I'll be on Periscope tonight @ 12:00am Eastern! Q&A and future forum features

JonT shared some links said Thu, Jul 16th 2015 at 2:13pm ET

Hey y'all,

Join me tonight on Periscope for a brief Q&A session in JonT's Jaunty Joint (AKA my apartment). It'll be posted on our Twitter and I'll update this topic with the direct Periscope link when I go live. If you wanna comment and give us hearts you'll need to have the app on your phone, but you can watch on browser.

I'll also be talking about some new future forum features we're working on. It'll be at least 1/10th as fun as this:

See you there!

LIVE: https://www.periscope.tv/w/aHh1nzM5NzUwfDQxNDY5ODI4INKSKhE3NdWauVxf6O47QofEcW7OWZgnQoK_u4tcJ60=

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brhfl said Thu, Jul 16th 2015 at 2:17pm ET:

Alright, tonight we get to hear about pagination!

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- @brhfl Tuning in just for this.
  
  phatmass said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:16am ET
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- @brhfl called it.
  
  JonT said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:35am ET
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mfladd said Thu, Jul 16th 2015 at 2:25pm ET:

I want to hear more about that bird "bending it like Beckham"

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- @mfladd I thought he was shooting at the net in front of him. "Damn this guy sucks."
  
  medz said Thu, Jul 16th 2015 at 2:28pm ET
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- @medz pretty amazing kicks!
  
  mfladd said Thu, Jul 16th 2015 at 2:33pm ET
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- @mfladd hey, the Magnus effect in action!
  
  djslack said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:04am ET
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medz said Thu, Jul 16th 2015 at 2:32pm ET:

Pagination, downvotes, and PMs! Also, user profiles for meh dating purposes.

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- @medz I downvote your vote for downvotes!
  
  mfladd said Thu, Jul 16th 2015 at 2:34pm ET
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marklog said Thu, Jul 16th 2015 at 3:02pm ET:

This is going to be just like when the suicide girls do periscope, I bet.

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ACraigL said Thu, Jul 16th 2015 at 3:40pm ET:

My alarm's set for the meh of the day, anyway -- I'll see how groggy I am to watch or not.

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mediobarkre said Thu, Jul 16th 2015 at 4:12pm ET:

Hhhmmm... Forum feature announcement on a Friday...

Let me guess, every time we star an item a speaker dock gets ~~its wings~~ Bluetooth?

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editorkid said Thu, Jul 16th 2015 at 5:56pm ET:

I can't wait for @JonT to finally rip off his mask, reveal the face of @Barney, and explain that from now on, all of the forum text will be purple.

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- @editorkid Purple text would be wonderful!
  
  Barney said Thu, Jul 16th 2015 at 9:13pm ET
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- @Barney
  
  curtise said Thu, Jul 16th 2015 at 10:20pm ET
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mfladd said Thu, Jul 16th 2015 at 7:26pm ET:

Bump

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sohmageek said Thu, Jul 16th 2015 at 9:27pm ET:

@JonT I'm not sure how I feel about you now. The desire to see your living quarters and see your Meh stash... yet I feel like tonight is a night I should sleep... After working from 6 AM-8:30PM, knowing that my son will probably wake me at 3AM, and I have to set an alarm around 4-4:30 to make it to work for 6 AM again.... :( It seems the best things are always the ones that make me have no sleep. Will you be recording and putting it up for later viewing? or is that too creepy? :P

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- @sohmageek @JonT On the other hand if this is a true announcement let's speculate like other mehricans have... PM system? Profiles as Irk has hinted at. oh... Blocking users! I'm hoping it's a speaker dock friday also!
  
  sohmageek said Thu, Jul 16th 2015 at 9:28pm ET
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readnj said Thu, Jul 16th 2015 at 10:21pm ET:

Shoot !Now I'll have to decide between this and Big Brother After Dark Live and sleep... Decisions decisions.

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kdemo said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:06am ET:

I hate hate hate Periscope.

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- @KDemo Same. I put it on my phone to try to watch the birthday stuff and the streams would never load right. Sometimes I could watch old stuff, but that's not as fun. Also, it seriously drained my battery. :-/
  
  PurplePawprints said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 1:15am ET
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adastra said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:08am ET:

Am I supposed to see something? It's just a grey screen.

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thismyusername said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:10am ET:

Wow I got to see one live.... I have a Q... Irk Plushies?

HEY IM SOMEONE NOW!

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- @thismyusername YES someone plz ask this!!!
  
  pepsiwine said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:11am ET
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- @pepsiwine he said another good idea, but haven't looked into it yet, he asked top price we would pay for irk plushies. my answer: $5 (I'm cheap).
  
  thismyusername said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:13am ET
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- @thismyusername I might pay up to $15 for a good-quality plushie (because I know they can be expensive), but I'm also a little biased in the whole Irk-lovin' scene.
  I'd do just about anything to get that little guy into my bed. ;)
  
  pepsiwine said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:17am ET
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- @pepsiwine Sigh.
  
  irishbyblood said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:32am ET
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- @thismyusername @JonT depending on the size $50. I know that if they aren't the kind you win in the claw game but the kind you buy in a store they aren't that cheap (retail) as long as they were the good quality ones not claw game. I'd pay :)
  
  sohmageek said Sun, Jul 19th 2015 at 8:01am ET
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curtise said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:13am ET:

You have a bunch of us watching you right now on a web stream. We love you JonT! (lookin' good)

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thismyusername said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:21am ET:
What he talked about (wish list, no clear timelines):

First "forums stuff"
1. changing the way that you view the forums (and yes pagination, not mandatory and not on by default)
2. let you choose how many comments per page
3. TL;DR mode (let you pick how many comments show up when you re-visit a thread)
4. Show me everything always mode
Second "users stuff"
1. account page (let you edit payment(s), have different addresses, etc)
2. avatars (small circular, and users stats (stars, purchases, etc))
~possibly more will add~

(my suggestion: report spam that pages someone and forces them to log in drunk to correct it in the middle of the night)
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- @thismyusername You forgot the part about the forum is going to be in purple text.
  
  Barney said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:39am ET
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- @thismyusername and the stats!!! STATSSSSSSS
  
  Thumperchick said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:40am ET
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- I want @Barney Mode more than i want pagination
  
  editorkid said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:45am ET
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- @editorkid Hmm, @Barney Mode. What an interesting, but scary idea.
  
  Barney said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:49am ET
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- @Barney It's just my nickname for the forum with purple text.
  
  editorkid said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 1:11am ET
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pepsiwine said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:26am ET:

Drone Avatars? (for us "special" folk)

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Thumperchick said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:33am ET:

"No husband, I can't come to bed yet. I have to wait up to talk to @JonT on Periscope."

He didn't even blink.

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brhfl said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:35am ET:

I still find it wonderfully ironic that periscope does not seem to play nice with JBL speaker docks.

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JonT said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:36am ET:

Thanks for tuning in everybody!

A recording of the stream will be available for your viewing pleasure here for 24 hours.

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Thumperchick said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:37am ET:

TL:DR - mediocre/meh want the same features we do, but real world takes more time than want world.

Also, ice cream!

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- @Thumperchick Also they're going to sabotage pagination so we hate it.
  
  brhfl said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:40am ET
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- @brhfl why would we do that?
  
  shawn said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 12:55am ET
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- @shawn Nah, I think you'll implement it as best as you can muster. But it was a very soft sell from @JonT.
  
  brhfl said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 1:02am ET
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- @brhfl soft serve?
  
  mfladd said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 1:14am ET
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- @brhfl I promise to do my very best at implementing 1990's web technology.
  
  shawn said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 1:16am ET
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- @shawn You're bringing back MIDI music and the marquee tag? Wow!
  
  dashcloud said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 7:08am ET
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- @shawn While I had to chuckle at the snark, I should clarify - all I meant was that it's been alluded to in the past that the design decision to eschew pagination meant that implementing such wouldn't be terribly straightforward. I realize that the Mediocre dev team does not take that name to heart!
  
  brhfl said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 8:26am ET
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irishbyblood said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 8:10am ET:

Hey @JonT, in case your mental note didn't stick, I suggested a Periscope with the Irkster please!

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editorkid said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 3:05pm ET:

@shawn Thinking out loud here, but I'd love it if TL;DR mode was fuzzy -- if it hid more and more as threads grew longer and longer -- and it would be even cooler if there was a "Just show me what's changed" mode for threads with new comments and comments with new replies. I know neither of these is trivial compared to what you do have planned, which already is nontrivial, but maybe even if they aren't feasible in the first rev, there can be foundations laid for the future. (I was going to suggest this after the last change, but it felt polite to wait a while after you'd finished and rolled out fresh code, and then this came along anyway.)

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- @JonT I think you should consider @editorkid's "Just show me what's changed" mode when you're thinking about the wireframe for the account settings page.
  
  shawn said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 3:19pm ET
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- @shawn What? @JonT does other stuff beyond starring our witty comments and eating ice cream?
  
  editorkid said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 4:28pm ET
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Pavlov said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 10:07pm ET:

Yes, that was me last night, @JonT - Meh has succeeded where many, many have failed - I actually broke down and created - after swearing to the old gods and the new that I would never in my life have - a Twitter account, just so I could chat with you via Periscope. I have yet to figure out if it is progress or just sad.

I still refuse to actually compose and send a twat though.

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- @Pavlov Same but opposite… Rather enjoy Twitter but hate all these video… things… popping up (irony, as video production was what I went to school for…). Pretty much swore I'd never voluntarily watch a Periscope, much less install the freakin' app.
  
  brhfl said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 11:47pm ET
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- @brhfl @Paglov I've been a skeptic but tonight a couple in a condo caught a couple making out under their window and Periscoped it while improvising some great dialog. In a few months it'll be another corporate marketing tool for corporate tools, but for now, the one random moment in 100 makes it good enough for me.
  
  editorkid said Sat, Jul 18th 2015 at 3:31am ET
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- Holy crap, I discovered Sock Cop tonight. Laughed so hard the cat ran and hid. He did impressions of Hannibal Lecter, Pac-Man, and Jaws, showed us some sock puppet parkour, and read erotic beat poetry as Matthew McConaughey while we snapped our fingers by typing "snap" into chat. Here he is singing a viewer's 7-week-old to sleep. I don't know how much good stuff is on Periscope, but I now subscribe to more programming there than I do on my Tivo.
  
  editorkid said Sun, Jul 19th 2015 at 3:21am ET
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KittySprinkles said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 11:47pm ET:

I'm sorry that I missed this, but Periscope failed to let me know you were on!

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medz said Fri, Jul 17th 2015 at 11:51pm ET:

So there's no way to skip ahead in a record periscope video? I never got to the part about new features...just talk about the poll and junk.

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