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Have SE been messing around with the chat permission systems? I'm fairly sure I'm logged in but I can't get into rooms where I should be able to get into

iSeth

it only send shrug once

jrg

11:17 PM

@Oli hangon.

yeah, let me fix that for you @Oli

iSeth

@Oli had time to work on the site yet?

(your site)

jrg

somehow you got your master user set to raspi instead of AU, so you can't access anything useful. ;P

@Oli: Refresh and try again.

iSeth

whoa you can change my master account?

jrg

puts on shades Name it (if it's not destructive) and we can do it.

@iSeth well, technically, so can you.

iSeth

Only my own...

jrg

11:19 PM

yes. only your own.

iSeth

shrug

Oli

@jrg Yeah - I've tried changing it too but nothing useful happens. You're welcome to try changing it to Ask Ubuntu also. Very odd.

jrg

@Oli i changed it, you show up in the other room.

chat.stackexchange.com/users/4810/oli

iSeth

I don't see him

Oli

Oh hooray, I can get into the teachers lounge too

jrg

11:21 PM

you show up blue here as well. i'm so confused.

iSeth

hey, @Oli you aren't blue

jrg

@iSeth refresh.

iSeth

just James.

ah there we go.

weird.

Oli

I wonder what's spawned all that silliness. Another mod dicking around? Who knows.

FEichinger

@iSeth Got it.

jrg

11:24 PM

unfortunately we don't have a user history tool for chat... :(

Oli

@iSeth No, haven't had any time to do much with it recently. I haven't had much time for anything recently.

iSeth

@jrg try the wildcard in the search box...just an idea.

@Oli OK that's fine.

jrg

0 messages found.

iSeth

go figure.

jrg

@Oli ok, so i'm not a python guy, but is this on bitbucket, github, launchpad etc by any chance?

because then we can try to dig into it and fix things...

Oli

11:27 PM

@jrg It's on a private bitbucket as of last week but it needs a fair amount of cleaning before it's anywhere near release worthy.

jrg

ok, fair enough.

FEichinger

@iSeth -- jsfiddle.net/feichinger/aNXFg

Oli

But that is a goal, it just needs some time.

iSeth

I think I've commented/flagged every post in Marco's abandoned questions that was posted in April or before... Can I start May now since its January?

@FEichinger Wow! let me look at it.

so the only difference is input.value + shrug

instead of just shrug...

slams head on keyboard

FEichinger

1. <textarea id="input"></textarea>, **no** characters inbetween for such a thing. Ever. EEEVER.
2. Get the `input` element into a variable, don't look for it every time.
3. Don't use `input.innerHTML`, use `input.value`.

iSeth

11:30 PM

I tried making input an object but that didn't change anything so I went back

FEichinger

And, well, the input.value + shrug prevents overwriting the entire input. Else it would replace everything.

iSeth

that wasn't what was happening though... weird.

FEichinger

Oh, nah, what happened was that you overwrote the innerHTML - which is not the same as the value.

iSeth

If I deleted all the text in input it still did nothing as you can see for yourself.

jrg

@iSeth you're more than welcome to start on this

iSeth

11:31 PM

@FEichinger ah, OK.

FEichinger

Once value is written to, innerHTML doesn't show up anymore.

iSeth

@jrg Okay.

FEichinger

Also: value is sent, innerHTML is - usually - not.

iSeth

@FEichinger never knew that... nobody else could figure it out...

@jrg so no May until next month?

jrg

@iSeth you're just so eager, aren't you? :P

FEichinger

11:33 PM

@iSeth I couldn't nail it down immediately either. Struck me when I saw what happened when I changed anything about the input value.

iSeth

@jrg yup.

jrg

hold off on May for another week or two, lets get a data dump and see what we missed.

iSeth

@jrg Will do.

jrg

oh, nevermind. datadump was on the 30th. which query were you using again?

iSeth

@FEichinger you still get the fame for fixing it ;)

@jrg this one.

jrg

11:36 PM

@iSeth looks like there are still some from april.

A: Gnome-Shell 3.4 Themes not working in 12.04?

Here is the right way to get gnome-tweak-tool (advanced settings) to work therefore shell themes and extensions to work WITHOUT breaking your gnome shell sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/testing sudo apt-get install ppa-purge sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extensions sudo...

or rather, just one.

and there isn't anything from April.

iSeth

fixed that.

jrg

And now it looks like there is nothing from May either.

so we're looking at june.

iSeth

@jrg oh ok. when can I start?

jrg

that's weird.

they use a different unicode thingy for -

iSeth

makes sense

jrg

11:38 PM

@iSeth ignore me. there is lots of may stuff, i just couldn't find it in search because of their... unusual setup.

iSeth

ok then. when can I start?

jrg

now if you want. i'd prefer the duplicates get cleaned out, but that's just personal preference.

FEichinger

@jrg A fix for SQL comments, perhaps?

iSeth

@jrg I'll do both.

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