134 - Roar... um.... by rtemp. Forum: Comic Discussion.
user 456 posts 2008-02-18 04:23:08 |
Well, at least this place isn't /completely/ abandoned. >_> <_< Maybe that's not as true as I want it to be. |
user 35 posts 2008-02-18 04:26:30 |
Hmm? Who said that? Is this place haunted? |
user 641 posts 2008-02-18 04:26:51 |
I'm here! |
user 241 posts 2008-02-18 04:28:06 |
Most active thread on decorum all week. >.> At least until the next comic is posted anyway. |
user 5 posts 2008-02-18 04:42:53 |
Everyone else is discussing this comic in irc. |
user 112 posts 2008-02-18 04:48:23 |
IRC intimidates me. |
user 35 posts 2008-02-18 04:53:15 |
It's not like those other TLAs. It's from Finland, like Linux. |
user 112 posts 2008-02-18 04:56:26 |
I didn't know what TLA stood for so I looked it up. That was so disappointing. |
user 297 posts 2008-02-18 05:45:36 |
Shouldn't the third and fourth lines rhyme? |
user 5 posts 2008-02-18 07:05:23 |
Yeah but nothing that rhymes springs to my mind immediately, so unless someone comes up with something better we'll have to forgive it. I don't use IRC - woot, go me? Or maybe that's a sign of failure, oh well. |
user 7 posts 2008-02-18 08:22:03 |
I don't use IRC - woot, go me? Or maybe that's a sign of failure, oh well. It just means you're an iconoclast :) (Damn, I love that word.) |
user 71 posts 2008-02-18 11:23:10 |
I'm here! I can't hear you. |
user 326 posts 2008-02-18 14:18:07 |
@irc-- |
user 326 posts 2008-02-18 14:24:15 |
Actually, let's have decorumbot promote the forum. Some people have found Decorum via IRC, so it makes sense to have the two parts promote each other. |
user 35 posts 2008-02-18 14:49:22 |
We should have decorumbot link to the thread whenever there's a new post on the forum. I've seen similar bots on other sites, and it proved quite good at reviving a dying forum. |
user 326 posts 2008-02-18 19:04:21 |
That might require forum RSS, do we have that yet? |
user 641 posts 2008-02-18 20:43:25 |
I personally don't like RSS, because in my opinion finding out when something happens by repeatedly refreshing a page is an ugly and inefficient solution. Awesome would be having the php scripts on the web server somehow contact decorumbot in real time when there was a new post, and have decorumbot alert us of that. For example, have decorumbot constantly listen on some TCP port and say anything that gets sent there, and have the php script send a message there when something gets posted. But, feel free to not implement that, if everyone else is satisfied with RSS. |
user 35 posts 2008-02-18 21:09:47 |
I've seen it done with direct database access before. That's got its own problems, though. |
user 437 posts 2008-02-18 21:56:48 |
I could see there being the problem of Decorumbot posting every few seconds though when someone visits the forum and everyone else then rushes across. The other forum that I'm active on (out of the countless that I've signed up to...) has the odd situation where the people on irc never post in the forum but the forumites also never go into the irc. Both communities are based around a webcomic though. |
user 112 posts 2008-02-19 04:14:54 |
I completely overlooked this at first, but why would you read 200 limericks in one day? |
user 456 posts 2008-02-19 04:21:59 |
Why /wouldn't/ you read 200 limericks in one day? Ha! |
administrator 879 posts 2008-02-19 13:34:18 |
I definitely would. Also, this forum does not seem to be very inactive. (Note: Common courtesy to the communication medium dictates that we use the proper markup and most certainly do not type "/me", and also that we do not break a paragraph on each sentence, and make a reasonable effort to make sentences long enough to break a line. This is still a forum, not a chatroom. =P ) I've seen it done with direct database access before. That's got its own problems, though. But AJASQL is much better than AJAX! It saves so much time parsing queries and replies, because XML just sucks anyhow! Just consider: There, much cleaner - and more secure to boot! =D |
administrator 879 posts 2008-02-19 14:22:44 |
In other news, I now theorize that Darcey regularly reads the xkcd blag now: rmunroe on limerickdb. I am now reading a ton of limericks. =P |
user 326 posts 2008-02-19 14:41:57 |
/me is shocked at Aran's remarks. |
administrator 328 posts 2008-02-19 18:41:12 |
Anyone who doesn't read the XKCD Blag should consider repenting. It's awesome. I am going to go ponder lifting a squirrel with a solar sail and a gigantic laser for a while. |
user 641 posts 2008-02-19 20:54:16 |
1.21 Gigawatts?! |
user 89 posts 2008-02-20 02:44:52 |
Anyone who doesn't read the XKCD Blag should consider repenting. It's awesome. didn't I tell people about that...? |
user 71 posts 2008-02-20 11:57:41 |
(Note: Common courtesy to the communication medium dictates that we use the proper markup and most certainly do not type "/me", and also that we do not break a paragraph on each sentence, and make a reasonable effort to make sentences long enough to break a line. This is still a forum, not a chatroom. =P ) oh, hai! |
user 111 posts 2008-02-20 14:51:57 |
@no-genius: This type of chatroom behavior is exactly what we're trying to deprecate. Learn to live without it. kthxbai. /jk |
administrator 879 posts 2008-02-20 15:34:05 |
ORLY? |
user 35 posts 2008-02-21 00:47:35 |
Sometimes fewer words make a point better than a lengthy discourse does. |