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I'm not sure how I should word this.. It was supposed to be a quick visit, but I've been waiting for the right moment to return back to the shadows, without leaving things here hanging.
I just wanted to say, that I'm going to be unavailable again, so don't take it personally if I won't be replying, be it in here or Discord.
For how long I'll be gone, I can't tell. I don't have much time left, I just shouldn't be here, I have to focus on my awful real life and figure out how to make ends meet. I'm trying to work all day everyday on a game, that hopefully will change something, though at least finding a job, preferably a remote one, would be good too, but I'm not optimistic about this to be honest. I'm tired of all that stress, but it is what it is, wish me luck.
I'm glad everything here appears to be - at least mostly - fine, and I wish everyone the best.
Until next time! I hope to see you all again after the storm's gone. 
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Silky did something and suddenly I became a goat But hey, I have two horns now! The magic has been doubled! I can cast two spells at the same time! Twilight's gonna flip out when I show her my epic skills!
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Could've done G.O.A.T. (aka Greatest of All Time) there, @Ice Princess Silky <3. She turned herself into a goat that will literally ram into something that's in her way lmao
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Are you time traveling on a bucket? Hello and welcome! And see you in the future!
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Hello, hi, and welcome to the herd!
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Bottom text at night time blends in with the theme too much :3
Rikifive replied to Street Light's topic in Feedback
Fixed an oversight, whereby the footer (text at the bottom) was still invisible during evening phase of the background. I initially adjusted it for night only, and overlooked, that the evening phase is also just as dark. -
Oh by the way, I created a new page, that displays the today's birthdays: https://mlpforums.com/birthdays/ And that's what I attached to the button.
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It indeed doesn't hurt to have it, so I cooked something. It's kinda a budget solution for now, but at least it should get the job done. As for notifications, that's kinda a different league unfortunately, it goes deeper into the software, I'd have to do a proper research on how to work with these, and sadly I can't afford that at the moment, so let's leave it for future, hopefully.
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Plot twist - Actually, the birthday widget already does sort users based on their last activity. Recently active users are always at the top. That said, who shows up there and the order isn't random. Nowadays, usually only like 1-3 first slots are taken by still active users, the next entries often show users, who haven't logged in for years, so the next invisible ones that didn't make it to the list are even more ancient. So the question is, would anyone need to dig that far? A way to view all today's birthdays would be doable, but that probably wouldn't reveal any active users. An icon before/after name when someone is celebrating a birthday is actually something I did years ago as an experiment. I believe I did suggest, or at least mention something like this myself in the past, but now I'm not sure if I actually ever mentioned my science results to consider adding these to MLPF. Anyway, I'd love to toy with stuff if I'd get the chance.
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Of course it had, all the evil comes from there By default maybe not, but with some coding magic, I could perhaps make it work. You know, if everyone manages to collect 100 flowers in total and send them to twulight sparklol, perhaps, perhaps Now we're talking business. Fluttershy, take notes!
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Normally - when thinking about status updates or casual posts - they weren't being misused, but the moment you went into topics discussing politics... The debate area has a nasty history. And don't underestimate users When obvious weapons were removed, they started weaponizing other reactions, just to spite their opponents It's been a while, it was back in 2019. Maybe the scale wasn't as dramatic, but the problem was big enough to cause changes and spawn a dedicated announcement about it... https://mlpforums.com/topic/187239-how-we-will-address-reactions-going-foward/ Yeah, like I said, I wasn't really a fan of that solution either. Penalizing the entire community doesn't sound fair, but it wasn't up to me to decide. Personally I was thinking of disabling reactions for problematic users, or disabling that system in areas, where reactions cause more problems than solve. Either way, I'm just bringing some older news to give backstory on why the current reactions are like this. It's not like staff doesn't want more reactions. Things have changed and calmed down, maybe now it all could be used in the intended way - for fun. If I was asked for opinion, I'd vote for trying to add more again, but I imagine some could have a different view on this - and not just staffers, but perhaps some users too.
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They're talking about reactions, not emoticons. You know, the epic arsenal behind brohooves.
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Yeah, I agree there could be more reactions, but it's tricky. Adding more by itself isn't a big deal. However, there's a more complex problem with these to keep in mind - to avoid reactions, that can cause drama. In the past we had more reactions, but users started misusing them for passive aggression, which over time spawned more and more reports where users complained on receiving "xxxxx" reaction from someone. This eventually led to changes and removal of some. For example, the "confused" or "huh" could be seen by some as annoying, if the user just dropped "huh" reaction without replying to elaborate what confused them. "shrug" could easily be abused too. Like, if someone would drop that reaction on someone stating their opinion, without replying to elaborate why they disagree. This could equal to "nobody cares about your opinion". That was actually an insanely common case with the "laugh" reaction depicting laughing Rainbow Dash, before it was decided to replace it with "delighted giggle". What was designed for laughs, jokes and memes, was misused to laugh at users. Basically the problem was, that reactions were often used as a substitute to posts. Why put effort and time to write words if someone could just come, laugh at someone's opinion, and call it a day. This was leaving post authors irritated. Because staff at the time didn't want to deal with this problem on case-by-case basis, it was decided to redesign it and limit reactions to ones with more positive/respectful meaning. Personally I wasn't a big fan of this solution, because now the reactions aren't as expressive as they once were. The current "giggle" reaction just doesn't capture the laugh you'd like to react with on a meme that made you laugh, for example. That is essentially why the reactions aren't as functional as users would probably like. Personally I'd like to see more reactions, some changed, but that's just my take and I can't speak for all staff and entire community.
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swords slash, bows pew, staff throws spells your sneak skill is kinda high, you have to approach closer to be noticed by an average NPC
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Ah, so that's what's going on with the warning...
Probably like 99% of it is just nvidia constantly recording the games I play (the replay feature allowing to save last X minutes of gameplay as a video).
I wonder how bad it actually is.
At least it's kinda nice to know it's because of such estimate (probably because I surpassed 200TB of written data?), and not necessarily because the drive actually shows signs of failures.
I'll better disable that replay feature, to not push it too much further, to buy myself as much time as I can.
And I still have to boot the system manually from BIOS each time heh.
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Actual recovery not exactly, I'll keep getting stuck on the post screen with a warning until I replace the disk.
It's just that I discovered, that apparently this warning appears because it sees the disk as "old", and not because it has physically failed. That's a relief, because at first I thought there is actually something wrong with it.
All I can do is to delay its end.
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Sorry to hear it, my friend. But I will still be wishing for the best for you.
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Teehee~ let's just stick to pink then
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Huh it crashes safari? Or you mean it would crash if I made it purple?
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I was thinking about this, but I was worried the button may explode.
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Hmm, not all devices/browsers have such feature though. Or at least I don't see anything like this on Chrome/Android.
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Yup! It's a magical pink button of immediate teleportation!
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Okay I cooked something, let me know if it works! Also let me know what you think in general - is its position okay? is color okay? I don't bite! The button appears after you scroll 1200 pixels down, I made that easily adjustable behind the scenes, so let me know if the distance is okay. Thanks for the suggestion and feedback, it's much appreciated!
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Seeing how users agree, let me cook.
