Author Topic: NEW FEATURE: #HashTags (Read 8044 times)

EEVblog · « **on:** June 03, 2019, 04:57:56 am »

I installed a new #hashtags #mod
Should be self explanatory

2N3055 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 03, 2019, 08:22:53 am »

LOL,it is triggering on parts of C code in posts ( #ifdef ... #else ... #endif ). I guess it should, it is a hashtag

StillTrying · « **Reply #2 on:** June 03, 2019, 09:19:11 am »

Quote from: EEVblog on June 03, 2019, 04:57:56 am

Should be self explanatory

It's not to me!

Brumby · « **Reply #3 on:** June 03, 2019, 10:04:01 am »

Quote from: StillTrying on June 03, 2019, 09:19:11 am

Quote from: EEVblog on June 03, 2019, 04:57:56 am
Should be self explanatory

It's not to me!

You are not alone.

wilfred · « **Reply #4 on:** June 03, 2019, 10:15:29 am »

Or me. #IsDaveBored

wilfred · « **Reply #5 on:** June 03, 2019, 10:17:05 am »

#ifdef DaveisBored
Add forum features
#endif

#IsDaveBored

wilfred · « **Reply #6 on:** June 03, 2019, 10:18:22 am »

Ah! #WinnerWinnerChickenDinner

wilfred · « **Reply #7 on:** June 03, 2019, 10:22:27 am »

Ok so I figured out how it works #NotaTwitterUser but I don't see how it should be used for maximum benefit.

Related posts should be in a thread and if it used all over the place you'll get too many hits.

StillTrying · « **Reply #8 on:** June 03, 2019, 10:25:53 am »

I think Dave is trying to make EEVblog into a cross between Twitter and Facebook.

rsjsouza · « **Reply #9 on:** June 03, 2019, 10:45:05 am »

Quote from: wilfred on June 03, 2019, 10:22:27 am

Ok so I figured out how it works #NotaTwitterUser but I don't see how it should be used for maximum benefit.

Related posts should be in a thread and if it used all over the place you'll get too many hits.

Depending on what is the intent to add this, hashtags can be beneficial or simply become screen pollution.

If Dave intends to get some statistics out of it, IME tags on a forum are very useful when there is a pre-set of them and not a "free-text form" - otherwise it can become a hodge-podge of random characters. I have seen things such as #helpmechooseanoscilloscopeplz or other very specific and impractical tags.

Obviously that creating such list can be impractical for such varied forum, although I could see at least some very useful candidates such as #TEA or #DS1054Z or #SDS1104X-E and so on.

If the intend is to help with cross-threading and related tags, I see the usefulness in, for example, the never-ending "entry level oscilloscope" threads, where someone can quickly find multiple threads related to the same subject - again, if the hashtags are somewhat "standardized" and meaningful. In this case, hashtags such as #chooseoscilloscope or #beginnerdmm could help with this.

I just hope the screen pollution is kept to a minimum.

bitwelder · « **Reply #10 on:** June 03, 2019, 11:35:24 am »

When hovering on any of the hashtags, the URL ends with something like ;<hex_string>=<long_hex_string> which seem to be the the same for all the hashtags of this page.
What are they pointing them to?

JPortici · « **Reply #11 on:** June 03, 2019, 11:54:27 am »

#Cant #wait #for #noobs #opening #threads #like #itsir #own

Edited multiple times... apparently it crashes while parsing the post? i actually wrote
Cant wait for noobs opening threads like its their own personal social media page and adding shitloads of useless hashtags oh cool the popup menu

FrankBuss · « **Reply #12 on:** June 03, 2019, 11:55:07 am »

Should it clickable? Doesn't do anything for me. The first message from Dave looks like this for me in the HTML source:

Quote

<div class="inner" id="msg_2458218">I installed a new #hashtags #mod
Should be self explanatory</div>

Bud · « **Reply #13 on:** June 03, 2019, 12:01:25 pm »

So now posts will become contaminated with # and be hard to read like on Twitter.

Muttley Snickers · « **Reply #14 on:** June 03, 2019, 12:36:07 pm »

Quote from: Brumby on June 03, 2019, 10:04:01 am

Quote from: StillTrying on June 03, 2019, 09:19:11 am
Quote from: EEVblog on June 03, 2019, 04:57:56 am
Should be self explanatory
It's not to me!
You are not alone.

I have no clue either but I just noticed that the hash-tagged text appears differently when viewed as a guest, or when logged out. #

FrankBuss · « **Reply #15 on:** June 03, 2019, 12:39:35 pm »

Right, doesn't work when I'm logged in.

StillTrying · « **Reply #16 on:** June 03, 2019, 01:11:03 pm »

Clicking on #hashtags works logged in or not for me, in firefox.

But I can't think how it would be all that useful in practice, you'd have to know what to tag, and whether it's a useful post or not, in advance.

Monkeh · « **Reply #17 on:** June 03, 2019, 01:14:44 pm »

#weneverneededthis

SparkyFX · « **Reply #18 on:** June 03, 2019, 02:00:10 pm »

Works for me with Opera 60.

I think it is a good way to qualify content over the limits of the forum structure. The risks are really not any higher than someone opening a thread with a questionable topic title or trashing search by using excessive/misspelled keywords in a post. Or the other way around: it requires the same amount of discipline from contributors than it did before: simply don´t be a dickhead.

thm_w · « **Reply #19 on:** June 03, 2019, 07:23:25 pm »

Quote from: 2N3055 on June 03, 2019, 08:22:53 am

LOL,it is triggering on parts of C code in posts ( #ifdef ... #else ... #endif ). I guess it should, it is a hashtag

Does it do it in code tags:

Code: [Select]

#ifdef test
#define test

yeah

sokoloff · « **Reply #20 on:** June 03, 2019, 07:31:20 pm »

Quote from: rsjsouza on June 03, 2019, 10:45:05 am

I could see at least some very useful candidates such as #TEA or #DS1054Z or #SDS1104X-E and so on.

Those examples would be useful, iff the hashtag parser is updated to not break on numbers, dashes, or underscores (and maybe not on a period followed immediately by a number).

KaneTW · « **Reply #21 on:** June 03, 2019, 07:34:47 pm »

Tags are sometimes useful, but I prefer the "list of tags on top of a thread" variant rather than hashtags. Hashtags are just #visualnoise.

Monkeh · « **Reply #22 on:** June 03, 2019, 07:38:35 pm »

Quote from: sokoloff on June 03, 2019, 07:31:20 pm

Quote from: rsjsouza on June 03, 2019, 10:45:05 am
I could see at least some very useful candidates such as #TEA or #DS1054Z or #SDS1104X-E and so on.
Those examples would be useful, iff the hashtag parser is updated to not break on numbers, dashes, or underscores (and maybe not on a period followed immediately by a number).

#brokencrap

Almost fun.

KaneTW · « **Reply #23 on:** June 03, 2019, 07:43:09 pm »

Hmm.

#brokenｃrap

Yeah, it's pretty bad. Looks like it just regexes on #[a-zA_Z]+.

Brumby · « **Reply #24 on:** June 04, 2019, 02:14:47 am »

Oh, OK....

Doesn't work for me in Chrome or Firefox when signed in. Only works when signed out.

lwatts666 · « **Reply #25 on:** June 04, 2019, 02:31:43 am »

So, we rename EEVblog to FacebEEk, a platform on which you twEEt...

Berni · « **Reply #26 on:** June 04, 2019, 05:14:38 am »

Yeah i don't like seeing # in the middle of a post. But then again im not a twitter user.

Id prefer if it was done as more of a keywords list thing. You add a list of keywords to your post and they appear on the end of your post as a list (Much like the thanks from users). Perhaps also have a number in brackets showing how many other posts are carrying that keyword, that way you know how many posts you are going to be shown upon clicking it.

Also a list of the most popular keywords would be useful so that you can find the correct one, or perhaps also have it suggest autocomplete keywords as you type each keyword (Much like issue tickets work on GitHub or other team collaboration tools)

mariush · « **Reply #27 on:** June 04, 2019, 01:47:17 pm »

Is it changing anchors in urls?

https://www.google.com/search?q=images#bottom

nope, at least it gets this right

a #test

super^#script

#tableheader

so yes teletype but no superscript or inside tables... not cool.

Nominal Animal · « **Reply #28 on:** August 18, 2019, 06:34:37 pm »

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I thought it was a bug, and now find out Dave did it intentionally!

WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO US, DAVE? DO YOU HATE US?
#PleaseRemoveSMFHashTags #PrettyPlease #DontBeADick #ImBegging

Seriously, this is a bad feature.


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