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Pax replying to hacknorris

I'm still subscribed to python TA in case there are questions I can answer in a reasonable amount of time. :)

AnonymousRabbit

Over at the TeX subsite we have a spambot it seems: https://topanswers.xyz/user?id=2893&community=tex

John K N

Happy New Year everybody. :-)

Jack Douglas

maybe it will again at some point

Jack Douglas replying to hacknorris

tex.ta is a lovely little community. The rest of TA is quiet, but SO isn't trying to destroy itself in new ways every day at the moment.

hacknorris

ok but service starts to be dead lol

Jack Douglas replying to samcarter

You are very welcome as always :) I hope the changes we are making don't cause you any disruption.

samcarter

Merry Christmas to everybody!  And a big thank you to the maintainers for keeping things running and giving us this wonderful platform!
  
![document.png](/image?hash=18da39516eac0149b8800e9c99bf0afd714b6ac63ebc88c842d25c593f02a301)

hacknorris

2 month old messages? wow, i left it in better state even than now XD

samcarter

Gitkon had a talk about community building and growing: https://youtu.be/rGxTFQ6NuoU?t=6296

Pax

Thanks, Monica for the feedback! I appreciate it.

Monica replying to Pax

I'm not good enough at SQL to answer it, but that looks like a solid question to me.  And since you're not trying to interpolate values or anything fancy like that, it *seems* like something that someone could answer.

Pax

Ugh. Sorry for the duplicated messages. 🙇🏻‍♀️ I can't seem to remove/edit one of the duplicated messages. Although it might just be on my screen, too.   
  
![blob](/image?hash=fe8a3e81916d40531883bbb03463861557cab5df8b4a68d193b96ccd3d02bb4c)

Pax

Any suggestions on how to improve this question so I can receive any response? 🙈   
  
https://topanswers.xyz/databases?q=2094

Jack Douglas

we just need to make sure that users are encouraged to save their auth key somewhere before logging out

Jack Douglas replying to L.J.R.

Currently, yes — but we will be adding a logout button (https://topanswers.xyz/meta?q=641)

L.J.R. replying to Jack Douglas

May I also ask why there is no "Log out" button? Do I have to clear browser cookies in order to log out?

L.J.R. replying to Jack Douglas

Thank you!

Jack Douglas replying to L.J.R.

I've tweaked the validation to allow a dot at the end

Jack Douglas

I think the idea was mainly to prevent usernames with spaces at the end - it doesn't seem necessary to prevent a dot there

Jack Douglas replying to L.J.R.

The current validation is `nname~'^[0-9[:alpha:]][-'' .0-9[:alpha:]]{1,25}[0-9[:alpha:]]$'`

L.J.R.

`ERROR: invalid username CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function raise_error(integer,text) line 1 at RAISE SQL function "change_name" statement 2`

L.J.R.

![name1.png](/image?hash=435c30116b1b6f313167db3e85ff8bfd73283fec07d05158a49dd760f695a087)

L.J.R.

Why can't I set my user name with a dot at the end?

Monica

Can't imagine. :-)

samcarter

Threaded comments on SO, I wonder where they got the idea from :) https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/416851/staging-ground-workflow-question-details-actions (scroll down until the "Commenting" section)

Pax

Anyone here uses Grammarly? It doesn't seem to be working on text fields in the "Edit question" form.

Jack Douglas replying to Monica

Thanks for linking that @Monica

Monica

TA got a shout-out on Twitter from Shog: https://twitter.com/shog9/status/1481013586239447040

Skillmon replying to samcarter

(my compilation time would've been above one minute, probably by a huge margin)

samcarter replying to Skillmon

(I wonder what would have happened if I posted the complete image instead of just a smaller part as example :) )

Skillmon

Today I posted a (very) big answer and got the following error:  
  
```  
23514: ERROR: new row for relation "answer" violates check constraint "answer_answer_markdown_check" DETAIL: Failing row contains (2183, 1959, 168, 2021-12-22 19:14:55.894995+00, # This answer is not meant seriously First I translated the p..., 2021-12-22 19:14:55.894995+00, 0, 6, 3, null, 0, 0, 0, null, null, This answer is not meant seriously, f, t, 4, 1, 3, null). CONTEXT: SQL function "new" statement 10   
```

hacknorris

means - there are channels for web backend and frontend where you can share things like these =]

Pax

If we had a JS community, I'd share this in the chat! But since we don't, here it is for anyone interested in learning more about JS' event loop! :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOL7MC4Pl0&t=1544s

samcarter replying to hacknorris

gtk does not yet seem to be in the list of existing questions, you would need to ping one of the devs to add it

hacknorris

gtk

samcarter replying to hacknorris

Which tag do you want your question to have?

hacknorris

edit - now isnt a draft but i cant yet setup a tag (and it is selectable...)

hacknorris

asap question - im asking on python part of this site but editor refuses adding tags, so question is a draft. is it possible to do anthing?

hacknorris

well, ok, next time will be yw ! :'D

FoggyFinder

`yw` is more common

FoggyFinder

I've never saw usage of `uw` before

samcarter replying to Andriy M

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=uw

Andriy M

You double you? Is that a thing?

hacknorris

uw!

Anonymous 2220

ok thanks

hacknorris

what? well... clear browser cache and reopen page. might help

hacknorris

ah, ok. im just shorting ot this :'D

Anonymous 2220

I am trying to post a question but I lost where it went