@PrincessLuna Pulling doesn't mean deleting the source, it means preventing exposure of new users to potential vulnerabilities and other issues while the app isn't being developed
@Mgetz maybe "dead" isn't accurate word. "Frozen" or "Stale" might be better words to use. They work, but they won't get any new features and bugs won't be fixed.
Tbh the apps look like cordova wrappers of the mobile website anyway, you could probably just update them to pin the website as an 'app' and then delete themselves
There would be many improvements to do about the technical UX. But the sentiments shouldn't change IMO. These SE sites are about collecting quality, not for piling up crap.
@Shog9 As a member of the Community Team, can you please tell us what the requirements are for an employee to get a moderator diamond on Meta? Anita Taylor says the Community Team has tightened these requirements.
At footer of emails that I receive from Stack Overflow, there is a "Edit email settings" link that suppose to take me to edit email settings page. But it results in a custom 404 page.
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For example, this is the "has full edit rights" check: Current.Site.IsChildMeta && IsEmployee
While this is the "can use moderator tags" check: currentUser.IsModerator || (Current.Site.IsMetaSite && currentUser.IsEmployee)
MSE fails the first one, but passes the second... So you get this weird situation where employees have to suggest edits, but can push mod-only tags through
@Magisch I've been attending a nice webinar last week about that topic, about what it means for the developers duties. As far as I can tell you, you're not in danger. Every developer has to take that burden in first place. Your job is simply to notice them appropriately. I've been missing our product managers attending that event tough :-P ...
@Shog9 So the circumstance I mentioned before many times, where an employee started moderating a site in their spare time purely through their staff rights (not by getting elected or appointed beforehand) is less likely to happen now?
I was curious about your message last night, @Shog9 ... The numbers were really surprising to me since I see so many users posting coding questions here that do have SO accounts with only one rep, so I've been assuming that a lot of them are q-banned on SO.
IIRC many people follow a link to MSE and not realize they're on a different site. I hope this doesn't start happening more often once certain design elements become universal under Joe Friend's plan.
Ah, that makes more sense. I have asked a couple of times and I thought that I'd been told that they were q-banned but I suppose I might have just caught a few random ones.
don't worry: the design team has a plan to make all key UI elements on MSE bright flaming red as a visceral "hot! don't touch!" reminder for new users.
So if an active moderator of a site who moderates purely through their staff rights later ends their employment with SE, they have to get elected or appointed again in order to keep serving as a moderator?
I suspect it's possible, if the appointed mod team and/or community said "dude, we really want that employee back because he's a great moderator". CM team would probably strongly consider that.
again, you're essentially trying to suss out a process from something that we've done so rarely as to have not decided on a process for beyond "if you're into it, you can do it, just read this guide first"
When I first started working at Facebook, I made this my profile picture. I had so many people trying to "debug" why my profile picture wasn't loading, I had to change it.
@Derpy Thanks for reminding me. I forgot it the last two years. Since I'm rereading the whole trilogy, I guess it would be appropriate to bring a towel now.
@SonictheInclusiveHedgehog Elected mods who leave on good terms are able to request their position back at any time. Appointed mods are not... that's just ... always been the rules as I've heard them.
FWIW, this was the comment Cat referred to a page or so back:
This is a common misconception, @Catija. Of the 13689 users to encounter a comprehensive ban on Stack Overflow over the past 90 days, only 3677 - about 27% - had even half of their questions deleted. And speaking of 27... That's the precise number of users to hit the q-ban with all of their questions deleted in the same time period. See the bullet above about really unlucky users... — Shog9 ♦17 hours ago
@Catija Try a "putine", they frequently say it's good. I am not convinced yet, but just shudder. Personally I love bread dumplings with gravy way more.
@πάνταῥεῖ Poutine? Alas, I am not going to Canada... I will be unlikely to travel anywhere for the next 2-3 years because we're spending all of our moneys on our house.
I've always found houses interesting, financially. Consider a house worth $100k, and a vacation worth $1k (scale numbers appropriately as desired). It seems perfectly normal that after closing on a $100k house, you're unable/unwilling to take a $1k vacation.
But scale the numbers down: After buying a $100 item, it'd be weird to be unable/unwilling to buy a $1 stick of gum
Well, when your loan adds a chunk to your monthly required expenses that is equivalent to the cost of the vacation... you sort of don't have any money to spare.
Austin is great... don't get me wrong... but I really love seeing the people in other places... things I take for granted here as "normal" are... not a thing elsewhere.
For example, I'm fascinated by the fact that in London (maybe all of the UK), the stop lights turn amber in both directions... when going to red (as they do in the US) and when going to green... so running a yellow light is much less likely because everyone's ready to shoot right out into the intersection the second it turns green.
Once we had a 3 hour layover in Denver or wherever. On the tarmac, I managed to figure out that our airline had a flight boarding in literally ten minutes to our destination... We had no layover in Denver; they happily moved us to this earlier flight because the later one was overbooked. It was on a nicer, faster plane and got us there three hours early.
@Catija In many Indian cities (e.g. Nagpur), the lights run just like they do here in the U.S., but there's also a clock indicating how many seconds are remaining before the light changes. People always run the light when there are 5 seconds remaining...
@Magisch I used to have that. Totally understand - you can pump your brain full of all the statistics you want on how airliners never ever crash, it doesn't matter when you look out the window and the wing is flapping around like it's held on with a rubber band
I had one flight where there was a loose screw on the engine I was sitting right next to. I determined that the tiny screw was probably not holding anything terribly important on, but didn't keep me from staring at it all flight
The worst trip I had was when I was working on Scotland. We travelled up to Edinburgh from Manchester every Monday, usually on a BAC 1-11. Anyway, one Monday the 1-11 was bust, so they shovelled us all into an ancient Viscount turboprop. When the thing eventually reached Edinburgh, a powerful sidewind gust hit us just as the main gear hit the concrete.
I was looking out and saw the wingtip brushing though the grass beside the runway...
@πάνταῥεῖ Aviation is more of a threat to mental health rather than physical injury/death in crashes. Every time I walk into an airport I shudder - what check-in/security screwup is going to make me miss my flight this time:(
I mean, is there anything more depressing than security rope-lines that are so full of manic, depressed pax that you cannot even see the scanners/X-ray bays in the far distance?
@MartinJames Ever think about the irony of collecting defenseless people in giant groups outside the secured area? Seems to defeat the purpose to me...
I love driving. It gets you companioned with the country and landscape.
One of my best trips was just straight through the RSA and their "Karoo" desert. A flight from East London to Kapstadt would have left "Tomato Juice Taste", but not any of these great experiences.
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