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Ocaasi

So as long as I let my cache and various parasitic temp files take over my harddrive I'm fine?

Marc Gravell

I guess we could do something a bit more clever. We do however, still want to notify for new chat users who happen to have high rep.

Ocaasi

That's a good point. it's not only about the 20 situation

Marc Gravell

10:07 AM

@balpha - would that fit into the preferences maybe?

balpha

maybe just say "don't display the welcome message if the user either has the dismissal cookie, or has posted at least n messages"

i.e. they have used the chat before and should know how it works

Marc Gravell

Makes we wish that number was denormalized ;p

Ocaasi

What's denormalized?

Marc Gravell

i.e. we could track the number of posts (or an estimate) against the user, so it is very cheap for the system to ask how many posts you have made. At the moment we do this per user per room.

Ocaasi

hmm... can't you just take those, add them up, get an average and viola?

or is that less elegant

Marc Gravell

10:15 AM

sure we can, but it is a question of performance (and no need to average); implementation details, mostly.

Ocaasi

gotcha.

pavanlimo

11:54 AM

PRIMA FACIE: This is nice! Guys, great job!

balexandre

12:18 PM

any SO dev's here?

@balpha around?

balpha

right here

balexandre

if we add a comment to an answer, saying Thank your for the great answer, like:

"Many thanks :)"

we still miss a char :-(

had to pass to "Many thanks :o)"

balpha

yeah, you shouldn't do that

that's just noise

balexandre

I shouldn't, so how can I tell the user my appreciation for such answer? instead only to vote for the right answer :)

balpha

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A: Can has exception to 15 character comment limit for "Thanks"?

Thanks is noise. But Thanks; that even improved performance by 25%. Awesome! or Thanks, I appreciate that you went through all those details. are 1. nice and 2. longer than 15 characters.

Benjol

12:21 PM

@balexandre, vote it up

balexandre

21

Q: Can we get rid of the threshold of 15 chars for comments?

I understand that there is an upper limit. But why do you have to type at least 15 characters to post a comment? It is easy to work around it anyway (like adding dots or other useless things).

status declined :(

votted up though

balpha

seriously, when someone posts an unqualified "thanks" on my answer, I always feel they just do that because they think they have to

Benjol

I think that not commenting with 'thanks' goes with not prefixing your questions with 'Hello everyone', and postfixing with 'Thanks in advance'

balpha

if they say "thanks, that's great because such and such", then it feels like a real "thank you"

and then, they also need more then 15 chars

balexandre

there will be always an argument balpha... I gave mine on your answer and downvotted your answer as well... I would always think that I'm right :)

I did my job :)

btw... why there are tags with icons? any sponsor for it? some look terrible :-(

balpha

12:27 PM

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Q: What do icons on the tags mean?

What does an icon on the tag mean, for example the "rg" before the sql-server tag as pictured below?

support faq tags advertising sponsored-tags

balexandre

thought it was sponsor stuff :)

thxs for the link I was searching for it :)

we should have a place to change badges

5 silver for 1 gold

15 bronze for one silver :)

I will never get a gold one :-(

radius

1:05 PM

@balpha I just got a "bug" on servefault room, see imgur.com/22WEG.jpg

Kyle Brandt

@balpha: An image did not load

radius

@KyleBrandt posted a link to an image and it did not appear, probably because of timeout while loading the url or something like this

balpha

i don't understand -- what's the bug?

Kyle Brandt

For him, not everyone else though

radius

I guess if the loading is not working, we should still see the link, instead of nothing

Kyle Brandt

1:07 PM

Oh wait ..

@Radius, adblock?

balpha

well, if @radius can't load certain images, that's hardly a chat bug

radius

hum, may be

let me see

Kyle Brandt

Ya, shut that off and reload ;-)

radius

yes it works

sorry !

I guess you can't do anything for that :/

But you'd better rename the DNS name ;)

Benjol

@balpha, howabout putting the url as alt/name?

balpha

1:11 PM

makes sense

although it wouldn't have helped in this case :)

Benjol

well if the browser can't get to the image it would show the url, wouldn't it?

balpha

not if it happens because of adblock

Benjol

Ah, ok, point taken. I quite often get stuff blocked by proxy, so that feature would still be useful to me anyway ;)

mbq

1:40 PM

I think there is another drawback -- there is no login link on the chat page (this). Now, when I give someone direct link to the chat room, she/he would probably resign from talking here having no login option in sight; what do you think?

Marc Gravell

3:07 PM

@MBA there is a login link if you aren't logged in.

@mbq that was to you. iPod autocomplete!

Chacha102

3:28 PM

@MarcGravell via @Shog9 YOUR REGEX SUCKS!!! See: "Well, *that*'ll never happen".

@MarcGravell More /me please...

@balpha I don't see the About Me section of my profile!!!

balpha

@Chacha102 go to the "general" tab

Chacha102

Ah... I see the little 'about' link now..

Chacha102

3:45 PM

test

Hello

Testing GOSH DANGIT

Dennis Williamson

4:31 PM

Is an image link supposed to work on a shift-enter line or just on a line completely by itself?

Wiktionary needs to be added to on-box support

balpha

@DennisWilliamson an image link is supposed to work in a message completely by itself.

re wiktionary:

0

A: What sites should have hyperlinking (onebox) support in chat?

Other mediawiki sites (though this may not be as easy as it sounds in my head)

Dennis Williamson

Thanks, applying votes now.

mbq

7:06 PM

@MarcGravell Now I can see it; still I think it might be a bit more visible.

Popular Demand

8:32 PM

Ooh, +1 for "the last message was posted [time period] ago."

Why can't you reply to your own messages? I posted a message more than two minutes ago with a quotation, but didn't find a link to the source until now. I want to reply to my first message with the link, but I can't.

Popular Demand

8:55 PM

Also, the formatting is kind of weird for a reply that consists solely of a oneboxed link. Not sure if this is by design, but it looks bad to me.

Also, interesting, two messages from one user aren't merged into one large gray box if they're separated by enough time (e.g. this very post). Again, I don't know whether this is by design, but this time I like it.

George Marian

@PopularDemand What seems off about the formatting?

Popular Demand

The "left turn arrow" overlaps with the border of the onebox. Example: chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/chats/message/110393?offset=-240

George Marian

9:35 PM

@PopularDemand It may also start out narrower, initially. In my haste to quiet the beeping, I clicked through my replies. That fixed the width issue when it was highlighted.

Popular Demand

10:15 PM

Another possibly-bug-but-also-possibly-by-design situation: question-based room names don't change if the question title is edited. See:

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Q: How do multiple editors collaborate when editing a single post?

I am confused by seeing my post edited by multiple users. Is it possible to enter into a discussion with all of the editors? If so, how? If my post is edited and I want to rollback the changes, what should I do? Can I lock the post until the end of discussion? Do I have any rights or abilitie...

support editing rollbacks

chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/61375/…

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