The Glowfic Constellation

[DanielH]

If Ruby can delete objects and reuse the memory but not actually free() it back to the system, is the problem just that the database might also want the memory? Once Ruby had enough memory for any request it shouldn’t need much more.

How difficult is it to do a streaming reply? If you download a 10 gigabyte file the server only loads part of it in memory at a time; could the same be done here? You’d probably lose the Content-Length header unless you put in extra work, but that probably won’t cause much of an issue.

[pedromvilar]

my main use for view=flat is extended periods of internetlessness and looking stuff up, and the former case is not super common

[jalapeno_dude]

It would be nice to be able to set a filter on the Opened Threads page such that e.g. only threads with at least 10 unread replies are shown. (If I read a lot of threads at once one or two new replies at a time I tend to get lost and spend a lot of time scrolling back to check what happened previously.) Being able to sort by #Unread would help with this a little, but what I really want is the page with the default sorting but filtered to only show the applicable threads.

(I can also think of other potentially useful filters, e.g. only showing unread posts that have some minimum number of replies or only ones that have a given user as one of the authors.)

[Moriwen]

I too had the certificate error.

[DanielH]

Since you also saw Lexile I think it’s worth mentioning they aren’t who I first saw, which was Bluefin Labs.

[Shoal]

I too had the certificate error.

I too just now. (Lexile, not bluefin), trying to load room of requirement page 238.

[Timepoof]

Periods of internetlessness applies here. I need to be able to download threads the way I do it which requires them to be in a long long straight page of infinity. (Is this even coherent? If no, poke me later to edit/clarify)

[Moriwen]

I can now see the text when I'm typing in warnings on starrydark! It is no longer the same color as the background of the textbox! This is a huge improvement!

New request on the same topic: the "loading..." pop-up (for when it's trying to guess what tag I might be trying to type in) covers the bottom of the text box, so I can't actually see the latest tag I'm typing in. Could it please not do that?

Example. I've typed in "stockholm syndrome" after "magical mind-control love," but you can't see it, because the "the results could not be loaded" pop-up is covering it.

Also: When I'm typing in a new warning (that hasn't been used on the Constellation before), I can't just finish typing it, hit 'enter', and move on; I have to wait for it to check through all the tags, decide that that one doesn't exist, and change the autocomplete pop-up box from "loading..." to "warning I just invented" so I can click on it. This is a teeny tiny annoyance but it would be nice to have fixed nonetheless.

[DanielH]

How I handle long thread loading for internetlessness is per_page modification: I say see that I have just finished page 150 out of 155, do some quick math, and add &per_page=125 (where 125 = 25*5, because by default I have 25 replies per page and 5 is a factor of 150 which will load the rest of the thread). As long as I’ve read more than half a thread I can get this to work by figuring out which reply I’ve finished reading (25*150=3750) and just using that (page=unread&per_page=3750).

If some feature could be added, accessible from the mobile interface, to automate this, it would make things easier and cause fewer mistakes where I accidentally load the first several thousand posts because I mis-multiplied, and it would cut down on everybody using flat view to skip that work.

[pedromvilar]

UI Suggestion: in the Edit Account page, it seems like the 'Unread Default' and 'Default Editor' options (and perhaps the 'Split Icon Picker' option) should be radio buttons rather than a checkbox or a dropdown menu, it seems like it makes more aesthetic sense.

Other UI Suggestion: That "Layout" also be a radio button, with a thumbnail showing what the website looks like under each theme so we don't have to figure that out empirically.