Missing timestamp

March 9, 2007 4:19 PM

When logged out, posts to Music and The Blue lack the timestamp inside.
posted by Eideteker to Bugs at 4:19 PM (30 comments total)

For example, when logged out, a MeTa post may read:

posted by 6550 to feature requests at 12:51 PM PST (60 comments total)

But a HiFi post will read:

posted by tmcw

And that's it. It's the same on MeFi blue.
posted by Eideteker at 4:20 PM on March 9, 2007

Also, now I'm curious who my perfect lover is.
posted by Eideteker at 4:21 PM on March 9, 2007

Emma.
posted by chrismear at 4:24 PM on March 9, 2007

Scuttled.
posted by Wolfdog at 4:25 PM on March 9, 2007

The timestamp is below the title (look upwards to see the timestamp). I need to remove it from Metatalk actually.

Also new feature just launched: instant ajaxy favorite add AND remove! Try favoriting this comment, then remove it instantly.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:28 PM on March 9, 2007 [4 favorites]

To answer a few questions:

1. I don't know who logs out. I never log out. However, when at work, I never log in. I do most of my HiFi listening at work, though (sorry for not going back and leaving comments; I'm sure you're all dying to know what I think. I'm actually a little sad about this, because I had started writing this really cool song in my head about cortex and chococat having a musical battle over the future of Music).

2. It was easy. No, I didn't break down and log in from work to post this. Instead, I just used the IE Tab Firefox extension to view MeFi pages in a non-logged in instance of IE. It's only slightly less unsavory than actually running IE itself, from the EXE.

3. I had to, in order to maintain my perfect 2:3 Blue to Grey ratio.

I would like to add that the new minus is spiffy. (and also a good band name)
posted by Eideteker at 4:31 PM on March 9, 2007

Oh, mathowie beat me to announcing it. TEH SAD!

I see the stamp now, Matt. I was not used to looking for it there. Sorry for ruining your day.
posted by Eideteker at 4:34 PM on March 9, 2007

GODDAMNIT EIDETEKER.

We were *this* close, you mawkish spoiler.
posted by loquacious at 4:41 PM on March 9, 2007 [1 favorite]

Sorry, loq, but we shall overcome, someday. Until that day, I want my MetaTalk!
posted by Eideteker at 4:48 PM on March 9, 2007

The instand favorite remove is great. How about ajaxy flagging? Pweety pweese?
posted by Rhomboid at 4:50 PM on March 9, 2007

Yeah, then I can get rid of my it-hasn't-worked-in-six-months-anyway Greasemonkey script.
posted by Plutor at 5:13 PM on March 9, 2007

Also: 28 hours between MeTa posts? Without downtime? Is that a record?
posted by Plutor at 5:14 PM on March 9, 2007

Yeah, ajaxy flagging will come soon. It'll work like this: click the !, a div appears with the pulldown form of reasons, you select one and hit a flag button and the div disappears, all without leaving the page.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:28 PM on March 9, 2007

I want my... I want my MetaT...

Now look at them yo-yo's, that's the way you do it
You troll for flameouts on the MetaT
That ain't workin'—that's the way you do it
Get your funny for nothin'
and your snark for free
Now that's just typin'—that's the way you do it
Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb
Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb

We gotta find some really cool links
Craft some quality FPP-ah-ee-ah-ees
We got to wade through all this NewsFilter
We got to wade through youtube chee-eeeese

The five dollar newbie whose post just got dele-ted
Yeah buddy, he thinks we really care
That little newbie got a chip on his shoulder
That little newbie gonna flame out of here

We gotta find some really cool links
Craft some quality FPP-ah-ee-ah-ees
We got to wade through this NewsFilter
And single-link youtu-ah-ube chee-eeeese

The blue the blue the
hunh

Looka here, lookit me
I shoulda learned to be like quonsar
I shoulda learned to be Steve Jobs
What's that inside joke now, somethin about having cameras, man?
We could have some plo chops
Right now, cortex is posting to HiFi
Bangin' on the keyboard like he's Matt Haugh-ey
Oh, that ain't workin'—that's the way you do it
Get your funny for nothin' get your snark for free

We gotta find some really cool links
Craft some quality FPP-ah-ee-ah-ees
We got to wade through all this NewsFilter
And weak nostalgic youtube chee-eeeese

Listen here, now
That ain't workin'—that's the way you do it
You troll for flameouts on the MetaT
That ain't workin'—that's the way you do it
Funny for nothin'
and your snark for free
Funny for nothing
what's that?
snark for free
lookitthat, lookitthat
funny for nothing
I want my, I want my
and your snark for free
...MetaT...
posted by Eideteker at 5:31 PM on March 9, 2007 [5 favorites]

Goddamit this could have waited till tommorow. A day of silence for Biggie would have been appropriate.
posted by 31d1 at 5:35 PM on March 9, 2007

*eyes Eideteker warily*
posted by cortex (staff) at 5:46 PM on March 9, 2007

"Yeah, ajaxy flagging will come soon. It'll work like this: click the !, a div appears with the pulldown form of reasons, you select one and hit a flag button and the div disappears, all without leaving the page."

I hope when you do this that you will disable "pick a reason" as a selectable flag.
posted by Eideteker at 5:53 PM on March 9, 2007

if we're going to muck around with the flagging anyway, how about some new categories?

I'm particularly thinking of ones that would be good for FPP's as opposed to comments:

For example:

Double
Single Link Op Ed
Newsfilter
Axegrinding

etc...
posted by empath at 5:56 PM on March 9, 2007

*wares cortex eyeingly*
posted by Eideteker at 5:58 PM on March 9, 2007

I hope when you do this that you will disable "pick a reason" as a selectable flag.

Yeah, it won't submit unless you pick one different than the default. Also, I'm going to remove the "fantastic post!" option since I want flagging to just be y'know, flagging stuff. Favorites have picked up all the "good post!" slack.

I might just have an "other" option that pops up a text field letting people make up their own flag reason.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 6:03 PM on March 9, 2007

"I might just have an "other" option that pops up a text field letting people make up their own flag reason."

I would love you forever or at least until I was banned for abusing this feature.
posted by Eideteker at 6:06 PM on March 9, 2007 [1 favorite]

The plus/minus thing doesn't work on the main page. It just stays a plus and then says you've already favorited it if you click it again.
posted by puke & cry at 6:54 PM on March 9, 2007

*flags Eideteker's comment as brown-nosing sackbutt*
posted by loquacious at 6:56 PM on March 9, 2007

The plus/minus thing doesn't work on the main page. It just stays a plus and then says you've already favorited it if you click it again.

Yeah, I haven't enabled that yet. Me and pb wanted to try it out just on the comments page first (the favorite/unfavorite for the post works on this page here).
posted by mathowie (staff) at 7:37 PM on March 9, 2007

Also, next feature: deleting a favorite from your favorites page will make the chunk on the page disappear magically and not require a reload.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 7:38 PM on March 9, 2007

I like the new favourite stuff. I'm naturally lazy, so the more on one page the better.

I don't care about the time stamp stuff cos I don't tend to wear a watch.
posted by shelleycat at 10:38 PM on March 9, 2007

Also: 28 hours between MeTa posts? Without downtime? Is that a record?

It's only 21 hours. This was posted at 3.09am GMT.
posted by cillit bang at 2:15 AM on March 10, 2007

Also, I'm going to remove the "fantastic post!" option since I want flagging to just be y'know, flagging stuff. Favorites have picked up all the "good post!" slack.

*wearily decides against going over one more time the difference between Favorites and "fantastic post" and why the former cannot replace the latter*

*hopes nobody thinks everything he's favorited are actually his favorites*
posted by languagehat at 6:53 AM on March 10, 2007

Look at it this way, languagehat—acknowledged, favorited does not explicitly mean thought well of, but thought well of does consistently imply favorited. So from a searching-for-signal perspective, good enough: a human agent (user or admin) can suss out a favorite-for-goodness post from a favorite-for-infamy post in about two seconds.

So we wouldn't want to automatically distribute prizes based on raw favorites, but they're still extremely useful for noticing good stuff. And "fantastic" post flags don't come in in much volume these days, so favorites are definitely a better way to keep an eye out.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:41 AM on March 10, 2007

Meanwhile, ouch. "I'm hoping this isn't considered too hypothetical" means "I hope you don't think I'm joking, because I'm serious about this."

So will someone else post the funereal meetup post, or do I have to do it myself? I'll miss you all, and no, cortex can't have my stereo. Harrumph.
posted by Eideteker at 9:34 AM on March 10, 2007