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posted by on Sunday January 19 2020, @03:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the lingere dept.

Well, crap. I have no idea why or when it happened but the Threshold setting when using Threaded-TOS appears to be non-functional at the moment. It's supposed to set the value below which a comment and any of its subcomments will be collapsed, unless a subcomment is over the Breakthrough value which should cause that comment only to be expanded. Right now it's functioning as if Threshold were set to 6. I never noticed it because I have both settings set to -1.

I can't monkey with it right this second but I'll see if I can get it fixed some time this weekend. Just a hotfix patch to the live code not a full site update.

Beats doing construction work in the rain I suppose.

Update: Okay, I can't fix something that ain't broke and TOS is functioning as intended. I just forgot that Threshold applied only to top-level comments, all subcomment trees should be collapsed by default, and Breakthrough was the setting for subcomments to show up no matter what. This doesn't make sense to me but then I'm not the one who decided it should function like that and I don't use TOS. If you lot want it to function differently or want a new mode that's similar, drop your insipid inspired ideas here and if there's enough demand I'll put it on the todo list.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by szopin on Sunday January 19 2020, @03:17PM (7 children)

    by szopin (5710) on Sunday January 19 2020, @03:17PM (#945310) Homepage Journal

    Do you really do construction work? Like with all the perl and all coding stuff, I mean... Really?

  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday January 19 2020, @03:51PM (3 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 19 2020, @03:51PM (#945324) Journal

    Yep, Buzz is our resident developer. We have several who are part of the team but currently they are all unavailable because of real world priorities, and have been like that for quite a long time now.

    • (Score: 1) by szopin on Sunday January 19 2020, @04:12PM (2 children)

      by szopin (5710) on Sunday January 19 2020, @04:12PM (#945339) Homepage Journal

      The american way: hire construction worker to do our perl job

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 19 2020, @04:27PM (1 child)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday January 19 2020, @04:27PM (#945348) Homepage Journal

        I'm a code monkey by trade nowadays but I've done everything from construction, to HVAC, to plumbing, to convenience store clerk, to installing medical networks, to admining an ISP, to making oil well drill bits, to being a lot hand at a car lot, to being a Harley mechanic, to part-time admining multiple schools, to writing billing systems for games, to selling perfume and cologne door to door, to plenty of other things I can't remember off the top of my head. It's not hard to do that kind of thing if you can acquire competence in whatever skill set you need nearly as quick as you can decide you want to acquire it.

        Honestly, I prefer construction work to coding perl for Rehash though. Construction work don't leave you feeling like you have dirty gym socks for brains at the end of the work day. And you don't have to exercise to stay in shape if you're doing it regularly.

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        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
        • (Score: 1) by szopin on Sunday January 19 2020, @04:39PM

          by szopin (5710) on Sunday January 19 2020, @04:39PM (#945360) Homepage Journal

          >Construction work don't leave you feeling like you have dirty gym socks for brains at the end of the work day.
          And this is why we NEED you, stay in shape bro

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 19 2020, @03:55PM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday January 19 2020, @03:55PM (#945329) Homepage Journal

    Used to way back when for a living. Currently do because I'm remodeling a church to live in.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 1) by szopin on Sunday January 19 2020, @04:21PM (1 child)

      by szopin (5710) on Sunday January 19 2020, @04:21PM (#945346) Homepage Journal

      >way back when for a living
      Really cool part about you, most commenters are california-born-raised and never experienced normal life, but will preach about it, kudos

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @05:12PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @05:12PM (#945379)

        To help California secede and we'll be happy to not live real lives isolated from you lot!

        #freecaliforniatoflop

        :-D