Moderators (requests and notices)

Just seen that to publish a single service costs $199 per month: https://partners.ifttt.com/pricing

Er, that's not going to happen.

I'll have to do the Twitter client thing. Which is a pain in the arse.

I've thought about it, if that counts? Made it easy to swoop in on Classifieds threads.

That feature went away, and you're the first person to ask for it in 2 years.

I dream about it twice each night, but I am limited in my ability to express my dreams.

(Back in the days it was a perfect beer game to guess the next reply/topic)

For me it wasn't important that it was twitter, if it was something on microcosm that would be good too.

When there was the constant stream of things I used to stick it on when I was doing something mind numbing and it would give me a break from it every so often when I'd see something I was interested in, it also made a sort of serendipitous finding of threads.

Indeed watching the live stream was a favorite pastime of mine and many others I suspect. The beating heart of the vbullitin forum. I bet many have asked to get that back over the past 2 years...
...and polls (see photography challenge thread weekly polling challenge)

Dick deleting all his sale threads. Was just trying to find the hoy he was selling to show someone and there's just a full stop.

What happened to locking the first post in sales threads so prices would be there for reference?

@Velocio

This is a separate query but similar to above.

Well, let me know who.

I can restore such things.

I can't "lock" first posts as there must be a way for you to edit the first post if you have accidentally published personally identifiable details in that post, i.e. contact phone number and full name.

Merge please
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/202583/

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/297559/

Im not sure if this is the right thread to ask but why do I have to do a security check every day when I check this website?

Brexit.

why do I have to do a security check every day when I check this website?

Because whatever browser you're using is failing to store cookies between sessions. Usually that's because you've told it to delete history on exit, most browsers default setting is to keep cookies until they expire, which in the case of lfgss is years.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/297551/#comment13375518
And all the rest of his sale threads

@Velocio Is this fatty Matty/freshslate ?

https://www.lfgss.com/profiles/######

Also is fatty Matty banned?

If so why?

Thx @Velocio

No, that profile is Bruno, he's a good guy AFAICT.

Fatty Matty is banned for anger management issues coupled with incessant lying.

Thanks, there was some similar language used in sale threads (all above the line) so just wanted to check. Cheers for the info.

Curious about the algorithm for trending articles on here. Am I right in thinking that once a topic has dropped off the trending list, it can't reappear?

For example, long-established threads sometimes become "hot" (e.g. Pro cycling thread during Paris-Roubaix) but only new threads seem to come up on the trending list.

There's a trending list?!

https://www.lfgss.com/trending/

No idea how you get to it via point-'n'-clic.

Trending algo here: https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microcosm/blob/master/models/trending.go#L51-L110

Was replaced with "Today" shortly after launch as the algorithm didn't work well. On large sites it moved too fast, on small sites it moved too slow. It also didn't seem to deal with "hot" items very well if the items were large, i.e. if a sudden spike in comments happened on Bike Porn the size of the thread meant that it didn't really register it. Only considered conversations created within the latest year as contenders for trending.

Cheers dood. I find it really useful.

Two things I'd like to say about the insert image function on mobile (specifically Android).

1.) it constantly freezes for me on multiple devices on various different versions on Android but both using Chrome. By which I mean the popup become unresponsive.

2.) it seems a bit needless to include the 'http://' text in the box as I always have to delete it as I'm copying the image link from else where and it already intuit in the copied text. Perhaps an ideal might be for it to be in the box but vanishes as soon as you start to type?

Hope that makes sense, thanks.

Agree on part 2 (never expirienced problems on android chrome)- Let go of the http:// all together. If you have the skills to copy a link, then you know all about what insert image link means.

Would you want the same on the 'link' dialog too?

I never use the link one, but it annoys me on image too... I can put a PR in for this directly, save velocio some time