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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

Anonymous 2220

HN is reserved for HackersNews

hacknorris

just say hn

Anonymous 2220

Hi HackNo

hacknorris

maybe yep. it was just a public thought

samcarter replying to hacknorris

Maybe you could write a "Community Proposal" (https://topanswers.xyz/meta?room=1&search=%21+%7Bcommunity+proposal%7D), so interested people can star your proposal?

hacknorris

oh i forgot - also objective c (for ios) and kotlin (android) communities would be good =]

hacknorris

small idea about not-existing communities - maybe make more artist-related section for asking questions about apps layout? or colors? y know...

Jack Douglas replying to Andriy M

yup!

Andriy M replying to samcarter

Seems like it. For instance, `https://topanswers.xyz/meta?q=5` says, "Invalid question", but `https://topanswers.xyz/meta?q=10` says, "Invalid community", and indeed `https://topanswers.xyz/databases?q=10` opens to a valid page.

samcarter replying to Monica

I think post numbers are platform-wide. At least at TeX we started with a number in the hundreds.