NEW FEATURE: #HashTags - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 04:57:56 am
content: I installed a new #hashtags #modShould be self explanatory

author: 2N3055
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 08:22:53 am
content: LOL,it is triggering on parts of C code in posts ( #ifdef ... #else ... #endif ). I guess it should, it is a hashtag

author: StillTrying
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 09:19:11 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on June 03, 2019, 04:57:56 amIt's not to me!

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 10:04:01 am
content: Quote from: StillTrying on June 03, 2019, 09:19:11 amYou are not alone.

author: wilfred
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 10:15:29 am
content: Or me. #IsDaveBored

author: wilfred
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 10:17:05 am
content: #ifdef DaveisBoredAdd forum features#endif#IsDaveBored

author: wilfred
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 10:18:22 am
content: Ah! #WinnerWinnerChickenDinner

author: wilfred
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 10:22:27 am
content: 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.

author: StillTrying
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 10:25:53 am
content: I think Dave is trying to make EEVblog into a cross between Twitter and Facebook.

author: rsjsouza
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 10:45:05 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on June 03, 2019, 10:22:27 amDepending 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.

author: bitwelder
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 11:35:24 am
content: 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?

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 11:54:27 am
content: #Cant #wait #for #noobs #opening #threads #like #itsir #ownEdited multiple times... apparently it crashes while parsing the post? i actually wroteCant wait for noobs opening threads like its their own personal social media page and adding shitloads of useless hashtags oh cool the popup menu

author: FrankBuss
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 11:55:07 am
content: Should it clickable? Doesn't do anything for me. The first message from Dave looks like this for me in the HTML source:Quote

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 12:01:25 pm
content: So now posts will become contaminated with # and be hard to read like on Twitter.

author: Muttley Snickers
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 12:36:07 pm
content: Quote from: Brumby on June 03, 2019, 10:04:01 amI have no clue either but I just noticed that the hash-tagged text appears differently when viewed as a guest, or when logged out. #

author: FrankBuss
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 12:39:35 pm
content: Right, doesn't work when I'm logged in.

author: StillTrying
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 01:11:03 pm
content: 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.

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 01:14:44 pm
content: #weneverneededthis

author: SparkyFX
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 02:00:10 pm
content: 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.

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 07:23:25 pm
content: Quote from: 2N3055 on June 03, 2019, 08:22:53 amDoes it do it in code tags:Code:#ifdef test#define testyeah

author: sokoloff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 07:31:20 pm
content: Quote from: rsjsouza on June 03, 2019, 10:45:05 amThose 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).

author: KaneTW
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 07:34:47 pm
content: Tags are sometimes useful, but I prefer the "list of tags on top of a thread" variant rather than hashtags. Hashtags are just #visualnoise.

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 07:38:35 pm
content: Quote from: sokoloff on June 03, 2019, 07:31:20 pm#brokencrapAlmost fun.

author: KaneTW
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 07:43:09 pm
content: Hmm.#brokenｃrapYeah, it's pretty bad. Looks like it just regexes on #[a-zA_Z]+.

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 04, 2019, 02:14:47 am
content: Oh, OK....Doesn't work for me in Chrome or Firefox when signed in. Only works when signed out.

author: lwatts666
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 04, 2019, 02:31:43 am
content: So, we rename EEVblog to FacebEEk, a platform on which you twEEt...

author: Berni
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 04, 2019, 05:14:38 am
content: 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)

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 04, 2019, 01:47:17 pm
content: Is it changing anchors in urls?https://www.google.com/search?q=images#bottomnope, at least it gets this righta #testsuper#script#tableheaderso yes teletype but no superscript or inside tables... not cool.

author: Nominal Animal
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 18, 2019, 06:34:37 pm
content: 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 #ImBeggingSeriously, this is a bad feature.