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[BTS-fan]

Could you activate User:List of troll patterns?
There may be too much Japanese spreading over the wiki and I shall take action.
ColorfulGalaxy is pretty busy these days so I may help with his user pages.

Why not use his account instead?

(Sorry, I don't like speaking English)

Maybe you can help with his pages.

Maybe you can attach to my computer.

[77551enpassant]

I haven't gotten an answer on whether there's a mobile website for LifeWiki. When I try going to it, it shows in desktop mode.

[bprentice]

Sadly now only 1255 members. I would like to see:
. how many of these contribute regularly by posting rules, patterns and software tools;
. how many simply organize and document known information;
. and how many have moved on to other things because they are no longer interested.

Brian Prentice

[yujh]

Sadly now only 1255 members. I would like to see:
. how many of these contribute regularly by posting rules, patterns and software tools;
. how many simply organize and document known information;
. and how many have moved on to other things because they are no longer interested.

Brian Prentice

None to all three questions.

[ihatecorderships]

None to all three questions.

How would this be none?

[yujh]

None to all three questions.

How would this be none?

I deleted a few hundred accounts that had no posts and hadn’t logged in for 6 months or more (I.e., spam accounts who had all of their posts deleted).

[dvgrn]

None to all three questions.

How would this be none?

I deleted a few hundred accounts that had no posts and hadn’t logged in for 6 months or more (I.e., spam accounts who had all of their posts deleted).

Seems like bprentice's question was about the 1255 members who remain, not the accounts that were deleted.

[ihatecorderships]

What happened on September 2nd, 2020, 7:58 pm and how where there 2909 users online?

[pzq_alex]

What happened on September 2nd, 2020, 7:58 pm and how where there 2909 users online?

See here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2069&p=103436&hilit=2909#p102266

[Book]

all links to pentadecathlon.com seem to be broken

[confocaloid]

When I try to open the following link in Firefox, the browser quickly eats all available memory. I do not know if this is an issue with the linked thread, with my system or both, but I was able to reproduce this on another computer.
https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5286&p=115412#p115412

Edit (unrelated): given that the forum rule 5a recommends to use "code" tags instead of "viewer" tags in most cases, would it be a good idea to change the "Edit post" UI so that the recommended option (i.e. code tags) is more visible and the other option is less visible? (If this is technically implementable at all.) I think this change in the user interface could reduce clutter that occurs when people use the most visible feature (viewer tags for which currently there is a large button that says "viewer") and other people complain about that and tell to use code tags instead (for which currently there is a small button without caption).

It's okay to use "viewer" tags instead of "code" tags occasionally, especially when the topic of the post is an animation displayed by LifeViewer waypoint commands included in the RLE comments -- and especially when the [[ THUMBNAIL ]] command is used to reduce the amount of vertical space taken up by the viewer. But in most cases it's considered polite to let people make their own decisions about whether to invoke LifeViewer, by using predominantly "code" tags.

[pzq_alex]

all links to pentadecathlon.com seem to be broken

Because pentadecathlon.com itself is down. See here.

[confocaloid]

It seems that many pages in the LifeNews part of the website (URL prefix http://pentadecathlon.com/lifeNews/) are preserved in the Web Archive. However, some images and/or linked files may be missing. In some cases it may be necessary to choose a specific archived version to get images/files. I cannot say anything useful as to what extent any other parts of pentadecathlon.com are available in Web Archive.

[NimbleRogue]

How do you make animated avitars?

[GUYTU6J]

How do you make animated av[a]tars?

Use giffer. There have been quantities of modifications, but I think the most recent ones are Scorbie's Python version or blah's Lua version.

[Book]

Does Karel Suhajda's Hersrch merit a wiki article? If so, a few historical sentences would be helpful.
Is this the latest version? http://web.archive.org/web/200701171147 ... cz/kasuha/

[dvgrn]

Does Karel Suhajda's Hersrch merit a wiki article? If so, a few historical sentences would be helpful.
Is this the latest version? http://web.archive.org/web/200701171147 ... cz/kasuha/

I'd say it deserves an article. It played a large role in the initial completion of Jason Summers' extension of Dieter Leithner's and Peter Rott's collection of glider guns, to cover all periods from 14 through 1000. That was Karel Suhajda's main purpose in writing it, I believe -- though he also added some more general search capabilities, as described in this ancient walkthrough. (That walkthrough was written so long ago that nobody had thought of putting tutorials on LifeWiki yet.)

The most recent version from 4 December 2012 -- see this thread -- has the same search code, pretty much, if I recall, but quite a few more conduits added to its database, and an awkward option to search for Spartan-only conduits.

[confocaloid]

I think many "important at some point in the history" subjects deserve articles, even if today people are not using them as much - it would be fantastic to have such pages written by someone who knows enough about the subject (i.e. knows what it is all about).

(Also this is one reason why I think red links are useful. Sometimes it is better to have a red link to a currently non-existent page, rather than making an imprecise redirect or a very small stub just to make that red link blue at any cost as soon as possible. It is better to wait for someone who can do it well. A possible way to let them know that their help is needed is making a red link and waiting patiently.)

[Book]

Does Karel Suhajda's Hersrch merit a wiki article? If so, a few historical sentences would be helpful.
Is this the latest version? http://web.archive.org/web/200701171147 ... cz/kasuha/

I'd say it deserves an article. It played a large role in the initial completion of Jason Summers' extension of Dieter Leithner's and Peter Rott's collection of glider guns, to cover all periods from 14 through 1000. That was Karel Suhajda's main purpose in writing it, I believe -- though he also added some more general search capabilities, as described in this ancient walkthrough. (That walkthrough was written so long ago that nobody had thought of putting tutorials on LifeWiki yet.)

The most recent version from 4 December 2012 -- see this thread -- has the same search code, pretty much, if I recall, but quite a few more conduits added to its database, and an awkward option to search for Spartan-only conduits.

Got the article started: Hersrch. A few dates and such from those who know would be useful.

[Book]

I think many "important at some point in the history" subjects deserve articles, even if today people are not using them as much - it would be fantastic to have such pages written by someone who knows enough about the subject (i.e. knows what it is all about).

(Also this is one reason why I think red links are useful. Sometimes it is better to have a red link to a currently non-existent page, rather than making an imprecise redirect or a very small stub just to make that red link blue at any cost as soon as possible. It is better to wait for someone who can do it well. A possible way to let them know that their help is needed is making a red link and waiting patiently.)

Good idea in theory. In practice, the historians in our community tend not to respond to red links. But they do at times read and enhance a stubby article, especially when some event or post gets them to look at one.

[dvgrn]

Good idea in theory. In practice, the historians in our community tend not to respond to red links. But they do at times read and enhance a stubby article, especially when some event or post gets them to look at one.

Heh. Case in point, I guess. I've added the key date, and another reference for it... though it's ultimately still just me saying "2003" in a post.

I can be more specific: here's the final pair of emails about finishing off the gun collection, in a very busy year: Hersrch first showed up in early 2003 -- first version in Pascal on April 26th, and a C++ port on May 1, first called "Hersrch" on May 15th. Several hundred new Herschel-loop guns were posted to the LifeCA mailing list between then and September 1, when the last missing period was finally filled in:

Subject: p53 - the last one

According to my records, there is only one gun missing in the p14-p999 range. Even with classic three-gun combo, I got it under 40000:

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#Cpseudo p53 gun
#CKarel Suhajda, 1 Sep 2003
x = 249, y = 158, rule = B3/S23
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18b3o7boobo27boo33bo$20bo7boboo60b3o!

Karel Suhajda

Subject: Re: p53 - the last one

--- Karel Suhajda wrote:
> According to my records, there is only one gun missing in the p14-
> p999 range. Even with classic three-gun combo, I got it under 40000:

Congratulations are in order for finishing off the low-period gun collection (and for your own sake, I hope you have no immediate plans for p1000-9999!) I thought you were going to do these last ones with nice crazy Herschel pipeworks... but I admit that it seems unlikely that the bounding box can be improved that way. Really compact pipeworks seem to be surprisingly hard to come by.

That extra space at the lower right of that p53 was just too inviting, though. I saved a bit of space with an alternate p106 gun:

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#C pseudo p53 gun Karel Suhajda 1 Sep 2003
#C bounding-box improvement by Dave Greene (with thanks to Hersrch)
x = 226, y = 168, rule = B3/S23
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oo4bobo30boo$79bobo23b4o23boo4boo62bo$21bo31boo25bo22boo3boo27bobo62b
3o$19b3o21boo7boboo9boo17boo16bo3bo28b3obobo63bo$18bo24bobbo5bobbo5boo
bobo17bobo15bo3bo27bo5boobboo37bo20boo$18boo19boo4boo6b3o6bobo21bo15b
oobbo27boo8boo35b3o16boo$22boo16bo12boo6bobbo21boo16bo3bo53boo16bo19bo
$23bo16bobo18bobo13bo34bo45boobb3obboo11boo20bo$21bo19boo16boboboo10bo
bo35boo7boo33boo4bobobbo32boo$21boo36boo15boo34boo8boo34boboobo3bo$
159boo3bo$99boo$95boobboo$94bobo13boo20boo67boo$21b3o70bo15boo3bo15bob
o64boobo$21b3obo67boo19bobo14bo6bobo56bo19boo$5boo19bo88bobo13bobo5boo
56bo19boo$5boo19boo89bo14boo5boo15boo39b3o$25boo90boo37bobo$25bo132bo
59boo$4boo47boo34bo68boo10boo46bo$5bo47boobboo31boo113boo12b3o$bb3o12b
oo38bobo29boo59boo54bo14bo$bbo14bo16bo24bo90bo15boo35b3o$18b3o7boobobo
bo23boo90b3o11bobo22boo11bo$20bo7bobooboo109boo7bo11bo24bo$144boo18boo
25b3o$193bo$$139boo$139bobo$141bo$141boo$103bo$104bo23boo$102b3o23boo!

Didn't see anything else to improve -- this seems to have filled out the empty corner pretty well.

In other news -- I set up a batch-file writer to look for short asymmetrical loops using a single standard Herschel transceiver, for all the guns that are still above 16,000 cells. It was a pretty thorough search, I think (for simple single-Herschel loops, no intersections) but no luck so far. Results of any kind showed up for only four periods: p865 and p899 for Bx385, and p933 and p949 for B346.

But the game isn't over yet, of course. Keep the cheer,


Dave Greene

[GUYTU6J]

When attempting to put emoji in User Control Panel/Profile/Edit profile/Interests, the page crashes with the following ertor:

Code: Select all

General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]

Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x8C\x99' for column `psstoref_conwaylife`.`pbb3_profile_fields_data`.`pf_phpbb_interests` at row 1 [1366]

Is it because phpBB does not recognize unicode emojis?

[hotdogPi]

HotWheels9232 announced his 500th post, which is normal, but then he started announcing posts 501, 502, 503, 504, 506, 507 (piston instead of post), 508, and 509 (pot instead of post). He's at 509 now. This is getting really annoying and pointless.

I have the perfect remedy for this, but it would require an admin to do it. Since he's so obsessed about his post count, and given that it's at exactly 509 right now, we're in luck for my idea. Some of you can probably guess what my idea is, but I think he's too young to know (which is important, since I want it to be a surprise). As a hint, it's something that an admin will do when a certain condition is met, not immediately. [Edit: that condition has been met now.]

I PMed dvgrn on Discord detailing it, but as I said, some of you can probably figure it out yourself solely based on what I typed here. Don't spoil it!

[nokangaroo]

Is it possible to make pull requests to Catagolue? It has a login window. Do I need to create an account, or can I use my Conwaylife login? I already found the tutorial, but it only mentions a Google account, which I don't want to create. No details about anonymous contributions (in my case that would be glider guns, my main interest). I pasted in some guns (capped), but they are identified as oscillators. No comment on smaller versions known.

While we're at it, is the bounding box still the going criterion for size (I'd approve if it wasn't, actually). It seems to be easy to find examples for some of the guns that are smaller by BB but larger by population (especially if you count the reaction envelope as population).

[carsoncheng]

Is it possible to make pull requests to Catagolue? It has a login window. Do I need to create an account, or can I use my Conwaylife login? I already found the tutorial, but it only mentions a Google account, which I don't want to create. No details about anonymous contributions (in my case that would be glider guns, my main interest). I pasted in some guns (capped), but they are identified as oscillators. No comment on smaller versions known.

While we're at it, is the bounding box still the going criterion for size (I'd approve if it wasn't, actually). It seems to be easy to find examples for some of the guns that are smaller by BB but larger by population (especially if you count the reaction envelope as population).

To make a pull request to Catagolue, you should:

1. Sign up or sign in on GitLab
2. Fork the Catagolue repository (https://gitlab.com/apgoucher/catagolue)
3. Commit the changes to the forked repository
4. Make a pull request to the official Catagolue repository