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Dennis Hackethal

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  Dennis Hackethal commented on idea #1764.

The way IG solves this is by rendering the form in a fixed position. It’s still on the bottom but always remains visible.

#1764·Dennis HackethalOP, 10 days ago

Facebook does it this way, too.

  Dennis Hackethal commented on criticism #453.

The more ideas there are in a discussion, the further the form for top-level ideas is pushed down. Then people don’t know how to submit a new idea and comment on an existing one instead, even if it’s unrelated, as happened with #448. So I need to make this clearer.

#453·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago

Reddit is a bit different because they have multiple subreddits/communities, but each community has top-level posts which people can then comment on. They have a completely separate page/UI for top-level posts. And then directly underneath a top-level post, there’s a textarea saying “Join the conversation”.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #1765.

That would make idea URLs more meaningful, but there’s something simple and beautiful about the shorter URLs that only have the numeric ID.

#1765·Dennis HackethalOP, 10 days ago

Could have backwards compatibility for the short version and continue using the hashtag in the UI. Best of both worlds?

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #1763.

Use friendly IDs for ideas? A ‘mixture’ where URLs say '/ideas/123-first-30-or-so-chars-of-idea-here'.

#1763·Dennis HackethalOP, 10 days ago

That would make idea URLs more meaningful, but there’s something simple and beautiful about the shorter URLs that only have the numeric ID.

  Dennis Hackethal commented on criticism #453.

The more ideas there are in a discussion, the further the form for top-level ideas is pushed down. Then people don’t know how to submit a new idea and comment on an existing one instead, even if it’s unrelated, as happened with #448. So I need to make this clearer.

#453·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago

The way IG solves this is by rendering the form in a fixed position. It’s still on the bottom but always remains visible.

  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #1763.

Use friendly IDs for ideas? A ‘mixture’ where URLs say '/ideas/123-first-30-or-so-chars-of-idea-here'.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #1761.

Friendly IDs for discussions would be nice. With automatic redirects for numeric ID from legacy links.

#1761·Dennis HackethalOP, 10 days ago

Done as of e6a90e5.

  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #1761.

Friendly IDs for discussions would be nice. With automatic redirects for numeric ID from legacy links.

  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #1760.

All emails have unsubscribe links, but people shouldn’t be able to unsubscribe from system emails like password resets.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #1753.

I should revisit this now that I have email infrastructure in place.

#1753·Dennis HackethalOP, 11 days ago

Done as of 9c14b22.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #1755.

Newly added comments keep animating when hidden and then unhidden.

#1755·Dennis HackethalOP, 11 days ago

Fixed as of 985430e.

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  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #1755.

Newly added comments keep animating when hidden and then unhidden.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #1752.

See #595. The form for new ideas is pushed to the very bottom of the discussion page. For long discussion, that means users won’t know where to submit new ideas.

#1752·Dennis HackethalOP, 11 days ago

Duplicate of #453.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #1136.

Workaround: have users email me for password reset for now. Re-evaluate when I have enough users to merit additional infrastructure for sending emails.

#1136·Dennis HackethalOP, 8 months ago

I should revisit this now that I have email infrastructure in place.

  Dennis Hackethal submitted criticism #1752.

See #595. The form for new ideas is pushed to the very bottom of the discussion page. For long discussion, that means users won’t know where to submit new ideas.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #1749.

Each activity should have a distinct HTML title. The browser history and search results in search engines all look the same…

#1749·Dennis HackethalOP, 11 days ago

Done as of 7ef69da.

  Dennis Hackethal revised criticism #1748.
Each activity should have ana distinct HTML title. The browser history and search results in search engines all look the same…
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #425.

Done as of a02e6c4, see eg this activity.

#425·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago

Each activity should have an HTML title. The browser history and search results in search engines all look the same…

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #417.

There’s a bug where hovering over a link in the markdown preview removes the form and all typed text. Hovering over a link should have no effect on the form.

#417·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago

Fixed as of b555677.

  Dennis Hackethal revised criticism #1604. The revision addresses idea #1603.
  Dennis Hackethal revised idea #1582. The revision addresses idea #1743.

Fix typo

If we use the correspondancecorrespondence theory of truth, then truth consists of explanations that correspond "perfectly" to reality. In that sense all our statements are false: we don't have those explanations that perfectly correspond, all our actual statements are approximations, or deductions from approximations (1+1=2 is a deduction from a set of explanations, but that set is not entirely true - since the set is inconsistent and incomplete)
  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #1582.

If we use the correspondance theory of truth, then truth consists of explanations that correspond "perfectly" to reality. In that sense all our statements are false: we don't have those explanations that perfectly correspond, all our actual statements are approximations, or deductions from approximations (1+1=2 is a deduction from a set of explanations, but that set is not entirely true - since the set is inconsistent and incomplete)

#1582·Bart Vanderhaegen, 3 months ago

correspondance

typo