What are your favourite board games?
Maybe this is something that would exist better on ~games but, here it is.
Maybe this is something that would exist better on ~games but, here it is.
So what all do you drive?
What do you think about it and when did you have your first drink
I don't mind reading a fast book with lots of action or a twisting plot, but over the years have discovered authors that seem to have a style unique to them apart from what's going on:
Richard Powers seems to play with the sounds and meanings of words strung together like pearls on a necklace(The Echo Maker, Orfeo).
John Banville (Athena) creates descriptions that sound poetic and deep while remaining clear and visual.
Donna Tartt (The Goldfinch) puts you into a scene so that you feel the emotion of being there.
Don Delillo (The Names) makes a continental paradise seem like a dense forest of scholars and bright sunlight all at the same time.
Those are a few of mine, what are your favorites?
Shalom my dudes! I'm getting ready to graduate finally. I've been out of school for a few months. Getting work done and such. Then I'm going to iowa with my dad to visit family! So what about you guys?
I am personally a strong proponent/user of mobile apps, there probably aren't any websites that I frequent on a regular basis that I don't use an app for (other than tildes for now), plus there are some pretty strong advantages to mobile apps.
With that said, I'm just wondering why the official standing is against having a mobile app. Is it a resource thing (non-profit donation supported), small footprint thing (only 350 lines of JS), ideological thing (apps are counter intuitive)? Any ideas?
As an Ontarian in the Oshawa riding, I’m undecided. I really don’t see that any of the big three (NDP, Liberal, PC) deserve my vote. I wonder what other Canadians in Ontario think of the upcoming election.
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The podcast threads have been chock-full of high-profile, well-known podcasts. I definitely enjoy some of those but I also like listening to smaller, more "homemade" podcasts if they're interesting.
Do you make a podcast that you want to share with the group?
(While technically self-promotion I'm genuinely curious at the answer. I'll pull the topic if it is out of bounds.)
I had a look at the available themes and being a person who is sometimes inclined to rice, decided to port my colourscheme to tildes using the Stylish firefox extension. Unfortunately,
Content Security Policy: The page's settings blocked the loading of a resource at self ("style-src")
comes up in the debugger on every page. How can I work around this?
It's been an interesting couple of weeks while we all decompress post-reddit and think about the future of democratic online forums. Most of the relevant topics have already been discussed in multiple threads, and rather than having repeats, I'd like to invite everyone to comment on these threads themselves - and to read the comments that are already there. You'll find most of the solutions we've been thinking about explained in some detail, and we do want your feedback on these ideas to help make them better.
I suggest you bookmark this page. This thread is getting a bit lost in the shuffle, and it's really the best nexus of information about tildes we have at the moment. It'll take you quite a while to read all of this, so since we don't have 'save posts' here yet, a bookmark will have to do. We're also updating the links here as new discussions form. If you think a discussion should be added here, please reply to this thread with the link and I'll take care of editing it into the main post. When you see new users asking repeat questions, please link them to this post. Thanks for your patience while we work through all of this. :)
Let's get started.
A group is its own worst enemy. This will help you think better about online community management. Also, if you haven't yet, play The Game Of Trust.
Community Moderators? How do we moderate effectively, and fairly? Do we moderate at all? (everyone should read this monster) Also, see round two.
How do we handle communities that get too big? It's a doozy, the inverse of reddit.
Do we allow Fluff content? Just how do we select for quality instead of popularity, or even define quality, anyway?
Do we allow for political content? How do we handle one of the most heated categories of discussion? Also see the followup.
What do we do about "Fake News?" And you thought politics was hard? :D
Can we create new ~groups? Will users be able to create them? Yes, eventually... but it's not that simple.
How do we stop bots from wrecking the place? What about the bots that are useful?
Why exactly is my comment box at the bottom, rather than the top? We have reasons. ;)
Anonymous posting? You betcha. Privacy is not just a buzzword.
Can we think of a better name than votes? Not really, not yet. Got any ideas?
Funding - how do we pay for all of this? Nothing is free, after all. No ads, no pay to play, but what else could we do?
Tildes Gold? No, something much better - the exemplary upvote, because you need a limited use vote to highlight the things you think are top quality. If we all use them together, it just might work.
What changes need to be made to the comment tags before they are re-enabled? It's a tough problem.
Should we make the site publicly visible? For users without accounts to read.
Moving the vote count to the vote button. It's the little things.
And, of course, our first ban. In fact we're up to two now.
It's not all serious, though!
Please do take some time to browse through everything in ~tildes. It's a cross between theoryofreddit, ideasfortheadmins, and announcements. That's where we talk turkey. There's a new discussion there every day.
I also want to make one important contrast about what this site intends to be.
Reddit and Voat: Democratic republic based on popularity. 'Free speech' forums.
Tidles: Democratic meritocracy based on quality. 'Civil speech' forum.
Enjoy yourselves, post some content, make some new friends. This sweet honeymoon phase won't last forever, and it's one of the best parts of a new site. Remember, as long as you're civil here, you are never going to have any problems.
Can we get a "Mark all as read" for notifications? I certainly haven't run into an issue where I need it yet, but I foresee wanting that feature in the future.
Also, so far I'm really loving the platform.
Hey guys -- I wrote a blog that I'd love some feedback on. I'm an identity product manager and have been trying to train my users to use passphrases. Do these read friendly enough? I want it to be readable by all users, but my target audience is other people in product and software.
https://medium.com/@toritxtornado/training-your-users-to-use-passphrases-2a42fd69e141
Hello ~games
Do any of you have experience finding D&D groups who still play traditional table-top, IRL, Minis-inclusive, dice obsessive D&D in Toronto? I have never played outside of Roll20 and I can never figure out where/what to look for in a group (preferably one that's just starting out like me). Having grown up watching the likes of Acquisitions Incorporated and Critical Role, I've always wanted to experience that sort of camaraderie :(
I'm curious to what extent group mods will be able to customize how groups work. One thing I think is very limited about Reddit is its very limited, constrained format. Some communities might be better served with different options. Is there a doc explaining what is planned?
First world problem of having a fast website. Dei pls make tildes more like every other slow site on the internet.
It appears that the visited links do not persist between the homepage and individual groups, for example if I click a topic in ~tildes, then go to the home page page and view said topic, it won't be purple, and vice versa.
So far, Tildes is creating a lot of good discussion, but it's lacking a way to "retrace your steps" and get back to old threads that were worth remembering.
Either a search function, or save function would come in very handy here.
I'd like to see the ability to save comments made a first class feature here, rather than an upgrade as it is on Reddit.
I hope there are others who would appreciate this at some point. It's a very well-run sub on Reddit. I'm not a programmer, so just a suggestion.
@assassinscreed: See you at E3! https://t.co/03NTPhCkCf
Who here plays Dwarf Fortress? It is such an amazing game that I only got back to playing last night after a weeks-long hiatus while focusing on my job.
I prefer playing Adventurer mode with some crafting mods, and exploring the land - socializing, having fun, making NPC pals, and being a hero.
Maybe we can do a Tildes DF succession game!
I'm not sure if it's a vanilla reddit feature or if it comes from RES, but I've become reliant upon the preview that shows up under a comment box that renders your response through markdown so you can see the formatting before you post it. This doesn't need to be real-time, since that would likely detract from the "lightweight" technical goal, but I feel like it might be useful
Hey folks, so I've worked nights for the last two years and it sucked. flat out sucked. I would average 4-5 hours of sleep before and after a shift and now I've moved to afternoons (3pm-10pm) I find my body still thinks 5ish hours is great.
Often I wake in the middle of the night and then that's it. I'm up. it truly sucks. anyone got advice on how I can change this? I've been on afternoons for a little over a month now, so could it be more I'm still adjusting? appreciate any help and advice.
edit ** thank you all for the advice. I will have to work out a routine and make sure to sick to it, then just not get too down when only making small steps.
Having to scroll all the way to the bottom to input a comment is sort of a pain, especially for the larger threads.
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Having a sense of humor can be very positive for a discussion, but how do we go about that without discussions degrading into reddit-esque meme chains?
EDIT: Will users have to tag every single comment in a chain as a joke? Will all comments in a chain be hidden if the first one has a tag and I filter based in it?
You may have heard that Roseanne Barr made a horrible comment/joke on her Twitter account - this lead to the cancelation of her show, Rosanne.
Then, Samantha Bee made a horrible comment/joke on her show about Ivanka Trump that has prompted an apology, and an advertiser exit (so far).
If Samantha Bee is canceled too, does the punishment fit? Did Rosanne deserve to see her show canceled? Is there (or should there be) a limit to what comedians can say on TV or online?
Note: Typed this out on mobile, so may need corrections later. Edit: Added links, corrections. Edit again, update Bee's details.
I just recently noticed the "mark as read" link for replies so now I have dozens of old "new replies" and it would be great if I didn't have to go back and click every single one of them.
For reddit maniac like me, I'd like to hide posts because I've already seen them. Then the next time I hit F5 I can browser all fresh contents.
Just wanted to wish everyone a happy pride month!
Geez, I said I was hoping to keep these daily discussions a little "lighter" on the weekend, but that's definitely not working out this weekend.
Yesterday's thread is getting awfully large, so I think it will be good to use this one to continue with some specific topics from that one, instead of trying to keep it in there where it's pretty unwieldy (I definitely need to do some work on handling large threads better).
There are 3 things I want to try to clarify and start discussion on:
So... that's pretty scattered, but hopefully it's a decent starting point to talk about some of these topics. Let me know what you think, I definitely appreciate everyone's input so far, and it's going to be important to keep getting it regularly to make sure Tildes can stay on the right track.
In advance of (I hope) ~gaming.tabletop.StarWars.Xwing :) Any other X wing players here. I was falling out of love with it, but the relaunch for second edition really gets me excited to play again, which is great as i have maaaanay tiny plastic spaceships to push about.
If you don't know, info here https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/x-wing-second-edition/ and it is a pretty fast and dynamic tabletop space fighter skirmish games. Plays in 75 mins (you stop after that) and very much streamlined versus other tabletop miniature games.