VMP Sneak Peek: Slash Commands (Part 8)

shawn posted a pic said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 8:01pm ET

Sometimes, before we roll out new site features, we try them out on our guinea pi- er, VMP friends first.

Y’all went crazy with the /giphy command in part 1 of VMP Sneak Peek: Slash Commands.
Then we added the /shrug command and editor auto-completion in part 2.
In part 3, we added /cowsay to see what it would be like in a forum to add a Unix-style command line application.
In part 4, we added /youtube support.
In part 5, we added /image support which works well when searching for images of order numbers.
In part 6, we added /woot support and tried to search active woot.com deals for a noun that returned only a single result.
In part 7, we added /captionbot and found out that Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence has a weird affinity for giraffes and skis.

Earlier this week Apple held their WWDC 2016 conference and they announced a bunch of new software updates. One thing jumped out at me when I was watching the keynote and saw the updates to the Messages app.

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I thought to myself, “shit, we could make a mediocre version of that for the forums.” So we built a shitty version of this in a couple hours.

Here’s an example:

 /emojify Basketball finishes at 5. Then it's pizza or tacos. Maybe go to the movies. You in?

finishes at 5. Then it’s or . Maybe go to the . You in?

33 comments, 25 replies

mikibell said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 8:07pm ET:

beans, I this idea…

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LackOfSprinkles said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 8:14pm ET:

I mean, I guess this could be useful to some people (not to downplay this feature)…

(I remember trying a keyboard a few years ago which when you swyped, it had the associated emoji available as a suggestion.)
(Just looked, at the end of 2014, the Google Keyboard and Swiftkey had emoji word suggestion. Although I do recognize that for some people, they’d rather swype or manually type their whole sentence and then have words converted to emoji)

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djslack said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 8:31pm ET:

this seems fun even though i personally don’t like emojis but that’s probably because I’ apparently old as for the Internet. and get off my lawn.

There should be more emojis for curse words. Horse elephant party down up flag. Either it stops at a carriage return or those are not emoji words. Pizza taco movies, yep it stops with the line.

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RiotDemon said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 8:35pm ET:

I’m not sure how I feel about this. I rarely use emojis, and honestly it takes me longer to read sentences full of them.

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dave said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 9:09pm ET:

I got my fans in the stands, my team my . My in my , I put my the . See I’ with my but I know I can do better. I checked the yesterday and not college . Not college offer after all this hard work. I’d be telling you lie if I said it didn’t hurt. how do I stay focused in this life? And do I have fair chance when this world schife? See we all price; I got some things my mind. But I need to regain my focus, cause it’s time. Give all, nothing. In the , I got to choose. Clear , Full . I can’t lose!

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narfcake said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 9:29pm ET:

There’s major lack of available here at meh. Specifically, . Why is that? I blame @dashcloud the for this.

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ConAndLibrarian said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 9:35pm ET:

I of getting or . My is tiny though.

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- @conandlibrarian
  
  “do it, and are much easier to take of than their friends”
  
  /giphy "the dogs"
```
 _____________________
( yea right, the dogs )
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        o   ^__^
         o  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||
```
  Yoda_Daenerys said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 2:43am ET
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kdemo said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 9:38pm ET:

I this , it makes me . Thanks for making the forum more fun than in circus with .

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ConAndLibrarian said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 9:47pm ET:

I am embarrassed to say that I do not always know what these emojis mean. You are making me !

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- @conandlibrarian if you are on a computer hover over the emojis…
  
  thismyusername said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 9:51pm ET
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dave said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 9:52pm ET:

,

I remember when we used to sit, in the government yard in Trenchtown. Observing the hypocrites as they would mingle with the good people we meet. Good friends we have had, oh good friends we’ve lost along the way. In this bright future you can’t forget your past. So dry your I say.

, . , . Little darling don’t shed . , .

Said, said, said I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Trenchtown. And then Georgie would make the . Log wood burning through the night. Then we would meal porridge, of which I’ll share with you.

My is my only carriage. So I’ve got to push on through. But while I’m gone:

Everything’s going to be all , Everything’s going to be all , Everything’s going to be all , Everything’s going to be all , Everything’s going to be all , Everything’s going to be all , Everything’s going to be all , Everything’s going to be all .

, . , . , . ,

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- @dave is this foreshadowing? is it gonna be a house of marley friday?
  
  thismyusername said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 9:55pm ET
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- @thismyusername I can think of a few ways to find out, but not many that don’t involve threats or time machines besides waiting.
  
  Meanwhile:
  I wanna you, and treat you . I wanna you, every and every . We’ll be together, with roof over our heads. We’ll share the shelter, of my single . We’ll share the same room, JAH provide the .
  
  And, also:
  Get , stand , stand for your . Get , stand , don’t give the fight. Preacher don’t tell me heaven is under the . I know you don’t know what life is really worth. Is not all that glitters in gold and half the story has never been told. now you see the , stand for your . Come Get , Stand , stand for right Get , Stand , don’t give the fight. Most people great God will come from the sky. Take away ev’rything, and make ev’rybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, you would look for yours . And now you see the . You stand for your , yeah! Get , stand , stand for your . Get , stand , don’t give the fight. Get , stand . Life is your .
  
  dave said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 10:02pm ET
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- @thismyusername good call!
  
  djslack said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 12:00am ET
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- @thismyusername YOU WIN THE MEHTERNETS!
  
  curtise said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 12:01am ET
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- Free watch for @thismyusername
  
  Ignorant said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 12:17am ET
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- @djslack @curtise Thank you Thank you, I would like to thank @dave, without his helpful hint I wouldn’t be here today, the winner of the Mehternets!
  
  thismyusername said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 12:17am ET
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mfladd said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 10:41pm ET:

I am in emoji hell

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cinoclav said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 11:14pm ET:

I can’t even bother reading these. Way, way, way too annoying. Am I the only one who isn’t happy with the excessive commands?

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- @cinoclav @shawn
  
  While some of the slash commands may be useful to help people produce fun(ny) comments (whether it be with the /giphy /youtube /image and /shrug commands), since they save time, the others don’t really seem to have a useful purpose.
  
  PlacidPenguin said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 11:19pm ET
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- @cinoclav
```
 __________________________________
/ I m pretty sure annoyance is the \
\  goal.                           /
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        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||
```
  craigthom said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 12:14am ET
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carl669 said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 11:15pm ET:

let us consult the mehcronomicon. “ picture is worth thousand words. Except when it’s little ass screen. Fuck that. Who the hell can even see that shit? say we all.”

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- they really do need to approve swear emojis. or as i would call them, swojis.
  
  carl669 said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 11:16pm ET
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thismyusername said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 11:33pm ET:

Hey @shawn can we get a /cinoclav command that combines /image /giphy /youtube /cowsay (and more) so we can just do something like…

/cinoclav this is fun

and have it auto fire all the slash commands?

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- @thismyusername
  /giphy I’ll kill you
  
  cinoclav said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 7:39am ET
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jsimsace said Thu, Jun 16th 2016 at 11:51pm ET:

This hurts my brain to read.

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- @jsimsace
  "i’m with ya slice on the "
  
  Yoda_Daenerys said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 2:39am ET
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craigthom said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 12:10am ET:

The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things,
Of and and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings,
And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether have wings.

I am by the vocabulary.

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jbartus said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 12:33am ET:

@Shawn any thoughts on wrapping the entire thing in a span and giving it a tooltip with the original text to aid in comprehension / decrease insanity factor for some people? It would also serve much the same purpose of retaining the various other slash command inputs in enabling people to see what insanity /emojify has wrought

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- @jbartus In the meantime I can touch and hold on an emoji on my iPad and see the text equivalent. I’m sure there’s a method on computers. Maybe hover with the mouse?
  
  SSteve said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 12:51am ET
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- @SSteve hovering with the mouse does work
  
  carl669 said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 12:52am ET
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- @SSteve @carl669 That only works if the text has been translated literally in its exact form.
  
  Loved != Love Hotel
  Called != Calling
  
  Just two examples that came up in Puff The Magic Dragon alone.
  
  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  
  jbartus said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 1:10am ET
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jbartus said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 12:34am ET:

Puff, the magic lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in land Honnah Lee
Little Jackie Paper that rascal Puff
And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff, oh!

Puff, the magic lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in land Honnah Lee
Puff, the magic lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in land Honnah Lee

Together they would travel boat with billowed sail
Jackie kept lookout perched Puff’s gigantic tail
Noble kings and princes would whene’er they came
Pirate would lower their when Puff roared out his name, oh!

Puff, the magic lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in land Honnah Lee
Puff, the magic lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in land Honnah Lee

lives forever but not little
Painted wings and giant make way for other toys
grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more
And Puff that mighty , he ceased his fearless roar

His head was bent in sorrow, green fell like
Puff no longer went to play along the lane
Without his life-long friend, Puff could not be brave
Puff that mighty sadly slipped into his cave, oh!

Puff, the magic lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in land Honnah Lee
Puff, the magic lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in land Honnah Lee

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- @jbartus TL;DR
```
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< nice work >
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        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||
```
  Yoda_Daenerys said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 2:37am ET
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hems79 said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 12:37am ET:

No . Shut the front !

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SSteve said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 12:46am ET:

My was chewing toy and tearing it to pieces. I had to take it away and throw it in the trash. Now she’s going outside to pee and eat pine cones. She’s sweet and good friend. She’ll be 1 year old in September.

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- @shawn How come the word “on” gets turned into a “1” symbol but the numeral 1 stays a numeral 1?
  
  SSteve said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 12:48am ET
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jqubed said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 12:52am ET:

What if typing /goat automatically replaced to the current month’s scapegoat? That way we wouldn’t have to remember who it is, especially for goats with difficult names.

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shawn said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 1:01am ET:

With so much drama in the L--C, it’s kinda hard being Snoop D--double-G. But I, somehow, some way keep coming with funky ass like every single day. May I, kick little something for the G’s and, make few as I breeze, through. in the morning and the party’s still jumping cause my momma ain’t . I got bitches in the living room gettin’ it on and, they ain’t til in the morning ( in the morning). So what you wanna do? , I got pocket full of rubbers and my homeboys do too. So turn off the lights and close the . But (but what) we don’t them hoes, yeah! So we gonna ounce to this. G’s , hoes down, while you motherfuckers bounce to this.

Rolling down the street, indo, sipping on gin and juice. Laid (with my mind on my and my on my mind).

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- @shawn original
  
  /giphy "material"
  
  cynical
  
  ???
  
  Yoda_Daenerys said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 2:34am ET
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Yoda_Daenerys said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 2:26am ET:

“it is getting so much harder to read these posts because and down emoticons are the fudge of the meh dang world”

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- @DMlivezey and i
  /giphy "stand by that"
```
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( man, is he still up? )
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        o   ^__^
         o  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||
```
  Yoda_Daenerys said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 2:28am ET
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RuralNinja said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 2:29am ET:

This had me so excited I grabbed my , hopped in my , and bought to eat under the palm in my backyard.

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Bingo said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 8:30am ET:

Well this is story all about how
My life got flipped down
I’d like to take
Just sit there
I’ll tell you how I became the of town Air

In west Philadelphia born and raised
On the playground was where I spent most of my days
Chill out max all
And all shooting some outside of the
When of guys who were to good
Started making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in little fight and my mom got scared
She said ‘You’re moving with your aunt and uncle in Air’

I whistled for and when it came near
The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I could say that this was rare
But I thought ‘Nah, forget it’ - ‘Yo, to Air’

I pulled to the about 7 or 8
And I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo smell ya later’
I looked at my
I was finally there
To sit on my throne as the of Air

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tomvarela said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 8:46am ET:

Thanks, @shawn. Clever. the tooltips.

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tomvarela said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 8:48am ET:

Following in the path of the early Egyptians…now, where did I my clay and sharp stick?

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- @tomvarela
  /giphy walk like an egyptian
  
  chacham said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 9:48am ET
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- /image tablet and stylus
  
  tomvarela said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 10:27am ET
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hollboll said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 9:24am ET:

@dave does this mean we can substitute emoji on our mad ape dens?

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- @hollboll I think that is a different game than Mad Ape Den, but more games sounds good to me!
  
  dave said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 9:55am ET
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chacham said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 9:45am ET:

, , ,
, ,
, ,
, , ,

, , ,
, , ,
, ,
, , .

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- @chacham That took way too long.
  
  Birds, ships, pigs, scales
  Love a dragon, a dog, a snail
  A shirt, a game, unicorn beer
  Two eyes, one heart, a nose, ear
  
  Clouds rain, fearful booms, laugh, smile
  A star, a rainbow, kiss a crocodile,
  No warning, a secret, cats sleep free
  Wave a hand, Santa hug, cry up a tree.
  
  chacham said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 9:46am ET
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medz said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 10:13am ET:

This is awesome! Emojis were supposed to save you typing time by being cute shortcuts. Now we still type it all out and then add another step to make it cute. Killer feature!

Aw . I guess there were not emoji keywords in the above. on my when I . Also puke in the . It doesn’t smell like .

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vanslaterco said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 10:43pm ET:

There’s on the , , on the

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- Damn, what a weird and absolutely necessary thing.
  
  vanslaterco said Fri, Jun 17th 2016 at 10:43pm ET
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awk said Sat, Jun 18th 2016 at 4:09am ET:

Early written language was based on pictures which evolved into the simplified and stylized alphabets we have now. But now we’re adding pictures again! Will they once again become stylized hundreds of years from now?

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shawn said Mon, Jun 20th 2016 at 2:25pm ET:

Locking this topic so we can continue in VMP Sneak Peek: Slash Commands (Part 9)

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This topic was locked Mon, Jun 20th 2016 at 2:25pm ET by shawn