This post is essentially being written to push down the picture of the penis. Bare with us, and by us I mean me.
While I haven’t been writing anything really decent here or there, I have been editing the site a tiny bit. First up, I’ve ditched the links cloud in favour of twitter-style mini avatars. I was inspired to do this after Doc_Swarley added buttons to Harnessed Crayon, but set out to make mine look closer to the display Twitter uses in profiles to display accounts a person is following. I like how it looks and I reckon I’ll use it more because along with looking prettier, it’s more interesting and maybe people will be more apt to visiting my friend’s websites.
After reading Tarale’s post yesterday I’ve decided to install Disqus here too. Disqus is a commenting system which allows threaded comments, notifications, cleaner management, and an ability to “like” comments, along with some other nice abilities. We’ll see how it goes, and if it works out I’ll keep it. Otherwise, there’s always the deactivate button.
And finally, the thing which is still currently frustrating me a little, is at the very top of this page. I’m a simple person, and simple things amuse me. This is a simple little “one liner” message I’ll update every so often with a random thought. I’m using an old twitter account of mine to display it, so I can also change it on a whim wherever I am. Also, thank you to all the people who helped me make it work (or attempt to; apostrophes still won’t display) last night; you’re all amazing (but not as much as me *nods*)
What are your thoughts on these? Like them? Don’t give a shit?
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I've found at some point you have to set reasonable limits, otherwise you'll be tweaking your site design every day for the rest of your life. For a period of time in 2007 and again last year I was changing my blog design almost every hour, it was consuming my very existence! Had I spent that much time actually writing useful posts people would want to read, perhaps I'd have more subscribers :P
Ah yeah. I'm not going to make a habit of it, it was just that all the tweaks happened around the same time. The links cloud was getting old, and I really wanted that slogan thing :P
I try not to make tweaking a regular thing; I've had the same design for quite a while now, I am just trying to shake things up a tiny bit.
I like both tweaks. The avatar links are a nice compact and personal way to link to people, and I've always like the idea of having a rotating snippety-thing (the correct technical term), but never been able to figure the best way to do it.
And I'm all over Disqus commenting like acne on a 10th grader.
How go those apostrophes?
I wouldn't mind an automatic one, but I don't have the know-how to do that. Having a “latest tweet” display from an unused account seems acceptable…except for this apostrophe bug problem I have -_-
They still get replaced by & a p o s ; ;_; It sucks bigtime.
Did you manually fix it for that one up there ^ ?
On an unrelated note, I wish I got a blue bar and star on my disqus comments on everyone else's sites, not just my own… :(
The one in my sidebar uses code from Twitter's old HTML widget (which they have since replaced/removed from their widget site :( ) which works perfectly from teh get go.. Trying to use the code with another account causes conflicts, so I ended up using code from http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-display-your-la… for the one at the top of the site.
It works, but apostrophes display as & a p o s ; (without the spaces). Taryn suggested adding the line “$tweet = str_replace(“'”, “'”, $tweet);” to the function parse, but that did nothing =/ I'm kinda stuck there, as I don't have much if any knowledge about php.
so you'd basically like to be a moderator everywhere forever? :P
I'm not sure I see what the problem would be with that. Can you make
that happen?
Maybe on your birthday :P
It's a shame… I've made YOU a moderator… so PTHHHH
Lol I doubt I'll do anything on your comments moderation wise anyway :P DON'T ABUSE YOUR POWER MY STARRED FRIEND.
Just to clarify my position on this- I choose to read that as “star-ed
friend” and it makes me feel even better about it.
If you want to my star-ed friend.
You know you don't need to spell it that way for me to read it like that…
PS. If you do it again, I'll ban you from ever commenting here again.
No please don't! I like commenting here! D:
Well then behave yourself. I'm not afraid to wield even the slightest power I might get, even on the person who granted it to me in the first place.
On an unrelated note, are you as curious as I am to see what happens as a comment thread continues? Do later comments just disappear into themselves when they run out of room?
I did actually wonder about that. It'll be interesting to see. Do you think they just plain stop?
Well I know there's a setting for unlimited nesting, but I don't know if it's truly unlimited. Perhaps the comments switch sides and start growing bigger out the other side of the comment column.
I'm thinking that maybe all previous comments are made a little bigger, so then it lasts a little longer.
Or does it get to the stage where it puts the comment one letter per line for as long as it takes?
Well it appears that it squeezes the like and reply buttons together. The question I have now is “can we BREAK threaded comments?”
Well I think if we can't break them, we're obviously just not fit for internet commenting.
Yeah, then they'll replace me with a bot and I'll have to pack my things and go :( Can't have that.
If you'd like I / ATUB can ask for a PHP/WordPress person to help troubleshoot it or you. I am sure someone would be willing to help.
If I
write
one
or two
words
it
might
just
fit.
That'd be pretty awesome :) Thankyou!
This is hilarious.
Looks like you won't have a reply button to click in a minute. What will we do then?
Of course we could always utilise the transperambulation of pseudo-cosmic antimatter.
This is possibly the most amazing comment conversation I have ever had. I really don't want it to stop :P
Well I couldn't find the reply button any more, but thanks too Disqus'
powerful reply-by-email feature, I can continue the hilarity from the
comfort of my inbox.
Reply by email? :D
Yay! You got it working and now this highly intelligent debate can
continue unabated! W00t!
heh, I'm curious what happens when the comments go so far back that they
hit the edge of the foreground…
Well there is only one way to find out… and it's our duty to do so.
I much prefer this to my other job. HERE WE GO.
I'm sure this is some sort of service to humanity though right? It's
not like we're wasting our time here.
Of course not. I mean, I'm sure one of us could write a 1000 word thesis
on /why/ this is important, but anyone with any iota of intelligence
should be able to work that out.
I think we're about to make your page scrolly. That'll be fun.
Page scrolly? What on Earth do you mean.
As in, we're already past the edge of your comments, soon we'll hang
over the edge of your page frame, then it's not long before we're off
the page completely. Then we'll see how your theme handles it: by
going all disappeary on us, or going page scrolly. It's simple science
man!
Ah I see. Also, I'll be heading to work shortly, ending my side of this
conversation until tomorrow. I almost want to call in sick just so we
can continue >_>
HAHA nice threaded conversation. Maybe Disqus should incorporate a sort of “zig-zag” type threaded comments system to avoid one-word-per-line comments and such :)
It's nowhere near over. We want to see what happens when the edge of the page is hit.
Well maybe we need to step it up! Come on man, where's your fortitude
in the face of fire?
Otherwise occupied because my eyes would be boiling and my lips would be
blistering. Not to mention I'd be too busy screaming in agony as my face
burnt off.
You're just full of lame excuses today.
That and tasty tasty chinese barbeque chicken :D
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