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  1. Posted · Edited by HarJIT
    Fix broken link.

    (Originally posted link.) Latest version (Click "Raw" to install).

    Edit: For now, use Tampermonkey for Firefox Quantum.

    Notes:

    • Edit: you might need to specifically enable the script following installation.
    • This is CSS-based.  It is minimally wrapped for Greasemonkey (edit: or Tampermonkey) use but this could easily be removed leaving a CSS file.  Instructions in a comment.
    • This is only intended for the desktop site.  I don't know what it would do to the mobile site. Mobile should work now, using e.g. Tampermonkey for Android.
    • As well as fixing things which are visibly broken, this custom stylesheet is partially influenced by pre-crash styling (drawn from the Wayback Machine) in aspects where I feel the interface never re-achieved its former merit.  Aspects which are better post-crash have been retained.
    • This incorporates the white-text editor fix.  There should be no need to install both.
    • If the site changes so as to break this custom styling, disable/remove it.
    • Edit: I should probably mention that I have not exhaustively tested the effects of this, but they seem good so far.

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  2. Posted

    As a Redditor, I feel the need to interject with the (in)famous https://np.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/2byyca/reddit_helps_me_focus_on_the_important_things/cjb2z41/

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    [–]Unidan 2 years ago 

    Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow."

    Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.

    As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.

    If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.

    So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.

    Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't.

    It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?

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  5. Posted

    As I mentioned in an edit, I suspect they may have shown up initially due to still being present in caching at some level.

    Given that both default profile images and re-uploaded profile images work fine, but others display as alt-text, I suspect that the profile-image storage directory/database/whatever iPB uses may have been moved/renamed/deleted (as in the images or the references were changed, but not both).

  6. Posted

    21 minutes ago, mlooney said:

    Odd, I see mine.  Let me try doing it again

    Huh.  Turns out everyones' are visible on the mobile site, it's only the Desktop site that they're missing on.  But yes, yours is showing up on both now.

    Edit: spoke too soon, the others have stopped showing up on mobile as well as desktop.  Maybe I just had them cached until now?

  8. Posted · Edited by HarJIT
    came across as a bit aggressive

    The history sections on some pages (Tedd for example) are far too long, and kinda duplicate the individual arc pages.  Merging them with the arc pages and then abridging is the way to go.  My initial attempts at abridging didn't get very far though.

    However, before copying/moving anything, consult https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copying_within_Wikipedia.  While Shiveapedia is not Wikipedia, it uses the same BY-SA licensing and therefore what is said on that page does apply.  In short, in the edit summary, put a link to the source page from which you are copying/moving, so people browsing the target page edit history can consult the source page edit history for the original authors of the content, thus fulfilling the attribution requirement.

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    1 hour ago, HarJIT said:

    Due to the laundry in my block of my hall of residence being out of order, unusually, I had to use the other one. After I found / was directed to it and finally got to use a machine, I paid and selected cycle, it read 35mins, nothing seemed to happen at first, strangely, I came back 40mins later, still nothing had happened and it still read 35mins. MY CLOTHES ARE LOCKED IN A NON-FUNCTIONAL WASHING MACHINE IN THE LAUNDRY WHICH IS NOT THE ONE IN MY BLOCK. Oddly, someone had seemingly used it before me fine.

    I called the warden, it eventually turned out that my best hope is to try and contact the accomodation centre tomorrow.

    The machine eventually unlocked itself, laundry was drenched in the case of the items at the bottom but otherwise unwashed and bone dry.  Have transferred to another machine which appears to be working.

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  13. Posted

    Due to the laundry in my block of my hall of residence being out of order, unusually, I had to use the other one. After I found / was directed to it and finally got to use a machine, I paid and selected cycle, it read 35mins, nothing seemed to happen at first, strangely, I came back 40mins later, still nothing had happened and it still read 35mins. MY CLOTHES ARE LOCKED IN A NON-FUNCTIONAL WASHING MACHINE IN THE LAUNDRY WHICH IS NOT THE ONE IN MY BLOCK. Oddly, someone had seemingly used it before me fine.

    I called the warden, it eventually turned out that my best hope is to try and contact the accomodation centre tomorrow.

  17. Posted · Edited by HarJIT
    remove lengthy blockquote when context already clear

    Writing in HTML, one would use   for an en space and   for an em space. Either way, they both tend to be larger than regular word-spaces.

    I guess a more convenient way of inputting en and em quads may, if not exactly re-standardise the practice of greater spacing, maybe make it more generally feasible to use the proper Unicode codepoints for the larger spaces, rather than just using two plain spaces. But whatever…

  19. Posted

    Ah, yes, place name suffices.

    -Chester as pronounced, -cester as "stuh" (despite originally being the same word) - i.e. Lester (Leicester), Gloster (Gloucester), Wooster (Worcester).  -Burgh as "bruh", -borough either the same or as written, -ham as "um" at least in England (e.g. Birmingham).

    Also, Salisbury -> Solzbree.

    Moving on, English accents (excluding some such as Cornish, famously caracturised as Pirate) may not differentiate between "law" and "lore" to the extent that American accents do; essentially, prolonging a vowel without shifting/dipthonging implies an r, in a similar way to how changing a vowel in other ways implies an h (oh, eh).  I don't believe this applies to Scotland etc, hence I didn't say "British".

    Re. children, oxen… boxen is already a slang in some circles ("UNIX boxen", with multiple versions or incarnations of the OS being Unixen), I tend to mentally think of more than one forum as "forumen" (neither forums nor fora seems to sound right, although the original "town squares" meaning would be "fora"); I tend to catch myself trying foolishly to extend this to "album" also (sadly, albumen is already taken).

     

  22. Posted

    5 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

    The easiest cure for the white text is to click on where text ought to be (NOT in a quote box - if you click there then this only works on the contents of that quote box), hit Ctrl-A, and then change the text color (that's the underlined "A" in the row of tool buttons) from "Automatic" to, well, pretty much anything other than white. I go with the black square at the left of the first full row.

    This has been complained about, both in the forum and in feedback to the admins, several times.

    I will take the opportunity to link to https://sites.google.com/site/harjitegs/910-invisible-text-problem again (hey, that's what I put in up for!)