Cephalon-Rose

Cephalon Rose

@Cephalon-Rose

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Youtuber/Streamer & Traditional/Digital Artist

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Linguist estrogirl in hopes of being able to help, comfort, and care for people regardless of language

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I play... probably too much Warframe

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Cephalon-Rose
@Cephalon-Rose
jkap
@jkap
staff
@staff

cohost patch notes vol. 21: THERE ARE SO MANY OF YOU NOW edition

First patch notes of the public cohost era! As we keep saying, we’ve been blown away by the response to cohost so far. We shipped a Lot of fixes in the last week and are in progress on new Features and other exciting things!

new things

  • if you’re not activated, you can see your place in line! check your settings page!
    • if you’re activated, this card won’t appear, because you’re already activated so there’s nothing to show there.
  • USER AND TAG SEARCH
    • we’re going to be adding full-text search for posts Soon, but there’s more complexity there so it’s not time yet.
  • changed our Terms of Use to remove an unnecessary rule against “using a fictional name or alias” after user feedback.
  • added a persistent link to the bug tracker in the right sidebar.
    • reading this in the cohost corner? look up!

post-launch fixes

jkap
@jkap

i told you they were stacked this week

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in reply to @staff's post:

mog
@mog

"allowing for gifs to be paused by default"

i know that this is a request that's work-to-benefit ratio is abysmal but could be there a way for posts to set a CW-esque thing that, when dismissed, will autostart the GIFs still, independent of the user's settings? would quite improve CSS fuckery such as warioware, which heavily depends on GIFs starting at the right time.

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vogon
@vogon

right now, the number of unactivated users is about 13,000; we activated 150 today and we hope to increase that rate fairly regularly as we get a feeling for how much moderation work we need to do

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comforttiger
@comforttiger

underage users posting adult content are now correctly allowed to view their own posts.

should underage users be able to post adult content? feels weird that youre able to post something you wouldnt usually be allowed to see, and the only people who can see it are people who are older than you

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daffodil
@daffodil

im curious how you'll figure out gif pausing without forcing them into a webm like twitter does or whatever, we tried to get pausable gifs happening for sock chat but really struggled with that one

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cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

edit: oh lord i replied to the wrong account i am sorry

I have a thought about fulltext search: We should be allowed to opt out of it. Tags are a clear statement of intent for info to be locatable, so searching by those seems like an intrinsic site feature, but fulltext search is pretty powerful and prone to abuse.

Anyone who wants to avoid being the subject of e.g. namesearching should not have to type "so-ny p_ictures" or otherwise behave like the walls are listening, and this would solve that. Bonus: switchable on per-post basis, so you can turn it off for posts where you're dunking on something, but people can still find your Good Posts just by remembering that you said "brexit" in one.

This doesn't mean google won't index the site ofc, but... well, actually, I guess, maybe that's an option? Check a box, and your profile appears as an exclusion in robots.txt?

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jkap
@jkap

so our general plan with full text search is to have it be network limit based. like you can search people you're following and maybe people they're following but beyond that it's a void. we're still figuring out details here obvs (it's one of the Complexities) but yeah global search as a default is not ideal.

and robots.txt is a good thought, tumblr has that as a feature and it's a smart one

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