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8:00 PM
(the "bri'ish" joke, not the "our country" joke)
 
@AviFS Tomorrow it's Chews-day :P
 
@pxeger Whoops!
 
grumble grumble*% of the popula- *grumble grumble -speak like that
 
@user She'd never do that, she's too well-versed in the politics of being ruler
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing I can almost hear your voice
 
8:01 PM
Charles, William, Harry however...
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing has she ever denied any law at all?
 
They are sus
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing :(
 
@AviFS I don't think you've ever heard someone with my accent talk then :P
Bri'ish and Chew are only really for some british accents. I don't talk like that :P
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing What part are you from?
 
8:02 PM
Bristol, but I don't have a brizzle accent
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Of course, I was joking
 
Sco'ish accents are easy to make fun of.
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing just generic southern RP then?
(Me too, and I'm not even southern!)
 
@pxeger I guess so. I've lived in the midlands for the last few years, but I don't talk like my sister (very strong midlands accent)
Still get called a "posh southern twat" from time to time
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lol
 
8:04 PM
Nice
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Because of the accent or because you're a posh southern twat? :P
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing my sister also has a midlands accent, and we grew up in the midlands! Maybe there's something ingrained in the human brain to reject the midlands accents because of how utterly disgusting they are
 
@user Because I can pronounce the letter "t" because I'm a posh southern twat :P
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing do you distinguish between "look" and "luck"? If so, you're a posh southern twat like me :þ
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Hmm, so they call you a "posh souhern wa"? :P
 
8:05 PM
I can pronounce the letter t, but nothing else.
 
I can't take you seriously if you pronounce "Nottingham" either "No'-num" or "notting-HAM" :P
 
@Ausername OMG my machine gun is the same!
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(aka, midlands accent or American accent)
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Snottingham!
 
@pxeger Yes, those are two different words :P
 
8:06 PM
@cairdcoinheringaahing very specific subgenre of midlands btw
 
Noothingharm.
 
@Ausername Scottish with a lithp?
 
@pxeger Yeah, and a very specific subset of Americans as well :P
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing How would you say it?
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing What's the "right" way to pronounced it? Not-in-gum?
 
8:07 PM
@pxeger Thure.
 
oMG RoBIn hOOD!!!11!!
 
Naughtting-hum?
 
"Notting-hum"
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing no h please
 
The g and h are pronounced separately?
 
8:07 PM
Notting-um
 
But sort of not
There's like a ghost of an "h"
 
@pxeger This one makes the most sense to me
 
the h is basically silent
@user because it's right :þ
 
The breathing out that happens when you speak an "h", but faintly :P
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing I spray holy water on my computer every day so I don't need to pronounce it :P
 
8:09 PM
You mean your kombucha?
 
@pxeger You mention that green-tighted nonce to me once and I'll never talk to you again :P
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing nonce? I'll have you know Robin Hood contains far too little entropy to be used as a MAC
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing ROBIN HOOD ROBIN HOOD ROBIN HOOD hah
 
ROBIN HOOD ROBIN HOOD ROBIN HOOD hopefully we shut them up
 
8:11 PM
@Ausername don't actually spam it though pls lol
 
Robin hood be robbin' the 'hood. There, now you can't speak at all because any message you send here is sent to me @caird
 
No, you misunderstand: I can kick people to not talk to them :P
 
@user do you know his story? Because that's the exact opposite of what he did!
 
In real life it sort of is though lol
 
Hi redwolf
 
8:12 PM
@cairdcoinheringaahing do you mean, "take them for a long walk"?
 
@pxeger Robin Hood steals from rich, Robin Hood gives to poor, poor become rich, Robin Hood steals from previously poor rich people, Robin Hood robs the hood
 
Robin Hood increases the entropy
 
dubious logic there, but ok
 
No long walks please, it's freezing here.
 
@pxeger The entire story's pretty dubious tbh
 
ngn
8:13 PM
@user poor don't simply become rich in that part of the world
 
@Ausername well with a short enough plank, you won't have to worry about the cold
 
If you're a somewhat strong swimmer you do :p
 
@hyper-neutrino Thoughts on changing the new asker modal to say "We host coding challenges, such as code golf or fastest code competitions, and related questions, such as code golfing tips" instead of "We host coding challenges, such as code golf, and related questions"?
 
We host random discussions.
 
I second that change ^^
 
8:14 PM
@RedwolfPrograms Hey, stop ruining my terrible jokes!
 
(Anyone else is free to give feedback as well)
 
@ngn :(
 
I maintain my stance that the word "recreational" needs to be right front and centre
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing +1
 
"Coding challenge", poorly translated or misconstrued, could still be interpreted as "coding issue"
 
8:14 PM
@pxeger How it can be right and center?
 
@pxeger What happened to left, back, above and below?
o/
 
@pxeger "recreational coding challenges" in addition to the current proposed wording?
 
is...is TIO randomly renaming a CGI bin...
 
hmm, I've never considered that before
 
var quitURL = "/cgi-bin/static/${tio_cgi_bin_quit}";
 
8:15 PM
@hyper-neutrino yes
 
> We host recreational coding challenges, such as code golf or fastest code competitions, and related questions, such as code golfing tips
 
@RedwolfPrograms sauce?
 
oh wait wrong line#. redwolf's is right lol
 
8:16 PM
> quitURL == "/cgi-bin/static/c5ba5a3ddf5ce434ee4017d5cbc9f9f2-quit"
Is it the same for y'all?
 
@RedwolfPrograms where and how is that formatted in though?
 
@RedwolfPrograms right now, yes
 
Just pasted it in the dev tools
 
@RedwolfPrograms yes
some of TIO's web backend remains a mystery to me, so I can't work out how that works
 
the thing is the API URL is still https://tio.run/cgi-bin/run/api/ and I think the TIO frontend doesn't use the API call so IDK if this works for quitting
 
8:20 PM
Is the rest of the wrapper using the API?
 
@DLosc Maybe I need some advice on writing explanations. The more I tried to explain this, the more confusing it sounded. :P
 
I believe so
Razetime/dzaima's TIO function uses the API
 
And the API has no quit function?
 
@hyper-neutrino In which case, I suggest we change the modal to read "We host recreational coding challenges, such as code golf or fastest code competitions, and related questions, such as code golfing tips" with links to , and
 
well, IDK if it does, APLgolf doesn't have one
 
8:22 PM
Just use ATO, where there's no quit button at all so you don't have to worry!
 
(but when the quit button arrives, it will be well-documented!)
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing should we link to the question list or the tag info
 
TIO kinda scares me lol
 
I think to the question list, as there's plenty of easily accessible info available from there
 
8:24 PM
A lot of the front end JS is obscure hacks that work reliably but really don't look like they should
 
In which case, I think it should be ok to ask @Catija to escalate it to PubPlat, as there's been no other feedback aside from literally that sentence
 
Yep, seems like it. If there's any other feedback, you have until Catija sees this / when the change gets pushed to speak :P
 
... I already did the second part, right?
So it's just the bulk of the content that I need to have the devs change, correct?
 
Plus disabling the third bullet point
@Catija Yes, looks like it
 
8:34 PM
I used dev tools to try to see what it would look like:
 
But were y'all still wanting me to ask if we could remove all of the bullets if possible?
 
@Catija Yeah, I think we were asking for some kind of "Could you remove all if possible, otherwise just the third" request?
 
... what happened to the space between "objective" and "scoring"?
 
That was my fault
I was editing the html by hand lol
 
8:35 PM
do we need to golf it for smaller screens?
 
... did y'all write all of the stuff in html? That's sweet.
 
Yeah, I converted it from Markdown into HTML cuz I figured the modal needed to be in HTML when the devs applied the change ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
I think there's too many links
You get hit in the face with ten of them, so it doesn't emphasize the ones that are especially important to click.
 
Also you missed the "Welcome to" at the start :P
 
We don't need a link to Stack Overflow
 
8:37 PM
The code golf, fastest code, and tips ones don't seem particularly necessary, and linking to SO doesn't seem needed
 
... so... I'll just come back when y'all have ... decided again. :P
 
*facepalm*
I swear, we'll have it done by 2022 :P
 
Hey, I'm not in a hurry.
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing I guess it's better to spend ages making it perfect than have to keep trying to ask for little changes (or just be stuck with them) :p
 
We could even just remove the SO mention at all; most things that get posted here by confusion are actually objectively terrible on the whole network
there's a reason migration is quite uncommon and most things I migrate get rejected anyway
 
8:40 PM
And then maybe we can either golf the first paragraph by a ton or break it into two
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing I'm sure it'll be sooner than that. Six to eight weeks, probably.
 
breaking it into two would worsen the height issue though
would it be less overwhelming to link "Welcome" and not the entire phrase "Welcome to Code Golf & Coding Challenges Stack Exchange" ?
 
It's better than a massive wall of text
 
I think we can also remove the links for code golf, fastest code and tips (as Redwolf said)
 
@hyper-neutrino Would just removing the "Stack Exchange" part shorten it enough?
 
8:41 PM
The terms are generally pretty self explanatory
 
@RedwolfPrograms I mean they can see the URL :p
 
Could we golf "This is a site for competitive coding enthusiasts. We host recreational coding challenges, such as..." a bit? Some of that sounds redundant.
Maybe "This is a site for competitive coding challenges such as..."
 
"Welcome to Code Golf & Coding Challenges Stack Exchange, a site for competitive coding enthusiasts. We host recreational coding challenges, such as code golf and fastest code competitions, and related questions, such as code-golfing tips"?
 
we could remove the first sentence entirely and I think it would not lose too much meaning, I think
like the "this site is for..."
 
8:44 PM
So "Welcome to Code Golf & Coding Challenges Stack Exchange! We host recreational coding challenges, such as code golf and fastest code competitions, and related questions, such as code-golfing tips"?
 
i feel "such as" is over used
we can end at and related questions.
 
I think it's good to include the tips bit, as there's often been debates about what non-challenges are ok here
 
Changing the second "such as" to "like" might work
 
We could reword a bit I think
 
8:45 PM
we could use e.g.
 
CMQ: What is your score here? (No cheating!)
 
I think removing the last comma could help a bit, it sounds a bit run-on
 
> We host recreational coding challenges, such as code golf and fastest code competitions, as well as related questions like requests for code golfing tips.
I think the use of both "challenges" and "competitions" sounds a bit off
What about "...recreational coding competitions, like code golf and fastest code, as well as..."
 
8:49 PM
@Adám 13
pretty much all of the ones I got wrong came down to not knowing exactly how numerical conversion works on things that aren't numbers
 
I thought I didn't know any JS at all, and I got 16.
 
TBF I may have been thrown off by knowing some of JS and thinking some things would be extra weird but they weren't
e.g. I thought !!"" would give true because I thought it was something weird like !![]
 
Yeah, I know just enough that I second guessed basically everything :P
 
8:52 PM
I didn't actually know that + and == coerce numerically so much; had I known that, I probably could've gotten a lot more of them correct
like I put true + false as "truefalse" because I didn't think they'd coerce to numbers or that JS could do that, cuz it seems too logical
 
The conversions for + and - were a bit too heavily focused on
 
@hyper-neutrino Me too.
 
@Adám iirc i got 16 (i failed on all the null ones)
 
@RedwolfPrograms That works
 
What I have so far (assuming I've copied the suggested changes correctly):
It fits on a 768p screen now!
It also looks much cleaner IMO
 
8:56 PM
*challenges, not questions
*must, not much
you can just copy-paste the source from the meta post
that way we can make sure it looks correct and so I stop trying to correct typos that aren't there :P
 
TBH I think we should remove the last sentence about non-challenge questions, we probably shouldn't be suggesting those to any user that hasn't already been around long enough to know better
 
We've had multiple users post their first question as a well-received question
 
I'm working on a 2D extension of BF, and I'm trying to decide if I want the program edges to wrap, or act as EOF. What do y'all think?
 
But I think those users would be in the group that knows about those already
 
@RedwolfPrograms But it is needed to dismiss the numbered points, no?
 
9:00 PM
Suggesting them to users who don't know enough about the site that they need to read the modal probably isn't a good idea imo
@Adám Not that one
 
ok
 
> A list of acceptable non-challenge questions can be found in this FAQ.
^ The sentence I'm talking about
 
@RedwolfPrograms I think I recommended that and it got rejected in the past. Or maybe I didn't include it and someone said to add it. I can't remember.
 
Plus if someone wants to write a tips question, that's probably not even the FAQ that'd be recommended to show them
 
well, it's to list out all non-challenge questions, not to guide them on how to write
 
9:03 PM
And to me that doesn't seem particularly useful to a new user
They're probably here to either write a normal challenge or (maybe) write a tips question
 
9:18 PM
@AaronMiller Wrap?
Befunge does that, at least
 
@AaronMiller EOF is the unusual choice. Wrap or reflect are the most common options
Has Redwolf's suggestion to remove the FAQ on non-challenge questions. Other than that, it's the same as the current draft
 
I thought we'd decided on a ton of other changes to it
Like removing the SO paragraph
And the rewording in the second/third sentences
 
Yep, I just copied the current draft (though that was up to date) gimme a second
Gist makes it look shorter than when its on SE or in the modal :/
 
Oh, were we still keeping part of the second paragraph?
 
yes, because we get SO spam all the time
 
9:26 PM
Yes, we should absolutely make it clear that help is off topic here
 
Maybe we should merge with the third paragraph to save space
Without that sentence at all it just barely fits on 768p
 
I don't like that idea because I want the second paragraph to especially stand out, and the sandbox tip should be a distinct section
 
I like having it stand out, even if it is slightly larger
 
True
I think it looks good now
Maybe change "here" to "on this site"
 
Idk "here" rolls of the mental tongue more than "on this site"
 
9:29 PM
For me it's the opposite, but that's probably just because of the "e"s lol
 
Ok. I think we've given it far too much plenty of discussion, can we finalise it as this?
 
9:44 PM
@cairdcoinheringaahing Parts of this edit are more controversial than others, but I do think there's a bit of cruft that can be cut:
>
Welcome to Code Golf & Coding Challenges! We host recreational coding challenges & related questions including code golf, fastest code and code golfing tips. All challenges must have an objective scoring criterion, so the winner can be fairly chosen.

*Questions about help with general programming-related issues are off-topic here*.

Please post your challenge as a draft to our Sandbox for Proposed Challenges first for feedback. That way it’s polished and the best it can be, before it gets officially posted and the challenge begins!
Edits:
Welcome to Code Golf & Coding Challenges! We host recreational coding challenges, such as code golf and fastest code competitions, as well as related questions like requests for code golfing tips. We host recreational coding challenges & related questions including code golf, fastest code and code golfing tips. All challenges must have an objective scoring criterion, so the winner can be appropriately and fairly chosen.
 
Remember that markdown doesn't work in multiline messages
 
Questions about help with general programming-related issues are off-topic here. and will be closed.
Please post your challenge as a draft to our Sandbox for Proposed Challenges for a few days first for feedback. Doing so allows you to correct potential issues before posting to the main site. That way it’s polished and the best it can be, before it gets officially posted and the challenge begins!
I'm less sure about the whole sentence replacements, but what do you think of the bytes I golfed :P
 
The first full sentence change is actually quite nice imo
 
Namely: "appropriately and" + "and will be closed."
 
Everything in the first paragraph is pretty good imo, not sure about the rest
 
9:51 PM
Yeah, I like the improvement for the first bit. Not so sure about the Sandbox paragraph edits
 
@RedwolfPrograms Thanks! Yeah I thought that sentence could be friendlier
@cairdcoinheringaahing Me neither, not sure about the tone
I was trying to make it positive, but it's probably a bit too much
I just feel like people will think:
> But mine doesn't have any issues, I'll just post now
 
Ooh, the first paragraph looks much better now, I think!
←+1
Do you see what I mean though, about the sandbox?
I feel like it's leaving out a lot of what we use it for
 
I think maybe a mix of the two could be best
 
To make challenges more interesting and more fun
I think a flavor of that in the tone would help a lot
Otherwise, it just sounds like their ideas have "potential issues" that "need to be dealt with"
And most people will operate under the impression they don't have "potential issues"
 
9:56 PM
I also wish there were a way to mention languages
I feel like (tolerance of) esolangs are a pretty big part of CGCC, our culture and our interests
 
The ask question page isn't a good place for that imo
 
And it'd be super neat if that could somehow make an appearance and encourage likeminded people to participate
 
Oh...we should probably point to the things to avoid
 
/let them now we have them here
 
@RedwolfPrograms ...whoops
 
9:57 PM
@RedwolfPrograms We have lots of golfers who hate esolangs and have left with elaborate messages in meta
And we have lots of esolang lovers who are not particularly golfers at heart
 
But it's still not the best place for that
 
I still think it'd be neat if we could give a nod in that direction
 
The ask question modal should be as short as possible, and anything irrelevant to writing questions is noise
 
The answering pop-up is more relevant for that
(which its part of IIRC)
 
Plus I think the things to avoid includes that
 
10:00 PM
We host recreational coding challenges & related questions including code golf, fastest code and code golfing tips.
@RedwolfPrograms I mean we have:
so working in something like "We host submissions in every language"
feels doable with some thought
 
This still isn't the appropriate place for stuff about languages
The only language-specific questions we get from newbies are asking for coding help, and the odd one or two that are actual challenges change to be agnostic after a comment or two
 
What happened to the "and will be closed." part of par. 2?
I think that was good
 
It's not be optimal, but langs aren't mentioned in the name, logo, or anywhere else. So it may be better than having it nowhere
 
It's not nowhere though
 
@RedwolfPrograms That was one of the parts I suggested we delete
But I'm not unhappy with having it
Just doesn't feel necessary
And a bit harsh/overdone
 
It emphasizes that off-topic questions will be closed, and it's not just a policy that "you can sort of do what you want but try to stick relatively close to the topic"
 
It's true, but we've already made clear that's not what we're for
And it's understood that things that fall out of scope are closed
 
Not necessarily
We get users new to SE from time to time
 
If you do have it, I suggest it's also bold
 
10:05 PM
It's a bit awkward to have part of a sentence unbolded
Esp. without even a comma
Though I wouldn't recommend a comma
 
That might be the easiest modification to make :P
 
thumbs up
I want to emphasize that it looks amazing and is great
Wouldn't complain if we ended up with this one bit
 
I think it's good now.
I'll get a screenshot
 
Also, I feel terribly complaining about a change you made for me
But this bit:
Doing so allows you to correct issues you might otherwise miss before posting to the main site.
That you added presumably for me to make it more positive-- I would take it out
To the point is better, and I don't think couching it that way adds much
 
(There should be a paragraph break at the end of that)
(So it'll look slightly different "IRL")
 
10:08 PM
I added it because I agree "potential issues" could cause confusion, so that should make it clear that there's potentially problems that the OP might not have seen (aka, why we have the Sandbox)
 
'so the winner can be chosen fairly'? we don't choose 'winners'
 
Haha, this reminds me of an old joke I don't remember very well
 
or at least, it's discouraged to
 
We do, but that doesn't really do anything
 
But the point is, we'll never totally be happy with anything :P
 
10:09 PM
But also, it provides some basic justification for why we have a scoring criteria
 
That's the whole point of an objective winning criterion :p
ninja'd
 
just say 'all challenges should have an objective scoring criterion'
 
Here's the joke this reminds me of:
 
9.875/10
 
10:15 PM
Feels like 9.999.../10 :P
Getting asymptotically closer to perfect :P
 
The 0.125 is for the word "here" because it's ugly :p
 
> The bullets below apply to non-challenge questions only.
I'd change to:
> The bullets below don't apply.
 
We have tips questions though
I think this had been debated already when it was added
 
@AviFS We considered that, but they do apply to non-challenge questions
 
10:17 PM
None that should provide details and any research
I know you did and I liked it much better
 
questions should provide some amount of your own "research" (aka your golfing)
 
Challenge vs nonchallenge isn't immediately clear and a bit confusing
99.9999% of the time, new users will be asking a "challenge" question
 
How about "only apply to tips questions"?
 
And won't really know what nonchallenge questions are for a while, even with our short briefer
To make them think those bullet points have any relevance
And should be heeded to any extent over common sense and our other rules
I think is only misguiding and a potential source of confusion
To say "The bullets below apply to non-challenge questions only."
Makes it sounds much more useful and important
Until you realize non-challenge questions are 0.01% of our site
And again, it's highly unlikely they'll be asking one
On a site they found because it was called "Code Golf and Coding Challenges"
Thoughts?
(Why do I sound like an angry old man, haha)
Also, did anyone get a chance to read the joke?
 
I think that it has literally no downsides for someone posting a challenge ("oh, this doesn't apply to me") and is potentially helpful to someone posting a non-challenge, on-topic question
@AviFS Yes, I liked it :P
 
10:22 PM
Honestly, it's easier to read the joke here:
@cairdcoinheringaahing The downside being they don't realize it doesn't apply to me
The vast majority of people skimming this will not grok the difference between challenge and nonchallenge, or even that there is one
 
And what harm does that cause?
 
And are likely to end under the impression that those points are far more relevant than they are
 
Given that that bit is [status-completed], I doubt it's changing
 
Put another way:
If you were writing it from scratch, would you ever have included those two bullet points?
Why/why not
 
Besides, the current modal doesn't even include the "this doesn't apply", so I doubt it causes too much confusion
 
10:24 PM
@RedwolfPrograms Isn't this the current?
 
There've been some changes
 
Ah, well it doesn't sound like I'm convincing anyone, so I'll let it go
 
@RedwolfPrograms Could you do a mockup of this draft?
 
You guys still sure about adding "you might otherwise miss," though
I don't feel like it serves to make it more positive, and the longer the sentences the more likely people are to disengage
"Doing so allows you to correct issues you might otherwise miss before posting to the main site." is slightly hefty for a prompt people don't really want to read anyway
We went from 2 bullets to 3 bullets?
 
The 3rd will be disabled
 
10:30 PM
Better stop making changes before it goes up to 4, haha
 
I forgot to remove the third, sorry
 
Oh, phew!
 
Otherwise tho, that looks great to me
 
@hyper-neutrino Would you mind making this the final proposed wording?
 
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing No cigar on taking out "otherwise miss?
 
Personally, I think that conveys the intent of the the Sandbox better with than without
 
@Adám 22 - I failed on the floating-point rounding one, I forgot that null converts to 0, and I didn't know that NaN++ works even though true++ is a syntax error
 
Sounds good. Just checking that you saw
 

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