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Why IVF has divided France: The country is forever caught between tradition and innovation, universalism and individual rights
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Where is all the geothermal energy?
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AI's hardest problem? Developing common sense
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China and Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits
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Some layout adjustments and de-emphasizing topic tags a little
Updates have been slow lately—I've been working on some larger projects that have ended up with me getting lost down some rabbit-holes that I probably should have stayed away from. Hopefully there...
Updates have been slow lately—I've been working on some larger projects that have ended up with me getting lost down some rabbit-holes that I probably should have stayed away from. Hopefully there will be some progress to show from those before too much longer.
Anyway, I've just deployed an update that re-arranges a few elements, with the most major change being that most topic tags are no longer shown by default on the "listing pages", such as the home page and when you're inside a specific group. The tags added a ton of clutter to the page for information that wasn't important at all most of the time, and multiple people have told me that they found them intimidating and confusing.
I'll come back to the reasoning behind it, but first: if you want to continue seeing tags on topics in listings, there's a new setting for that near the top of the Settings page: "Show topic tags in listing pages". I've also already enabled this setting for anyone that has the permission to tag other users' topics, since I think those users clearly care more about tagging (and if you'd like that permission to help with tagging topics, send me a message and let me know and I can give it to you).
For more about why, I think this old page by Cory Doctorow from 18 years ago does a good job of explaining why detailed metadata systems often have a lot of issues. Even though some users (including me) care a lot about trying to organize and label everything, most users really don't, and it's intimidating to try to figure out how to tag "properly".
This will only get worse as the site continues to grow and more tagging conventions and history are built up, so I wanted to try addressing this now, before it gets too bad. Not having the tags on listings will also have some other benefits like not needing to worry so much about adding "too many" tags to topics, potentially being able to come up with some new special uses for tags in the future, and so on.
Various other minor tweaks were made to the layout as part of this and some upcoming changes (like being able to hide/ignore topics from the listing page). Just a quick list:
- "nsfw" and "spoiler" tags will still be shown in listings. Other "important" tags will be enabled eventually to continue showing in listings, probably even on a per-group level.
- On a topic's comments page, tags are now displayed below the title instead of being in the sidebar
- On the new topic page, the "add tags" field is hidden (collapsed, requires a click) by default. Once a user shows interest in tagging—either by submitting a new topic with tags or changing tags on a topic—it will be shown in the future. I enabled it for a lot of existing users that have done any tagging recently, so most of you probably won't even notice this.
- The "content metadata" such as word count and publication date is now shown in listings next to a topic's group, instead of in parentheses after its title. Without the tags, we have more room for this and can probably do some more with this soon.
- Link topic favicons (the site logos) are now shown next to the site's name, instead of before the title.
That should mostly cover it for now. Let me know if you have feedback or questions.
And as usual, I've given every 10 invites, accessible on the invite page
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Plain Text Accounting | Double-Entry Accounting with Plain Text Files in the Command Line
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Peel, chop and stir for hours: How Appalachia’s beloved community apple-butter parties live on
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The Asian MMA unicorn taking on the UFC
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Scandinavian Airlines and Finnair have joined other partners including Icelandair in the Nordic Network for Electric Aviation
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In Greenland, Thai restaurants serve whale skin sushi and reindeer pad krapow
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Facebook's dating service is full of red flags
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JS13k Results Are Out! - Small JavaScript games playable in browser + source code
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Engineering with origami
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Australia just had a bad flu season. That may be a warning for the US
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Blacksmithing - Forging dome head rivets
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Why Japan lost its comparative advantage in producing electronic parts and components
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The Wave that changed the world
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Richard Dawkins in conversation with Penn Jillette at Live Talks LA
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“Chocolate Jesus” x Tom Waits [Live]
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Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Instagram, then shuts down internet amid civil unrest
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Bernie Sanders hospitalized for blocked artery, had two stents inserted; campaign events canceled until further notice
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Whistleblower accuses largest US military shipbuilder of putting ‘American lives at risk’ by falsifying tests on submarine stealth coating
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Succession: One of TV's best comedies has tricked you into thinking it's a drama
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Denmark calls for EU ban on all diesel and petrol cars by 2040
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How Ireland's Kerrygold butter became a mainstay in US kitchens
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Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city’s residents
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I need ideas for philosphical questions relating to technology. (More details below)
So I have a philosophy and rationality class in cegep. Currently, the topics are pretty general since that's well, what the class is about but well, those don't interest me as much as the debates...
So I have a philosophy and rationality class in cegep. Currently, the topics are pretty general since that's well, what the class is about but well, those don't interest me as much as the debates around Open Access, Copyright, Open Data, Free Software, Piracy, etc. relating to technology
but well, in some of those cases, it would be hard for my teacher to be able to grade if what I'm saying is true so well, I'm creating this in the hopes that some of you have ideas for questions which might interest me but still be easy to enough for my philosophy teacher to well, be able to evaluate my work.
Of course I've already asked my teacher if I could do a question which isn't necessarily related to the class beforehand but he's a little scared of what I might come up with, hah.
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The next big thing in dining: virtual restaurants
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World of Warcraft Classic and what we left behind
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Go Proposal Process: Representation
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Neuromonakh Feofan & Slot - Drievnierusskaja Dusha (2017)
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Amager Bakke, the incinerator and the ski slope tackling waste
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The Good Place S04E02 - "A Girl From Arizona: Part 2” discussion thread
A discussion thread for the latest episode of "The Good Place." Of note is that was billed as a second part to last week's season premiere.
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Fall 2019 Premiere Reviews - Anime Feminist
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SQLite 3.30.0 Released
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The first video game
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Ten years ago, Balloon Boy captivated the country. For the first time, we reveal the true story behind the hoax.
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I made a (very, very) basic Tildes scraper and cli browser ruby gem
Here's the ruby gem page and here's the github. Right now it comes with a command line browser that can browse the front page and group pages with no sorting options, and you can view the contents...
Here's the ruby gem page and here's the github. Right now it comes with a command line browser that can browse the front page and group pages with no sorting options, and you can view the contents of a topic (link or text) aswell as the comments. The methods defined in lib/tilde-scraper/api.rb can be used to scrape tildes pages into Group, Page, Topic, and Comment objects.
Right now it's super basic and messy, but I figured if anyone was interested in it it would be the people here.
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Jason-2 oceanography satellite ends eleven-year mission
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Donald Trump administration will deny visas to US immigrants who cannot prove they will have health insurance or the ability to pay for medical costs
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Mega Drive - Active Denial System (2019)
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Mitch McConnell vows to block former US President Donald Trump impeachment in fundraising pitch
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Steven Universe Future - Cartoon Network
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"Feast of Legends", a Wendy's restaurant-branded role-playing game
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PayPal drops out of Facebook’s Libra payments network, as other financial partners reconsider their involvement
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Global stocks sell off as economic fears mount
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US Customs officer harasses Defense One journalist at Dulles Airport
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Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases
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Trine 4 - Game overview
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