/metatech/ - /tech/ Meta Discussion

>>1093

>And it really gives the impression that /tech/ is full of retards.

Hey, we don't want to give anyone a false impression, eh?

>>1081

They seem to be working on my end. Are the posts just updating slowly?

In other news, I'm setting up the 8chan beta board as we speak. Going to add some new banners as well.

>>1084

>They seem to be working on my end

I'm looking at the thread at the last post is from 11 hours ago.

The threads and front page aren't frozen if you're viewing it through the mod/hotpockets mode.

>>1085

Ah, okay.

Changed the stickies. It was a good run. ;_;7

>>1087

>Making a board feature usable is being beta

ayy lmao.

>"Seeing as how cyclical threads are now broken, I guess I'll just have to go back to using normal threads."

Cyclical threads suffer from the posting bug that's affecting all of 8chan more than other threads. The tech support sticky was updating perhaps five times per day, which made it almost useless. Now they're just stickies.

The images are different for no particular reason. The background is different because the board stylesheet wasn't changed.

>>1089

I changed the images due to the fact that 8chan doesn't generate transparent thumbnails anymore, and neither does the 8chan beta, at the moment. If beta 8chan gets that capability sometime in the future, I may consider switching back.

Can you clarify?

You can't just allow arbitrary filetypes in the board settings. This is a change to the site software, so not something we control. Ask in one of these places:

https://beta.8ch.net/next/

>>>/next/

>>1071

Thanks m80, asked there.

>>1056

Do you mean banning people for having politically incorrect opinions, or for posting a joke about mein Kampf?

The board quality is steadily declining.

Remove rice threads

Remove support/help threads

Remove consumerist threads

Remove non-tech threads

Remove Kaballah threads

Remove retard threads

Remove shill threads

Remove silk threads

Remove mod threads

Remove Cultural Marxism

Ban unnecessary names or trips, like The Chrome Jew

Ban Kabbalists

Ban Microsoft

Ban banhammers

Ban the CIA

Ban Dick Van Dyke

Ban me

Ban Satanists

Ban (ban)kers

Ban moslems

>>1058

There's a few good nuggets and a few good posters still left, but it's mainly just more and more browser threads, multiple Linux distro recommendation threads, etc.

Oh well.

https://8ch.net/tech/res/440794.html

Can you confirm if this guy does or doesn't samefag and bump his own thread (and then ban him anyway)

We didn't delete it. Check the board log:

https://8ch.net/log.php?board=tech

The thread ID is 420266.

It shows up in the catalog, and most likely in the board index, though I haven't checked.

Because of the technical weirdness of 8chan's moderation system, the thread doesn't 404 if I access it with moderation privileges. I made a post in it, and now it's working.

All threads are static pages that are regenerated when they are posted in. Something went wrong with generating this one, but now it works.

It's always been disabled. They're using characters that aren't caught by the filter.

bump because moar pages

>>659

https://archive.is/25Qha

>Remember, post bait on ggrevolt, post tech posts on tech, get shit done on gghq and cross link it here.

Faggot.

>>660

We have 4 goddamn browser threads, thread, some asinine reposts from /v/, a fucking pepe thread or some such shit...

yeah its clearly /v/ trying to drag the board into their infighting cancer.

think of it this way

the retards that shill on the same IP will get spotted but we'll still be able to tell if some faggot is actually using a proxy by how obvious his samefagging is

its a win no matter what

I had rather get archiving than ID, to be honest.

While it won't stop all the stupid accusations because people can just use proxies it will decrease it as most people probably aren't that dedicated

>>1002

Janitor here, a couple things:

>CP

1. Nice job posting the CP ad, considering youre not advertising it obviously and its just a picture of a chest I wont report you or anything (just FYI)

2. We cant ban people posting the CP. or rather, we shouldnt. This is illegal content, if WE ban them they only get a board ban not a site wide ban, and if we delete the post the IP is lost forever, the best we can do is spoiler it and global report it, waiting for someone on the next level to delete it

>Posting quality

This has been something that I, as a user of the board since the exodus, have also seen a decline in, its not that the majority of the user base has changed to shit posters, its that people will start a lot of bait threads and see which ones take. The thing is the definition for shitposting on /tech/ currently is set so that it has to be so blatently off topic they were trying. People who do these mass spam bait threads often use tor and that means even if we are able to delete the thread for shitposting obviously we cant ban them. The best thing is even if its a personal support thread for instance, if we dont catch it in time and a discussion forms in the thread I am hesitant to delete the thread because what will happen is 5 more threads will be made spouting that the board is dictated by "Rule cucks", a lot of people on 8chan (obviously) hate being censored in anyway, yes, deleting shitposts in by definition censorship.

When I started I would give people 1 minute bans to let them know what they did wrong (thats the smallest I can give). Within a week people were complaining that the moderators were too strict

>>964

for example

and its not just a few people, there was a poll a couple months back that asked if we should be making the rules more strict and it was an overwhelming no

yes, I am completely aware that its extreamly easy to rig a poll.

>>1003

>email field

woops!

>>1003

surely "don't post what a rational person would call "garbage" or "nonsense"" is a legitimate rule

it's a catch-all for shit threads and shiver bait

>>1003

Do you think anyone actually gives a fuck what /int*/ manchildren think? They're a laughingstock. They've been shitting up the top boards since before January of last year with their retarded raids. They're worse than rugga and co, a bunch of shitposters that intend to do this for the rest of their natural lives, or at least until they're forced to move out into their own apartment and get a job after mommy and daddy either die or kick them out.

Fundamentally there's no way to fix the bait thread problem other than not having a userbase of morons. Guess we'll just have to live with shit because people can't help themselves, wouldn't want to trample on FREE SPEECH even though they fundamentally can't put any effort into it, posting the same shit bait every time and samefagging the thread.

And there's no way to fix the retards who post the same shit: they're autistic and it soothes their autism to have the same thread over and over again. It's much like battlestation threads, it's a comfortable thing for them to post their pasta or a variation on it with their associated image and rack up replies.

>freedom for discussion

What 'discussion' is had in the same fucking bait threads we've seen over and over for years? It's just newfaggots replying to garbage, giving their retarded 2 cents because presumably they've never seen the thread before.

So first order of business, how do we present this so as to increase the chances of it being accepted? Does HW still use github?

I submitted a small commit (one simple line) two weeks ago, and it hasn't been accepted. He'd probably look at it if we emailed him.

Most of the Windows 10 threads talk about how bad it is. I don't know how many of them are made by actual Windows users.

>>860

>is to temporarily hide posting elements from windows users when needed

Kek, HW wouldn't see the benefit of your commit since it doesn't offer much value, but could be abused like that. It would give admins more control but I doubt he's in a hurry to implement this retarded shit.

Especially when you can just spoof your Windows 10 with internet explorer User Agent to midori/FreeBSD or some shit faggot.

>>719

no benefits, it's a matter of taste

8archive still drops multiple images in posts and you want to use that piece of software?

Would .pdf be an acceptable format for them to be in?

I probably try scripting, archiver downloads that coverts threads to .pdf then uploads them. Probably every 10 mins?

>>506, >>527

>Once this happens enough times you automate your own personal archiving system

>Start your personal archiver

1. You mean, like, writing my own C programme?

2. What's the point of a web-based forum then? Remember Usenet, IRC, mailing lists? At least IRC was straightforward to log privately.

>>865

>Would .pdf be an acceptable format for them to be in?

MAFF. MHTML. First is superior. Second is widespread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Archive_Format

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML