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@Catija do you still agree with what you said in that comment earlier, or do you now disagree with that comment? (specifically the part of the comment that said “do you think the existence of user solutions is part of why SE doesn't implement some of the requests internally?”)
@EkadhSingh-ReinstateMonica It's not really possible to agree or disagree with that statement. I asked a question, I didn't indicate my feelings on the subject.
@Catija your comment implies you oppose userscripts because they cause SE to not implement such requests, since there is already a "solution". But of course, I might be wrong. :)
Not to toss shade your way by any means, what you've done is great... but do you think the existence of user solutions is part of why SE doesn't implement some of the requests internally? The user scripts can be troublesome for the segments of user base who aren't familiar with utilizing scripts, which means they're unlikely to use them. — Catija ♦May 23 '15 at 20:11
It was an honest question. I'd only been using the platform for a few months at that point. I had little understanding of Userscripts or anything else. I had less of a concept of the company. There was no intention behind it - it was me asking a question to better understand what people thought about things.
if people want something so bad that they'd create/install a userscript for it, maybe it's something worth considering exploring. Their solution may not be the best, but it shows potential problem areas that might need some polishing
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Porkchat is a Chrome extension that bundles together a lot of scripts I have written for Stack Exchange chat over the years. It is fully configurable - each individual script can be enabled/disabled from the options page.
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I had to stop using Porkchat because for some reason it did something odd... Oh, when I'd open really long messages to "see more", it'd open them in a new tab in a transcript view, for some reason.
Fundamentally though - userscripts are a sign that some feature needs work at least for some people not that the company can totally ignore a feature request because there's a userscript :D
(Personally - while I have no direct/personal use for it, I'd love to see a formal chat API first, so folks can fix the underlying tools before stuff starts changing)
which also reminds me of twitch chat... which allows users to choose a color for their name (not that that specific feature should be a thing here). What it does is it attaches something other than a word to the user that makes it easier to immediately identify who is talking. Here, avatars accomplishes that goal
@KevinB What is the benefit in "emoji conversion" if you're the only one who sees the result? Doesn't that mean you'll be using emojis but nobody will understand you?
Of course, that is the standard operating procedure when using the awful scourge of our world that are "emojis", but they seem even more annoying and pointless if you have a script that means you see something other than whoever you are talking with.
It's the aesthetics for me. I find :) far less distracting and more pleasing to the eye then a giant, Simmpsons-esque yellow face with an exaggerated facial expression.
... I'm not sure what does it but something already does that conversion for me... but it doesn't add the extra backslash, so it's missing an arm. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
It's becoming increasingly hard to query SO via SEDE thanks to the execution timeout... this post by @rene seems relevant. The query I'm trying to run is this, but it happens with seemingly every query I run on SO.
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Problem #1: Outdated answers Problem #2: SEDE times out Solution to both: truncate table posts
A bug just popped up for me where when I click on a review item that says it has items to review, the review page is empty. Can anybody else reproduce? (FYI I found this bug here it currently has 1 item to review.)
@EkadhSingh-ReinstateMonica it's (most likely) not, and for the record, I vehemently dislike that tag. Up to the point that I'm considering to synonymize it into bug.
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog how's it not a meta tag? "Alternatively, they may be ill-defined concepts which make consistent application of the tag difficult or impossible."
@bobble The tag is specifically defined in its wiki as being about the Improve [Edit] button. That it's being used elsewhere doesn't change the fact that its use is well-defined.