5 years ago James Douglas
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2020-12-06 email notifications How to activate email notification?, Without an e-mail addr, how do you send notifications that someone has responded to a question or comment?
2020-10-04 draft posts with full version history Drafts functionality
2020-07-05 rudimentary tag list page Is there a way to browse a list of tags?, Better support for tags, Four suggestions for the site, View/filter questions by tag
2020-06-28 chat minimaps
2020-05-30 tag adding/editing on post page Posting a question should ask for tags up front
2020-05-28 line numbering in code blocks Is code review on topic?, “the syntax is…
2020-05-28 switch all markdown code blocks to use a readonly CodeMirror instance (experimental)
2020-05-26 revamp of post history pages Changes to tags should show up in post edit history, “Post history seems a better place than chat for flag events, too…
2020-05-20 ‘infinite’ chat scrolling I will say it would be nice to “load older messages” at the top of the chat pane…
2020-05-16 answer ‘labels’ (sort/search to follow) Answer language labels, “…For me, being able to tag, sort, and search answers by language would be the highest-leverage feature that doesn’t require implementing something really major like an on-page code interpreter.
2020-05-14 new home page design Home Page Design Proposal
2020-05-09 live code editing Try It Online integration is (nearly) complete
2020-05-08 show/hide comment preview Add a way to hide or disable chat markdown previews
2020-05-07 use codemirror for all syntax highlighting Can we highlight just one thing?
2020-04-24 cross-community feeds Hybrid community feed
2020-04-23 moved chat footer to header Design proposal
2020-04-23 updated home page with recent posts feed
2020-04-21 persistent pagination and search Browsing questions + using browser “back” button is suboptimal, “Is it possible to return from a question on page 25 without losing the “page” focus on backspace?
2020-04-19 Wikipedia oneboxing
2020-04-18 xkcd oneboxing We’ll know TA is out of beta when xkcd one-boxes
2020-04-17 pinned rooms Pin a chatroom permanently to list of rooms
2020-04-16 room list moved to footer
2020-04-13 notification history …Would it be possible to dismiss the notification but still keep them in the pane?…
2020-04-12 amalgamated certain repeated notifications multiple edits to the same post now show as a single notification…
2020-04-06 cosmetic changes to question display Design proposal
2020-04-03 profiles for other users can now be viewed
2020-03-19 merged notifications panel with chat/starboard area
2020-03-18 removed margin around chat area and increased resizer width Design proposal
2020-03-09 fix starring from starboard
2020-03-04 new markdown shortcut buttons
2020-03-03 shrink licence links UI suggestions, “…The license link sounds sensible, but I’d further suggest moving it to the bottom of the post in the row where “edit” and stuff is.
2020-03-02 youtube oneboxing Thanks @Pax you are right, it’s quite simple…”, The (not very) Many Memes of Meta
2020-02-29 responsive question page Please do not assume wide screens
2020-02-28 responsive answer page Please do not assume wide screens
2020-02-19 adjust header navigation and rollout to all pages Make the site selector universally available, Browsing questions + using browser “back” button is suboptimal
2020-02-17 new search features Is there a way to browse a list of tags?, View/filter questions by tag, Better support for tags
2020-02-16 new header navigation control Special “About” post
2020-02-12 make long code blocks expandable A proposal for less crowding in chat pane (particularly on long comments)
2020-02-10 tweak voting thresholds to be exact powers of 10 How is reputation earned?
2020-02-09 system notifications New system notifications
2020-02-09 limit the number of answer summaries visible
2020-02-04 switch notification order Notifications in ‘newest first’ order.
2020-01-31 ‘or later’ license selection To-do list before going public, …I always specify the version as an inequality (e.g., GPL ≥3.0)…
2020-01-22 SE account linking Link SE identity without manual admin intervention
2020-01-18 improve look of quoted comments
2020-01-16 stable sort order for room icons Pin a chatroom permanently to list of rooms
2020-01-15 room icons now use community colour only Custom question room avatars
2020-01-12 room icon ‘unread’ counter revamp …the new message counts on chat room icons have stopped appearing…”, Allow opening chat rooms in new tabs
2020-01-11 star board (take 2)
2020-01-06 show extra hover info on question list …I can’t tell which answer was edited…
2020-01-05 add landing page Feature Request: Landing Page, Please add an “about” or “imprint” page
2020-01-04 improve metadata for imported posts Keep original date of imported posts, Show who imported a post from SE
2020-01-03 fail2ban with some default apache filters
2020-01-01 star board
2019-12-30 rounded corners on user identicons
5 years
PeterVandivier replying to Jack Douglas — Sunday, 31st May 2020 12:14

ty

3 hours
Jack Douglas — Sunday, 31st May 2020 09:43

I re-added the tags, but we’ll need some protection there or they will all disappear

Jack Douglas replying to PeterVandivier — Sunday, 31st May 2020 09:42

forgot to test on mobile!

Jack Douglas replying to FoggyFinder — Sunday, 31st May 2020 09:42

that isn’t actually new — anyone could change tags before

9 hours
PeterVandivier — Sunday, 31st May 2020 00:56

Not gonna try and fix it atm cause still on mobile but will try to remember to check in the morning

PeterVandivier — Sunday, 31st May 2020 00:55

Probably more dangerous is the fact that one-tapping tags on mobile removes them, sorry about that @Jack 😰

2 hours
FoggyFinder — Saturday, 30th May 2020 23:16

Now anyone can change tags - that’s dangerous

4 days
Jack Douglas — Tuesday, 26th May 2020 13:47

which is why we aren’t rushing into it!

Jack Douglas — Tuesday, 26th May 2020 13:47

off course that is a bit messy

Jack Douglas replying to PeterVandivier — Tuesday, 26th May 2020 13:46

that is basically what we are planning to do — and add the original url as a title attribute so it isn’t lost

2 hours
PeterVandivier — Tuesday, 26th May 2020 12:10

is there any productive discussion around the idea of hijacking external links in the markdown editor for certain external content to import-once-and-self-host (kind of like how SE will sometimes re-write your markdown links silently in the background)? just wondering if there’s a way to blacklist bad hosting providers that doesn’t feel to scummy as a “hidden” thing from users

PeterVandivier — Tuesday, 26th May 2020 12:06

but most video content i can think of off hand that’s appropriate to embed in a TA post won’t be longer than standard gif length anyway

PeterVandivier — Tuesday, 26th May 2020 12:05

TA self-hosting already supports gifs so it’s just a matter of remembering to do it. i think this weekend it was a combination of being a bit brain-fried and also pleased with having figured out/wanting to play with screen video recording on my mac

PeterVandivier — Tuesday, 26th May 2020 12:04

(just updated q 1057)

PeterVandivier replying to Jack Douglas — Tuesday, 26th May 2020 12:04

i’m happy to make it a personal policy to only embed (whenever possible) content that’s hosted on TA/TA-affiliates.

5 days
Jack Douglas — Thursday, 21st May 2020 12:22

they are kind of a gaping hole in the whole privacy package

Jack Douglas — Thursday, 21st May 2020 12:22

eventually we probably need to do the same for all images

Jack Douglas — Thursday, 21st May 2020 12:21

so there is no contact with youtube at all by the clients until that play button is pressed

Jack Douglas — Thursday, 21st May 2020 12:21

we import the thumbnails on the server at time of posting

Jack Douglas replying to PeterVandivier — Thursday, 21st May 2020 12:20

as long as we can import thumbnails I think it would be ok — as soon as you click on the ‘play’ button you are saying “I’m heading off into the wild”

PeterVandivier — Thursday, 21st May 2020 12:13

i may be thinking of something else though

PeterVandivier replying to Jack Douglas — Thursday, 21st May 2020 12:13

i was thinking about imgur tbh - i’m pretty sure they’re worse than YT for invasive tracking iirc, so it may not be a service you want to build out support for - but please do let me know if there’s preferred / un-preferred vendors for that sort of thing

2 hours
PeterVandivier — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:20

just updated it

PeterVandivier — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:20

initially

PeterVandivier — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:20

yea, i posted it to imgur as an mp4

Jack Douglas — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:17

it mostly just works (conveniently) in chat right now as you probably know

Jack Douglas — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:17

we are planning to add all one-boxing to posts fairly soon

Jack Douglas — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:16

I thought you were talking about gifs?

Jack Douglas — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:16

now that i’m in a fit of gif-making, i wanted to add an animation for https://topanswers.xyz/meta?q=1057 but i’ve hosted it on imgur

PeterVandivier — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:12

prob gonna do that now while i’m on a meeting 😛

PeterVandivier — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:11

a bit scattered this morning, clearly

PeterVandivier replying to Jack Douglas — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:11

i hadn’t even considered just converting it to a gif

Jack Douglas — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:10

browsers should do that automatically imo

Jack Douglas — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:10

tbh I’d rather we could box them up into a ‘click to play’ like youtube

Jack Douglas — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:10

they are ‘just another image type’

Jack Douglas replying to PeterVandivier — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:09

what I mean is: you already post gifs

PeterVandivier — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:08

“moving pictures”

PeterVandivier replying to Jack Douglas — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:06

imprecise wording, sry

Jack Douglas — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:04

as for one-boxing, it depends on the service — Youtube was relatively easy because they provide a thumbnail api

Jack Douglas — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:04

there is a size limit for images on TA

Jack Douglas replying to PeterVandivier — Thursday, 21st May 2020 10:04

is a gif ‘video content’?

10 minutes
PeterVandivier — Thursday, 21st May 2020 09:53

i feel like hosting video content like that locally to TA might be a dangerous choice in the long term

PeterVandivier replying to Jack Douglas — Thursday, 21st May 2020 09:52

would adding one-boxing for other video hosting be reasonably trivial? now that i’m in a fit of gif-making, i wanted to add an animation for https://topanswers.xyz/meta?q=1057 but i’ve hosted it on imgur

8 days
Jack Douglas — Wednesday, 13th May 2020 10:46

we’ll look into that!

Jack Douglas — Wednesday, 13th May 2020 10:46

and by that logic it should appear for you too on your Meta page

Jack Douglas — Wednesday, 13th May 2020 10:45

mind you the same is true for the ‘stars’ filter

Jack Douglas — Wednesday, 13th May 2020 10:44

if you have asked different ‘question types’ for example

Jack Douglas replying to David — Wednesday, 13th May 2020 10:43

it isn’t a different setup for CG, but it’s triggered by whether the filter would be useful

2 hours
David replying to James Douglas — Wednesday, 13th May 2020 08:59

This is cool. :) Would I be right in thinking that Code Golfers get a different display from non-Golfers? At least, I get a set of meta-filters with Golfers that I don’t get with anyone not in CG. Is that right?

a month
Jack Douglas — Sunday, 12th Apr 2020 23:44

multiple edits to the same post now show as a single notification; new posts followed by one or more edits now just show as a new post notification

6 days

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