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Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: April 29th, 2024, 5:07 pm
by confocaloid
Period1GliderGun wrote: April 29th, 2024, 5:01 pm
Thank you! I will do my best not to submission-spam.
Before submission, consider formatting glider guns according to
conventions of
Dieter and Peter's glider gun collection.
(The gliders should travel to the lower right. The width should be greater than or equal to height. The pattern should be in the last phase before a glider leaves the bounding box.)
The width and height are measured for the bounding-box-across-all-phases-ignoring-output-gliders. An output glider is deleted as soon as (a) it is fully formed and (b) it will never interact with the gun again.
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: May 4th, 2024, 4:54 pm
by Tawal
How to use "Tags" when my comment corresponds to another thread ?
For example, I posted in
Oscillator Discussion Thread for a general comment.
I just edited the title of my post.
The best thing would be to have a link back to the appropriate topic.
Thanks
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: May 16th, 2024, 8:47 pm
by tommyaweosme
tommyaweosme wrote: April 21st, 2024, 9:34 am
i have very, very faded memories of, at the very start of my conways game of life career, someone telling me that they upload ruletables all the time. i guess i kind of hard-coded that into myself without knowing if i was allowed to or not. i guess i never checked the notability rules for ruletables.
breaker's glider gun wrote: January 17th, 2024, 12:07 pm
tommyaweosme wrote: January 16th, 2024, 5:03 pm
But I want to use these rules in the life viewer.
you can either put the rule table after the pattern, like this:
Code: Select all
x = 166, y = 3, rule = RuleName
A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.
B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.
A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B$A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B
2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A
2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B$A2.B2.A2.B2.
A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.
B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B2.
A2.B2.A2.B2.A2.B!
@RULE RuleName
@COLORS
0 0 0 0
1 255 255 255
2 0 100 255
@TABLE
n_states:3
neighborhood:Moore
symmetries:permute
var l0 = {1,2}
var a0 = {0,1,2}
var d0 = {0}
var l1 = l0
var a1 = a0
var d1 = d0
var l2 = l1
var l3 = l1
var l4 = l1
var l5 = l1
var l6 = l1
var l7 = l1
var l8 = l1
var l9 = l1
var a2 = a1
var a3 = a1
var a4 = a1
var a5 = a1
var a6 = a1
var a7 = a1
var a8 = a1
var a9 = a1
var d2 = d1
var d3 = d1
var d4 = d1
var d5 = d1
var d6 = d1
var d7 = d1
var d8 = d1
var d9 = d1
var b1 = {0,2}
var b2 = b1
var b3 = b1
var b4 = b1
var b5 = b1
0, l1,l1,l3,d4,d5,d6,d7,d8, l1
0, 1, 1, 1,l4,l5,d6,d7,d8, 2
0, 2, 2, 2,l4,l5,d6,d7,d8, 1
1, a1,d2,d3,d4,d5,d6,d7,d8, 0
1, l1,l2,l3,l4,a5,a6,a7,a8, 0
2, a1,d2,d3,d4,d5,d6,d7,d8, 0
2, l1,l2,l3,l4,a5,a6,a7,a8, 0
or make the lifewiki page Rule:RuleName.
I hope this helped! I have so much fun making (absolutely useless) rules, it would be a shame if another person couldn't use theirs!
there it is
i found the memory
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: May 18th, 2024, 5:50 pm
by DroneBetter
dvgrn wrote: April 29th, 2024, 4:28 pm
Either this thread or the "Basic questions" thread seems like a reasonable choice -- Catagolue isn't really the conwaylife.com website, but it's linked to in the header anyway!
(there is no Catagolue support thread, and this seems more right than the one for questions about Life as a CA)
since its
first revision, the
Period-7 sparkers page has described
37P7.1 as being "used in the smallest period-126 glider gun" with a Catagolue link, but the
gun_126 to which it links does not currently use it, is there any means by which one might find the history of a specific gun period's successive reductions without trawling through the Gitlab jobs so that the version that was smallest on December 29, 2021 can be linked to as an xp0 instead?
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: May 19th, 2024, 3:17 am
by confocaloid
DroneBetter wrote: May 18th, 2024, 5:50 pm
[...] is there any means by which one might find the history of a specific gun period's successive reductions without trawling through the Gitlab jobs [...] ?
Some combination of the following may help:
o Wiki edit history (when the claim was added?)
o Catagolue census backups (which are automatic for b3s23 AFAIK)
o Binary search over Catagolue job logs, once you know the time
o Forum search over gun-related threads, where many former/current record holders are posted
I'm not on Discord, hence I have no idea whether there are relevant places to look through there.
DroneBetter wrote: May 18th, 2024, 5:50 pm
[...] so that the version that was smallest on December 29, 2021 can be linked to as an xp0 instead?
"xp0" links are undocumented/nonstandard, and should be avoided. A better way of giving some specific pattern is to provide the RLE of that pattern. On a wiki page, it is possible to show a pattern in an embedded viewer, with a specific orientation, in a specific phase, with a caption/brief explanation, and with a footnote linking to the source/place to read more.
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: May 24th, 2024, 3:54 am
by b-engine
(Not sure where to put, mods can move the post somewhere else)
The name seems unchangeable. Is there any way to change name?
- The text below "Current password" seems to say that you can change username, but actually not
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Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: May 24th, 2024, 10:56 am
by tommyaweosme
i would suggest obscuring the whole box. i know what your email's length is now
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: May 28th, 2024, 6:29 pm
by tommyaweosme
a demo for a new wiki layout
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Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: May 29th, 2024, 7:26 am
by Haycat2009
How do I manually upload hauls to catagolue B3/S2?
Witness my object downpour! MUAHAHA!
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 2nd, 2024, 1:39 am
by confocaloid
How would one deal with a forum member claiming
dvgrn wrote: May 25th, 2024, 8:41 am[...]
Let's see what other people think, eh?
EDIT after confocaloid's post below: Let's see what
other people think, eh?
... but then continuing to post several days later:
dvgrn wrote: June 1st, 2024, 4:57 pm
[...] I've waited a week and asked for objections from other people, [...]
When done repeately, that essentially prevents any constructive feedback from other people. If one looks for more feedback, the discussion should remain open for other people to read, understand and contribute (whenever they choose to do so).
The question is in the first line.
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 2nd, 2024, 4:00 am
by rowett
confocaloid wrote: June 2nd, 2024, 1:39 am
How would one deal with a forum member claiming
I don’t see an issue. Seems like the right approach to request further input on a topic (especially if there are only two people involved).
Giving a time period for feedback is also standard practice and I don’t agree with your assertion that this prevents constructive feedback from further people. The topic is persistent so people can chime in at any time in the future if they wish.
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 8th, 2024, 5:57 am
by confocaloid
rowett wrote: June 2nd, 2024, 4:00 am
Partial crosspost from another forum thread:
confocaloid wrote: June 8th, 2024, 5:48 am
dvgrn wrote: June 3rd, 2024, 7:30 am[...]
EDIT 6/6/2024: The appeal process has reached
step 6 of
LW:DR now. H. H. P. M. P. Cole has checked with another moderator (rowett) about overturning the existing executive decision; rowett agrees with the existing executive decision.
[...]
That's incorrect. You are linking to
your own post, where you claimed (in an edit) something.
As far as I know, rowett didn't [yet] themselves post their current opinion on the issue. Until and unless they choose to publicly communicate their current opinion on the matter, I believe it's incorrect and misleading to claim that they "gave a second moderator opinion". They didn't.
[...]
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 8th, 2024, 6:17 am
by rowett
confocaloid wrote: June 8th, 2024, 5:57 am
dvgrn wrote: June 3rd, 2024, 7:30 am[...]
EDIT 6/6/2024: The appeal process has reached
step 6 of
LW:DR now. H. H. P. M. P. Cole has checked with another moderator (rowett) about overturning the existing executive decision; rowett agrees with the existing executive decision.
[...]
This is correct. I support the existing executive decision.
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 18th, 2024, 7:53 pm
by rattlesnake
Who chooses the featured article for each week?
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 19th, 2024, 2:18 am
by unname4798
rattlesnake wrote: June 18th, 2024, 7:53 pm
Who chooses the featured article for each week?
Template:FeaturedArticle. This template displays the current week's featured article (which is usually located on the
Main Page). It cycles through 52 pre-selected articles and displays a
snippet of the one that corresponds to the current week. What follows is the current featured article's snippet.
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 21st, 2024, 5:56 am
by confocaloid
I suggest to pin the thread
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5730 in its subforum.
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 22nd, 2024, 3:58 am
by Banananananan
On the forum pages, what is the difference between a circle with a list thing, and one with a fire logo
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 22nd, 2024, 4:56 am
by confocaloid
Banananananan wrote: June 22nd, 2024, 3:58 am
On the forum pages, what is the difference between a circle with a list thing, and one with a fire logo
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: July 6th, 2024, 3:21 pm
by confocaloid
https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?targ ... tributions
I believe
the recent large-scale hyperlinking campaign by User:Dvgrn violates
LifeWiki:Dispute resolution, by pushing changes (adding links to their preferred page) without consensus for those changes, by ignoring existing disagreement with those changes, and by failing to attempt to understand legitimate objections of others / avoiding meaningful discussion of the matter.
The website-related questions are why someone with technical capability "moderator" fails to respect the ground rules that are supposed to apply to everyone in the local community on this website, and acts in ways that are ultimately detrimental to the local community on this website.
Context for the above:
confocaloid wrote: June 9th, 2024, 5:12 am
dvgrn wrote: June 8th, 2024, 11:00 am
I've already addressed confocaloid's various complaints above, to the best of my ability, in previous posts. [...]
I disagree. I believe many issues relevant to the topic remain unaddressed.
LifeWiki is different from the forums (different purpose, different content, different target audience). Some relevant issues are consequences of that. Those issues remain unaddressed.
The Life/CA community is larger than just active people on the ConwayLife.com website. People are exploring and discussing CA outside this website. It is counterproductive to reject relevant knowledge merely because it happened to be shared outside these forums. These issues remain unaddressed.
For supporting something said in the wiki, two or three external CA-related sources that discuss the relevant concepts can easily suffice, beating dozens of forum posts with chitchat conversations and vague counterintuitive wording.
As I already wrote, there is currently no observable consensus regarding the changes that you're pushing to the LifeWiki with your recent edits, and there is existing evidence of disagreement with those your changes.
[...]
confocaloid wrote: June 8th, 2024, 5:48 am
[...]
dvgrn wrote: June 8th, 2024, 2:41 am[...]
Meanwhile, I've experimentally posted a version of the "green writeup" at
Transition (rule definition). This is intended to be the specific definition of "transition", in the sense of "an elementary component of a rulestring or ruletable", that is in current use on a couple dozen LifeWiki pages.
[...]
-- I experimentally linked just the first instance of "transition" in each article to the new "Transition (rule definition)" page (except one, where a link wasn't appropriate). [...]
There is currently no observable consensus for linking those occurrences of the word 'transition' to your proposed "green writeup", among those people who posted something about your "green writeup" specifically.
There is currently also no observable consensus that would support your claim that "an elementary component of a rulestring or ruletable" correctly reflects the intended meaning behind those occurrences of the word 'transition', among people who posted something on this so far.
Further, there is existing evidence of disagreement with your idea to add those links to your "green writeup":
viewtopic.php?p=186665#p186665
viewtopic.php?p=186668#p186668
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: August 1st, 2024, 11:54 pm
by Citation needed
What is the default "generations per second" on LifeViewer or Golly?
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: August 2nd, 2024, 3:11 am
by b-engine
Citation needed wrote: August 1st, 2024, 11:54 pm
What is the default "generations per second" on LifeViewer or Golly?
The default is either 60 or the FPS of your device.
By the way, this isn't related to conwaylife.com.
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: September 5th, 2024, 11:54 pm
by Citation needed
Is it possible to change the number of posts on a forum page, as can be done on LifeWiki?
I'm trying to allow downloading a whole thread as one HTML page.
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: September 6th, 2024, 7:57 am
by dvgrn
Citation needed wrote: September 5th, 2024, 11:54 pm
Is it possible to change the number of posts on a forum page, as can be done on LifeWiki?
I'm trying to allow downloading a whole thread as one HTML page.
There might be a setting somewhere that I can't see, but I'm not turning up anything that could be set by just one user -- a posts-per-page setting would probably affect everybody.
Here's a sample of some
related discussion (of a Norwegian forum that people tended to use as if it was a "massive WhatsApp group"... heh, with some people getting into the unhealthy habit of competing to see who could get the highest post count, which is definitely something that is strongly discouraged around here.)
The various "scraper scripts" posted
here contain pretty much all the code needed to produce an HTML page given a thread number. Send me a PM if you need help with adapting some of that code.
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: September 8th, 2024, 12:23 am
by Citation needed
dvgrn wrote: September 6th, 2024, 7:57 am
Citation needed wrote: September 5th, 2024, 11:54 pm
Is it possible to change the number of posts on a forum page, as can be done on LifeWiki?
I'm trying to allow downloading a whole thread as one HTML page.
It's like this, but it's on the forum, and it should allow an arbitrarily large number if possible.
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: September 8th, 2024, 2:30 am
by dvgrn
I understand your request, but I haven't found any evidence that phpBB forum software has a setting along those lines -- especially not one that individual users can set without affecting other users.
There apparently used to be a
customization out there that might have allowed a system-wide change, but I kind of doubt that Nathaniel would be interested in tinkering with something like that, given that there's a perfectly good workaround that doesn't mess anything up for other users.
As I mentioned above, if what you really want is just to export all HTML for a thread, then it's quite easy to write -- for example -- a Golly Python script that takes a thread number as input and copies the HTML for that thread to the clipboard. Not that it would really need Golly, of course; a Golly-independent script would work just as well.