• Knockout Development v2 - It's time to start posting on Knockout!
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That was it! Thank you.
For some reason I can't reply anywhere anymore, the reply-button just doesn't do anything (I've tried several different threads): http://pragma-engine.com/sharex/2019-05-10_09-48-51.gif I've tried both Firefox and Chrome, doesn't work in either of them. Already tried clearing my browser cache. It used to work just three days ago, not sure what's changed.
Nah I'm getting that too. Something broke on their end.
god damn it everyone is having the same issue. time to get to work i guess
I just had an idea, display who rated what on a particular post to normal users but only after 30 days since the post was posted. This would largely avoid the obvious drama-tarpit in the heat of the moment while still being able to know somewhen who rated what. Could that be a good compromise?
i know fast threads was with us for a long time, but removing it made me realize it made things a bit confusing all other sections - save for videos and news, to an extent - are defined by topic, fast threads is defined by... post length? i know videos only takes visual media, i know polidicks/SH only take articles, but if i have a quick question about videogames that i think could spur a discussion, does it go in gaming or FT? at worst, it discourages people from posting, at best, it dilutes content, because that's what it was designed to do: making it so quick questions and pic threads wouldn't clutter up the forums, which doesn't make sense when we don't have the activity of 2010 facepunch
I mean I was more thinking about "would you fuck the above user's avatar v69" and "write a letter to garry one letter word at a time"
fast threads only existed as a place with much lighter thread quality requirements, a place to post dumb shit wihtout risking bans. The idea seemed to have backfired though, encouraging such a high standard of quality that very few risked postinmg new threads on gen desc for awhile there. Don't think it's needed, rather just let people go fast threads wild in gen discussion and it shoud be fine.
Fast threads was only made because General Discussion was getting flooded with one off questions and other disposable threads. It was so bad even active threads were difficult to keep track of. It has been a long time since GD was so active that it justified separating out the 'fast' threads. Hell, before the move to Newpunch GD was pretty much dead except for the language threads.
Could we wait until the official official launch before we have a separate staging site? It's basically just updates that keep my interest in the site but every time there is one I realize there's no point in actually using the staging site other than a few test posts.
we can't, because that'd mean that every time we changed something and it was broken the real site would be broken
@Inacio Is steams OpenID system tied into your account or is it tied into your CustomURL (steamcommunity.com/id/namehere) ? Someone keeps trying to get me to give up mine and this has been ongoing for 2-4 years. New profiles every month. Getting really old.
We're pushing out a new update to Knockout! The changes: Check if user's login is still valid on page load, log them out if not Force url/date to the bottom of the smart link Format smart link dates Create OpenGraph-fetching serverless microservice for smart links: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/326417/d63d8516-6edc-4566-bc11-cc0ea8b12caf/image.png Experimental: order subforums by last activity Editable quotes Sticky Threads: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/326417/d5e8b9ce-a998-4274-963f-5a329b03e9b2/image.png Fix: fix margins on notification bubbles. More popular threads entries +scroll Add additional page numbers on top and subscribe button on bottom of thread pages Fix: Stop scrolling to top on rate Make notifications disappear faster Fix: Unread alerts pop up out of the window scope of browser Fix: Popular Threads tooltips cut off for longer names etc (wide + thicc size) Add links to notifications: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/326417/c716b21a-be4f-4c61-839e-c6621f94f544/image.png Make it so the "Rated!" text disappears and allows rating again Add icons for auth providers on the login page. Fix: Subscribe buttons no longer appearing for standard users. Replace drop down menu with a real toolbar on desktop. Correct notification bubble height and padding.
The dynamically sorted subforums is an interesting idea, but I prefer my muscle memory of going to the top left for general, etc.
yeah, agreed. it worked fine in dev/qa because of less movement, but in production it really is too confusing.
I've just reverted that change and rolled it out.
Yeah it is a pretty fun idea in theory but its just gonna be confusing (expecially if the forum ends up getting big with lot of users posting). Rest of the update looks great though!
I already got tripped up like 3 or four times by accidentally going to videos instead of general lol.
Although if we want things that show activity a "recent posts/recent threads" page/panel would be cool
Alternatively, keep it as a April Fools prank.
I've been having a problem trying to create an account. The moment I try to sign in through any of the options I get 'Your login is no longer valid' instantly before I can even assign myself a name. I use firefox and I have third-party cookies enabled. So I'm not entirely sure why it's doing this.
let me look into it. i did manage to create an account a few minutes ago, but it could be that i just put in a name too fast
It's good now, thank you very much!
I just have to say this, I think the site looks terrible. The front page looks like a half-assed attempt at copying TweetDeck. The rest of the site is visually unappealing and gives the vibe of some sort of "kid friendly" internet forum. The name, icons, color scheme, everything about it is off. It kind of reminds me of the reddit redesign. The FP redesign was a step in the wrong direction and this continues down that path. If this is the future of FP community..... to be frank, I think it will die once this site shuts down. This isn't nearly good enough. Maybe we need more alternatives.
This is the path pretty much every website has gone past 2010, because of phones.
Ok Also, do you even know the history of what.cd and why things are they way they are now? Doesn't seem like it.
"i-i'm only getting disagrees because everyone who WOULD agree already left!!!"
Try Knockout Lite | Index, it's a bit more restrained in its design and is honestly pretty cool. I think a lot of people will end up using it once you can post from it.
I really wish phones hadn't blown up as the most popular method to browse the internet. I legitimately don't understand why it's so popular. It's clunkiest thing ever. You're limited to a tiny ass screen with clunky controls. Literally its only actual advantage is that it's a lot more mobile than even a laptop is. But for whatever reason basically all modern sites are designed for phone first now and maybe, if you're lucky, desktop might be a distant second thought. (Not that I think that's an issue with Knockout. I would actually say that overall Knockout is one of the better sites about this bullshit.)
Remember that Knockout can look however you or anyone else wants it to look. If the community moves over to it, you'd be sure to discover a community-made look that suits your tastes. It's impossible to please everyone with a single look.
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