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I can no longer sustain the level of activity needed to run SoylentNews, and so I have resigned as leader.
In the end, I was literally begging people to step back and let the site "just run" for a few days while I caught up... alas, to no effect. Issues must be resolved "right here and right now" continuously throughout my day with no end in sight.
NCommander has taken over as project lead - he has access to everything from the registrar down. I understand he has a different vision for the project, which will soon be revealed.
I'm sorry to leave like this, but there's really nothing for it. I'm going back to my AI studies, which happen at a more leisurely pace.
John Barrabas
(And yes, this was an amicable transfer of power. There's no hard feelings on my side.)
[Ed. Note: this is a word for word article based on Barrabas's journal entry.]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by stormwyrm on Thursday March 06 2014, @03:25AM
Frankly, I don't get why so many people out there are complaining. The site is already miles better than where most of us came from after all the misguided "improvements" that were being pushed on us, and I'm not sure what people felt they had a right to complain about. My only real personal gripe is Unicode support, but that's minor and I've managed to work around it if I really need it. Anyway, best of luck to you, John Barrabas, and I do hope you'll stick around to see how this is all going.
いろいろお世話になってありがとうございます、バラッバスさん！またあとでよ！
(By the way, posting Unicode text directly still does not work correctly. Apparently the only way to do it is to escape Unicode text into HTML entities, which I did with this [online-toolz.com]).
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by tftp on Thursday March 06 2014, @07:42AM
Does not work with Cyrillic alphabet, unfortunately. The whole comment body disappears.
But this is not something that I would want a project leader to burn out for. Please relax, John and everyone - the site is alive enough as it is! Thanks for the effort!
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday March 06 2014, @08:15PM
БДЖ
Seems to work quite fine with numeric entities (БДЖ)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by tftp on Friday March 07 2014, @09:51AM
OK, thank you for the help - I figured out what the bug is. Perhaps someone should look into this, but please don't try too hard :-) Sleeping once every few days is recommended :-)
How to recreate the bug
Enter the following comment:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "БДЖ"
It will not render in preview. Nothing will be seen at all - blank comment.
Enter the following comment:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX "БДЖ"
It will render correctly in preview.
Note that if you use digits instead of 'x', they do not count.
Without examining the code, it looks like there is some function that counts the characters in the comment, and it counts them incorrectly. It is wrong to not display the text in preview, even if that text (for some reason) is considered to be too short to post.
(Score: 1) by marcello_dl on Thursday March 06 2014, @09:02PM
XXIII litterae oportent sufficere omnibvs