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[Haycat2009]

would User:C28/Potential Candidates for POTY 2023 be useful for gathering candidates for POTY 2023?

Sure, could be very handy! It depends on how many of those entries actually get nominated, I suppose, but having links and details all organized in a table can save a whole lot of time.

If someone goes ahead and nominates everything in the table, and then the table gets used to add new nominations if and when they come in, it seems like that will be a really good starting point.

Can I nominate everything in the table? Also, when is POTY 2023 going to start? We should place it towards the beginning of the next year when all 2023 discoveries have been made.

[dvgrn]

Can I nominate everything in the table? Also, when is POTY 2023 going to start? We should place it towards the beginning of the next year when all 2023 discoveries have been made.

When the POTY 2023 nomination thread is created, you will be able to nominate everything in the table, all in one nomination if you want. Yes.

POTY2023 starts after the end of 2023. Sometimes people get a little impatient and create threads before January 1, but I'm sure it will happen on January 1 at the latest.

b3s23love has indicated some interest in running the POTY 2023 nomination and voting process again next year, so let's assume that that's what will happen unless b3s23love says otherwise.

[Haycat2009]

Can I nominate everything in the table? Also, when is POTY 2023 going to start? We should place it towards the beginning of the next year when all 2023 discoveries have been made.

When the POTY 2023 nomination thread is created, you will be able to nominate everything in the table, all in one nomination if you want. Yes.

POTY2023 starts after the end of 2023. Sometimes people get a little impatient and create threads before January 1, but I'm sure it will happen on January 1 at the latest.

b3s23love has indicated some interest in running the POTY 2023 nomination and voting process again next year, so let's assume that that's what will happen unless b3s23love says otherwise.

Can those that help out vote?

[dvgrn]

Can those that help out vote?

Every forum user who wants to vote, can put in a vote.

[Haycat2009]

Can those that help out vote?

Every forum user who wants to vote, can put in a vote.

Can I help? B3s23 love can still host it and count.

[dvgrn]

Can I help? B3s23 love can still host it and count.

That just got a "like" from bs23love. Of course you can help if you want to. It's a lot of work to collect all the links and write all the descriptions, and that usually gets spread out between several people.

... Or, more accurately, one person usually gets stuck with the whole job for a while, and then that person gets understandably burned out more often than not because it's too much work. C28's advance work, with corrections or additions as needed, could be a great help in avoiding that common pitfall when POTY 2023 rolls around.

@C28, will it work for you to put a note at the top of the LifeWiki page where you have that table, to say that contributions from other users are welcome there? We've had some trouble recently with people editing other people's user pages without permission, so it's good to give permission explicitly when that's the intention.

[haaaaaands]

why is "report" so close to "quote"? i keep hitting one instead of the other, and i don't want to report someone when i'm trying to quote a post.

[dvgrn]

why is "report" so close to "quote"? i keep hitting one instead of the other, and i don't want to report someone when i'm trying to quote a post.

The "Report" button has to be close to something. There's a one-click fix (your browser's Back button) so this doesn't seem like much of a practical usability issue.

[TYCF]

Why does Catagolue have a hat on the eater 2?
https://catagolue.hatsya.com/

[dvgrn]

Why does Catagolue have a hat on the eater 2?
https://catagolue.hatsya.com/

Tradition! This has happened in previous years. It's December now -- holiday season.

It seems eminently reasonable that something hosted on hatsya.com should add a Santa hat to its icon in December.

Switching the eater2 to one of its hat-based pseudo-still-life variant (with a table, let's say) for the duration of December would be even cooler, but probably a little too subtle.

[get_Snacked]

Switching the eater2 to one of its hat-based pseudo-still-life variant (with a table, let's say) for the duration of December would be even cooler, but probably a little too subtle.

why not just use a hat? or a cap?

[TYCF]

Why does https://conwaylife.com/scripts/ only contains links to Home , LifeWiki , Forums and Golly?

[confocaloid]

Is https://conwaylife.com/scripts/ mainitained?

Why does https://conwaylife.com/scripts/ only contains links to Home , LifeWiki , Forums and Golly?

That page is old. E.g. there are Perl scripts listed. If you copy some RLE in a clipboard and select "File -> Run Clipboard" in Golly, then the program shows a message "Sorry, but Perl scripting is no longer supported."

[NooneAtAll3]

Strike-through bbcode isn't supported on this forum?

[s]test[/s]

[dvgrn]

Strike-through bbcode isn't supported on this forum?

[s]test[/s]

This is a fairly old discussion, but I suspect that it explains the missing strikethrough option:

A strikethrough BBCode has never been included by default, so yes, it has has to be created before it can be used.

[NooneAtAll3]

Is there a way to search "whole phrase"? and filter out "whole" and "phrase" in opposite parts of the same message?

[dvgrn]

Is there a way to search "whole phrase"? and filter out "whole" and "phrase" in opposite parts of the same message?

None that I know of -- except for using Google, of course.

That trick doesn't work for "whole phrase" today, but it probably will tomorrow, or whenever the Google bot next does a crawl through recent posts.

Also, it doesn't work if you try to search site:www.conwaylife.com/forums -- but it does work with site:conwaylife.com/forums. And it's not entirely reliable, of course -- it won't find posts that haven't been crawled since they were created, for whatever reason.

[Haycat2009]

Can someone fix Lifeviewer such that Copy works in mobile?

[NimbleRogue]

Can a mod pin the DOTY2023 nomination thread, and pin the DOTY voting thread when it comes up? Thanks.

EDIT by dvgrn: Done.

[confocaloid]

Can a mod move the following posts out of the Suggested LifeWiki edits thread, and into a new thread? Those posts are flooding previously proposed edits.

viewtopic.php?p=175002#p175002
viewtopic.php?p=175005#p175005
viewtopic.php?p=175007#p175007
viewtopic.php?p=175016#p175016
viewtopic.php?p=175017#p175017
viewtopic.php?p=175038#p175038
viewtopic.php?p=175056#p175056
viewtopic.php?p=175061#p175061
viewtopic.php?p=175062#p175062
viewtopic.php?p=175066#p175066
viewtopic.php?p=175068#p175068
viewtopic.php?p=175095#p175095
viewtopic.php?p=175096#p175096

EDIT by dvgrn 1/15/2024: Done.

[confocaloid]

The page p71 dependent reflector loop is broken, and the static image links are out of sync with the RLEs (File:p71glidershuttle.png, File:p59glidershuttle.png, File:p31glidershuttle.png, File:p26glidershuttle.png).

EDIT by dvgrn 1/15/2024: Done -- thanks!

[Haycat2009]

Where are the G4_1, G4_4, H8_1 and H8_4 tabs on catagolue? I cannot find them.

[hotdogPi]

Where are the G4_1, G4_4, H8_1 and H8_4 tabs on catagolue? I cannot find them.

The GPU works in a way that these symmetries don't do well, so nobody has searched them.

[Haycat2009]

Where are the G4_1, G4_4, H8_1 and H8_4 tabs on catagolue? I cannot find them.

The GPU works in a way that these symmetries don't do well, so nobody has searched them.

What a pity, I know that C4 and H8 produce many nice objects. How does this happen?

Also, how do I run apgsearch and get an account? (G4_4, here I come!)

[hotdogPi]

I feel like we need to do something about the "Patterns for NewComers" otismo thread. These patterns are definitely not for newcomers, and it's made worse by being in Patterns rather than Sandbox (although moving it wouldn't fully fix the problem).