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Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by dljsjr »

ep103 wrote: post #36
Steltek wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(I feel like we jumped topics from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28597895 ) JIRA's Search is far worse than the regular JIRA hotkeys. The Enter key will incorrectly tab-complete JQL just before executing the search. Meanwhile, the Tab key doesn't tab-complete and instead focuses the Search button (which lets you execute the uncorrupted JQL). You have to actively train yourself out of how everything else works…

Above a certain level of complexity, Jira is the best work tracking and managing solution I've worked with. Its curse, is its developed by Atlassian. A company that was capable of buying Stash, and, somehow, somewhat, turned that codebase into what we now know as bitbucket.

Other way around. They made Stash in house, they bought BitBucket, and rebranded Stash as BitBucket Server. The BB acquisition happened before Stash was released but Stash was not an acquisition.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by kps »

drcongo wrote: post #28
smcl wrote: post #22

These hotkeys in websites are an utter curse. So many times I've started typing in Jira, then something weird happened that caused my keystrokes to be interpreted by the page instead of entered into a comment box ... then the ticket gets reopened, unassigned, etc.

And most of them don't check to see if the user is also holding down a modifier key, thereby overriding your system keyboard shortcuts. Yes. I _am_ looking at you Google Spreadsheets.

Firefox used to not send those to the site js; I think that broke with the Quantum update. Just one of its thousand cuts.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by nerdponx »

smcl wrote: post #22

These hotkeys in websites are an utter curse. So many times I've started typing in Jira, then something weird happened that caused my keystrokes to be interpreted by the page instead of entered into a comment box ... then the ticket gets reopened, unassigned, etc.

Github has (or maybe had) some hotkey that not only opens a clunky browser-based text editor, but also forks the repo under your account. Then you have to go back and manually delete the repo that you didn't intend to fork. Ugh!

Also a lot of web-based code editors override the standard Ctrl/Cmd-L shortcut ("go to URL bar") to mean "go to line". It's nice having IDE-like affordances, I guess, but not when it interferes with the basic functionality of the browser.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by formerly_proven »

dbatten wrote: post #33

True story: One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. I was trying to log back in from the Windows lock screen. Typed my password, got it wrong. Typed it again, got it wrong. Eventually got locked out of my account, despite being extremely careful to type my password correctly. Went to IT and had them unlock my account... Went back to my PC and tried to log in again. Typed my password very carefully, letter…

Windows 10 has this funny bug where sometimes for some reason your individual windows don't get focus any more. You can click at their title bar, and they'll be drawn as-if they have focus (darker shadow and foreground titlebar), but no window actually accepts or processes any user input (while updating normally in the background, and also redrawing). The only way I know how to fix this is to go into the Ctrl+Alt+Delete screen; just bringing up task manager doesn't change anything.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by atatatat »

bitwize wrote: post #20
Mashimo wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

last post: > so I think I should make it clear that when I say "I love tumblr" I mean I love the userbase, at least most of it (obviously not the cyberbullying people with death threats part), and not the staff. the staff have no idea what they're doing and are only making the site worse He/she loves Tumblr :)

Foone is a they.

"is a" or "goes by"?

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by sixothree »

dbatten wrote: post #33

True story: One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. I was trying to log back in from the Windows lock screen. Typed my password, got it wrong. Typed it again, got it wrong. Eventually got locked out of my account, despite being extremely careful to type my password correctly. Went to IT and had them unlock my account... Went back to my PC and tried to log in again. Typed my password very carefully, letter…

My first thought would be one of those mouse sharing programs (synergy, multipliciy, mouse without borders). They really screw up _everything_.

Nothing sucks like mouse without borders. Nothing. Except for Synergy which is worse. But nothing sucks like synergy. Well except Multiplicity.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by throwaway889900 »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #47
alfonsodev wrote: post #9

> So you are typing "Don't" and the ResetCursorPosition() function gets called and you look at the textbox and now it says "on'tD" I had this bug trying to implement a text editor using Draft.js but not sure it was for the same reason. I guess tumblr devs tried to implement a text editor and at the same time have some vim like shortcuts(jkl). This makes you appreciate how less can be more.

Why not just let a text area do its job? Why do you need a special "text editor"?

How else are you going to give your front end devs work to do?

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by JasonFruit »

bitwize wrote: post #20
Mashimo wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

last post: > so I think I should make it clear that when I say "I love tumblr" I mean I love the userbase, at least most of it (obviously not the cyberbullying people with death threats part), and not the staff. the staff have no idea what they're doing and are only making the site worse He/she loves Tumblr :)

Foone is a they.

This sounds wrong too. Maybe, "Foone is they"? You don't want to misnumber them, though; maybe "Foone _are_ they"? That makes them sound epic, though: Foone are legion! Changing language is hard, whether done organically or initiated intentionally and for a purpose.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by evanelias »

pjc50 wrote: post #37
nowherebeen wrote: post #13

I still can’t believe it was sold for $1 billion.

There were a huge number of users. It was only after it sold that Yahoo realised how many of them were using it for porn, which in retrospect should have been obvious: it's an image hosting site.

No, the percentage of porn content was actually relatively small at the time of the sale. Low to mid single digits if my memory is correct.

During Tumblr's peak heyday (~9 months before the sale iirc), Tumblr's daily posting volume was around 1/5th the size of Twitter's at the time. Keeping in mind that Tumblr had no character limit and much greater multimedia support, the amount of content being posted on Tumblr was quite significant.

It was a widely-used general-purpose social network / social publishing platform. Most major brands had a presence on Tumblr, and for a while it was extremely common to see a Tumblr icon on their sites right next to Facebook and Twitter icons.

From my POV as an early engineer there, what went wrong was poor execution in response to many simultaneous existential threats:

* Instagram succeeded at peeling off all the "just want to post photos on mobile" users, and also became the hit new thing with the teenage users

* Pinterest succeeded at peeling off all the "just want to digital scrapbook" users

* Although the porn percentage was relatively low at the time, it still scared advertisers

* Difficulty fundraising / running low on money at particularly bad timing. Facebook's stock performed poorly for its first 15 months post-IPO, and this temporarily made fundraising difficult for existing social platforms... especially when growth was relatively flat (due to the first two bullets) and revenue was disappointing (due to third bullet).

* Ever-growing tech debt. The early team was extremely solid, but very small relative to the amount of traffic, so we often had to creatively cut some corners. Later on, management didn't want to allocate staffing to fix existing things, and a lot of time was wasted on unrealistic big-bang rewrites that were abandoned. Meanwhile the hiring bar kept being lowered over time once the company was no longer a rocket ship.

I left just before the Yahoo sale, as working at Tumblr had gone from my dream job to a stagnant grind during my tenure there. I later returned for another year in the late-stage Yahoo into early Verizon days, with idealistic hopes of helping to prevent a Vine-like fate, but let's just say that was a poor personal decision and leave it at that :)

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