New feature: copy/pastable self referential backlink [id://...] for every node
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by LanX
on Feb 05, 2024 at 10:40
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Two weeks ago I provided a patch Re: node_info_string - (patch) to change the linking of the ID in the header of all nodes to [id://...] style.
The idea is to facilitate linking to nodes by simple copy&paste.
NB: Some browsers facilitate this further by providing a "copy link text" entry
in the context menu (right-click/long touch)
Explicitly
==== BEFORE:
The links in the page headers below the title looked like
- on Jan 25, 2024 at 13:46 CET ( #11157250 =pmdevnote: print w/replies, xml )
==== AFTER:
Now they display [id://...] around the link
- on Jan 25, 2024 at 13:46 CET ( [id://11157250] =pmdevnote: print w/replies, xml )
History
This patch was experimental, but so far nobody complained. I'd even say almost nobody noticed. :)
Linking with id:// has many advantages, like avoiding lock-outs and displaying the nodes title.
I hope this will make proper linking easier.
On a side note: I personally used this for over a decade already, changing the link was one of my first Nodelet hacks in JS.
Implementing it for PM proved to be far more complicated tho.
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We have gotten onto the scammers' radar
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by erzuuli
on Feb 05, 2024 at 08:18
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Look at this ridiculous BS email I just got — the first such, and hopefully the last:
From: bk3587110@gmail.com
To: vroom@********
Bcc: johndporter@********
Fri, Feb 2 at 3:18 PM
Greetings,
Qeitiqwe Sykes here from Next Publisher. We've been monitoring perlmonks.org and see great potential for a partnership.
We connect esteemed sites like yours with advertisers seeking quality placements. Could you share your advertising rates and any special packages for bulk deals?
Your insight will enable us to tailor our services to meet your needs and preferences.
Thank you for your attention to this proposal.
Kind regards,
Qeitiqwe Sykes
Next Publisher
I tried g**gling the various names and found nothing.
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Priorities perhaps?
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by Bod
on Feb 01, 2024 at 16:58
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Looking back over the patches for the last few years, it strikes me that despite lots of patches, mostly from jdporter, there has been lots of good fiddling around the edges. The biggest flaws in The Monastery remain. I believe these are turning people away from The Monastery.
I would like to propose what I think are three priorities that would be a step change for The Monastery without removing any of it's existing strengths:
- WISIWIG editor for posting along the lines suggested by cavac in WYSIWYG editor
- A revamp of the main menu navigation bar
- Address the issue of unencoded passwords
I am not suggesting someone else does the work to make these happen. They are all things that I have implemented on other sites multiple times. However, I don't have the knowledge of PM's codebase or sufficient access for some of these. So I would need help to make them happen.
We only have to look across to Everything2 to see how relatively small changes can have a big impact on user experience
Javascript
I'm going to preempt an objection...that 1 and 2 would require Javascript and not everyone has it enabled.
A few years I ran a test on one of my sites to see how many people have JS switched off. After over 700k visits, less than 0.2% has JS off. But, I accept that PM is mostly frequented by older developers (me included) who are more likely to switch off JS.
But whilst JS is needed to make WYSIWYG functionality, we can have a user setting to switch back to the existing raw-HTML editor and also do that switchback automagically if JS is not enabled on the user's browser.
None of this is new...but is there any mileage or appetite for addressing it now?
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Docs for enhanced linking style with '<' for '|' ?
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by LanX
on Jan 25, 2024 at 08:57
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Hi
since I'm trying to patch some linking stuff for better convenience I need to know where this feature is documented for users
[id://1169071< Node=%N — Author=%A — Date=%d]
--> Node=[id://1169071] — Author= — Date=
Already looked into
, but no avail.
Thanks! :)
PS: I can only imagine eyepops using it for is extensive link collections ;-)
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Why is the site response time so incredibly slow?
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by Danny
on Jan 23, 2024 at 20:36
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The response time for requests on this site is super slow. At times it takes 30 seconds for a page to load. Why is that?
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209.197.123.153 Down
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by choroba
on Jan 23, 2024 at 14:06
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www.perlmonks.org is timing out for me. 209.197.123.153 seems to be down. 66.39.54.27 pings and runs without problems, as does 216.92.34.251.
map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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Total writeups sometimes incorrect
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by hippo
on Jan 11, 2024 at 06:37
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RFC: "Today I Learned" page
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by jdporter
on Jan 10, 2024 at 23:40
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Some time in the last year or two I suddenly realized that I should be keeping a log of the interesting things I learn from day to day.
A couple months ago I was talking with my brilliant young nephew about how I didn't have a really satisfactory solution, and he suggested Notion.
He set up a Notion workspace where we can both enter our #TILs. It works really well. Notion is amazing.
But I can see how it might not scale too well with a large number of contributors.
Long story short — I have created Today I Learned, a page where anyone (meeting certain minimum elibility requirements) can share interesting factoids.
Please check it out. What do you think? Is it worthwhile? If not, could it be made better? If so, how? If snot, blow?
I also want to note that the extant page, Today I Learned, is based on a generic mechanism which can be easily leveraged for other similar tasks. The main configurable parameters are: who can view the page, who can add entries, and who can delete entries. (readers/writers/deleters, in short.) These can be based on a user group (such as janitors or breathers of fire), or on monastic level (such as Level 10: Hermit). Can you think of a use for such a feature?
I thank you, and Paco thanks you.
* On the Today I Learned page, entries can be deleted by the Janitors, and the Editors Nodelet contains a link to that page labled 'TIL'.
When there is a new entry on that page, a little flag (*) is appended to the 'TIL' link.
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Hacker News titles using U+2013 EN DASH
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by kcott
on Jan 09, 2024 at 02:29
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Many Hacker News titles use U+2013 EN DASH.
When listed in the "HackerNews nodelet" these are rendering as "–" instead of "–".
Would it be possible to convert these?
I know nothing of the code behind the scenes. Here's a couple of potential options:
$ perl -Mutf8 -C -E '
my $HN_title = "Show HN: Auto Wiki – Turn your codebase into a Wiki";
say $HN_title;
say $HN_title =~ s/–/\N{EN DASH}/gr;
say $HN_title =~ s/–/–/gr;
'
Show HN: Auto Wiki – Turn your codebase into a Wiki
Show HN: Auto Wiki – Turn your codebase into a Wiki
Show HN: Auto Wiki – Turn your codebase into a Wiki
Using – is possibly the better option; but I'm just guessing.
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Question about search results.
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by swampyankee
on Jan 04, 2024 at 14:10
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Found 0 nodes roughly between 2024-01-04 and 0 (searched 561.01% of D
+B).
where title contains "sudoku"
Date: Author/owner: Title: Node type:
Press
to continue searching remaining 303.53% of DB.
Please be patient after submitting your search.
Link to preload this search: [href://?node_id=3989;HIT=sudoku]
I'm rather surprised that the percentages are greater than 100%; this is not someone usually sees. Is this a bug in the search function or is it something intentional?
Information about American English usage here.
Floating point issues? Please read this before posting. — emc
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Confusing Category
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by choroba
on Dec 18, 2023 at 08:23
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This is probably a consequence of the transition from Categorized Q&As to Illuminations:
How do I find what directory the perl script is running from? is blessed and tagged as "gui programming", but I'm not sure that's the correct tag for the question.
I don't contest the blessing, just the tag.
map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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Are blessings a new thing?
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by talexb
on Dec 16, 2023 at 20:28
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(Dec 14, 2023 at 16:38 EST) erzuuli has blessed XS Modules - why and when? by Bod!
I may have missed this, but I saw three posts that were 'blessed' by people in the Notices section of the side panel. Is this new? What does it mean?
Alex / talexb / Toronto
Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.
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PerlMonks working OK?
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by Anonymous Monk
on Dec 14, 2023 at 12:04
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RFC: Add profile field "emergency contact" or such like as
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by jdporter
on Nov 28, 2023 at 16:15
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It has happened from time to time that some monks have expressed concern over the unexpected and prolonged absense of another monk.
In at least one case, a monk contacted the gods to see if a reachout could be done.
Unfortunately, we had to say no, because the contact information stored in the user profile consists only of an email address,
and our policies explicitly state this this email address "is used only to send you your password".
I believe that this creates — correctly — a strong expectation of privacy around this personal information.
Therefore, I would like to propose the addition of an "emergency contact" field, which would probably normally be an email address,
but with a different expectation as to its potential usage.
The use of this field would be strictly optional. That is, as a user, you wouldn't have to put anything in it unless you want to.
Alternatively, we could add a checkbox which, when checked, indicates that you are OK with site administrators using the
existing email for "emergency contact" purposes, in addition to its current purposes (i.e. password recovery).
Any thoughts?
"such like as" is my homage to blazar.
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Levels of Monks: missing a row
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by kcott
on Nov 24, 2023 at 22:08
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