The Town Hall

5:04 AM

can anyone access meta community building on the iOS app? Reinstalled, hard reset

Odd that it's just meta though

@AnnonomusPenguin I can't access any meta except Meta.SE on the Android app

@Andy why?

For me I have to switch a drop down from main sites to metas

Q: Android StackExchange App doesnt let me open questions in my feed that link to a per site meta discussion

Not sure. It throws an error if I try to open a meta post

When I receive a notification of a new meta post on the site I moderator, this appears in my feed. However, when I attempt to open this post, the application reports that it can't find the question. This is how the new topic appears in my feed: When I select that topic, this is the error I get:

What is it?

Loading the question failed.

5:18 AM

I saw that ;)

Poor refresh sorry

Mobile

5:35 AM

Great idea from @AnnonomusPenguin about using trolls in a gamers-focused ad.

meta.communitybuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/221/…

Why isn't my comment one-boxing?

meta.communitybuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/221/…

shrugs I tried

Fine, we'll do it the hard way. Imagine something like the following -- but not that image in particular as AFAIK it's not public-domain -- with crosshairs superimposed, and text like "got trolls? we can help!". Can anybody with some image-searching and graphics skills actually make that?

encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/…

Is oneboxing busted?

Your unwobbly red circles are probably better than mine. I can hunt for images though

@Andy well, for the real ad we don't want any freehand circles, I'd guess -- we want somebody with the tools and know-how to layer a few elements and make it look good. But I don't know how to do that kind of image manipulation. :-(

But if you can find a starting image that we can use, then we can (with luck) hand it off to somebody who can do the manipulation but who hasn't hunted down images we can use. Cooperative effort!

Coming up on 1AM here -- this little non-troll needs to get some sleep. Later!

'Night

Q: Could SE promote "community projects" for smaller sites?

5:58 AM

meta.communitybuilding.stackexchange.com/posts/comments/…

@MonicaCellio Me: "You mean smokey pink and orange don't go together well?!?!"

@Andy: could we somehow adapt this to fit our site? ---

In order to get new questions, Startups SE Beta is hosting a "Startups Startup" event, where teams are creating a startup with virtually no monetary investment. Any needed resources are reused from old projects (i.e. old domain names, unused hosting, etc.). They're using this to generate content ...

discussion site-promotion

@AnnonomusPenguin Interesting. I imagine building a community as a community could be an "easy" way to adapt the proposal. The problem I see with that though, is probably unique to Community Building...

~~We want to build the community here. By building a community else where, we are pulling people away from here.~~

You know what, cancel that last thought, I think it could work. The community's community wouldn't be about building communities. It'd have a completely different focus

6:28 AM

@andy yeah we would have to to be careful not to draw attention away from SE

I was thinking maybe a game or something like that, if you know what I mean. Not forum related.

Something very hands on and personal.

If we had a bigger community local meetups would be awesome

@AnnonomusPenguin Maybe in a year or so

I like the idea of having "something" to focus the community. The idea of teams on startups is a good one too, but I don't know if we have enough for that yet.

@Andy maybe a one team approach would work best for this.

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jwacalex

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1:13 PM

Hellol

*Hello

1:55 PM

Greetings

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4:17 PM

meta.communitybuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/214/…

For the tour page ^^^

No oneboxing. @MonicaCellio I can't get comment oneboxing either; I will submit a bug report tonight.

Test to see if it's meta only:

@AirThomas let us continue this in chat. — Monica Cellio yesterday

meta.communitybuilding.stackexchange.com/q/223/42

WAIT A ONEBOXING BUG REPORT DOESN'T ONEBOX WHAT IS THIS?

meta.communitybuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/214/…

No meta posts onebox

I vote we rename the site again just to see if that helps things or makes them worse. What's the worst that can happen?

The site explodes

Are we talking pieces that can be glued back together or itty bitty smithereens?

So, the originally moderator site, which, on the moderator meta site the moderators asked the moderator site's community moderator to change the moderator site's name from moderators to community building, the moderators asked the moderators site's community moderator to change the originally moderator site's name back to "moderators" because the mound of bugs caused by the rename to moderators was moderate.

World's worst runon sentence ^^^ ;)

4:33 PM

wow. hold on...I'm going to need a minute to get through that

@Andy it isn't grammatically correct.

Probably (TM)(c)(R)(SM) (FDA approved) *

I was concerned until that FDA approval showed up

*FDA = Foreign Debate Association

Hm. I'll accept it

Recent Questions - Community Building Meta Stac…: Posts/comments don't onebox in chat

"That sounds safe!"

Meta Community Building

4:38 PM

posted on January 02, 2015 by Annonomus Penguin

Some more remnants of the chaos Moderators SE → Community Building SE rename are still coming up, mainly for Meta CB. For example, there is an issue loading meta posts on the mobile app. Something that we noticed in chat is meta comments don't onebox: here, here, and here. It's only Meta CB comments that don't one box; comments from the main site still onebox. Why i…

This oneboxes?

Sigh

To be fair, it does use feeds magic. I'm not sure how that differs from standard oneboxing

Jon Skeet added the feeds feature perhaps?

Perhaps

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