stet/keith question or whoever is in charge of code these days

getting poxy fuled trying to post some extremely urgent lols to the Elon Musk thread

Hi all - post to thread and bookmark thread buttons not working for me when using Safari on iPhone 5s. Could anyone please fix?

Working for me - are you using a content blocker of any type?

Works now, thanks!

yo, why do posts at top of long threads not load anymore? is this an intentional design decision or a bug? because it's very bad (imho)

if it's intentional can we at least get an option to toggle off?

thx,
-flopson

Definitely not intentional. Got a link to an example thread please?

What's changed with the signoff lines? There's no space after the comma any more. Ie

― stet,Friday, 8 November 2019 22:41 (five months ago)

(Firefox, android)

Oops, my bad

I just tried to flag a really old post (mostly for comedy purposes; in what universe Seal indefensible? c'mon man) and got a stack trace:

java.lang.NullPointerException at com.conversationboard.controller.VoteForBanControllerServlet.doPost(Unknown Source) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:660) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:741) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:231) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166) at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166) at com.conversationboard.filter.GatewayFilter.doFilter(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:200) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:96) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:543) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:139) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:81) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:690) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:87) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:343) at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.service(AjpProcessor.java:525) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:65) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:818) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1627) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

Feel free to delete if you don't want stack traces publicly posted on the site; was mostly wondering if this is a known issue tied to old data, indication that something is screwy with my authentication, or an actual problem.

.... and I should have quoted instead of using code

oops

I'll take a look, the age of the post shouldn't count I don't think

ok,

love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

that image shows as a broken link to me. it's a convoluted fbcdn url, but i've seen the same thing with twitter images. the broken link isn't the problem though. when i right click and view image i can see the image fine, but then i can't get back to the original page - the back button is greyed out, the back on the context menu is greyed out. why would that be?

(firefox, mac)

(ah, ok, right click, then middle click on 'view image' opens it in a new tab, which is missing as an option in the menu in firefox)

thread of tim rogers content (do not read if you hate tim rogers)
is coming up broken on zing as "There are some old or corrupted messages in this thread which Zing can't read"

^ yeah i'm getting that too

should be fixed now, ta

gracias

neither of these are big deals but just since they crossed me mind:

can we embed youtube links that look like the urls you get when you click share, i.e. https://youtu.be/TuP86rfnR3A ?

and can we rewrite youtube embed urls to youtube-nocookie.com per https://dri.es/how-to-remove-youtube-tracking?

vote against the first - it's very handy to be able to select and post Belgium links when you don't want to embed, rather than have to type open square bracket you are ell equals paste url close square bracket paste url again open square bracket backslash you are ell close square bracket

you could leave out the https://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

not as useful imo

what are Belgium links?

Think it's just because YouTube puts .be in the shortened url

oh ofc thanks

the men were here to get your Belgian links

Only Built 4 Belgian Linx

there it is

Something odd might be happening - at the moment, the 'second thoughts' thread has an answer from 37 minutes ago - but it doesn't show up on ILE's New Answer page at all, the most recent thread there is from 59 minutes ago. Is it cutting off the very top entry?

The post at the top of the most recent thread is by stet, but clearly it is too early to demand the democratisation of the 'pause' button that he has clearly developed.

It’s possible someone dropped it from SNA, will investigate later.

I had this happen sometime in the last week or two (I revived the 'beef beyond belief this week' thread). I assumed it was a mod decision and let it go.

Yeah, I'm not asserting my right to see that thread, I just wondered if it was intentional.

Just stepped away for lunch, came back and...are my eyes deceiving me, or has the typeface on the borad just been changed? The typeface on the info under the posts remains unchanged, so I'm inclined to think I'm not just suffering a postprandial aneurysm here.

i just did a server restart, it's possible it lost your preference setting somehow — try resetting in preferences.

Yes, looks like that was it. Haven't paid enough attention to the style settings to realize I could change the typeface! Thanks.

There's a thing I've noticed in Zing the last couple of days where if a post ends with quote tags, the date/timestamp gets cut off. I think quoted text is the common factor, but I can't swear to it. Here's the most recent post where I noticed it: Joe Biden, Senator from Citibank (oops, DELAWARE), to Run for President

(referral tag redacted)

absolutely love to, several times a day, convert ILX into a monetizing clickfarm for a company actively tearing down democracy internationally and that materially contributed to organising an attempted armed coup against the United States six days ago

― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, January 13, 2021 7:13 PM (forty-nine minutes ago)

in all seriousness, can we do something to strip referral tags, or would that break other stuff?

My understanding is that removing utm tags etc (which I'm not against attempting to do) only "hurts" the people who are buying the campaigns/using the analytics service. It doesn't really affect Facebook or Google, except by diminshing the value of their analytics tools by a micro-fraction. No?

Possible to prevent sic from quoting a referral tag ?

sic could also, like, chill out

Lol sic knows its all love

But i was very pleased with 'kitpicking'

We're always much happier when our "Direct" pageviews are higher and our Facebook numbers are lower. Means we feel we don't have to depend on FB so much.

I should start adding a ?utm=ilxor to any URLs I post.

sic could also, like, chill out

lol come on, that is one thing we know will not happen

If the goal is to avoid driving traffic or the appearance of traffic to social networks that are responsible for bad things, I have no idea why he’s obsessed with utm links rather than the thousands of tweets we all post every day.

I must say, Ive always wondered why so many ppl here are so reliant on tweets. A good half the time or more, the tweets are merely someone linkkng to an article on WashPo or NYT or whatever. Why not just post the damn article?

Because you don't need tags for tweets

often the tweet summarizes the article better than i can be bothered to