VMP Sneak Peek: Slash Commands (Part 8)
13Sometimes, 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
/giphycommand in part 1 of VMP Sneak Peek: Slash Commands. - Then we added the
/shrugcommand and editor auto-completion in part 2. - In part 3, we added
/cowsayto see what it would be like in a forum to add a Unix-style command line application. - In part 4, we added
/youtubesupport. - In part 5, we added
/imagesupport which works well when searching for images of order numbers. - In part 6, we added
/wootsupport and tried to search active woot.com deals for a noun that returned only a single result. - In part 7, we added
/captionbotand 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.
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?
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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)
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.
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.
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!
There’s
major lack of 
available here at meh. Specifically, 
. Why is that? I blame @dashcloud the 
for this.
I
of getting 
or 
. My 
is tiny though.
@conandlibrarian
“do it, and
are much easier to take 
of than their friends”
/giphy "the dogs"
I
this 
, it makes me 
. Thanks for making the forum more fun than 
in 
circus 
with 
.
I am embarrassed to say that I do not always know what these emojis mean. You are making me
!
@conandlibrarian if you are on a computer hover over the emojis…
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.
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 
.
@dave is this foreshadowing? is it gonna be a house of marley friday?
@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:
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 
.
I wanna
And, also:
, 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 
.
Get
@thismyusername good call!
@thismyusername YOU WIN THE MEHTERNETS!
Free watch for @thismyusername
@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!
I am in emoji hell
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?
@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.
@cinoclav
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.”
they really do need to approve swear emojis. or as i would call them, swojis.
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?
@thismyusername
/giphy I’ll kill you
This
hurts my brain to read.
@jsimsace
slice 
on the 
"
"i’m with ya
The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things,
and 
and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings,
have wings.
Of
And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether
I am
by the vocabulary.
@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
@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 hovering with the mouse does work
@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)_/¯
Puff, the magic
lived by the sea
land 
Honnah Lee
that rascal Puff
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in
Little Jackie Paper
And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff, oh!
Puff, the magic
lived by the sea
land 
Honnah Lee
lived by the sea
land 
Honnah Lee
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in
Puff, the magic
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in
Together they would travel
boat with billowed sail
lookout perched 
Puff’s gigantic tail
whene’er they came
would lower their 
when Puff roared out his name, oh!
Jackie kept
Noble kings and princes would
Pirate
Puff, the magic
lived by the sea
land 
Honnah Lee
lived by the sea
land 
Honnah Lee
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in
Puff, the magic
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in
Painted wings and giant
And Puff that mighty
His head was bent in sorrow, green
fell like 
lane
Puff that mighty 
sadly slipped into his cave, oh!
Puff no longer went to play along the
Without his life-long friend, Puff could not be brave
Puff, the magic
lived by the sea
land 
Honnah Lee
lived by the sea
land 
Honnah Lee
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in
Puff, the magic
And frolicked in the autumn mist
in
@jbartus TL;DR
No
. Shut the front 
!
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.
@shawn How come the word “on” gets turned into a “1” symbol but the numeral 1 stays a numeral 1?
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.
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).
@shawn original
/giphy "material"
???
“it is getting so much
harder to read these 
posts because 
and down emoticons are the 
fudge of the meh dang 
world”
@DMlivezey and i
/giphy "stand by that"
This had me so excited I grabbed my
, hopped in my 
, and bought 
to eat under the palm 
in my backyard.
Well this is
story all about how
down
there
of 
town 
Air
My life got flipped
I’d like to take
Just sit
I’ll tell you how I became the
In west Philadelphia born and raised
all 
outside of the 
of guys who were 
to 
good
little fight and my mom got scared
Air’
On the playground was where I spent most of my days
Chill out max
And all shooting some
When
Started making trouble in my neighborhood
I got in
She said ‘You’re moving with your aunt and uncle in
I whistled for
and when it came near
was rare
to 
Air’
The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror
If anything I could say that this
But I thought ‘Nah, forget it’ - ‘Yo,
I pulled
to the 
about 7 or 8
smell ya later’
of 
Air
And I yelled to the cabbie 'Yo
I looked at my
I was finally there
To sit on my throne as the
Thanks, @shawn. Clever.
the tooltips.
Following in the path of the early Egyptians…now, where did I
my clay and sharp stick?
@tomvarela
/giphy walk like an egyptian
/image tablet and stylus
@dave does this mean we can substitute emoji on our mad ape dens?
@hollboll I think that is a different game than Mad Ape Den, but more games sounds good to me!
@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.
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 
.
There’s
on the 
, 
, 
on the 
Damn, what a weird and absolutely necessary thing.
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?
Locking this topic so we can continue in VMP Sneak Peek: Slash Commands (Part 9)