Let’s see if this works to save my nym and email. ETA yes it did
3.
Another Scott
A reply from my phone.
Cheers,
Scott
4.
japa21
In running for most intriguing post on the new site.
5.
Ohio Mom
@japa21: Still trying to post replies.Email has begun to stock, that’s very nice?
6.
Betty Cracker
I was banned, but now I’m not, so I’ve got that going for me!
7.
Debbie(Aussie)
Nice new home you have. Enjoy it I will.
Thanks John, Watergirl, Alain and many others. Love this community of jackals.
8.
Professor Bigfoot
Remembered my nym but not my email from previous post.
Burn the whole thing down.
ETA… you know I’m kidding, right? The place looks great.
9.
Chris T.
Do we get to reply “Fail”?
10.
Chris T.
Ooh, last comment eated! No, it’s there now! And, fancy editor! But defaults to visual for editing comment, while defaulting to text for new comment…? Still, nicer.
Wait, I’m supposed to be grumpy and complain here, right?
@Betty Cracker: I joined you in solidarity. But now seem to be free. But if we can’t embed tweets, photos and videos, someone is gonna have some explainin’ to do. Luuuucy!
16.
Nicole
Test? I didn’t study!
Also- the screen remembered my name and email, even though I CLOSED THE WINDOW. Hurray!
Also, also- hell is listening to your not-untalented-but-by-no-means-a-prodigy 9-year-old practice “Carol of the Bells” by going through every single instrument on the digital piano programming. We just left digital French Horn and are now on to digital banjo. Some instruments were not meant to be heard playing “Carol of the Bells.”
17.
SoupCatcher
I’m digging the images on the various headers. Especially Nancy!
If this has been a real emergency, you would have been instructed to duck and cover
20.
HeleninEire
I like it. A lot. Cuz I’m getting old(er) and the bigger font and the whiter white is great.
And love that Mr. Balloon is back.
21.
Ohio Mom
Sometimes I can see my comment as I type it, sometimes I can’t. I think the patten is, I can see it when I am writing a new comment and can’t see it when I am replying to someone else.
Sometimes I am allowed to edit
(an edit button appears), sometimes not.
Sometlmes when I reply to someone else, their name appears in blue at the start of my comment, sometimes it doesn’t it.
At first my email didn’t stick but now it does.
i might go back to lurking. The new site is very easy for my old eyes to red.
22.
Steeplejack
Test comment for a test post.
23.
Jay
How does one post a twitter post, twitter embed results in being blocked.
24.
Mnemosyne
Hey, the “forward to next post” button seems to have worked. Yay!
Plus my nym and email seem to have stuck so far. Will check again in an hour-ish and see if they time out. ?
25.
japa21
@HeleninEire: Boy, is Dorothy A Winsor in for a surprise when she gets back from her cruise. And you hit on a couple of the same reasons I like it.
Excellent. There is no gibberish filter. Full steam ahead!
32.
Wolvesvalley
Trying another test comment. I want to see where it goes.
ETA It’s true that it vanished until I hit refresh.
ETA again — and the edited comment didn’t appear until I hit refresh again.
33.
Jay
@nedprice is right. Past Russian intercepts of US Ambassador’s phone revealed they do full spectrum targeting of all US Embassy personnel. They likely heard every Trump call that would allow Putin & FSB to tailor his manipulations. Eventually we’ll find they had spies nearby too.
Dumb question: did we do the pet pictures for the 2020 calendar already and I missed it?
Further: Monday, I got the shingles shot booster and the next 36 hours were a really painful blur. It feels like that was weeks ago. I don’t regret getting it and my new hobby will be NOT getting the shingles, every day, for the rest of my life if possible, but MAN.
The toxic mix of violent misogyny and white supremacy strikes again: Travis Patron, the founder of the Canadian Nationalist Party, has been arrested and charged for allegedly assaulting two women after they refused his offer to ride home with him.
41.
HeleninEire
@japa21: And I just saw the next post arrow on my phone. Been bitching about commenting on dead threads. YAY. I can now see a new thread on my phone. WOOP WOOP.
Remember: the Republican questioning is not meant for anything more than feeder material for Fox and their fundraising emails.
47.
RSA
Testing from my iPhone…
ETA: Seems to work.
48.
Jay
So, tried to comment on my comment, ( IPhone Safari) about the site eating the twitter link but allowing cut and paste, and the comment screen froze. Couldn’t get out, back or away, couldn’t post.
49.
Monkeyfister
Oh, my gawd… you had us worried sick. You never called, you never even wrote. We thought you were dead in a ditch somewhere, and we worried if you had clean underwear. Don’t do that again. we almost had heart attacks.
Ok, I’ll comment just to test whether it saves my identity. Word on the street is that it will.
55.
chris
@Jay: I always thought that Travis would be arrested for something much worse. What a vile man.
56.
James E Powell
Remember: the Republican questioning is not meant for anything more than feeder material for Fox and their fundraising emails.
Don’t forget the hundred or so local news stations that pretty much run FOX stories and Republican propaganda without comment or context. That’s where most people are getting their news.
57.
jeffreyw
Email persisted through a post change! Yay!
It’s the little things.
58.
Jay
New site won’t let me reply to a comment with the reply button, takes me to a comment field and leaves me stranded there, IPhone/Safari
Noticed some of the comments show up blue. Is there a special reason?
64.
glory b
Okay, test.
65.
PJ
I tried to reply to your youtube post with a linked youtube video but it sent me to an error page, and when I tried to get back to this page, I kept getting an error page until I typed in balloon-juice.com in the browser window.
66.
glory b
Yoo hoo!
67.
japa21
@jeffreyw: Email persisted through my closing my window and opening another window. Yippee
68.
PJ
And that posted as a regular comment rather than a reply to Tamara. Hmm.
ETA: I guess it just adds a link like before, no embeds.
What does the long rectangle at the bottom of the text box do? Sometimes it has just a “P”, but once it had a “P<<A”. Is this some text speak I am unaware of?
69.
jeffreyw
Post comment button is wonky. Last time I clicked it nothing happened except the loading arrow kept spinning. Comment loaded on a refresh.
edit to add that time it went right through
70.
Jay
And now Cloudflare jammed a comment and told me that BJ was down and offline even though it wasn’t.
@Jackie: If you are talking about the commentor’s nym being blue, that indicates they have their own website and clicking on the nym will take you there.
I tried to read this post out loud to my friend D, but couldn’t get through it without laughing hysterically, now he’s looking at me like I’m a nut, so WHAT ELSE IS NEW.
Going to have to find a Youtube of the tune for him. No digital banjo. Maybe digital accordion.
78.
zhena gogolia
Reply button doesn’t work for me. I got a “bad gateway” thing a few minutes ago. Now it’s remembering both nym and e-mail. And the last comment I posted did go through. But I can’t seem to reply to anyone.
I am getting the “@nym:” thing now when I press reply, and the email is also sticking. I’m wondering if kinks are steadily being worked out or if the functionality is random.
85.
zhena gogolia
And . . . now the comment I replied to Miss Bianca did post.
I think I’ll go back to watching George Kent over and over again and check in with BJ tomorrow, at least for commenting.
86.
Yutsano
E-mail stuck? WOOT!!!
87.
justawriter
Infrequent commenter comments infrequently, but it appears successfully.
I have found that if I mash the Reply button I get a blank comment form (Win10, Firefox, no ad blocker running right now). If I close that and then mash the same Reply button again (e.g., to your comment) then I do get a proper reply comment form with your nym and link at the top.
@Steeplejack: I just typed in a link into the insert/edit link box. The first time it gave me an error message (which repeated when I tried to go back) but the second time it posted with the link. Alas, I will have to live without the ability to embed video or tweets.
New mobile site does not work well will Google keyboard on Android.
99.
scav
These are indeed testing times!
I’ve lost the “buttons” for code in the text view. Is that true for everyone?
The visual buttons are present and accounted for. whee.
100.
Jay
https://twitter.com/MollyMcKew/status/1194706068456329216?s=20Ukraine BOUGHT the Javelins. They are not “aid.” They are also under restriction. They sit in a warehouse near Kyiv; Ukrainian armed forces are not allowed to use or deploy them under current arrangement.
If that happens you have to refresh the page. I think. I’m still figuring out things on the fly.
108.
FelonyGovt
@Tata: The Shingles booster knocked me on my butt. I’m glad to be done with both shots because they weren’t fun.
109.
PJ
I should say that, aside from all the things I’ve complained about, things do seem to be running more smoothly. So thanks to Watergirl and everyone else who worked on the rebuild.
110.
Marcopolo
Here goes nuthin…
Just dropping into say hi.
This new blog look is pretty spiffy.
Catch y’all later.
111.
Gin & Tonic
Well, it has now forgotten my e-mail, although it remembered my nym.
112.
Gin & Tonic
@FelonyGovt: I had to call out sick the day after each one. They really killed me.
113.
mrmoshpotato
Test? Where’s the long beep?
ETA – Remembers my email now.
114.
Dan B
Nym is saved but have to poke the email. It brings up the correct email address so it’s not an issue. Samsung Galaxy 7 Android
115.
different-church-lady
Doing well on my coal-fired 11 year old Mac. And seems like not as much “ca-chunk, ca-chunk, ca-chunk” on Twitter-filled pages.
ETA: edit function seems to be in order.
116.
steppy
Nothing to say, just testing the comments for myself.
117.
smedley the uncertain
Just signing in on the new site. And Awaaaaay We Go………
@Gin & Tonic: I’m replying to you just to see what happens. My name and email stuck around from earlier. HUZZAH.
120.
jeffreyw
android 9 test
121.
Dan B
@FelonyGovt: I didn’t have a strong reaction to the shingles shots. I wonder if the immune system is not working well.
email has shown up!
122.
different-church-lady
Left scroll arrows are obscuring the left edge of the text on both MacBook (old Firefox) and iPad.
Quote test!
Yeah…
123.
different-church-lady
Edit button seems to be sporadic…
124.
Raven
It kicked my ass last year but I had shingles in my eye 20 years ago and there is no comparison.
125.
different-church-lady
Doing well on my coal-fired 11 year old Mac. And seems like not as much “ca-chunk, ca-chunk, ca-chunk” on Twitter-filled pages.
This is a reply test. I’m having difficulty getting OUT of quote mode when in Visual editing.
ETA: Edit button is back on this one. I’m still experiencing the thing where I need to refresh the page before I see a comment that has supposedly posted.
Just realized I’d be terribly remiss if I didn’t thank Watergirl & all the other folks who put so much time & energy into the blog remodel & thanks to Cole for marshaling the resources & making it all possible.
Holy cow, it remembers me! Woot!
130.
Jay
Okay, to embed a tweet, hit the underscore bracket on twitter that pulls up the copy url function for the tweet,
Come back to Balloon Juice, hitbthe comment button,
hit the link button, and paste in the url, wait a few seconds and a “link text box” comes up, go back to the tweet, copy and paste the tweet text into the “link text box” and post comment.
the text of the tweet will show up, ( with no mention of whom you are reposting), as hypertext.
on the bright side, I am being remembered.
131.
HumboldtBlue
The working recent comments thread on the side is welcomed back as being accurate.
@different-church-lady: I think that is a scaling issue – if I go to half screen the tabs disappear, reduce the zoom and they retreat to a less obtrusive position
136.
Miss Bianca
@Marcopolo: Yes, huge kudos to WaterGirl and Cole and everyone involved in testing and developing!
137.
different-church-lady
Dayum! There’s still some bugs, but this thing is hella good so far.
Like others, someone says test, I want to shout FAIL! Leto can confirm.
Site seems nice.
141.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
PBR Street Gang, this is Almighty.
Standing by. Over.
142.
Another Scott
Replying from a MBP. On the Visual tab, but writing my own HTML…
<blockquote><a href=”https://www.google.com”>Google</a> once said “Don’t be Evil.”</blockquote>
Cheers,
Scott.
143.
Jay
So, that works. When replying to a commentnon an IPhone/Safari, you have to manually swipe down the comment form to the bottom to get to a post button.
144.
Another Scott
Hmm. Well that was unexpected.
And I seem to always need to do a manual refresh after posting a comment or reply. I don’t recall having to do that before.
[eta:] No refresh needed in this case. Hmmm…
Cheers,
Scott.
145.
Scott Alloway
True/False test?
146.
Another Scott
@Another Scott: As others noted, sometimes the “@” anchor to the parent comment don’t show up. It did here, but I didn’t do anything different.
Non-deterministic software is always great fun!! :-)
I submitted a OTR, the form works and allows you to edit any part of the submission, but it doesn’t display the picture that you link to. It said it submitted and I got a confirmation email.
Ah good, it looks like Cole’s minions are hard at work getting the last minute kinks out, now it remembers my website.
(Checking to see if the comment timer resets.)
Yup, it works.
172.
Another Scott
There’s a grey “Search this website” button on the upper right of the page (on the desktop). It seems to work. Just type what you’re looking for and hit Enter/Return.
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
173.
Mary G
Just tried clicking on the categories across the top (politics, open threads, pets, garden) and love the header photos for all of them.
174.
Gin & Tonic
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Same behavior here. I submitted a post about an hour ago.
175.
Gin & Tonic
@BruceFromOhio: You prompted me to look at the authors page, and I see Tim F is still listed. Boy, I’d like a new pic of Max.
That’s some hoop-jumping.
Blocking tweet embeds (confirmed) is a bit sad. The names are part of the charm; always the possibility of attracting the tweet author through google/other search engine.
Had to drop to a 6 point font (approximately) to fit a reasonable number of comments in a laptop screen, where the column now takes about 1/3 the width.
Not seeing white text on a blue background. Can you point to some?
192.
CaseyL
Love the new features! News! Meetups! So far, very happy with the new place. I haven’t tried anything fancy yet, like colorful text or embeds or, uh, replying to anyone. So for me, it’s working fine.
And, really, I am very excited about the new … rooms? subpages? those places you go to see stuff that is important but not part of a current post.
Kudos unending to the team that worked on this, the dedicated jackals who helped test it in beta, and Cole for not having to kill anyone.
ETA: I did have to refresh before my comment showed up.
(Thanks for the tip, Steeplejack – Bill’s “@” didn’t show up until I closed the empty edit box and started again.)
Cheers,
Scott.
202.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
White Punks on Dope
203.
Another Scott
@?BillinGlendaleCA: (Visual tab): That’s sort of what I expected, but the manual <b>bold</b> and <em>italic</em> HTML tags work in the Visual mode. (I think.) (Maybe it was a glitch.)
And there are buttons, sometimes, on the Text tab, and sometimes not.
Not around here tonight. We are like the apemen in 2001, capering around the monolith and throwing bones up in the air. Which then come down and hit us on the head, but in bold italics. Return to normalcy tomorrow, maybe.
@zhena gogolia: I really liked the bow tie man too. After he answered a congressman who told him what his job was he said and your job is to get the facts.
He had one really good line about corruption, but I can’t seem to find it on anybody’s tweets and I can’t remember exactly what it was. Something about corrupt people just keep being corrupt, and it was clear he was talking about Drumpf.
Some local CBS News reporter: “Ray Cromartie has been executed to death.”
Putting aside the barbarism of the act itself, this is a capital crime against syntax.
246.
different-church-lady
@zhena gogolia: On the Mac I think you need to show the keyboard icon in the menu bar (it’s somewhere in the settings, either in Keyboard or Accessibility), and then there’s a emoji pallet on that.
247.
zhena gogolia
Ха-ха, я сошла с ума!
????
No flag of Ukraine. Hmmmm
248.
the Conster
Getting my cookies. I think I’ve had to get my cookies from Balloon Juice three times now – remember when we all had to use proxy servers to comment? Good times.
OK, so strange thing with the visual editor. To exit the blockquote mode, I have to do a carriage return first (which makes it look like the new line is still part of the quote), and then hit the quote button (which then leaves the line above as a quote but moves the new line outside the quote).
ETA I have been holding back on that pun for hours now. Seems like a whole bunch of stuff that was on the edge of our tests are now being exposed. Plus a bunch of new stuff that got introduced.
Is there anyplace where people are discussing the impeachment hearings?
I was wondering that, too. I didn’t see any of it. I’m still feeling depressed because it’s clear that the a hole really could just admit that he is a traitor and that he did it to make money and his approval will plummet to 40.5%
Current Bain Capital employee and former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick is probably going to enter the Democratic Party’s primary race. There is no good reason for him to do so. He is not going to win. The masses do not pine for him. But hubris is a ruthless master, and it is driving Patrick the way it is driving former New York City mayor and current billionaire Michael Bloomberg. Reportedly concerned about a weak Joe Biden and the prospect of higher taxes on his massive fortune, Bloomberg has filed paperwork to enter the primary too. This is, to put it modestly, insane.
The clown car is full. It cannot accept any more passengers. Really, it was pushed beyond its capacity some time ago, but John Delaney simply will not get out of the vehicle.
Only Jesus Christ, A Reanimated Eugene Debs, The Fisher King, Death, The Hamburglar, and Quilty the Cat are excepted.
259.
opiejeanne
But I didn’t study! No one said there would be a test!
@James E Powell: I haven’t watched any of it either. I just can’t understand how that large a percentage of our population is okay with him. It’s makes me feel so hopeless.
[. . .] the A-hole really could just admit that he is a traitor and that he did it to make money and his approval will plummet to 40.5%
Truth. I was thinking about this today when something reminded me of Jesse Ventura, the wrestler that was elected governor of Minnesota. Which of course reminded me of Ahnold in California.
And I thought about Raven’s comment about his football blog where some winger veterans admitted that Trump is an asshole but they’re okay with it because he’s screwing with the libs, herp-de-derp.
I think there is a (frighteningly large) segment of the population that has become so hypnotized by pop culture that they don’t see any difference between voting in elections and voting for someone on Dancing with the Stars. It’s all show biz, baby!
So they’ll stick with Trump just for the entertainment value—and screwing with the libs, of course.
I’m hoping the color mania will die down after everybody gets over the drunken rush of the new site.
271.
The Lodger
My nym and email are still there, but I can’t respond to some posts.
272.
The Dangerman
And now the P thing disappeared.
WTF?!! I want my P thing!!
ETA: OK, it has something to do with editing a comment. And blockquotes it?
273.
Emerald
Test to see if it will save my nym and email. (Getting reeealllly old typing that in every time)
274.
Another Scott
@Steeplejack: I was actually aiming to make it literally invisible but didn’t go to the trouble of finding a color picker and just guessed. So, it’s off a little. >;-)
Yeah, when I edited a (reply) comment with a blockquote in it, it took out my double-spacing between paragraphs, and after I manually reëntered them it took them out again.
It seems to show what tags you’re within in the HTML. I think you’re always in a paragraph <P> when composing a comment, so you’ll always see the little P. But if you start nesting links, blockquotes, bold, colors, etc, you’ll start to see all of those tags that you’ve got open as well.
Minor glitch: I don’t always have the button bar, whatever you call that. A little while ago I wasn’t seeing it when composing a new comment. It’s minor because the workaround is pretty easy. If I don’t see it but then click “Visual” it appears.
Edit to add: Did we used to have an Underline button? I don’t right now. I’m doing those underlines by going into “Text” mode and manually inserting <u>…</u> tags. And BTW for HTML geeks, that’s what the “Text” tab does, it shows the HTML. You can go in there and manually insert HTML so you can go beyond the limitations of the graphical editing features.
@The Dangerman: The P is for paragraph, it’s the HTLM tag for the block.
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James E Powell
I think there is a (frighteningly large) segment of the population that has become so hypnotized by pop culture that they don’t see any difference between voting in elections and voting for someone on Dancing with the Stars. It’s all show biz, baby!
Agree completely. And there’s this thing with some people, the ones who are not die-hard hateful bigots, that I can best state as a belief that if Trump was really all that bad somebody (they can never say who) would stop him. They see everything as a show and believe that there are powerful & wise people who really run things.
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prostratedragon
One thing I notice is that when you back tick from a comment that you jumped to, you don’t wind up where you just were, but maybe, say, from where you might have commented above that point. (The preserved nym and email are working well on linux/firefox68.)
294.
NotoriousJRT
@zhena gogolia: my thoughts exactly. The restraint is killing me.
I suspect the coding team is making live updates and that’s why we’re seeing the user experience change slightly every once in awhile. Kind of like having your mechanic riding along underneath your car tweaking the engine while you’re going down the highway at 70 mph.
They see everything as a show and believe that there are powerful & wise people who really run things.
Boy, you hit a nerve there! I used to find myself thinking that, not to worry (too much), there were adults in charge somewhere. Part of my increasing political engagement came from the realization that there were no “adults” in charge, or maybe the adults I was seeing were idiots. So my quest has become to find non-idiots to support. Not looking for genius, just basic competence working toward liberal, progressive goals.
New thread upstairs to meet your impeachment discussion needs!
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Mnemosyne
I think that’s the basis of a lot of belief in conspiracy theories — it’s more comforting to believe that SOMEONE is in charge, even if those people are evil, than it is to believe that life is just random shit happening.
also, I just accidentally erased the first version of this comment with the “clear comment” button, so that was annoying.
304.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
If it (color mania) doesn’t fade away, some of us will have to self deport to avoid migraines.
@Steeplejack: Interesting. My first reply didn’t show it was to you; I closed and replied again and got the link back.
Hmm. When I follow the link of your reply(275) to zg (252) backspace takes me to 215. Odd.
@jeffreyw: Still needing to click the reply button, close out the popup window, then click reply button again to get to a comment window that is populated with the linked nym of the commenter I am replying to.
The nav tab on the left side is obtrusive and impinges on the text. The other side nav tab is a different size (taller) and it is crowding the reply button.
The site is remembering the nym, email and web site, at least so far today. Yay!
This is a test comment with no tab and no buttons. Visual tab with buttons shows up in edit box. One more edit.
313.
Wolvesvalley
Testing with text tab. Comment box now has buttons in both tabs.
Formatting with buttons in text tab works.
Edit and edit countdown disappeared temporarily, now back.
314.
Wolvesvalley
Another comment box with no tabs and no buttons.
Edit box has tabs and buttons.
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Wolvesvalley
@leeleeFL: Testing reply: @nym showed up on first click.
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Yutsano
“Give me a ping Vasily. One ping only please.”
Kayla Rudbek
Let’s see if this works to save my nym and email. ETA yes it did
Another Scott
A reply from my phone.
Cheers,
Scott
japa21
In running for most intriguing post on the new site.
Ohio Mom
@japa21: Still trying to post replies.Email has begun to stock, that’s very nice?
Betty Cracker
I was banned, but now I’m not, so I’ve got that going for me!
Debbie(Aussie)
Nice new home you have. Enjoy it I will.
Thanks John, Watergirl, Alain and many others. Love this community of jackals.
Professor Bigfoot
Remembered my nym but not my email from previous post.
Burn the whole thing down.
ETA… you know I’m kidding, right? The place looks great.
Chris T.
Do we get to reply “Fail”?
Chris T.
Ooh, last comment eated!No, it’s there now! And, fancy editor! But defaults to visual for editing comment, while defaulting to text for new comment…? Still, nicer.Wait, I’m supposed to be grumpy and complain here, right?
NobodySpecial
Are we ourselves?
CliosFanBoy
needs more dog pics
Mai naem mobile
@Betty Cracker: how did you get banned?
TS (the original)
Nice place, still chasing my emai
Edit: my conclusion (Win 7, chrome)
TaMara (HFG)
@Betty Cracker: I joined you in solidarity. But now seem to be free. But if we can’t embed tweets, photos and videos, someone is gonna have some explainin’ to do. Luuuucy!
Nicole
Test? I didn’t study!
Also- the screen remembered my name and email, even though I CLOSED THE WINDOW. Hurray!
Also, also- hell is listening to your not-untalented-but-by-no-means-a-prodigy 9-year-old practice “Carol of the Bells” by going through every single instrument on the digital piano programming. We just left digital French Horn and are now on to digital banjo. Some instruments were not meant to be heard playing “Carol of the Bells.”
SoupCatcher
I’m digging the images on the various headers. Especially Nancy!
https://balloon-juice.com/category/politics/
Al Z.
Hi
edm
If this has been a real emergency, you would have been instructed to duck and cover
HeleninEire
I like it. A lot. Cuz I’m getting old(er) and the bigger font and the whiter white is great.
And love that Mr. Balloon is back.
Ohio Mom
Sometimes I can see my comment as I type it, sometimes I can’t. I think the patten is, I can see it when I am writing a new comment and can’t see it when I am replying to someone else.
Sometimes I am allowed to edit
(an edit button appears), sometimes not.
Sometlmes when I reply to someone else, their name appears in blue at the start of my comment, sometimes it doesn’t it.
At first my email didn’t stick but now it does.
i might go back to lurking. The new site is very easy for my old eyes to red.
Steeplejack
Test comment for a test post.
Jay
How does one post a twitter post, twitter embed results in being blocked.
Mnemosyne
Hey, the “forward to next post” button seems to have worked. Yay!
Plus my nym and email seem to have stuck so far. Will check again in an hour-ish and see if they time out. ?
japa21
@HeleninEire: Boy, is Dorothy A Winsor in for a surprise when she gets back from her cruise. And you hit on a couple of the same reasons I like it.
Steeplejack
@Jay:
I’ma check that right now.
James E Powell
It looks very nice. It remembered my name and email. And editing is very smooth.
zhena gogolia
It remembers my nym, not my e-mail. We’ll see if I can post a comment and see it without having to refresh.
Frankensteinbeck
Bliggibt
TaMara (HFG)
I keep getting blocked trying to embed things i used to be able to embed. Trying youtube.
Frankensteinbeck
Excellent. There is no gibberish filter. Full steam ahead!
Wolvesvalley
Trying another test comment. I want to see where it goes.
ETA It’s true that it vanished until I hit refresh.
ETA again — and the edited comment didn’t appear until I hit refresh again.
Jay
TaMara (HFG)
@TaMara (HFG): Well that worked. Yay.
chris
@Jay: C+P and add a link. For the moment anyway. Look upthread, Tamara and Betty C aren’t having it.
Jay
Quote works, for copy/paste text.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Three Year Letterman lays out the impeachment cast of characters: [raw code].
ETA: Well, FYWP just outputted the raw HTML code of the embedded tweet as text. Have to do a little cipherin’ on this.
Redshift
Hi, everybody!
Tata
It saved my name but not my email.
Dumb question: did we do the pet pictures for the 2020 calendar already and I missed it?
Further: Monday, I got the shingles shot booster and the next 36 hours were a really painful blur. It feels like that was weeks ago. I don’t regret getting it and my new hobby will be NOT getting the shingles, every day, for the rest of my life if possible, but MAN.
Jay
HeleninEire
@japa21: And I just saw the next post arrow on my phone. Been bitching about commenting on dead threads. YAY. I can now see a new thread on my phone. WOOP WOOP.
chris
Joe GiGenova on Lou Dobbs’ show.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Huh, I thought I was in the edit time window, but FYWP (can we still call it that?) didn’t save my changes.
ETA: Okay, <em>now</em> it saved the changes to the previous comment. WTF.
funlady75
I love this website…..no problems with nym or email…..
clay
Lookin’ good!
Let’s try bold. How about italics?
Cool.Mary G
Can I copy and paste a tweet?
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) Retweeted
Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson
·
6h
Remember: the Republican questioning is not meant for anything more than feeder material for Fox and their fundraising emails.
RSA
Testing from my iPhone…
ETA: Seems to work.
Jay
So, tried to comment on my comment, ( IPhone Safari) about the site eating the twitter link but allowing cut and paste, and the comment screen froze. Couldn’t get out, back or away, couldn’t post.
Monkeyfister
Oh, my gawd… you had us worried sick. You never called, you never even wrote. We thought you were dead in a ditch somewhere, and we worried if you had clean underwear. Don’t do that again. we almost had heart attacks.
Steeplejack
@TaMara (HFG):
I tried to embed a tweet—in the way that commenters were allowed to do before—and
FYWPthe new site spewed out the raw code.Central Planning
Frist!
Well, frist for me on the new site.
Thanks everyone who worked on it!
Monkeyfister
Me too! Like a champ.
John Revolta
Test.
Is this all I’m getting?
mvr
Ok, I’ll comment just to test whether it saves my identity. Word on the street is that it will.
chris
@Jay: I always thought that Travis would be arrested for something much worse. What a vile man.
James E Powell
Don’t forget the hundred or so local news stations that pretty much run FOX stories and Republican propaganda without comment or context. That’s where most people are getting their news.
jeffreyw
Email persisted through a post change! Yay!
It’s the little things.
Jay
New site won’t let me reply to a comment with the reply button, takes me to a comment field and leaves me stranded there, IPhone/Safari
sukabi
Site looks good! ?
Achrachno
Whoa! Where am I?
FlyingToaster
@Betty Cracker:
Okay, that is just so damn wrong…
How’s the pup? Still in shock from the cold?
gwangung
OKay, now my email and nym have loaded…
Jackie
Noticed some of the comments show up blue. Is there a special reason?
glory b
Okay, test.
PJ
I tried to reply to your youtube post with a linked youtube video but it sent me to an error page, and when I tried to get back to this page, I kept getting an error page until I typed in balloon-juice.com in the browser window.
glory b
Yoo hoo!
japa21
@jeffreyw: Email persisted through my closing my window and opening another window. Yippee
PJ
And that posted as a regular comment rather than a reply to Tamara. Hmm.
Here’s another attempt to link to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKDVq9hHqGc
ETA: I guess it just adds a link like before, no embeds.
What does the long rectangle at the bottom of the text box do? Sometimes it has just a “P”, but once it had a “P<<A”. Is this some text speak I am unaware of?
jeffreyw
Post comment button is wonky. Last time I clicked it nothing happened except the loading arrow kept spinning. Comment loaded on a refresh.
edit to add that time it went right through
Jay
And now Cloudflare jammed a comment and told me that BJ was down and offline even though it wasn’t.
FlyingToaster
@Jackie:
Like This?
Choose Visual from the editor, the “A” character to choose a color.
Steeplejack
@Jackie:
The blue bits are blockquotes, I believe.
japa21
@Jackie: If you are talking about the commentor’s nym being blue, that indicates they have their own website and clicking on the nym will take you there.
Pharniel
5 by 5
Raven
Lima Charlie Dawg!
Steeplejack
@PJ:
I don’t think mere commenters can embed YouTube videos. (But maybe you meant you were just trying to put in a link.)
Miss Bianca
@Nicole: Testing, testing…
I tried to read this post out loud to my friend D, but couldn’t get through it without laughing hysterically, now he’s looking at me like I’m a nut, so WHAT ELSE IS NEW.
Going to have to find a Youtube of the tune for him. No digital banjo. Maybe digital accordion.
zhena gogolia
Reply button doesn’t work for me. I got a “bad gateway” thing a few minutes ago. Now it’s remembering both nym and e-mail. And the last comment I posted did go through. But I can’t seem to reply to anyone.
zhena gogolia
@Miss Bianca:
Okay, now I’m getting the reply button. All the functionality seems to change every time I comment. Let’s see how my magenta comes out.
PJ
@PJ:
@PJ:
So sometimes when you click “reply”, the “@nym:” shows up, and sometimes it doesn’t.
Clicking on the “P” at the bottom highlights the last sentence in the text box, curious as to why.
TaMara (HFG)
@Steeplejack: Well at least you didn’t get BANNED! LOL. When you’re banning front pagers, well, we’re through the Lookingglass now.
clay
We can reply to you!
Edit: or not. This was supposed to be for @zhena gogolia
zhena gogolia
When I reply to someone, the comment doesn’t post.
PJ
@zhena gogolia:
I am getting the “@nym:” thing now when I press reply, and the email is also sticking. I’m wondering if kinks are steadily being worked out or if the functionality is random.
zhena gogolia
And . . . now the comment I replied to Miss Bianca did post.
I think I’ll go back to watching George Kent over and over again and check in with BJ tomorrow, at least for commenting.
Yutsano
E-mail stuck? WOOT!!!
justawriter
Infrequent commenter comments infrequently, but it appears successfully.
BeautifulPlumage
“Quilty not guilty” could be a rotating tag….
https://www.bonfire.com/store/freequilty/
John Revolta
Remembered my nym and stuff without my telling it to. Yay!
Can we edit comments
Aaaannnd I see that we can. Yay yay!
TaMara (HFG)
@PJ: Only front pagers have the ability to embed actual content. Sorry ’bout that.
Dmbeaster
Finally, we do not have to re-enter name and email every time? The save function did not work on the prior version. I do not see a save function here.
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
I have found that if I mash the Reply button I get a blank comment form (Win10, Firefox, no ad blocker running right now). If I close that and then mash the same Reply button again (e.g., to your comment) then I do get a proper reply comment form with your nym and link at the top.
Halteclere
First post in a long time.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
Pretty.
PJ
@Steeplejack: I just typed in a link into the insert/edit link box. The first time it gave me an error message (which repeated when I tried to go back) but the second time it posted with the link. Alas, I will have to live without the ability to embed video or tweets.
Ken
Testing… testing… one… two… three… five…
And edit works! I think, let me save…
Checking <code>sarcasm font</code>.
laura
https://youtu.be/vPzDTfIb0DU
Love the new site.
Im not thinking about the willow.
Baud
New mobile site does not work well will Google keyboard on Android.
scav
These are indeed testing times!
I’ve lost the “buttons” for code in the text view. Is that true for everyone?
The visual buttons are present and accounted for. whee.
Jay
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
Goddamn, get rid of that fucking magenta! ?
PJ
Buttons for varying text appearance, links, etc. are only under the “visual” tab for me.
Steeplejack
@TaMara (HFG):
Holy shnikeys.
Jay
Clunky, one way it works is to copy the link, and paste, using the link function, then cut and paste the text with the blockquote function.
different-church-lady
Yowsa! So much faster on my aging iPad!
2liberal
testing for saving nym and email
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
If that happens you have to refresh the page. I think. I’m still figuring out things on the fly.
FelonyGovt
@Tata: The Shingles booster knocked me on my butt. I’m glad to be done with both shots because they weren’t fun.
PJ
I should say that, aside from all the things I’ve complained about, things do seem to be running more smoothly. So thanks to Watergirl and everyone else who worked on the rebuild.
Marcopolo
Here goes nuthin…
Just dropping into say hi.
This new blog look is pretty spiffy.
Catch y’all later.
Gin & Tonic
Well, it has now forgotten my e-mail, although it remembered my nym.
Gin & Tonic
@FelonyGovt: I had to call out sick the day after each one. They really killed me.
mrmoshpotato
Test? Where’s the long beep?
ETA – Remembers my email now.
Dan B
Nym is saved but have to poke the email. It brings up the correct email address so it’s not an issue. Samsung Galaxy 7 Android
different-church-lady
Doing well on my coal-fired 11 year old Mac. And seems like not as much “ca-chunk, ca-chunk, ca-chunk” on Twitter-filled pages.
ETA: edit function seems to be in order.
steppy
Nothing to say, just testing the comments for myself.
smedley the uncertain
Just signing in on the new site. And Awaaaaay We Go………
Congratulations and Thanks to one and all.
Jay
Jim Jordan is not correct. Trump didn’t GIVE Ukraine javelins. And they are for optics, not battlefield use.
Old Dan and Little Ann
@Gin & Tonic: I’m replying to you just to see what happens. My name and email stuck around from earlier. HUZZAH.
jeffreyw
android 9 test
Dan B
@FelonyGovt: I didn’t have a strong reaction to the shingles shots. I wonder if the immune system is not working well.
email has shown up!
different-church-lady
Left scroll arrows are obscuring the left edge of the text on both MacBook (old Firefox) and iPad.
Yeah…
different-church-lady
Edit button seems to be sporadic…
Raven
It kicked my ass last year but I had shingles in my eye 20 years ago and there is no comparison.
different-church-lady
This is a reply test. I’m having difficulty getting OUT of quote mode when in Visual editing.
ETA: Edit button is back on this one. I’m still experiencing the thing where I need to refresh the page before I see a comment that has supposedly posted.
FlyingToaster
Good grief:
https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/DailySummary/#t2anom
It looks like everything east of the Rockies and north of Okechobee is in the deep freeze.
Patricia Kayden
Woohoo! New website looks great (so far).
Steeplejack
@different-church-lady:
Ditto on Win10/Firefox.
Marcopolo
Just realized I’d be terribly remiss if I didn’t thank Watergirl & all the other folks who put so much time & energy into the blog remodel & thanks to Cole for marshaling the resources & making it all possible.
Holy cow, it remembers me! Woot!
Jay
Okay, to embed a tweet, hit the underscore bracket on twitter that pulls up the copy url function for the tweet,
Come back to Balloon Juice, hitbthe comment button,
hit the link button, and paste in the url, wait a few seconds and a “link text box” comes up, go back to the tweet, copy and paste the tweet text into the “link text box” and post comment.
the text of the tweet will show up, ( with no mention of whom you are reposting), as hypertext.
on the bright side, I am being remembered.
HumboldtBlue
The working recent comments thread on the side is welcomed back as being accurate.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
I was told there would be no math on this test
different-church-lady
I have filtered myself successfully!
FlyingToaster
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch: And you believed that? Silly Rabbit!
jeffreyw
@different-church-lady: I think that is a scaling issue – if I go to half screen the tabs disappear, reduce the zoom and they retreat to a less obtrusive position
Miss Bianca
@Marcopolo: Yes, huge kudos to WaterGirl and Cole and everyone involved in testing and developing!
different-church-lady
Dayum! There’s still some bugs, but this thing is hella good so far.
JaySinWA
I once was lost but now I am found,
was banned but now I’m seen.
Jay
@Miss Bianca:
trying reply again
Avalune
Like others, someone says test, I want to shout FAIL! Leto can confirm.
Site seems nice.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
Another Scott
Replying from a MBP. On the Visual tab, but writing my own HTML…
<blockquote><a href=”https://www.google.com”>Google</a> once said “Don’t be Evil.”</blockquote>
Cheers,
Scott.
Jay
So, that works. When replying to a commentnon an IPhone/Safari, you have to manually swipe down the comment form to the bottom to get to a post button.
Another Scott
Hmm. Well that was unexpected.
And I seem to always need to do a manual refresh after posting a comment or reply. I don’t recall having to do that before.
[eta:] No refresh needed in this case. Hmmm…
Cheers,
Scott.
Scott Alloway
True/False test?
Another Scott
@Another Scott: As others noted, sometimes the “@” anchor to the parent comment don’t show up. It did here, but I didn’t do anything different.
Non-deterministic software is always great fun!! :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
jeffreyw
everything I tell you is a lie
rikyrah
One of my favorite movies ?
rikyrah
Hey Silverman ?
Jay
Peter W. Singer @peterwsinger · 9h Study: Russian hackers originally failed at driving stolen DNC emails viral. It wasn’t until nexus of Wikileaks and political (vs cyber beat) journalists a full month later https://washingtonpost.com/business/technology/russian-hackers-who-stole-dnc-emails-failed-at-social-media-wikileaks-helped/2019/11/12/751690ae-0580-11ea-a5e2-fccc16fa3576_story.html?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_technology202… #likewar Note: Many political journalists still in denial of how they were used
Another Scott
@jeffreyw: It was a perfect call!!!11
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@rikyrah: OMG. You can italicize emojis!
ETA
?
?
HalfAssedHomesteader
Good design. Good look. Loads faster on mobile. Very readable on my little Android screen. I do wish the margins were bigger on desktop though.
Planetjanet
Yippee! Love the new place!
jeffreyw
@Another Scott: Indeed!
Jay
There is a “playbook” here but it’s not the one used by the IRA. No ‘Jesus memes’. The GRU-attributed ops revolved around the creation of front media orgs and fake people who wrote for them…and freelanced for real ideologically aligned media organizations.
smedley the uncertain
From phone, Pixel–Firefox.
All seems 5 x 5. Muy Bueno.
Congrats.
ETA. Knows nym and email
jeffreyw
? but there are no bold emojis
FlyingToaster
?
?
?Holy fuck, you can italicize, bold, & strikethrough emojis.
anarchoRex
Is there a way to search comments?
Steeplejack
@different-church-lady:
Phrasing! I think.
Another Scott
Do we still have to worry about dungeon words??
Watson?
Casino?
Cheers,
Scott.
jeffreyw
@anarchoRex: You gonna need a warrant, copper.
Another Scott
It looks like casino is still a dungeon word.
Cheers,
Scott.
(Who figures the manual HTML won’t work…)
[eta:] I’m very confused by what’s happening here…
Steeplejack
@Baud:
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
(Do not send me ?!)
BruceFromOhio
@Yutsano: heh I love that this is one of the first comments I read in the new site.
How did Doug J score the balloon guy as his avatar on the author’s page?
?BillinGlendaleCA
I submitted a OTR, the form works and allows you to edit any part of the submission, but it doesn’t display the picture that you link to. It said it submitted and I got a confirmation email.
different-church-lady
@FlyingToaster:
I’d like to strike through all emojis. Devilish little things…
Leto
Testing 1 2 3
lamh36
Testing….
?BillinGlendaleCA
Ah good, it looks like Cole’s minions are hard at work getting the last minute kinks out, now it remembers my website.
(Checking to see if the comment timer resets.)
Yup, it works.
Another Scott
There’s a grey “Search this website” button on the upper right of the page (on the desktop). It seems to work. Just type what you’re looking for and hit Enter/Return.
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
Mary G
Just tried clicking on the categories across the top (politics, open threads, pets, garden) and love the header photos for all of them.
Gin & Tonic
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Same behavior here. I submitted a post about an hour ago.
Gin & Tonic
@BruceFromOhio: You prompted me to look at the authors page, and I see Tim F is still listed. Boy, I’d like a new pic of Max.
Ruckus
I like it.
I will find something to complain about, even if it has nothing to do with the site.
Damnit that’s a pretty big something.
Another Scott
A bare post to play with colors (I thought that was only available when we edited a comment?).
Ångstrøm.
The buttons show up in the Text tab, not in the Visual tab. At least here, at the moment.
Cheers,
Scott.
Gin & Tonic
@FlyingToaster: In Chrome on Windows 7, all I see in place of your alleged emojis are blank squares. Which I actually prefer.
Ruckus
Well that didn’t work.
Moderation?
Or black hole in space sucked it up?
Avalune
@Leto: FAIL
Jackie
No, blue background white font.
Ruckus
Help!
I’m trapped and I can’t find my way home…..
orchid moon
Love the new site! Loads fast, and seems to be very responsive. Kudos to all of you who worked so hard to make it happen.
gwangung
More like it still has a few kinks, but there are fewer kinks the more you post….
gwangung
Still trying to figure out how to reply to someone….it’s a puzzler…
ETA: Oho….a delay again….
scribbler
Love the look – so clean.
Thanks to the many who worked to make the new BJ a reality!
SFBayAreaGal
Woohoo
Another Scott
Visual tab, new comment. I see B, I, etc. buttons in grey.
Text tab shows nothing. So far…
Have to have more text below the blockquote-highlighted text to get out of the button? Apparently.
<blockquote>Manually blockquoted text.</blockquote>
Well?
Cheers,
Scott.
[eta:] Editing using the Text tab. See the original HTML code as text. See blue buttons now for editing.
Well?
Cheers,
Scott.
jeffreyw
@gwangung:
La la la Lola
Bill Arnold
@Jay:
That’s some hoop-jumping.
Blocking tweet embeds (confirmed) is a bit sad. The names are part of the charm; always the possibility of attracting the tweet author through google/other search engine.
Had to drop to a 6 point font (approximately) to fit a reasonable number of comments in a laptop screen, where the column now takes about 1/3 the width.
Steeplejack
@Jackie:
Not seeing white text on a blue background. Can you point to some?
CaseyL
Love the new features! News! Meetups! So far, very happy with the new place. I haven’t tried anything fancy yet, like colorful text or embeds or, uh, replying to anyone. So for me, it’s working fine.
And, really, I am very excited about the new … rooms? subpages? those places you go to see stuff that is important but not part of a current post.
Kudos unending to the team that worked on this, the dedicated jackals who helped test it in beta, and Cole for not having to kill anyone.
ETA: I did have to refresh before my comment showed up.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Another Scott:
jeffreyw
Progress! It kept the website info that time.
Steeplejack
@gwangung:
Close the empty comment box and hit Reply again; then you should get a reply box with the person’s nym and comment info.
Another Scott
@?BillinGlendaleCA: <blockquote>On Visual tab, manual blockquote.</blockquote>
Well?
Cheers,
Scott.
Tenar Arha
Sigh. It’s brilliant, but as I’ve gotten older The Red Shoes often makes me want to yell at Vicki to just chuck it all & run away from Boris & Julian.
ETA Test
?BillinGlendaleCA
Looks like stuff is coming and going, they’re still working under the hood getting some kinks out.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Another Scott: In visual mode, you have to use the buttons, if you want to use the HTML, you have to use text mode.
Try a link…
Processing the Orion Nebula using LRGB
jeffreyw
Tried the twitter embed code and the site was blocked for me
pooh
Another Scott
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Maybe it depends on your time zone, or latitude.
(Thanks for the tip, Steeplejack – Bill’s “@” didn’t show up until I closed the empty edit box and started again.)
Cheers,
Scott.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
Another Scott
@?BillinGlendaleCA: (Visual tab): That’s sort of what I expected,
but the manual <b>bold</b> and <em>italic</em> HTML tags work in the Visual mode. (I think.)(Maybe it was a glitch.)And there are buttons, sometimes, on the Text tab, and sometimes not.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
gwangung
@Steeplejack: Ah. Still a bit funky, but as long as there’s a way to do it….
zhena gogolia
Is there anyplace where people are discussing the impeachment hearings?
gwangung
@David ??Booooooo?? Koch: I’m old enough and square enough to remember that as one my favorite Stanford band tunes.
Another Scott
Meh. I too think the colors will get old after a while – especially in a blockquote.
Cheers,
Scott.
prostratedragon
… and from the desktop/text window now,
(And I can edit, too!)
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
Not around here tonight. We are like the apemen in 2001, capering around the monolith and throwing bones up in the air. Which then come down and hit us on the head, but in bold italics. Return to normalcy tomorrow, maybe.
Jean
I love the readability of the new site. So easy.
pattonbt
Test
Steeplejack
@Another Scott:
Yours is literally unreadable, unless I highlight the text (as to do a copy).
Cheers (as some would say) . . .
The Dangerman
Test.
ETA: Oooooooh, me likey.
James E Powell
I didn’t notice the color options till now.
zhena gogolia
Too bad, I have two new honeys, George Kent and Jim Himes.
This comment was supposed to be @steeplejack.
?BillinGlendaleCA
They seem to be coming and going. As I said, they’re doing work “under the hood”.
Jean
Didn’t see my comment so am trying again. I love how easy the new site is to read. Clear and clean.
MJS
Testing.
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack:
Maybe if I say it in magenta the reply will appear.
My Side of Town
Comment I like this color
MJS
@MJS: My comment posted quickly, and the site looks great.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@zhena gogolia: Multiple user reply….
@My Side of Town: Works the same as during testing
I hate it with the intensity of 1,000 Suns.
(The above is not intended as a real reply to zhena gogolia or My Side of Town.)
Jay
@gwangung:
wait until Balloon Juice After Dark, it will get kinkier then,…….
?
?BillinGlendaleCA
…and the buttons in Text Mode have disappered again.
Mike in NC
Looks pretty good to me.
Mary G
Today has been 10,000 Infrastructure Weeks long.
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
See #195 above to an @reply gizmo.
Another Scott
What’s Scarier Than 30-50 Feral Hogs? How About Feral Hogs Stealing Cocaine?
Italy. (Not Florida.)
Cheers,
Scott.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
Another Scott
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I think I saw the buttons in Text mode when replying to a previous comment.
Maybe.
I see them here.
Cheers,
Scott.
Kelly
I submitted a picture from my best fall color walk to On The Road.
and edited this comment
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
??
jl
Balloon-Juice is now American’s premier almost top 10,000 test blog? Another pioneering achievement!
Sandia Blanca
Wow, color commentary! How’d you do that?
smike
Cool!
zhena gogolia
Where are the emojis
This was supposed to be replying to Steeplejack
zhena gogolia
А как насчет кириллицы?
zhena gogolia
Слава Богу, можно писать по-русски. Джима Джордана в п–у!
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
I told you how to force a reply gizmo. Look at #195.
As for emojis, if you are on a Windows machine you can mash [Windows button] + [period] to get the emoji menu.
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack:
I’m on Mac.
waratah
@zhena gogolia: I really liked the bow tie man too. After he answered a congressman who told him what his job was he said and your job is to get the facts.
zhena gogolia
@waratah:
He had one really good line about corruption, but I can’t seem to find it on anybody’s tweets and I can’t remember exactly what it was. Something about corrupt people just keep being corrupt, and it was clear he was talking about Drumpf.
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
[Ctrl-Command] + [Spacebar].
Sorry, thought you were on Windows.
zhena gogolia
Okay, trying emoji now.
??️?
SiubhanDuinne
Some local CBS News reporter: “Ray Cromartie has been executed to death.”
Putting aside the barbarism of the act itself, this is a capital crime against syntax.
different-church-lady
@zhena gogolia: On the Mac I think you need to show the keyboard icon in the menu bar (it’s somewhere in the settings, either in Keyboard or Accessibility), and then there’s a emoji pallet on that.
zhena gogolia
Ха-ха, я сошла с ума!
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No flag of Ukraine. Hmmmm
the Conster
Getting my cookies. I think I’ve had to get my cookies from Balloon Juice three times now – remember when we all had to use proxy servers to comment? Good times.
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
Yay, you! ???
Now get that reply thang workin’!
different-church-lady
OK, so strange thing with the visual editor. To exit the blockquote mode, I have to do a carriage return first (which makes it look like the new line is still part of the quote), and then hit the quote button (which then leaves the line above as a quote but moves the new line outside the quote).
JaySinWA
Seems like we are all testy tonight.
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
Da, you are.
Steeplejack
@JaySinWA:
Tonight?! You’re not new here, are you?
JaySinWA
@Steeplejack: Not new, just punny.
ETA I have been holding back on that pun for hours now. Seems like a whole bunch of stuff that was on the edge of our tests are now being exposed. Plus a bunch of new stuff that got introduced.
James E Powell
@zhena gogolia:
I was wondering that, too. I didn’t see any of it. I’m still feeling depressed because it’s clear that the a hole really could just admit that he is a traitor and that he did it to make money and his approval will plummet to 40.5%
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
This is my first comment on the new site. It looks spiffy!!
James E Powell
@different-church-lady:
Seriously dating yourself.
Mary G
(Practicing recommending articles and playing with the new features of the blog.)
Great column at NY Mag by Sarah Jones: Stop Entering the Democratic Party Primary.
Only Jesus Christ, A Reanimated Eugene Debs, The Fisher King, Death, The Hamburglar, and Quilty the Cat are excepted.
opiejeanne
But I didn’t study! No one said there would be a test!
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
@James E Powell: I haven’t watched any of it either. I just can’t understand how that large a percentage of our population is okay with him. It’s makes me feel so hopeless.
opiejeanne
@Mary G: this is fun!
BruceFromOhio
The Hamburglar? Seriously? Pillsbury Doughboy not available? Witchy from HR Pufnstuf?
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Bug report: Nym remembered but email forgotten. Mac OS X 10.14.6 / Firefox
I seem to recall people reported that bug earlier if they’d filled in a website, but I don’t fill in that field.
opiejeanne
❤️?????
Look at that, we can have silly emojis!
Felanius Kootea
Testing on my iPad using dark blue font.
On Harriet Tubman’s final escape mission.
The Dangerman
Oooo, oooo, oooo, Mr. Kotter, I have this one: A large percentage of our population are ignorant fucks (and are mostly proud of that ignorance).
What does the P thing in the text box thing do? No, Donald, NOT the Pee thing, the P thing.
Steeplejack
@James E Powell:
Truth. I was thinking about this today when something reminded me of Jesse Ventura, the wrestler that was elected governor of Minnesota. Which of course reminded me of Ahnold in California.
And I thought about Raven’s comment about his football blog where some winger veterans admitted that Trump is an asshole but they’re okay with it because he’s screwing with the libs, herp-de-derp.
I think there is a (frighteningly large) segment of the population that has become so hypnotized by pop culture that they don’t see any difference between voting in elections and voting for someone on Dancing with the Stars. It’s all show biz, baby!
So they’ll stick with Trump just for the entertainment value—and screwing with the libs, of course.
mrmoshpotato
@BruceFromOhio: It’s the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
HumboldtBlue
OK, someone grab the markers from Mary …
Steeplejack
@HumboldtBlue:
I’m hoping the color mania will die down after everybody gets over the drunken rush of the new site.
The Lodger
My nym and email are still there, but I can’t respond to some posts.
The Dangerman
And now the P thing disappeared.
WTF?!! I want my P thing!!
ETA: OK, it has something to do with editing a comment. And blockquotes it?
Emerald
Test to see if it will save my nym and email. (Getting reeealllly old typing that in every time)
Another Scott
@Steeplejack: I was actually aiming to make it literally invisible but didn’t go to the trouble of finding a color picker and just guessed. So, it’s off a little. >;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Mike J
Glad to see Yutsy up and commenting.
Stay TF out of the hospital, dude.
NotoriousJRT
All your base are belong to us…
The Lodger
@Ohio Mom: let’s discover what a reply to you looks like. I couldn’t see your nym before.
Emerald
Aha! Worked!
JaySinWA
@The Dangerman: the pee thing was a paragraph selector. I don’t see it now either, but it would grab a whole paragraph in selection.
GregMulka
My NYM did stay. Oh Happy day.
Steeplejack
@The Lodger:
If you don’t get a @reply gizmo, do this.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Another Scott: I’ve seen them in the edit comment box, but not when you first enter them, or apperently(just checked) the reply box.
divF
Does code work ? (nope).
Math symbols ∑ appear to.
How about math symbols in color ∏ ? (yup)
Steeplejack
@The Dangerman:
Yeah, when I edited a (reply) comment with a blockquote in it, it took out my double-spacing between paragraphs, and after I manually reëntered them it took them out again.
Jay
A Lib Dem candidate stood down in Canterbury to give the pro-Remain Labour candidate a better chance at fending off a Tory Brexiteer. The Lib Dem leadership have decided to simply field another. Why? Because it was never about stopping Brexit. It was about stopping Corbyn.
JaySinWA
Nope the P is back for me. Ask not for whom the P tolls, Its f-ing random.This blog is a random experience generator.
@JaySinWA:
divF
@Steeplejack: reëntered
Impressive diaeresis, dude.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
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Ceci n est pas mon nym
It seems to show what tags you’re within in the HTML. I think you’re always in a paragraph <P> when composing a comment, so you’ll always see the little P. But if you start nesting links, blockquotes, bold, colors, etc, you’ll start to see all of those tags that you’ve got open as well.
Minor glitch: I don’t always have the button bar, whatever you call that. A little while ago I wasn’t seeing it when composing a new comment. It’s minor because the workaround is pretty easy. If I don’t see it but then click “Visual” it appears.
Edit to add: Did we used to have an Underline button? I don’t right now. I’m doing those underlines by going into “Text” mode and manually inserting <u>…</u> tags. And BTW for HTML geeks, that’s what the “Text” tab does, it shows the HTML. You can go in there and manually insert HTML so you can go beyond the limitations of the graphical editing features.
divF
Now code is back ? (yes!)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@The Dangerman: The P is for paragraph, it’s the HTLM tag for the block.
James E Powell
Agree completely. And there’s this thing with some people, the ones who are not die-hard hateful bigots, that I can best state as a belief that if Trump was really all that bad somebody (they can never say who) would stop him. They see everything as a show and believe that there are powerful & wise people who really run things.
prostratedragon
One thing I notice is that when you back tick from a comment that you jumped to, you don’t wind up where you just were, but maybe, say, from where you might have commented above that point. (The preserved nym and email are working well on linux/firefox68.)
NotoriousJRT
@zhena gogolia: my thoughts exactly. The restraint is killing me.
Steeplejack
@divF:
Thank you! ?
divF
∇⋅F
I may have to change my nym.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
I suspect the coding team is making live updates and that’s why we’re seeing the user experience change slightly every once in awhile. Kind of like having your mechanic riding along underneath your car tweaking the engine while you’re going down the highway at 70 mph.
scav
Ok, a practice / test in linking, but also because it’s always a good time for a little Boris kicking. Johnson’s onanism gag is no surprise: his career is based on pleasing himself.
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David ??Booooooo?? Koch
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prostratedragon
Hmmm let’s see …
Works! And when you switch back to text, you can see the span style coding used to make the color. Can I make it deeper green manually?
Steeplejack
@James E Powell:
Boy, you hit a nerve there! I used to find myself thinking that, not to worry (too much), there were adults in charge somewhere. Part of my increasing political engagement came from the realization that there were no “adults” in charge, or maybe the adults I was seeing were idiots. So my quest has become to find non-idiots to support. Not looking for genius, just basic competence working toward liberal, progressive goals.
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia, @NotoriousJRT:
New thread upstairs to meet your impeachment discussion needs!
Mnemosyne
I think that’s the basis of a lot of belief in conspiracy theories — it’s more comforting to believe that SOMEONE is in charge, even if those people are evil, than it is to believe that life is just random shit happening.
also, I just accidentally erased the first version of this comment with the “clear comment” button, so that was annoying.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
If it (color mania) doesn’t fade away, some of us will have to self deport to avoid migraines.
@Steeplejack: Interesting. My first reply didn’t show it was to you; I closed and replied again and got the link back.
Hmm. When I follow the link of your reply(275) to zg (252) backspace takes me to 215. Odd.
Have fun everybody. Go easy on the colors.
SC54HI
Adding my nym to the new BJ.
Will try out the other stuff later.
jeffreyw
cookie me
jeffreyw
@jeffreyw: Still needing to click the reply button, close out the popup window, then click reply button again to get to a comment window that is populated with the linked nym of the commenter I am replying to.
The nav tab on the left side is obtrusive and impinges on the text. The other side nav tab is a different size (taller) and it is crowding the reply button.
The site is remembering the nym, email and web site, at least so far today. Yay!
jeffreyw
The the post comment button in the reply to box is working better than it has been. Yay! At least it takes me right to the reply I’ve just posted.
jeffreyw
Tried to edit the last comment but it didn’t take. I may have been too long getting it just right. Timed out?
jeffreyw
That last comment edit went through just fine. No delay.
leeleeFL
@Kayla Rudbek: I am checking the same thing!
Wolvesvalley
This is a test comment with no tab and no buttons. Visual tab with buttons shows up in edit box. One more edit.
Wolvesvalley
Testing with text tab. Comment box now has buttons in both tabs.
Formatting with buttons in text tab works.
Edit and edit countdown disappeared temporarily, now back.
Wolvesvalley
Another comment box with no tabs and no buttons.
Edit box has tabs and buttons.
Wolvesvalley
@leeleeFL: Testing reply: @nym showed up on first click.