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3 votes
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Megadrill to build power highway below Stockholm's landmarks – Sweden's growing capital needs more electricity for homes and new industries
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Postcard swap
Hi! Anybody collect postcards? A few years ago I was very active user at postcrossing.com I would like swap postcards again. I'm from Spain.
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Infiltrating Scientology
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Australian scientists first to grow Wuhan coronavirus outside China
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Chinese embassy to Denmark wants Jyllands-Posten to apologize for publishing a drawing that depicts China's flag with virus symbols instead of five stars
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After visiting a topic's comments, that topic will show when it has new comments since your last visit
As discussed last week, the site is now marking new comments for all logged-in users. This has two effects: On the listings pages, you will see something like "5 comments (2 new)" when a topic you...
As discussed last week, the site is now marking new comments for all logged-in users. This has two effects:
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On the listings pages, you will see something like "5 comments (2 new)" when a topic you previously viewed the comments on has new comments since your last visit.
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When you return to a comments page with new comments, all old comments will start out collapsed, unless one of the new comments is a direct reply to one of them. New comments have a colored stripe down their left side, with the color varying based on the theme you're using (but I think it's generally an orange/red-like color).
You can expand collapsed comments by clicking the "+" button in their top left corner, or expand them all by using the "Expand all" button at the top of the comments section. If you don't like this initial collapsing behavior, you can disable it on the Settings page by unchecking the "Collapse old comments when I return to a topic" setting.
I'm working on some other adjustments and changes related to this, so there will probably be some more tweaks coming into place soon as well. I'd like input on one in particular:
Do we need a separate function along the lines of "stop indicating new comments on this post", or does the ignore function serve that purpose well enough? Are there reasonable cases where you want to stop seeing the "(x new)" on a topic, but do not want to actually ignore it? And if we do want to implement a function like that, any suggestions for a brief name/description for it that will fit in the Actions dropdown?
As always, any other general feedback about the feature is welcome as well.
And as usual, I've topped everyone back up to 10 invites, accessible on the invite page.
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Where do you draw the line when it comes to what data collection one can do on you?
(Presuming it's done purely for statistical purposes of course.) I, like most of us am personally fine with age, sex, city level location and relationship status. I really dislike using real names...
(Presuming it's done purely for statistical purposes of course.)
I, like most of us am personally fine with age, sex, city level location and relationship status. I really dislike using real names though since I feel like it ties you to who you are in person, which I really dislike and I support people deciding not to fill them in because in some places even what I've outlined can get you in trouble.
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NASA selects Axiom Space to build commercial space station module
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James Webb Space Telescope: Technical challenges have caused schedule strain and may increase costs
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LPE and RCE in OpenSMTPD (CVE-2020-7247)
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Mary Louise Kelly interviews Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo
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1917 (2019) — Spoiler-free discussion thread
Trailer topic Wikipedia I watched it last week. Fantastic movie. I don't watch many war movies (in fact this is one of my first ones), but I really, really liked it. I didn't even notice the two...
I watched it last week. Fantastic movie. I don't watch many war movies (in fact this is one of my first ones), but I really, really liked it. I didn't even notice the two hours go by.
The one-shot effect is really well done, and I enjoyed trying to spot the transitions.
It's not an exceptional movie or anything like that, but it's one of the rare times I just went into the theater and came out exceedingly satisfied.
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Here’s what the oft-cited R0 number tells us about the new outbreak—and what it doesn’t
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Trapped in Iran
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An open letter on Australian bushfires and climate: urgent need for deep cuts in carbon emissions [signed by Laureates of the Australian Research Council]
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Steven Sinofsky: The tenth anniversary of the iPad: A perspective from the Windows team
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I'm planning to enable the "mark new comments" feature for everyone - any major concerns?
Something that's come up in discussions a few times recently is how important it is to have good default settings. Even users who are quite technical and involved don't always explore which...
Something that's come up in discussions a few times recently is how important it is to have good default settings. Even users who are quite technical and involved don't always explore which settings are available, and that's totally fine—they shouldn't need to. The default setup should be as good as possible, with changing settings mostly for specialized cases.
One particular place on Tildes where this isn't currently being done well is for the "mark new comments" feature, which has always been disabled by default. I think it's one of the best features on the site and makes it much easier to follow ongoing discussions here than on other sites with similar comment systems, but overall, not many users have enabled it.
For example, Tildes got some attention on Hacker News again yesterday, and about 80 new users have registered so far from that. Only 9 of them enabled "mark new comments", even though the welcome message strongly encourages it. Looking at longer periods of time, this seems typical: only about 10% of users ever enable it.
As it says on the settings page for the feature, my reason for disabling it by default was out of privacy concerns. However, I've been doing some review of the data that Tildes stores lately and realized that this was kind of misleading and inaccurate. Because I have HTTP request server logs and some other related data (which is all only kept for 30 days), I effectively have topic visit records from the last 30 days for all users anyway, whether they have the feature enabled or not. The data is more convenient to access for users with the feature enabled, but it's available either way.
Because of that, and because the data will be very useful to combine with some of the upcoming changes I mentioned in the last ~tildes.official post, I'm planning to enable this feature for everyone. Here are the general plans:
- Data about which topics' comments pages a user visits will be stored (for 30 days), along with when and how many comments were there at the time. This enables displaying which topics have new comments since your last visit, and marking those new comments.
- There will no longer be a setting to disable this, but you can still choose whether previously-seen comments are collapsed when you return - the same as the existing checkbox on that page for "Collapse old comments when I return to a topic".
- I will probably implement some sort of "stop informing me of new comments in this topic" feature (separate from the new Ignore one) to stop having the info about new comments in a topic showing up for you.
Please let me know if you have any thoughts or concerns about this. If nothing major comes up, I intend to make this change later this week.
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How do you find flights?
Planes may soon be a thing of the past, for now they're still sometimes hard to replace. I used to rely on Hipmunk for finding flights, but sadly, they recently shut down. So I was wondering, what...
Planes may soon be a thing of the past, for now they're still sometimes hard to replace.
I used to rely on Hipmunk for finding flights, but sadly, they recently shut down. So I was wondering, what do people on tildes use to find flights? Any tool/website you're happy with?
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Washington state proposes legislation aimed at preventing class-action lawsuits against video game companies: would change the legal definition of "illegal gambling games" to exclude video games
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What's something you're comfortable telling people on the internet that you wouldn't share with people you know in real life?
This is presumably unanswerable for anyone whose handle here is known by anyone in their real life, but I figured I'd ask it anyway, as there are likely a good number of us for whom our Tildes...
This is presumably unanswerable for anyone whose handle here is known by anyone in their real life, but I figured I'd ask it anyway, as there are likely a good number of us for whom our Tildes names are fully separate from our real life identitires.
- What are you willing to share with internet strangers but not people you know in real life?
- Why is it important to you that it is not shared with people you know in real life?
As noted in the question, I'm looking for stuff you're comfortable sharing. I'm not trying to fish for deep dirt here.
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Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs has been acquired by Garena for $150 million
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Too many of America’s smartest waste their talents
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How will you measure your life? Clayton Christensen’s advice on how to determine success.
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"I Hate To See The Sun Go Down" (Artist Unknown)
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Endless Night (feature-film, logline)
What is a logline?: a brief summary (25 to 40 words) of a story for film, television or book that states the central conflict and an emotional "hook", with the purpose of stimulating interest...
What is a logline?: a brief summary (25 to 40 words) of a story for film, television or book that states the central conflict and an emotional "hook", with the purpose of stimulating interest (Wikipedia).
A logline is evaluated not exactly for what a story is (since it does not contain a complete story), but for what it can be. Suggestions usually seek to maximize the dramatic potential of the idea.
Title: Endless Night (feature-film, drama).
Logline (27 words): Death has until dawn to ensure his very survival by splitting a couple whose determination in preserving their toxic relationship threatens to shred the fabric of time.
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Arvind Narayanan: How to recognize AI snake oil
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Ed Edd n Eddy power level tier list
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Clearview AI claims its facial recognition software identified a terrorism suspect in New York City last year, but the NYPD says they played no role in the case
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The happinesses and stresses of full-time FOSS work
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Donald Trump administration's Middle East peace plan calls for creation of a State of Palestine, freeze on new Israeli settlements
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A journalist in Japan looks at how much single-use plastic he accumulates in a week, then attempts to spend a week without using any
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Magnitude 7.7 earthquake hits between Cuba and Jamaica
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Demoted and placed on probation
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Breach in payment-processing systems at Wawa convenience stores may have compromised over thirty million cards
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Invasion of the ‘Frankenbees’: The danger of building a better bee
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Housing discrimination made summers even hotter
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7 years after launch of the first episode, Kentucky Route Zero is finally finished
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A group of mothers, a vacant home, and a win for fair housing
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The rise of the "information game" genre
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QAnon-ers’ magic cure for coronavirus: Just drink bleach!
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Splendid isolation: How I stopped time by sitting in a forest for twenty-four hours
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Looking for a (new) odd news podcast
Some months ago, I found Weekly Weird News, a roundup of strange news from around the internet. I recently depleted their backstock, and find myself wanting. Now, I know there's no shortage of...
Some months ago, I found Weekly Weird News, a roundup of strange news from around the internet. I recently depleted their backstock, and find myself wanting. Now, I know there's no shortage of weird, odd, bizarre, and strange in our world. Just as I know there's no shortage of people willing to talk about it. But, I'm having difficulty finding "current" weirdness. Oh sure, there's podcasts to be found talking about the weirdness surrounding this murder in 1952, or that rural happening in 1991, but so far, I haven't found another that scratches that "that seriously happened recently?" itch.
Does anyone have any suggestions, or am I doomed to dripfeed?
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An antidote to dissatisfaction
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Universal Basic Income explained – free money for everybody? UBI
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Which religion is friendliest to the idea of aliens?
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How BoJack Horseman and The Good Place changed comedy: the hit shows, both ending this week, explored humanity’s big existential questions
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Cyan Worlds co-founder Rand Miller discusses the challenges of getting Myst to work on CD-ROM | War Stories
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Leader of US nazi terror group "The Base" revealed
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Product Hunt has launched YourStack, a social network for people to share products they use and love
4 votes