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What Have We Created?

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:45PM   
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."

• Re:Long time lurker here... Re:Long time lurker here... (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.

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• Re:Long time lurker here... (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. ;-)

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• Re:Long time lurker here... Re:Long time lurker here... (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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  • Re:Long time lurker here... (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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• Re:Long time lurker here... (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.

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