Mediocre HQ2 updates
12I’m updating points of interest on our new headquarters plan every so often over on the Mediocre.com forum and I need a way to tell most of you who don’t visit it.
Direct link to the update thread.
I know this is a bit clunky and a pointless separation of community to most of you, but it would be great to keep actual HQ discussion in one place over there.
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Discuss among yourselves. I’m verklempt at the moment.
PS. Ty.
@f00l At the MOMENT? Verklempt=Normal.
@OldCatLady
Shhhh.
No comment.
thank you for the update. Also, thank you for making it known there is a mediocre forum.
@elimanningface
Did you know there’s a Mediocritee forum?
@PlacidPenguin wth, no I did not. What other forums are there associated w/ mediocre? Is this information publicly known or do you have to be a Stonecutter or member of another secret society for the scoop?
@elimanningface we emailed everyone in the last newsletter but I think lots of folks have opted out. We’re working on less Stonecutter-centric means to discover them, like some site navigation
@snapster
About the emails:
They need more purple.
@elimanningface
According to an insider, @snapster contemplated using Mediocritee to sell golf balls.
Thankfully though, the plan changed.
Now if he gets asked about it, he’ll probably deny it.
Since I “Sign in with Mediocre Laboratories” why must I do it on every site? My forum settings, payment information and everything seems to transfer from site to site. Why can I not sign in on one, and be signed in on all?
@MrMark Whilst I too might be tempted by that convenience, upon more thought, I prefer the must-sign-in-separately wall of security between sites.
Who knows what the future individual mediocre domain migration holds?
@RedOak I wasn’t sure if there would be an added level of safety by having separate sign-in sites.
I thought that since everything seemed to be based on the core mediocre username, that all information was stored together.
IT is not my strong suit, so it was a legitimate question. If it does make everything safer I’m fine with it.
@MrMark it probably doesn’t make that much difference since as you say, the credentials are all stored centrally.
@MrMark I think @shawn said the complexity of multi-site single sign-on wasn’t worth it compared to the benefit it would bring.
@MrMark Cookies are the tech used to save login status. Cookies can only be retrieved by the primary domain that wrote them originally.
The solution you want we built and then removed. When you logged in it sent your browser on a trip around to our other sites and logged you in so your cookie would say you were logged in there. Google does this between the main google site and Youtube. Doing this for more than 2 sites causes delays and server dependencies that make it not worth the benefit.
However, each site does remember you for a period of time. So what seems like a hassle would be less of a hassle on subsequent visits until that ttl expires.
@snapster
ty
@snapster I had thought it was weird as I thought I was logged into Mediocre and Meh with either one… Also The forums seem to have disappeared on Meh site except the Meh forums… I’m thinking you’re doing more than just a HQ2… re-org/re-branding/visual changes to customers?
@sohmageek
Huh?
@Ignorant sorry. The links to the forums. We used to have mediocre form under the chat icon. Also used to have drone.horse. Maybe when that left the mediocre left.
@sohmageek ohhh I see, thanks for the clarification.