I'll be on Periscope tonight @ 12:00am Eastern! Q&A and future forum features
14Hey 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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Alright, tonight we get to hear about pagination!
@brhfl Tuning in just for this.
@brhfl called it.
I want to hear more about that bird "bending it like Beckham"
@mfladd I thought he was shooting at the net in front of him. "Damn this guy sucks."
@medz pretty amazing kicks!
@mfladd hey, the Magnus effect in action!
Pagination, downvotes, and PMs! Also, user profiles for meh dating purposes.
@medz I downvote your vote for downvotes!
This is going to be just like when the suicide girls do periscope, I bet.
My alarm's set for the meh of the day, anyway -- I'll see how groggy I am to watch or not.
Hhhmmm... Forum feature announcement on a Friday...
Let me guess, every time we star an item a speaker dock gets
its wingsBluetooth?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.
@editorkid Purple text would be wonderful!
@Barney

Bump

@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
@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!
Shoot !Now I'll have to decide between this and Big Brother After Dark Live and sleep... Decisions decisions.
I hate hate hate Periscope.
@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. :-/
Am I supposed to see something? It's just a grey screen.
Wow I got to see one live.... I have a Q... Irk Plushies?
HEY IM SOMEONE NOW!
@thismyusername YES someone plz ask this!!!
@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 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 Sigh.
@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 :)
You have a bunch of us watching you right now on a web stream. We love you JonT! (lookin' good)
What he talked about (wish list, no clear timelines):
First "forums stuff"
changing the way that you view the forums (and yes pagination, not mandatory and not on by default)
let you choose how many comments per page
TL;DR mode (let you pick how many comments show up when you re-visit a thread)
Show me everything always mode
Second "users stuff"
account page (let you edit payment(s), have different addresses, etc)
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)
@thismyusername You forgot the part about the forum is going to be in purple text.
@thismyusername and the stats!!! STATSSSSSSS
I want @Barney Mode more than i want pagination
@editorkid Hmm, @Barney Mode. What an interesting, but scary idea.
@Barney It's just my nickname for the forum with purple text.
Drone Avatars? (for us "special" folk)
"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.
I still find it wonderfully ironic that periscope does not seem to play nice with JBL speaker docks.
Thanks for tuning in everybody!
A recording of the stream will be available for your viewing pleasure here for 24 hours.
TL:DR - mediocre/meh want the same features we do, but real world takes more time than want world.
Also, ice cream!
@Thumperchick Also they're going to sabotage pagination so we hate it.
@brhfl why would we do that?
@shawn Nah, I think you'll implement it as best as you can muster. But it was a very soft sell from @JonT.
@brhfl soft serve?

@brhfl I promise to do my very best at implementing 1990's web technology.
@shawn You're bringing back MIDI music and the marquee tag? Wow!
@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!
Hey @JonT, in case your mental note didn't stick, I suggested a Periscope with the Irkster please!
@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.)
@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 What? @JonT does other stuff beyond starring our witty comments and eating ice cream?
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.
@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 @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.
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.
I'm sorry that I missed this, but Periscope failed to let me know you were on!
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.