@Sonic, but you voted "Leave Open". Use the contact link, let them know your thoughts on the matter; if you're not going to write a meta question. — Rob26 secs ago
@Rob The best I can do is cast a reopen vote. Except in exceptional cases, most mods and employees don't really like contacting them over one of these things.
@ShadowTheBurningWizard I try to respect consensus when there appears to be one, even if it's against what I prefer; I saw the unanimous "Leave Closed" review and thought of upholding that.
In this case, the author self-closed their own question.
On Music, I saw this little bar on the right:
This is weird. I don't read things closely and thus didn't see "Blog", so I clicked on it thinking "hmm, is this some very unusual announcement?" based on it having the blue-and-white Meta logo.
I found this:
That's no Meta!! This is a leftover...
@ShadowTheBurningWizard Thx; and yes, I'm always trepidacious when I post on SO. However much I know, and however much I'm willing to expose what I don't know.... I still expect to get stamped on.
@πάνταῥεῖ Yeah. Lua isn't as popular as some, but I'm not expecting miracles. I have a bad solution I can implement but it offends my programming heart.
Context: I started programming in 1977 when memory cost three arms and two legs and you had to overwrite old code that had already been executed to advance towards the goal. I continued my career in real-time programming (Coral) and 8086 assembler.
@ColeValleyGirl Well, yes. Lua is a niche. Though for popular programing languages like java, c++, javascript, etc. the repository is quite saturated as mentioned.
@ColeValleyGirl Wow, you're an 'ole chum. I started in the early 80ies IIRC.
@ShadowTheBurningWizard Yes, or I wouldn't keep trying. I did have one epic answer fail which amuses me to this day: apparently I was an idiot even though I solved my own problem -- which has 8 votes and still climbs slowly; the comments are a classic of I'm an expert man so trust me.
@πάνταῥεῖ Some of my real-time code was only retired in the last 5 years (I worked on some ground-breaking stuff in the electricity industry in the UK). I even got a ropyal award for it.
@πάνταῥεῖ 1958 -- no secret. Not sure how long I'll keep going, as I have heart failure, but I refuse to give in and lie on the sofa all day -- I like it here (even when it's frankly rubbish).
@ShadowTheBurningWizard My dad died at 41 and my mother and sister at 61/62... I'm pretty fatalistic -- will do my best to stay alive as long as I can -- and enjoy it.
@ShadowTheBurningWizard No. I have 4 siblings who have 7 children between them (and 9 grandchildren) -- I think that' enough!
Is there a limit on the number of numbered markdown links? I'm working on a long post and things just don't link anymore starting at [blah][30]. I couldn't quickly find something about this when I searched.
The maximum length of a post, question or answer, on Stack Overflow is 30,000 characters. This includes markdown and any other formatting. The limit on the question title is 150 characters.
I don't believe there are any upper limits on the number of links and images. I challenge you to make a po...
@Tinkeringbell unfortunately, while reloading the page seemed to do a bit better (from an older draft?), posting didn't fix the issue. I wonder if there is something in my proposed post that breaks the links. I'll probably try inline links to see if that solves it.
@Tinkeringbell I figured it out! I was on math.SE which uses dollar signs for equations. All URLs worked until the first URL that contained a dollar sign (which didn't link properly) and all later URLs didn't link at all. Changing the dollar signs to %24 fixed my issue.
You like bad puns on twitter? Guess you will love the endless possibilities here: https://twitter.com/rfreebern/status/1214560971185778693 Good night everybody
To be honest these squares are driving me crazy... Each tiny ball should be enough for 1 square... but I regularly have to redo stuff just because given the same tension, some balls leave me with meters to spare while others run out halfway through the last round :/
@Tinkeringbell You could destroy it with one of the reasons that levies a 14-day suspension
That said, since the trolling occurs time after time apart, and the user has themselves claimed that they use different email addresses and hop IP addresses and computers, perhaps it's worth blacklisting that email domain (a non-unprecedented action).
@Rob I didn't even know there was a link conversion limit. Is there a reason for that one? (The link limit for low-rep users makes sense as an anti-spam/abuse measure of sorts.)
@Tinkeringbell Seems mostly normal to me? It just strips out the included user ID from the end of each URL that would be included if you clicked the "share" link on the linked post. (I've actually seen a few users do this manually when including links to other posts on RPG.SE in their comments or posts...)
@V2Blast Probably prevents huge copy/pastes from pinging the server to make a huge number of conversions simultaneously; I guess they thought 5 is enough, but it's not, I'd rather have them slower than not at all.
@Rob Ah, interesting. And yeah, I'd also prefer it just take time to process/post rather than preventing subsequent links from converting at all. ...That said, I read from one of the Q&As linked from the earlier post you linked that the preview still shows all the URLs as converted to question titles, even if there are more than 5 - it just doesn't convert them in the final post.
This is probably easier to show than tell...
On the recent question Is asking for user stories off-topic on meta sites?, I see the following:
As you can see, the first five links render properly, but after that, they stop converting.
Unfortunately, this isn't obvious to the person writing t...
@V2Blast Sometimes it doesn't. I use the preview conversion to copy/hard-paste the text in, and copy/cut / select/link to fixup; and when the conversion stalls it's annoying (I resort to the muggery because I'm on mobile - and tricks to reduce keystrokes or tab swaps are handy).
@ThiefMaster After we (at the office) gifted the owner a Moonieeverything was SFW - or at least the secretary and salesperson thought so, until the boss walked in on them - that left me (the manager) to explain this. Geez!
On Music, I saw this little bar on the right:
This is weird. I don't read things closely and thus didn't see "Blog", so I clicked on it thinking "hmm, is this some very unusual announcement?" based on it having the blue-and-white Meta logo.
I found this:
That's no Meta!! This is a leftover...
This is probably easier to show than tell...
On the recent question Is asking for user stories off-topic on meta sites?, I see the following:
As you can see, the first five links render properly, but after that, they stop converting.
Unfortunately, this isn't obvious to the person writing t...