have they hired the Director of Information Security yet?

user315433

No, the ad is still up. stackoverflow.com/company/work-here/1043467/…

Magisch

@SFTP Lesser version of that is what I'm doing at my company right now

rene

@Magisch sure, please do.

SmokeDetector

11:25

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Mount Exchange 2010 EDB to Exchange 2013 by John Carter on serverfault.com

Sonic Wizard

@SmokeDetector tpu-

user315433

Turns out, Google Calendar interprets 4/3/24 as 4/3/2024.

user315433

So, today would be -6th birthday of Marlon Brando. The horror.... the horror...

Sonic Wizard

2 hours ago, by Sonic Wizard

delv-pls 20k+ https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/308712/vba-to-cut-non-adjacent-cells-an‌d-paste-in-the-row-below-in-a-specific-column

user315433

Their current cutoff is 1930. So, 12/31/29 is 2029 but 1/1/30 is 1930.

user315433

11:33

I'm sure no error and confusion will ever result from this.

user315433

Especially when the threshold is moved further into the future.

Magisch

@SFTP 6 years till the rebirth

@SFTP more arguments for using a long date format like 1/1/1990

user315433

11:50

I got 9 views and 1 vote in two days on my proposal Should this site get additional moderators appointed? A resounding success.

Magisch

@SFTP looks like the site is pretty low activity

HTTPS

@SFTP need moar 3d printer to print another mod

CalvT븃

811 days in beta, 1.5 questions per day...

Sonic Wizard

12:16

@SFTP Can a user with not much experience in the subject area, but well-versed in how the SE network works become a pro-tem mod?

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Magisch

@SonicWizard I don't think the CMs would allow that

Mods are supposed to be active community members

Sonic Wizard

Because I'd be happy to serve as a supplemental moderator, to help reduce workload on the "main" mods

Magisch

On a side note, one of the mods on that site hasn't been active in almost a month, and another hasn't been active since November last year

CalvT븃

@SonicWizard Henders became a mod without much experience on site, but I guess he did know about the subject area

Magisch

12:27

@CalvT븃 from that same post:

> We are looking for members who are deeply engaged in the community's development; members who:

Have been consistently active during the earliest weeks of this site's creation
Show an interest in their meta's community-building activities

Doesn't leave a lot of ambiguity for someone who hasn't participated at all

@SFTP metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com/post/85730 this blatant abuse stayed up for over 3 days too, my spam flag expired on it

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: Printing documents on HP printer very slow by Jenydanny on superuser.com

Magisch

Not really fair to bash on a specific mod like that

I probably shouldn't have brought that up

CalvT븃

True, I've removed it

Derpy

12:57

Apparmor is weird

nice idea. Strange implementation

user315433

oreo tag was created on SO. I don't think this is how Android versions should be tagged. What to do?

user315433

I expected [android-x.y-snack] format

HTTPS

@SFTP could you just eat it?

created by Community◆? anon edit?

CalvT븃

@SFTP Which do already exist for oreo

user315433

Ah, I missed that. Thanks.

user315433

13:03

I also could not figure out if it's about 8.0 or 8.1....

user315433

but @HTTPS edited, so it's cool now.

HTTPS

+4 score for 3-hour question, a bit surprising

user315433

13:17

Question title of the day: <asp:LinkButton ID="viewReport" runat="server" PostBackUrl="~/protected/reports/Default.aspx" ClientIDMode="Static">View Report</asp:LinkButton>

Unitato

Hi

I'm finding it excrutiatingly painful to learn how the StackExchange API works.

There is no example docs for me to learn :(

CalvT븃

@Unitato api.stackexchange.com/docs

Unitato

I read that

But it doesnt make much sense to me.

I mean, if it was explicitly written like "Use api.on('question', (question) => {console.log(question.author.username}); to get the username of the question"

But all I see is just text, and no code examples

user315433

13:32

The code would be yours. All you need for API use is a URL, and docs describe its structure

Unitato

Huh?

I define the variables, and the objects?

CalvT븃

@Unitato take a look here. That is what is returned, then you have to work with the data your end.

user315433

You send a GET request, get JSON back.

Unitato

oh okay

I am coding with node.js, does that still apply?

I am a very newbie coder tbh, just learnt javascript and coding in general about 5 months back

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Unitato

13:36

@SFTP @CalvT븃 For an example, I find the docs for discord.js (for making bots for the messaging app Discord) to be pretty neat: discord.js.org/#/docs/main/stable/class/Channel

All the objects and their parameters are so well defined

Without knowing what to type, I'm practically clueless with SE API

I really need help

CalvT븃

@Unitato but that's the difference. Discord.js is a library, SE API is an API

Discords API (if it has one, I have no idea), would have similar docs to SE's

HTTPS

or alternatively called, web service

CalvT븃

4 mins ago, by SFTP

You send a GET request, get JSON back.

Unitato

Oh okay.

CalvT븃

@Unitato look into what each of those are, and how to work with them, then try again

Unitato

13:39

Thanks!

Just one more question

HTTPS

library api.stackexchange.com/docs/js-lib

Unitato

Does SE have a library? I found this npm package: npmjs.com/package/stackexchange-node

@HTTPS Gosh, thanks!

Thats definitely something, that looks much easier to work with

HTTPS

I googled "javascript call stackexchange api":)

Unitato

@HTTPS Sorry to bother you, if I see a code that's written in browser javascript, how do I quickly convert it so that it can be used in node?

HTTPS

i can't javascript :(

Unitato

13:44

Like I know we must replace import "" from with require("")

aw damn, thanks tho

user315433

Are there any Glitch apps using SE API? That would be a good starting point

Unitato

Whoa wait

I remember

I know the Feeds Chatbot

Is it's source code viewable? If so, I could look at it and experiement

Tbh what I actually want to do, is to make a Discord feeds bot, that sends new question details to a channel in discord.

Journeyman Geek

feeds is kind of part of chat as a whole

Magisch

Feeds is not a bot

Unitato

Oh no :(

dreams shattered

If only I knew how to extract the question objects supplied by events whenever a question is posted...

That's all I need for what I have in mind tbh.

user315433

14:05

Easiest is probably polling API /questions at some intervals.

user315433

Use the interactive feature of docs page to see how the data is returned and how the filter works. This does not involve writing any code.

HTTPS

I think last time someone recommended RSS feed, dunno how often it's updated... and (ugh) XML...

user202362

are you trying to lure people into unintentionally launching DDoS attacks?

Unitato

Yeah I have been looking at RSS for quite a while since then

Although I was only able to get RSS updated once per 24 hours

Thats too slow for me

also +1 to "(ugh) XML", I had to use RSS to JSON converters for that purpose.

Magisch

@SFTP realtime tab

smokey uses it

Fair warning if you want all questions on the network you'll have to bundle to avoid exceeding your api quota

Unitato

14:16

Nope, I want only for Chemistry SE, where I lurk most

It doesnt get too much traffic, so I believe I can get live feed 24/7 without exceeding quota

SmokeDetector

14:33

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: How do I deal with people trying to convince me to wear makeup? by Suhail Khan on interpersonal.SE

user315433

14:58

> funny how time flies when you're launching a new product. it's my 2 year anniversary at @StackOverflow today and we're on the precipice of launching SO for Teams. Closed Beta starts tomorrow! -- Chance Heath at 7:54 AM - 3 Apr 2018

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Misleading link: Simple Data picker meta box by Darius Pum on wordpress.SE

HTTPS

private -> closed -> public -> sunset?

user315433

15:24

From sunrise to sunset.

user315433

Before Sunset

Before Sunset is a 2004 American romantic drama film, the sequel to Before Sunrise (1995). Like its predecessor, the film was directed by Richard Linklater. He shares screenplay credit with actors Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, and with Kim Krizan, the screenwriter for the first film featuring these two characters. The film picks up the story in Before Sunrise of the young American man (Hawke) and French woman (Delpy) who spent a passionate night together in Vienna. Their paths intersect nine years later in Paris, and the film appears to take place in real time as they spend an afternoon together...

user315433

My favorite part of the Before trilogy, being the closest to real-time.

HTTPS

Der... Derp... Delpy!

user315433

In a planned reboot, Hawke and Delpy play two Stack Overflow users who try to use a new feature before its sunset.

John Dvorak

The trick is to pick the right product. SO main hasn't had the most stellar performance in the past few 6-8, and yet it ain't going anywhere

Sterling Archer

15:36

Hi Jan!

John Dvorak

Hello

Sterling Archer

@JohnDvorak how long have you been 9 edits away from a gold badge? :P

John Dvorak

That's a good question. I guess I should change that now that I'm aware of it.

Sterling Archer

Go gettem tiger

user315433

17:09

Mods appointed at ConLang

user315433

18:47

Quantum Computing is in public beta

user315433

19:22

Someone took the trouble to collect statistics on what books were popular among developers a decade ago, and even made a website for them... dev-books.com

user315433

20:08

Fun fact: the median age of an SE site is 5.5 years.

user315433

Half of the sites launched before September 2012, and half after.

user315433

The one in the middle, the only site than launched in Sep 2012, is Ask Patents.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

20:46

@SFTP should patent that

The mansite in the middle

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

21:28

@Sha my hand is scratchy again

BTW, I only scratched near it last time

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

22:15

throwing fish sticks at @bjb

SmokeDetector

22:33

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Blacklisted website in answer: Windows 10 Start Menu Critical Error by Emma Nolan on superuser.com

Sonic Wizard

@SmokeDetector tpu-

Shadow Wizard

23:04

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ so scratch it! :D

user315433

Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones

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