First Post!

First Post!

It's time.

the man with the briefcase

Shacknews Cortex is live!

From The Chatty
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    November 10, 2020 1:02 PM

    First Post! Welcome to Cortex, Shackers! Do it for Shacknews!

    Read more: First Post!

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      November 10, 2020 1:04 PM

      congratulations!

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      November 10, 2020 1:05 PM

      Congrats, excited to be a part of shacknews cortex!

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      November 10, 2020 1:07 PM

      MatthewPhillips
      Points: 45,919
      YOU?

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      November 10, 2020 1:08 PM

      Oh hell yes.

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      November 10, 2020 1:09 PM

      It begins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-BkrwO_Dck massive congrats Man and all of those involved in the project!

      Wishing you Guys the very best I am sure it will own and be a success \m/ :) \m/

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        November 10, 2020 2:09 PM

        I feel like some of your awesome screenshot/update posts would make great Cortex articles

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      November 10, 2020 1:13 PM

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      November 10, 2020 1:18 PM

      Oh shit...it begins!

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      November 10, 2020 1:20 PM

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      November 10, 2020 1:21 PM

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      November 10, 2020 1:29 PM

      You may notice you have points. We backfilled points for any Shacker who has logged into the site over the last year. It is our way of thanking our most loyal users for sticking with us all of these years. You folks deserve all the points.

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        November 10, 2020 2:32 PM

        What can I do with points? Or is this like post count on other forums?

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      November 10, 2020 1:30 PM

      Yay! 1st points! Excited about this new feature!

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      November 10, 2020 1:41 PM

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      November 10, 2020 1:42 PM

      congrats! (also, hi)

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      November 10, 2020 1:43 PM

      neat. but if you reply via the cortex page and it's less than 5 characters it just blanks out the screen.

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      November 10, 2020 1:44 PM

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      November 10, 2020 1:47 PM

      Congrats to Virus and his whole team!

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      November 10, 2020 1:50 PM

      Congrats!

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      November 10, 2020 1:52 PM

      An historic day. We will pass this tale down until it is legend.

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      November 10, 2020 1:56 PM

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      November 10, 2020 1:56 PM

      It's up finally!!

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      November 10, 2020 1:57 PM

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      November 10, 2020 1:59 PM

      This is great! The only thing that's a little awkward, for me anyways, is the dichotomy between the chatty and cortex. It's like I need two tabs open now. Maybe there could be a cortex side bar?

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      November 10, 2020 2:00 PM

      Cool, these are showing up in third party clients now.

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      November 10, 2020 2:03 PM

      This is neato

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      November 10, 2020 2:11 PM

      Hey this is neat!

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      November 10, 2020 2:12 PM

      So many points are being thrown at me!

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      November 10, 2020 2:13 PM

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      November 10, 2020 2:16 PM

      Oh hai! Let’s do this

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      November 10, 2020 2:25 PM

      Indeed it is time!

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      November 10, 2020 2:30 PM

      How do I attain points and what do I do with them?

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      November 10, 2020 2:30 PM

      It's real! It's really, really, real!

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      November 10, 2020 2:33 PM

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      November 10, 2020 2:35 PM

      congrats Asif and team, this is really great work and I can't wait to see what the folks here do with it!

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      November 10, 2020 2:35 PM

      Congrats! Time to start grinding Shacknews

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      November 10, 2020 2:38 PM

      The +1 point notification being on the left side means it's covering up some of the chatty text. A minor annoyance. It also doesn't work well with all of the other parts of the chatty page for me (on Chrome). The Truncated message under a long thread displays on top of the notification, as does the New Comment button.

      Instead of this obnoxious notification, how about at the top, to the right of the search button, or left of Cortex (or replace the word Account) have my site score displayed. Every time I earn a point, it gives a little +1 animation and increases the score. That way it doesn't interfere with browsing the website but is still noticeable.

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      November 10, 2020 2:39 PM

      Hey thanks for doing so much work to update things around here. I'm excited!

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      November 10, 2020 2:42 PM

      Interesting. Does this update make regular shacknews work better on phones?

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        November 10, 2020 2:46 PM

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          November 10, 2020 2:48 PM

          I can use latestchatty to click a link, but then it takes me to the internal browser, and I can use it from there. It’s like inception. A chatty within the chatty.

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      November 10, 2020 2:44 PM

      Some of the tags aren't capitalized.. It's messing with my OCD.

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      November 10, 2020 2:44 PM

      This looks really great. Awesome job!

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      November 10, 2020 2:45 PM

      Ah, credit for time served I see.

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      November 10, 2020 2:45 PM

      I went to edit my profile and it got real funky after I saved my changes. Nothing but text and links in the content. I can't seem to erase it now.

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        November 10, 2020 2:55 PM

        Yeah, it ate all the linefeeds in mine. Then when I went to edit it, it made each linefeed double spaced. Then when I went to fix that, it went back to eating all the linefeeds. I eventually left it all double spaced.

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      November 10, 2020 2:45 PM

      Posting from safari on iPhone. Gimme dat point!

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      November 10, 2020 2:50 PM

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        November 10, 2020 2:52 PM

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          November 10, 2020 2:55 PM

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            November 10, 2020 2:55 PM

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            November 10, 2020 3:03 PM

            That already happens and why i have only ever lol'ed on thing. I much prefer the site without them but hiding them is too much of a pain now days so I just ignore them.

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          November 10, 2020 2:56 PM

          They do!

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            November 10, 2020 2:59 PM

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              November 10, 2020 3:01 PM

              Looks like it's either just lol or just 1 of any tag.
              Also untagging doesn't subtract from my count, and retagging doesn't add another point.

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              November 10, 2020 3:03 PM

              Yeah, inf'ing your above post just gave me the message "Woohoo! You just lol'd a post" heh

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                November 10, 2020 3:08 PM

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                  November 10, 2020 3:14 PM

                  Getting lol'd means I get multiple notifications stacking above the other one. I could see this being really annoying for anyone who goes away for a bit and comes back to a stack of notifications that then impedes reading comments while they are displayed.

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      November 10, 2020 2:52 PM

      what is this point thing?

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      November 10, 2020 3:08 PM

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      November 10, 2020 3:09 PM

      PRO TIP for those writing articles: Once you publish your article, whatever you wrote in the "COMMENTS OP" section of your post stays that way forever.

      In the same way that your posts on the Chatty cannot be edited, this cannot be edited / updated after you PUBLISH! I learned that the hard way.

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        November 10, 2020 3:11 PM

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          November 10, 2020 3:12 PM

          Yeah, bradsh is going to have his work cut out for him with Werd.

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            November 10, 2020 3:21 PM

            bradsh doesn't have anything to do with Werd. What is anyone seeing that's broken in Werd other than the root Cortex articles not having a working link?

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              November 10, 2020 4:22 PM

              I keep mixing you two up because I suck at names, sorry. I was thinking more in terms of functionality as there's no way to create Cortex posts or anything like that. Could be an entirely separate application though.

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                November 10, 2020 4:32 PM

                I'm going to put a Cortex view into Werd but it'll just be a web view to shacknews and might embed the chatty thread if it has one.

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      November 10, 2020 3:10 PM

      the "sup jcutner" article deserves to be front page

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      November 10, 2020 3:24 PM

      So what's broke on chatty directly?

      Hyperlinks? https://google.com

      Tagging? This should be yellow.

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      November 10, 2020 3:32 PM

      This is awesome. Shacknews 2020, Shacknews forever!

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      November 10, 2020 4:24 PM

      Congrats on this new endeavor.

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      November 10, 2020 4:27 PM

      Sweet!

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      November 10, 2020 5:38 PM

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        November 10, 2020 5:44 PM

        To me, it screams that for reviews I can no longer just post 3-liners. Because then I'd look bad compared to everyone else posting full fledged reviews with screenshots and ELUCIDATIONS.

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          November 10, 2020 6:05 PM

          I think there's a place for short reviews although Metacritic kinda has that covered.

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      November 10, 2020 5:41 PM

      1 POINT = 1 HOODIE

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        November 10, 2020 5:51 PM

        Notice that this is a Capital "POINT" which at the current rate, is worth 512,000,000 lowercase "points" or "Points".

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      November 10, 2020 5:52 PM

      If Shacknews has now been gamified, can Cortex be nominated for GOTY?

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      November 10, 2020 5:59 PM

      Just need to add a chat bot named Cortexa to complete it.

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      November 10, 2020 6:35 PM

      I can’t access the “Cortex Menu” menu when I am logged in on my phone with Safari.

      I’ve tried zooming in and out and clicking around the button but it doesn’t work.

      i.e. the menu that lets me create a new article, etc.

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      November 10, 2020 6:37 PM

      I can’t figure out how to make a post. :(

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      November 10, 2020 6:39 PM

      Is this why shack browse doesn't work?

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      November 10, 2020 6:40 PM

      The future is here!!

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      November 10, 2020 7:05 PM

      I feel like the Corex links in the Chatty should either open in a new window, or open in like a lightbox'd modal in the middle of the screen so that we're not whisked away from the Chatty.

      I think it'd be cool if you had Share buttons on the stories since it might help remind people to share the things other community members are writing other places like Twitter or Parler (lol j/k)

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        November 10, 2020 10:09 PM

        i agree with this. It is the only thing I didn't like about the update. I was hoping for the article opening in the chatty itself but I assume thats not as easy as opening in a little box or something. it is a lot of clicks to read an article and then have to come back to the chatty page and find the thread again and all that. It might be me being particular and i just need to learn a new way of reading things or it is just not user friendly enough. i dont know

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      November 10, 2020 8:15 PM

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      November 10, 2020 8:46 PM

      can we move the pop up toast to the right?

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        November 10, 2020 10:12 PM

        can the pop up toast HAHAHA TOAST. IT POPS UP. HAHA!

        oh yeah but can the pop up toast also say something other than LOL if I unfd or tagd something?

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      November 10, 2020 9:30 PM

      Anyone know the full Cortex tech-specs?

      I'm probably going to switch the daily Post Summary posts to a Cortex article. However, in order to do so, I need to understand how the cortex post form works. This is what I know so far:


      Make a post to https://shacknews.com/cortex/view-cortex-article
      Form Data:

      article_type=article,review
      title=
      descrption= (This is short summary under title)
      body= (Raw html?)
      topic_i]= (Article ONLY) 3684 (chatty), will need to make a list / db of other topics

      review_topic_id= (Review Only) only one?
      review_good= review pros field
      review_bad= review cons field

      chat_post_id= comments enabled. 1=comments, 0=no comments
      chat_post_message= message to put in the root post, above the article link. 'I wrote a thing!'

      id= blank for initial posts, assuming it is used for edits / preview


      submit_preview
      submit_publish
      submit_delete

      publish=0
      delete=0



      topics
      Shacknew Mercury = 9692
      Chatty = 3684
      CHATTY GAME OF THE MONTH = 8866
      Chattycast = 6174
      Shack Chat = 11376
      Chatty Asks 6767
      Just Chatting = 12852
      ChatChat = 3271
      Lola the Pom = 9026


      However, there is apparently a requirement for a header image. I'm not sure how that is uploaded / included in the form at this point.

      Anyone know more information?

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        November 10, 2020 9:31 PM

        any idea how 'topic_id' followed by brackets changed into a blue tag?

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      November 10, 2020 11:17 PM

      Unf and congrats!

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      November 10, 2020 11:24 PM

      Can’t wait to get back to full service internet so I can see what all this is about :)

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      November 11, 2020 2:12 AM

      Pretty Epic.

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      November 11, 2020 3:18 AM

      what

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      November 11, 2020 5:00 AM

      Dude thank you so much for innovating, thinking of how to take things up from tweaks to big improvements and as always supporting our little weird home in this year and all years

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      November 11, 2020 5:38 AM

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      November 11, 2020 5:43 AM

      Where do in find my points?

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      November 11, 2020 5:47 AM

      This is pretty neat gonna look more when I’m on a desktop

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