Since I’m much too impatient to wait a few minutes until April 30th, I’ve set this to auto post at midnight. It’s already April 30th here. I want a blue name, dernit.
Since this DLD is essentially self-serving, I will provide nothing but a link to a blog post that nobody else will care about.
-JL
Edit by JediLeroy: Because today’s my birthday. April 30th is today. April 30th is my birthday. Did I mention it’s my birthday?
andeux
Apricot
batgirl
Danny
oblique
devo
mk
dmoas
FreeSeatUpgrade
monkeyball
grover
Sharon
iglew
ptbnl
JediLeroy
Jennifer
Leopold Bloom
mikeA
MikeTheV
mjdittmer
nevermoor
ninathorsenkqed
Poppy
salb918
doctorK
sslinger
5aces
the dogfather
veganryan
whiteshoes40
xbhaskarx
FREE KRAUT! 
krauthors aren’t listed alphabetically; is it chronologically?
Height? No… sal’s too close to the top. IQ? No… I’m too close to the top.
I don’t know.
relevance, mayhaps?
just throwing it out there
like poop
Definitely not relevance… again, judging by my position. I’m even lower on the relevance scale than on the IQ scale.
Zodiac signs? No…
do you recall drawing straws?
I’m just grasping at them, here
They’re listed chronologically. Whenever someone is added as a krauthor, their name is added to the very bottom of the list.
You aren’t even a Krauthor! How did that happen?
I know there has been some previous discussion of desired features in FK from a software prospective but if we had a dailykos clone with green and gold to replace the orange would anyone be disappointed or feel that we need something else? Im testing out trying to implement their software as an alternative to WordPress software.
A dailykos clone with green & gold sounds like… something…
I know… they actually use different software now. It use to use scoop before the move to ** 2.0. I mean are there issues with **’s general layout that should be corrected? I never really thought that the underlying code was an issue…
Before 2008 so I guess thats before 3.0 more like 2.0
1. Not that my opinion counts for
muchanything, but I think the kos setup (with a different color scheme and no Keith Olbermann posts) would be fine.2. Probably no need to differentiate between front page and sidebar posts, or have any kind of recommend/flag functionality. We should endeavor to keep it open/informal/simple like it is now (kludginess aside). See sal’s theory about bottom-up toddler-analness nanofabrication systems (that description may be somewhat at odds with the point he was trying to convey, but I am trying to fake-work on a spreadsheet while typing this comment, and that is harder than it sounds, so you’ll have to forgive the absence of explanatory elegance).
3. Is it a simple matter to migrate all the existing posts/comments from here to there?
4. You used something like 175 terms I don’t know in this post. I think this means you are exactly the right person for the job.
Haha, I hear Keith Olbermann was less of a band wagon jumping windbag when he was doing sports, so having his post might not be all bad :-). Hopefully it will include the mojo/karma apparatus which I think would work really well in this community.
I have no idea how migration would happen. Is it a big concern if you don’t have the comments from FK 1.0 in 2.0? I mean I could move the posts but individual comments would be a bitch to move individually and would be a super bitch if as I suspect can’t find a way to automatically move them. The other more perferable option from where I sit is to just leave FK 1.0 standing as is to serve as archive and history. Yes that would mean that if you were in FK 2.0 then you wouldn’t be able to search FK for comments/post before the switch, however you would be able to come back here. If this is a significant issue then WordPress Multi User software is probably going to be what will be able to migrate content.
As for you last point, I like these kinds of projects because I know just enough to get in way over my head and force me to learn a shitload that I wouldn’t otherwise. Ive done some site management/construction in the past I have never endeavored to pull off a multi user community that is this dynamic. And you got to hand it to **nation they have don a great job (with occasional random strike throughs) and created a really good underlying software architecture that creates high expectations from previous users of **.
I agree with this. ** has very good software (although there are some definite changes I want to make, so hopefully this software is moddable).
As I’m not a DK member, I can’t tell quite how things work. I assume they do unread comments somehow.
Oh, and unless the software is significantly better (which it could easily be) I’d go with wordpress on a tie-goes-to-the-runner content preservation stance.
Oh gods, please no mojo/karma function. No need for “OMG, I made the rec list!!” blathering.
I am flagging this comment.
I’d kind of like to keep the ability to edit or delete at least our own comments. How ’bout you?
I like that too – I just accidentally made a double post and was able to go back in and delete.
I think the ability to edit other people’s posts and comments is a critical component of Free Kraut’s anarchic charm.
Also, I’m a big poopy-face. Hey, how’d that get there?
Concur.
So, you agree that 74mk is a poopy-face?
“…I know just enough to get in way over my head…”
I like you.
I have three projects due next week (assigned last week) that require me to use Final Cut. I’ve never successfully used Final Cut for anything, and I’ve had no instruction on it. I’m in way over my head.
That has nothing to do with website construction/management, but it does have something to do with the fact that I’m sitting here reading FK instead of… screwing around with Final Cut and trying to figure it out.
(Oh, did I mention that I haven’t even shot one of the three projects yet? Yeah, there’s that, too.)
wow you are in a word… fucked! I hate hate hate video and audio editing.
I love editing just about anything. I just don’t love having to teach myself about new tools under pressure.
I had to do a lot of av projects my last year and a half of college and there is nothing harder to do on a deadline than edit well when you don’t know what you are doing.
I think a DK system without ratings would be ideal.
I agree with the people who agree that that would be a good idea. The ** 2.0 format would be ideal; I prefer scoop to wordpress. I think having threads on the sidebar would actually be nice because it facilitates more than one thread going at the same time; I think there’s no point to having any kind of rec system.
I’d like something similar to Kos and **.
** no longer uses scoop, it uses something else, three words, something “by” something. Kos is still scoop, though.
Yeah i believe it is proprietarty. The problem with scoop is there really isn’t a community backing it up like drupal which would be my second choice followed by WordPress Multi User.
Essentially the things I care about are well displayed dairies, autorefresh, marking comments as read.
Here you go.
well played
We need this included in the coding.
Dont worry if i build it i reserve the right to destroy it with unicorns.
Thank god I’m involved to prevent us from the unicorns.
I tried to include this earlier today (my conference in a Parisian basement was *extremely* boring) but wordpress rejected the html in both a comment and a post. I’ve also seem it reject white text (if I submit a white-text comment and then go back to edit it the color html has been excised). It eems like only a subset of html is allowed.
Happy birthday, JediLeroy.
That blog post nobody else will care about is great. I particularly enjoyed the Chamber of Commerce (sorry, Prefectural Information Center) bit; good to know travel brochure-speak thrives the world over.
I also enjoyed the blog post–the fact that it was peppered with Japanese phrases and the fact that it was clear and deliberately-paced made me feel like I was very much in Murakami’s Japan. Note to self: write something that takes place in Japan.
Thanks! My birthday in America has been much better so far than my birthday in Japan was.
Yesterday pretty much sucked, except for my birthday cheesecake.
convergence
1. Which one is it? This one? If so, I have to say the flag in the background is not rippling vigorously enough for my taste. Vigorous flag ripples = freedom. I don’t think it’s irresponsible at this point to speculate about why she hates America so much. Also.
2. 5Aces needs to put aside personal commitments and/or apathy, and follow through on his promise to create and maintain a faux-Big Urb account.
Did I really promise? Maybe I should go back and edit it so it looks a little more non-committal..
Actually, Two big projects at work may actually be coming to an end in the next week or so. If all goes well, I may actually be able to keep that promise.
I think we should call it Twytter
BygUrb’s Big Twytter
How about just Byg Twyt
I hate… hate …. hate twitter. If you want to talk to the world get a blog, or update your facebook status if you are too stupid to string more than a sentence together. Why do people need to know these stupid things that you post on twitter? Hold on Im going to tweet that im going to take a shit and floss before starting my day.
I regard twitter with caution. (Link, like the one that started off this DLD, is to dumper’s own blog post–in this case, mine.)
Mjd edit–further review of that blog post I linked shows that, other than the title, it has nothing to do with twitter. I thought I’d written there about how I signed up for twitter out of curiosity born of having heard so much about it lately, but then declined to invite my friends to follow me, because that seemed like an obnoxious thing to do, and then also declined to stick around and follow anybody else, because, shit, I’m not that bored. I thought I’d made some analogy to how this was typical of my reaction to new technology: I am drawn toward it because I know I should not fear it, but then when I get too close to it I become characteristically fearful. Maybe that was an e-mail I wrote to somebody. Oh well. At least now I’ve managed to link myself, write in bold and italic characters, and edit myself. Next on list of things to do: read my blog-publisher’s ‘help’ item on how to use viral marketing to promote oneself as a writer. Me thinks I’m getting the hang of it! Maybe I’ll send out those twitter invitations after all.
Bwahaha! I almost posted that last night, but I was seized by a vestigial POLITICS IS FORBIDDEN! pang.
{puts Poppy on the oxcart to the reeducation camp; smashes Poppy’s glasses on the ground with the butt of a rifle}
In Soviet Union, ox butts reeducate… wait…
I don’t have anywhere to go with that.
In former Soviet Union, that doesn’t have anywhere to go with *you*.
{adds ride the bike to the fishing hole to the euphemism directory}
Boy, this birthday cake is enormous. And delicious! If only there was someone whose birthday was today…I could share it with them. But, since nobody I know of is celebrating their birthday today, I guess I’ll just continue to eat this large, delicious birthday cake by myself.
Or I’ll give it all to JediLeroy.
Only Cakoholics eat cake by themselves. You should get some help.
Projecting your addiction much?
No im exclusively a pie person. I only destroy my body with fruit. Unless it is cheesecake. Then ive been know to eat whole Trader Joes cheescakes in one sitting to the total disgust of my brother.
Eh, I can stop eating cake anytime I want to.
Wow, thanks!
Twitter quitters:
They need a rewards scheme…a frequent-twitter program. Twelve thousand twitters will get you an iPod Nano.
My name is Jennifer, and I’m addicted to Twitter.
Sheeeeeeit: 60 laid off at the Baltimore Sun
Happy Birthday, JL! :)
Thanks. :) I’ll consider Sweeney’s grab to be my birthday present.
I don’t know whether to be offended or relieved that no one is searching for me.
free download sound of a male canary?
mikeA can be shrill
I just did the search, and the fourth result is this:
The download sound of my male canary is quite silent.
Or is that the upload sound?
I haven’t sat down and watched a whole NBA playoff game (or any kind of NBA game, actually) in two seasons, since the Warriors were in the playoffs, but I still know my NBA playoffs because I read long Bill Simmons columns about them.
Crosby’s starting at 1B. Against a RHP. Yuck.
Looks as though we’ll have to wait for Cabrera to get injured before Cust rises to his rightful spot at #2.
With his sub-.600 OPS, O-Cab is suffering from an overactive “sucks-at-baseball” gland.
1. Cabrera will never get injured.
2. Giambi’s hamstring tweak must be more problematic than originally suspected if he can’t even DH after an off day. Or maybe Geren is just intent on getting Buck into the lineup.
3. Giambi DL + Chavez DL + Cabrera day off = 1B Doolittle, 2B Patterson, SS Crosby, 3B Hannahan. I am giddy with optimism right now.
4. 8 walks in 11 innings:
Ziegler out with “non-baseball” issue, according to Slusser.
While Doolittle’s done far better than I expected in AAA, I’m worried they’re gonna call him up to play RF over Buck.
Swine flu.
Hamdemic!
Good thing Ziegler only sounds Jewish.
Rare opportunity for the phrase “Hannahan’s bat should be in the lineup.”
+safe and legal
Happy Burfday JL
Question to TPTB – are the criteria for being a krauthor – arrogant, elitist and having attempted to annoy your counterparts on **? If so, I’m sure I fit the bill.
(Walks of with smug expression on face – well actually it’s night here and I have to sleep)
No criteria at all.
I’d add you now but I didn’t see your name on the “user” list so I can’t.
Also, don’t worry about it. This kludgy old thing is getting upgraded soon.
I don’t know if this makes a difference or not but my wp username is whirlingdarvish
(see I didn’t go to sleep, just goes to show how dedicated I am to fk or maybe I wanted to see what the reply would be ;)
Odd. Assuming you weren’t invited formally, that might be why you aren’t on the list. If you were, I have no idea.
The larger point, though, is 1: no slight, 2: won’t matter in a few days, 3: I may be doing it wrong anyway.
Hey dude (and everybody else):
No more new Krauthors for now. We’re trying to figure out the best way to handle the fact that we’ve got a big crowd incoming.
No slight, just logistics. Sorry.
I know it’s not a slight and I don’t think I was formally invited – xbx just sent me the link. I just wanted to get in the queue for krauthorage is all.
In a nod to the age of totalitarian fascist communism without representation in which we find ourselves, we are rationing KRAUThorage. We may implement
meansmemes-testing.Using Twitter to Dominate fantasy baseball.
Ultimate convergence: Gwen Knapp and Sarah Palin dueling via Twitter to draft Barry Zito for their respective fantasy baseball teams.
While driving.
JL, you’re based in Japan? Perhaps you’re aware of this phenomenon?/a>
Argh total link fail
here
Oh, man. That is so getting forwarded to all my Japanese teacher coworkers.