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What Have We Created?

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-so-meta-even-this-acronym dept.

jcd writes:

"I'm rather excited to get going with Soylent and to watch it grow. Nay, help it grow. I have lurked in /. for more than a decade (note: I'm not the same username over there, I know, how sneaky), and always wished I could have been involved with the beginning. So this is a great opportunity, and I joined as soon as I saw what Soylent was doing. Not to mention the fact that I felt right at home with the old style. It's very comfortable.

So here's a question for everyone. Are we going to be the same as slashdot? A clone that focuses as entirely as possible on tech related news? Or will we branch out to other topics? I'm interested to see either way. I posted a comment to this effect in one of our two existing polls, and it may be a community-wide assumption, but I do think it merits a discussion."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Foobar Bazbot on Friday February 21 2014, @01:20AM

    by Foobar Bazbot (37) on Friday February 21 2014, @01:20AM (#4096)

    the ability to instantly collapse an entire thread that diverged away in order to find the other discussions that got buried amid the frenzy more easily.

    It's my understanding that this greasemonkey script [userscripts.org], which is said to work [dev.soylentnews.org] on soylentnews with one slight modification, will grant you the ability you seek. (Haven't had a chance to try it myself...)

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  • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Friday February 21 2014, @02:26AM

    by NCommander (2) <mcasadevall@dev.soylentnews.org> on Friday February 21 2014, @02:26AM (#4127) Homepage Journal

    For what's its worth, I tried it and no dice even after following the editing instructions to the letter.

    --
    Still always moving ...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @07:53AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @07:53AM (#4248)

      For what's its worth, I tried it and no dice even after following the editing instructions to the letter.

      Of course. "No Dice" is the whole point of Soylent News, after all. ;-)

    • (Score: 1) by stderr on Friday February 21 2014, @11:07AM

      by stderr (11) on Friday February 21 2014, @11:07AM (#4346) Journal

      I have only tested this in "Nested"-mode, but if you can make some "pretty" buttons and hook them up to the following hide_comment(cid) and show_comment(cid) functions, I think we got a very simple POC...

      function hide_comment(cid)
      {
         var comment=document.getElementById("comment_"+cid);
         if(!comment) return;

         var details=comment.getElementsByClassName("details");
         if(details) details[0].style.setProperty("display","none",null );

         var commentbody=comment.getElementsByClassName("commen tBody");
         if(commentbody) commentbody[0].style.setProperty("display","none", null);

         var commentsub=comment.getElementsByClassName("comment Sub");
         if(commentsub) commentsub[0].style.setProperty("display","none",n ull);

         var commtree=document.getElementById("commtree_"+cid);
         if(commtree) commtree.style.setProperty("display","none",null);
      }

      function show_comment(cid)
      {
         var comment=document.getElementById("comment_"+cid);
         if(!comment) return;

         var details=comment.getElementsByClassName("details");
         if(details) details[0].style.removeProperty("display");

         var commentbody=comment.getElementsByClassName("commen tBody");
         if(commentbody) commentbody[0].style.removeProperty("display");

         var commentsub=comment.getElementsByClassName("comment Sub");
         if(commentsub) commentsub[0].style.removeProperty("display");

         var commtree=document.getElementById("commtree_"+cid);
         if(commtree) commtree.style.removeProperty("display");
      }

      cid is of course the comment-id, so hide_comment(4127); should hide your comment (except for the title bar) and all it's replies (including this, so don't try that!).

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      alias sudo="echo make it yourself #" # ... and get off my lawn!

      • (Score: 1) by stderr on Friday February 21 2014, @11:15AM

        by stderr (11) on Friday February 21 2014, @11:15AM (#4350) Journal

        The comment systems inserts a blank after every 50 character in long lines of characters to avoid spam. It should be "commentBody" and "commentSub".

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        alias sudo="echo make it yourself #" # ... and get off my lawn!

    • (Score: 2) by Foobar Bazbot on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:24PM

      by Foobar Bazbot (37) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:24PM (#6953)

      NCommander, get your numbered polyhedra here. [userscripts.org] No editing needed.