Updates from bitshift on Rainbow Dash Network!
bitshift: @stumpy It seems a little odd for me, too. Something in the side bar is erroring out, and #mintrefresh is also failing to load on the broken page (probably _because_ the page is broken, considering it's loading fine on other pages of the site).
bitshift's status on Thursday, 20-Sep-12 23:23:19 UTC
@stumpy It seems a little odd for me, too. Something in the side bar is erroring out, and #mintrefresh is also failing to load on the broken page (probably _because_ the page is broken, considering it's loading fine on other pages of the site).
bitshift: @pixelfairy (Also, obligatory mention of !mintrefresh and !rdnrefresh, in case you don't have either yet.)
bitshift's status on Sunday, 05-Aug-12 21:23:36 UTC
@pixelfairy (Also, obligatory mention of !mintrefresh and !rdnrefresh, in case you don't have either yet.)
bitshift: @techdisk42 Eeyup. It's a Chrome bug rather than a !mintrefresh bug, as far as I know (in my testing, just modifying the element was enough to cause it, and you can't really change the text without modifying the element it's in), but it's still fun to mess with. :)
bitshift's status on Friday, 27-Jul-12 16:52:49 UTC
@techdisk42 Eeyup. It's a Chrome bug rather than a !mintrefresh bug, as far as I know (in my testing, just modifying the element was enough to cause it, and you can't really change the text without modifying the element it's in), but it's still fun to mess with. :)
bitshift: @minti Huh. Did you know that !mintrefresh apparently disagrees with RDN about how old @greydragon412's most recent notices are (and probably others, but his profile is where I noticed it)? I mean, not the actual age, but the approximate description given to summarize it. You load the page, get "2 days ago", then ~30 seconds later, now they were only "a day ago". (I assume the difference is in choice of when to round up a day, but it's quite interesting to watch nonetheless.)
bitshift's status on Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 12:36:38 UTC
@minti Huh. Did you know that !mintrefresh apparently disagrees with RDN about how old @greydragon412's most recent notices are (and probably others, but his profile is where I noticed it)? I mean, not the actual age, but the approximate description given to summarize it. You load the page, get "2 days ago", then ~30 seconds later, now they were only "a day ago". (I assume the difference is in choice of when to round up a day, but it's quite interesting to watch nonetheless.)
bitshift: @nixter Oh, I see. It's rot13'd, so as not to reveal the spoilers contained within, unless someone reading it willingly deciphers it. Both of the major auto-refreshers for RDN have the little key button (at least I think it's a key in both; it certainly is in !mintrefresh) to decipher rot13'd text.
bitshift's status on Thursday, 12-Jul-12 18:35:39 UTC
@nixter Oh, I see. It's rot13'd, so as not to reveal the spoilers contained within, unless someone reading it willingly deciphers it. Both of the major auto-refreshers for RDN have the little key button (at least I think it's a key in both; it certainly is in !mintrefresh) to decipher rot13'd text.
bitshift: I like how !mintrefresh says "whenever ago" when it can't get the times. :)
bitshift's status on Friday, 06-Jul-12 02:39:07 UTC
I like how !mintrefresh says "whenever ago" when it can't get the times. :)
bitshift: @minti Feature request: video titles as title-text on YouTube thumbnails. !mintrefresh
bitshift's status on Saturday, 09-Jun-12 23:27:52 UTC
@minti Feature request: video titles as title-text on YouTube thumbnails. !mintrefresh
bitshift: Ooh, I see @minti's tests yesterday are paying off. !mintrefresh 0.1.19 #optimization
bitshift's status on Saturday, 09-Jun-12 21:00:25 UTC
Ooh, I see @minti's tests yesterday are paying off. !mintrefresh 0.1.19 #optimization
bitshift: !mintrefresh The posts have also been doubled (and yes, I checked; it's the same post ID, not just people posting twice by mistake)! @minti http://ur1.ca/9gtk8
bitshift's status on Friday, 08-Jun-12 20:58:38 UTC
!mintrefresh The posts have also been doubled (and yes, I checked; it's the same post ID, not just people posting twice by mistake)! @minti http://ur1.ca/9gtk8
bitshift: !mintrefresh The [s]fun has[/s] buttons have been doubled! http://ur1.ca/9gtjy
bitshift's status on Friday, 08-Jun-12 20:55:41 UTC
!mintrefresh The [s]fun has[/s] buttons have been doubled! http://ur1.ca/9gtjy
bitshift: !mintrefresh is out of Alpha? Neat!
bitshift's status on Friday, 08-Jun-12 20:54:14 UTC
!mintrefresh is out of Alpha? Neat!
bitshift: @redenchilada YES. Also @minti should totally use that Marquee 2.0 thing he made to add them to !mintrefresh. :P
bitshift's status on Friday, 08-Jun-12 19:56:08 UTC
@redenchilada YES. Also @minti should totally use that Marquee 2.0 thing he made to add them to !mintrefresh. :P
bitshift: !mintrefresh 0.1.17 is basically perfect. <3
bitshift's status on Thursday, 07-Jun-12 22:25:03 UTC
!mintrefresh 0.1.17 is basically perfect. <3
bitshift: @minti Neh, not really. It's easy enough to do, but it seems a bit pointless to start pulling this stuff into the timeline, when !mintrefresh is just meant to provide little convenience enhancements. That and there's plenty of embedding-not-allowed videos, so it'd be incomplete coverage anyway.
bitshift's status on Thursday, 07-Jun-12 05:55:09 UTC
@minti Neh, not really. It's easy enough to do, but it seems a bit pointless to start pulling this stuff into the timeline, when !mintrefresh is just meant to provide little convenience enhancements. That and there's plenty of embedding-not-allowed videos, so it'd be incomplete coverage anyway.
bitshift: @windoze !mintrefresh and !rdnrefresh will both do what you want, if you're on a desktop. On mobile... no idea.
bitshift's status on Friday, 01-Jun-12 10:53:36 UTC
@windoze !mintrefresh and !rdnrefresh will both do what you want, if you're on a desktop. On mobile... no idea.
bitshift: @eaglehooves I'm assuming script derp, since that looks exactly like what happens when !mintrefresh tries to get dashes when the site is down/glitchy.
bitshift's status on Sunday, 27-May-12 01:41:19 UTC
@eaglehooves I'm assuming script derp, since that looks exactly like what happens when !mintrefresh tries to get dashes when the site is down/glitchy.
bitshift: @equestrianbrony You also get buttons for decoding/encoding rot13 as part of the two commonly used auto-refresh scripts available for this site: !mintrefresh and !rdnrefresh (to get one, click one of those two links, and follow the link in the group's descriptions; you'll need to install Greasemonkey or Scriptish first if using Firefox, or install Tampermonkey first if using Chrome). !mintrefresh has generally fewer features, but seems to refresh a little faster, at least on my system. !rdnrefresh has a lot more features, and quite a bit of customizability. Both have their good points, so I'd say try both (remember to remove one before installing the other, though) and see which you like. I'd definitely suggest that you get one of them, though, since auto-refreshing makes it much easier to keep up with the speed of conversation on this site. (Aside: this notice might well be the closest I've come to hitting the notice length limit here.)
bitshift's status on Saturday, 26-May-12 03:49:34 UTC
@equestrianbrony You also get buttons for decoding/encoding rot13 as part of the two commonly used auto-refresh scripts available for this site: !mintrefresh and !rdnrefresh (to get one, click one of those two links, and follow the link in the group's descriptions; you'll need to install Greasemonkey or Scriptish first if using Firefox, or install Tampermonkey first if using Chrome). !mintrefresh has generally fewer features, but seems to refresh a little faster, at least on my system. !rdnrefresh has a lot more features, and quite a bit of customizability. Both have their good points, so I'd say try both (remember to remove one before installing the other, though) and see which you like. I'd definitely suggest that you get one of them, though, since auto-refreshing makes it much easier to keep up with the speed of conversation on this site. (Aside: this notice might well be the closest I've come to hitting the notice length limit here.)
bitshift: @greydragon412 @djvinylpon3 Or !mintrefresh. I prefer it, _but_ it's somewhat more buggy right now, so I'd say !rdnrefresh is your better option, at least for now.
bitshift's status on Sunday, 20-May-12 00:33:15 UTC
@greydragon412 @djvinylpon3 Or !mintrefresh. I prefer it, _but_ it's somewhat more buggy right now, so I'd say !rdnrefresh is your better option, at least for now.
bitshift: @minti Oh, okay. Then yeah, it'd be neat to have IdentiCurse (that's where I grabbed that line from, though I've also used it elsewhere since) and !mintrefresh agree on what constitutes a link. :)
bitshift's status on Sunday, 13-May-12 19:30:47 UTC
@minti Oh, okay. Then yeah, it'd be neat to have IdentiCurse (that's where I grabbed that line from, though I've also used it elsewhere since) and !mintrefresh agree on what constitutes a link. :)
bitshift: @minti I'm not quite sure what purpose it would solve in !mintrefresh, given it matches valid URLs, and the posts returned by SN already have a neatly tokenized (including URLs as links) version in the form of the HTML output.
bitshift's status on Sunday, 13-May-12 19:26:21 UTC
@minti I'm not quite sure what purpose it would solve in !mintrefresh, given it matches valid URLs, and the posts returned by SN already have a neatly tokenized (including URLs as links) version in the form of the HTML output.
bitshift: @toksyuryel !mintrefresh didn't. :P
bitshift's status on Sunday, 13-May-12 19:23:37 UTC
@toksyuryel !mintrefresh didn't. :P
bitshift: No support for lilac in the !mintrefresh formatting codes? I am disappoint.
bitshift's status on Sunday, 13-May-12 18:57:51 UTC
No support for lilac in the !mintrefresh formatting codes? I am disappoint.
bitshift: @thelastgherkin Or you could install !mintrefresh, like a civilized person. :P
bitshift's status on Friday, 11-May-12 21:57:44 UTC
@thelastgherkin Or you could install !mintrefresh, like a civilized person. :P
bitshift: Suddenly I have duplicate buttons everywhere. Guessing I should update and/or remove !MintRefresh?
bitshift's status on Sunday, 22-Apr-12 15:15:27 UTC
Suddenly I have duplicate buttons everywhere. Guessing I should update and/or remove !MintRefresh?
bitshift: @minti Talking of spoiler tags, I've got a patch to !MintRefresh that I'm about to push, so expect a pull request shortly. :)
bitshift's status on Sunday, 22-Apr-12 00:10:27 UTC
@minti Talking of spoiler tags, I've got a patch to !MintRefresh that I'm about to push, so expect a pull request shortly. :)
bitshift: @minti I've made a pull request for the non-link-breaking change. :) https://bitbucket.org/tylian/mintrefresh/pull-request/1/ !mintrefresh
bitshift's status on Thursday, 19-Apr-12 17:51:49 UTC
@minti I've made a pull request for the non-link-breaking change. :) https://bitbucket.org/tylian/mintrefresh/pull-request/1/ !mintrefresh
bitshift: Bleh, JQuery seems to be overriding String.prototype.replace(), and it's that being called in String.prototype.rot13() that's making avatars move, as far as I can see. Trouble is, I can't work out how to work around that. :/ !mintrefresh
bitshift's status on Thursday, 19-Apr-12 17:35:52 UTC
Bleh, JQuery seems to be overriding String.prototype.replace(), and it's that being called in String.prototype.rot13() that's making avatars move, as far as I can see. Trouble is, I can't work out how to work around that. :/ !mintrefresh
bitshift: Aha! As I thought, it's specifically setting textContent that makes the avatar start moving downwards. Now I just need to figure out how to get the same functionality without the side-effect of avatar motion. !mintrefresh
bitshift's status on Thursday, 19-Apr-12 15:34:59 UTC
Aha! As I thought, it's specifically setting textContent that makes the avatar start moving downwards. Now I just need to figure out how to get the same functionality without the side-effect of avatar motion. !mintrefresh
bitshift: Back home, and starting work on trying to isolate the minimum code necessary to cause the avatar-bumping bug, so that it's clearer where the problem actually arises from. !mintrefresh
bitshift's status on Thursday, 19-Apr-12 15:11:36 UTC
Back home, and starting work on trying to isolate the minimum code necessary to cause the avatar-bumping bug, so that it's clearer where the problem actually arises from. !mintrefresh
bitshift: Although, on the general topic of "in context" links, I can second what @alargesmallhorse said about them not always showing up where they should. Not entirely sure what's up with that, but I guess I'll have a bash (starting tomorrow, it's late tonight) at helping squash that bug. !mintrefresh
bitshift's status on Thursday, 19-Apr-12 01:31:14 UTC
Although, on the general topic of "in context" links, I can second what @alargesmallhorse said about them not always showing up where they should. Not entirely sure what's up with that, but I guess I'll have a bash (starting tomorrow, it's late tonight) at helping squash that bug. !mintrefresh
bitshift: Oh, now that I _definitely_ like (another #walloftext warning). !mintrefresh doesn't intercept "In context" clicks, unlike RDNrefresh. I mean, don't get me wrong, the way they don't load a new page in RDNrefresh is kinda nice, but more often than not it breaks somehow (for example, it's _never_ loaded successfully for me from a single-notice page, but it's still intercepted there), and the capturing of the event prevents me from ctrl+click'ing to open the actual link in a new tab (yes, I know there are other shortcuts, but it's still not good that it breaks the one I can happily use elsewhere).
bitshift's status on Thursday, 19-Apr-12 01:28:01 UTC
Oh, now that I _definitely_ like (another #walloftext warning). !mintrefresh doesn't intercept "In context" clicks, unlike RDNrefresh. I mean, don't get me wrong, the way they don't load a new page in RDNrefresh is kinda nice, but more often than not it breaks somehow (for example, it's _never_ loaded successfully for me from a single-notice page, but it's still intercepted there), and the capturing of the event prevents me from ctrl+click'ing to open the actual link in a new tab (yes, I know there are other shortcuts, but it's still not good that it breaks the one I can happily use elsewhere).
bitshift: (#walloftext warning) Just installed !mintrefresh. Observations so far: I much prefer the style of the formatting buttons. I'm also liking the style of mention-highlighting a little better than the bright-red-name thing RDNrefresh does. The functionality I actually use (so not the page-style customization things) seems to be largely the same, and works well in both, so neither takes _or_ loses the lead on that point alone. Will continue using for a while, and see how it goes.
bitshift's status on Thursday, 19-Apr-12 01:15:23 UTC
(#walloftext warning) Just installed !mintrefresh. Observations so far: I much prefer the style of the formatting buttons. I'm also liking the style of mention-highlighting a little better than the bright-red-name thing RDNrefresh does. The functionality I actually use (so not the page-style customization things) seems to be largely the same, and works well in both, so neither takes _or_ loses the lead on that point alone. Will continue using for a while, and see how it goes.