As you know, I’ve been poking around trying to find out what exactly might be causing the browser issue some of you are having, wherein you post a comment and instead of dropping you back near-ish where you were in the post, it takes you to the top. Haven’t found the glitch yet.
However, this provides a good time to unveil a new feature that we’ve been considering for a while now: a discussion forum.
I know what you’re thinking. Yes, we already treat the comment area on posts as if it were a forum. Yes, we have already built plenty of community just doing that. But, before you dismiss it out of hand, let me explain my reasoning.
- The interface should be much faster than the comment section on each post. So, for times like the recent debates, or the election tomorrow, it should make conversing faster.
- If this test run is successful, any Glib will be able to start a new topic and it will be there whenever anyone can get to the forum to read…unlike comments on posts that tend to disappear quickly and cause many people to miss many things and never get caught up.
- You will be able to “mention” someone using their @nickname, which you can look up in the handy-dandy member directory.
- You will be able to see notifications when you login to the forum if someone has mentioned you, or replied to a comment you made.
- The forum is nominally hidden from the larger world, because of said membership directory. However, I still wouldn’t be too candid if you have anything to lose.
Now, I mention in the intro post on the forum announcements that while I have a couple decades of experience running phpbb forums, I have never used a WordPress forum plugin. Additionally, because there is a member directory that I want to keep from being too easily accessed, I needed to add a membership plugin, as well. Which has made the login mechanics a little clunky (for now).
You may need to log into the forum separately. However, your main Glibs credentials will get you there. If it wants you to solve a math captcha, just do so and then re-login and you should be good to go. (I’m warning you now: there may be math!)
About the nickname feature for mentioning. In your main website profile in your dashboard, you have a username (which can’t be changed), a nickname, and a “Display Name Publicly As” option. The forum mention function will use whatever is in your nickname field. So, if you need to change that to something shorter and more memorable, you may easily do so yourself. Your Display Name will still be the one that is next to your forum posts, but your @nickname will be below that. Note that your nickname must be unique. If someone else here is already using it, the system will not let you change your nickname to that.
There is a practice forum at the bottom. If you have issues–OK, any forum-related issues–or need help, I’ll pop in that forum from time to time to see if anyone needs assistance.
If you all think it’s a useful feature to keep around, we can talk about adding some extras such as PMs, time and money allowing.
Ready?
Go here.
Cool! Even a dummy like me figured it out and now I have another place to lurk. Xx
A Tulpa! Welcome!
Even better (and much more rare), a lady tulpa!
Careful, you might break the internet with those words.
w00h00!!!!
Another unicorn!
BTW, I adore your moniker.
Thanks!
Is that “Skipper”?
And FOT!
Welcome, and a hearty ‘fuck off, Tulpa!’ from a fellow unicorn.
Thanks, and gladly!
*waves hi*
a forum… how 1998. But we’ll see how it goes.
Wait, are we supposed to comment on this thread or in the previous one?
It matters not.
well in the grand scheme of things does anything?
Thanks SP. Also what dates in January are important for a small business to block off and not schedule any dogs? *hint* *hint*
Will the mobile grooming vehicle be coming too? Wonder Dog is a horrible mess.
We could make an exception on our 20-mile rule 😉
That membership directory, particularly of non commenters, is…interesting. Real fruit sushi or imitation?
Real
Gonna need to order more tire changing gloves then.
Now if that was also the mole for The Bee, that would be awesome.
What forums shall we have besides politics? The usual food, cars, gone wild (for safari pictures and whatnot )
If this works out tomorrow and Wednesday, I will definitely be adding other sections. We’ll see if people find it useful.
Fiction, Political: Hat and Hair, some Derpy Satire…
Fiction, Non-Political: Subaru Horror Theater, Kinnath,…
Memoirs.
Poetry
Well, the forum isn’t to replace the articles/posts on the main site. It’s just a supplement.
A fight club section?
We can’t talk about that.
Does that mean we’re bringing back John and Eddie too? Fight, fight, fight…
I might have to explore thoroughly on a full pc later.
As always SP, thanks for your time and mental energy on this site!
You’re welcome.
If anyone wants me to post dick pics in the forum, just let me know.
I thought that would be it’s own subforum?
Sub, as in smaller.
My dick is better than yours.
I will agree that you are a bigger dick than HM. 😛
Watched another Johan Norberg special on Amazon. “Free or Equal.”
This time it was about Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose (1980) revisited in 2011. Norberg speaks at one point on what people see as the unfairness of some people being very wealthy. After expounding on the ways wealth creation lifts people out of poverty, He asks the viewer “Is wealth the problem? Or is Poverty the problem.?”
I thought that was a pithy way to get a liberty discussion going in real life when the topic of income inequality comes up.
I’m just gonna keep focusing on the positive.
SP, when I click on the RSS links for “forums” and “topics” I get an XML dump; not sure if it’s my phone or a formatting issue but thought I should give you a heads up. Android 10, mobile chrome 86.0.4240.110
Looks great otherwise, the hard work is appreciated.
I haven’t spent much time on things like that. In fact, haven’t even looked at it at all! If we decide to keep the forum, I will be working on the niceties. 😉
No worries, I just clicked on them by accident and figured you’d like to know. However my incessant curiosity did lead me to see if subscribing to a specific thread worked, and it did, so that’s good to go.
If you do decide to keep the forums, my day job is web development and I have to function as my own QA, so I’ll be happy to help test. I’m very good at breaking things, my manager will happily attest to that.
Be careful what you offer!
Because we’re using a managed WP hosting solution (because, you know, nobody is getting paid for working on this project), we are sorta limited in what we can do behind the scenes, but I might be in touch.
Thank you.
I’d be happy to help, managed cloud based sites are how I pay my bills, and with rampant insomnia I need something to do besides talk to Digby all night.
Digby hardest hit.
I’m very good at breaking things
Nearly a lifetime ago, I had a mainframe system programmer who would hand over stuff to me to test. He said if I didn’t break it he didn’t have to worry about it. He also escalated my account’s system privileges which was cool.
Very cool, thanks.
Thanks SP, cool feature. And in time for election month too!
And, here I was, being all caught up in the forums, expecting everyone to swing by.
I’m not sure I can navigate it all.
I tried to put something together there and it seems it must be approved. It’s probably cool when you figure it out.
Odd.
Oh you! Stop bragging about your vintage Penthouse collection. It is unseemly.
Owning that much skytop real estate must get expensive.
::squints at Festus::
You know, if you were a woman, I’d slug you.
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So this is the thread people are running with in the early morning? I initially posted this in the wrong place: Equality vs Equity by Kamala Harris
https://mobile.twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1322963321994289154
If she ever gets the presidency we’re screwed.
This is very cool. Though I’ll undoubtedly waste a lot more time here.
Also im up at 3:30 because DST and I think I heard a neighbor scream.
Deseret Standard Time?
It’s the one true TZ
I’m more concerned about the screams but maybe that’s just me.
I figure if Leon is really concerned, he wouldn’t be live posting to Glibs.
That WAS my concern.
Time to get ready to vote.
I live a half mile from the polling place.
It it weren’t slushing outside, I could walk.
but it keeps swapping between rain and snow depending upon whether it’s above freezing at that moment, and I don’t particularly want to walk in that.
I already remarked on the experience over on the forum.
So, do I double-post in the active comment thread?
Good Morning my fellow Glibs, this should be a very, interesting day, be safe,
Good morning, Yusef. Today will be interesting in the Chinese curse.
I intend to bury my head in the sand until 10 PM or so tomorrow evening.
Yup. Tuesday are a shit-show.
So something going on today in Canada’s basement? I can never keep up…
Pre-riot prepping.
Ah. Parents are going out of town for the weekend and only two friends allowed over? Sounds like a recipe for disaster. In all seriousness, that’s a great idea SP. Some subjects deserve more in depth discussion. Pity that my schedule doesn’t really allow real-time interaction with the majority of the community.
2chis at TOS has a bit entitled “Make Elecctions Not Matter So Much Again”.
https://reason.com/2020/11/02/make-elections-not-matter-so-much-again/
This is the point I was trying to make this season with my acquaintances who are involuntarily forced to think a great deal about politics:
The cultural climate around politics would be much calmer if government were not so intrusive into our lives. It simply shouldn’t be a big deal who wins and who they appoint as judges, etc.
The stock market is freaked out too.
Let’s stick to the rule of law so that a routine election cannot bring about revolutionary-level change.
Tucilli. Dang autocorrect.
I read it correctly,
Ditto
Funny that. He has a huge “To be Sure” sticking out like a horse’s dick right near the start of the article. Exactly who are the people punishing wrong-think in this election cycle?
That’s good advice but good luck convincing anyone. Most people, conservative and liberal, like crushing their perceived enemies and they don’t want to dismantle the means of doing just that.
“What is Best in Life?”
Marrying a Kennedy and getting elected a Governor of California?
“Crushing beers, filling the ashtray and chatting with Glibs.”
Everyone talks a big game before the fight but you get a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach right before the first punch is thrown. There has been a shit-ton of trash talk and bravado bandied about leading up to today but I’m hoping that cooler heads prevail. I don’t believe that the vast majority of any of us actually want to do harm to their neighbors if push came to shove. I say this as one of the most cynical judges of Humanity that I know.
What about doing harm to just one of my neighbors?
If he’s a cunte then all bets are off. I’ve got one but she’s just a Karen and has been for 23 years. We are a weirdly blended family and not in the Appalachian way so I grit my dentures and ignore. My Step-daughter married her former Husband’s step-son. She thinks of herself as “One of the Grandmas” which pisses off the actual Grannies.
Won’tcha be my neighbor?
And in this, the progressives are the party of the first part. Because govt had to be used to improve all of us. It is sad that that infected the conservative branch of the tree as well. No idea what kind of pruning would cure that, I suspect that kind of rot spreads no matter what you do. It’s human nature.
Arrived at my polling place right before it opened at 6:30. Line clear across the large church parking lot. Glad I brought my coffee.
Sorry to hear that. I got to my pollling place a 5:57, cast the third vote, and was on the road by 6:07, but the line I passed on the way out was growing longer and had already passed the door.
Hope it doesn’t rain on you (it is raining here)
No rain – crystal clear, but cold. Fingers getting numb.
I will vote for anyone promoting global warming.
Pissing rain and windy here. Pineapple express. Guess I was a little premature about winter being here to stay last month. Still have important chores that need tending but I’ll take this over snow any day. Good luck on your vote for Butthole McButtface today! 😉
Pineapple express – I think I went to see that movie in a cinema with some buddies.
It was a silly movie but a real meteorological phenomena (Doo-Doo-De-Doo-Do!) here. We get crazy warm ocean currents from Hawaii sometimes. Blustery winds are not helpful whilst laying tarp.
Just heard -only two machines, a new style than what we had before, and the rest paper ballots. ***SIGH!!!***
VOTE SUPPRESHUN!!!!111!!!ELEVEN!!!
/made in Leningrad
In Soviet Russia, Chad hang you!
The spousal unit did early voting yesterday in North suburbs of San Diego. Zero people in line at 3 PM.
We’re heading over late morning to avoid the early and lunch rushes.
Today you should all cast a vote for decency
They weren’t on the ballot. Maybe I should have written them in for DA, the dem was running unopposed.
C’mon man!
mornin’ ya’all
how can you just casually say that on the most important day in US history?
Ulster Sandwich is having its IPO?
I thought the Irish didn’t do sandwiches
They just have to be made with sugar-free bread.
sugar-free bread – i don’t know what kind of bread SF makes but I would avoid it
I saw “Ulster Sandwich” open for Stiff Little Fingers back in the 80s….
1st amendment. He can say whatever the fuck he wants for a little while yet.
Oh there are plenty of things to say that’ll get you canceled.
Fire Tres!
I’m gonna go on my walk. Don;t do anything I wouldn’t. Remember your vote don’t matter anyhoo. Morning scotch is OK on election day.
EX SOVIET BLOC INTERFERENCE!!!
VAMPIRE INTERFERENCE!
With all of the bloodsuckers out there to potentially be influenced, vampire interference could really swing this election 😉
Sup Tres! I call furrin interference!
Hey YUFUS! Its a balmy 36º here (in americanheit)
Breakfast SMALL CANS!
I shoulda made that 496º Rankine
And I’m out here feeling it.
How much line is left ahead of you?
A couple dozen people outside. Poll worker tried to shoo us all back to the 100 feet from polls mark, but someone with brains just gave us a reprieve.
Sheesh. even here the line starts in the middle of the room where you would have to head to the various ward/district tables where your address falls. (those then had smaller lines that broke off from the main line at that middle of the room spot)
So am I, every day
I was just listening to Hugh Hewitt. He had a caller Sacramento who had just voted for the first time. She’s an 85 year old Irish Immigrant and registered to vote specifically so she could pull the lever for Trump.
I posted this in the dead Trump thread before I saw this here thread so I’m posting it again here.
I woke up at 1:41 this morning from a weird dream where I was looking for an elephant or an elephant was looking for me or something super strange like that.
Morning. Happy I voted day!
Must be political if elephant.
If it had been a cassowary, we’d just have you committed.
For the greater good.
I had to DDG what in the hell is a cassowary. Never heard of it. Definitely not what was in my dream.
Clearly you are the elepahnt and you were trying to find a mirror.
I haven’t ruled that out.
Did you guys see the clip of Biden reacting when Jill came up behind him and gently touched his back? Jesus, I’ve had elder dogs react that way when surprised. Thought he was gonna bite her throat for a half-second.
I don’t know what any of that means.
I woke up at 1:41 this morning from a weird dream where I was looking for an elephant or an elephant was looking for me or something super strange like that.
Was he in your pajamas?
Did you have an abundance of peanuts ?
That’s not an elephant in my pajamas I’m just happy to see y’all.
Whats big, grey, and writes gloomy poems?
TS Elephant
I miss elephant jokes.
With a target that big? You need more range time.
The cultural climate around politics would be much calmer if government were not so intrusive into our lives.
DEFUND THE GOVERNMENT!
*laughs hysterically, rides off on stick pony*
You’d better be wearing a cheap, straw Stetson with a whistle on the neck string and some chromed plastic six-shooters on your hips or I’ll be sorely disappointed , Young Man!
Yelling “Giddy-up!” is optional but preferred.
Hrmm… odd thought of the morning…
Voting Conga line.
That would help us feel warmer. But I’m not getting out of line to go get my congas.
But the real question remains, who was the hunter and who was the hunted?
I’m inside!
Yay!
…and done!
I wore sturdy shoes, but my feet are still numb.
Well, I sent a rather lengthy response around midnight for whenever you get to your email.
There was another half of that thought, something about sympathies or empathies with regards to standing around too long.
That’s what I said for a microsecond the first time, too.
Election Day Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k3UFkP91d8
I keep rotating between several renditions of “Stepping Up to Boston” (sans “lyrics”) and “Conga” (with lyrics)
Shipping, Stepping, what’s the diff?
Domestic terrorists!
Supporters of President Donald Trump who recently harassed Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s campaign bus in Texas were armed and organized their operation in a private QAnon Facebook page, according to a new report.
The report, which was published by the fact-checking site, Snopes, states that the convoy of trucks that were seen on video surrounding a Biden-Kamala Harris bus on Texas’ Interstate 35, organized the event in a private Facebook page called the Alamo City Trump Train. The report also notes that messages between the group’s members suggested that they were armed with guns.
I thought we already knew they had guns, from the pile of dead bodies and the bullet-riddled burn-out bus upside down in the median.
“a private QAnon Facebook page”
If we somehow came to Snopes’ attention, I wonder how they would characterize us?
Does it need to be said?
Yelling “Giddy-up!” is optional but preferred.
I usually go with, “Hi ho, Silver! Awaaaaay!”
Still fixated on the bimetallic standard?
Still fixated on the bimetallic standard?
Paper money is for lighting cigars.
If we somehow came to Snopes’ attention, I wonder how they would characterize us?
What’s the intellectual equivalent of “visigoth”?
Trumpalo? Literally Hitler?
My election day theme song
Fuck that. Glib’s theme song with associated dance moves. Thing Bigger. Be best!
C’mon, SP, life is too confusing without all this new stuff. Oh well.
I think it’s for more detailed convos than we can manage on the regular site. Did you vote dead Six-pointer and stew?
Does it matter? WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE.
DON’T ANY OF YOU WATCH THE NEWS?
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK ANYMORE?!!?
Thanks SP.
Yeah, confusing. But PMs would be cool.
I for one, and I am perhaps alone in this, would deeply appreciate the ability to block certain member’s posts. Both on the forum and in the discussion forum.
We’ll still make you vote for Rethuglicans, there’s no escape! Anyone who doesn’t love the Donald is a libtard fake news! And drink your Ovaltine, snowflake!
Neither you nor the other Hype bother me in the slightest.
Ovaltine is not permitted on my diet, the Donald is an odious buffoon, and I voted for the first time in my life this year — against the Democrats.
😉
He is the other Hype!
Why do you want to block my posts?
[runs from forum sobbing]
Since the addition of a forum seems to be bringing all the Tulpae out of our basements, I’ll join in.
*Waves hello, climbs back into basement*
Fuck off Tulpa.
Aw, thanks for the welcome!
…wait. This is glibs. Uh, sip a glass of merlot, faggot!
(Am I doing it right?)
SP – My apologies for my part in last night’s uncivility.
Just voted. Took 5 minutes, no line. There were Biden/Harris campaigners outside in front of the entrance, complete with a Giant cardboard cutout of the 2. I thought you couldn’t do that?