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Yup -- even if there's some secret URL param like "postsperpage=X", I kind of doubt there's going to be a "postsperpage=infinite".hotdogPi wrote: September 8th, 2024, 7:40 am I'm on another forum where the options are 5, 10, 25, and 50, and they can be set per user. The forum default is 25. However, it uses SMF, which this forum does not.
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# get-all-posts-in-thread.py
# Version 1: initial working Python3 version
import golly as g
from urllib.request import urlopen
threadnum = g.getstring("Enter thread number: ","2817")
url = "https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=" + threadnum + "&start="
startval = 0
count = 0
flag = 0
s = ""
while flag != -1:
page = url + str(startval)
g.show("Retrieving data for startval = " + str(startval))
startval+=25
try:
resp = urlopen(page)
html = resp.read().decode()
#############################################################
# add some parsing code here to append only the relevant part
# of each chunk of html, skipping headers and footers
s += html
#############################################################
except:
g.note("Got an error on startval=" + str(startval))
g.exit()
# continue until there's no right-arrow icon at bottom of page
flag = html.find("icon fa-" + "chevron-right") # break search string in code, so that threads containing this script can still be exported!
g.show("Done. Result copied to clipboard. Retrieved " + str(startval//25) + " pages.")
g.setclipstr(s)The logs say the posts in question have all been deleted, after some further investigation by Sokwe.Citation needed wrote: November 7th, 2024, 9:35 pm Are the recent posts deleted or are they just hidden?
Some more specifics would be good here. Is this an apparent IP block on the forums, or on the LifeWiki? Is the problem still continuing?Haycat2009 wrote: November 11th, 2024, 10:51 pm Help: I think that I have been IP blocked by mistake. Can someone help me fix it please? My account is not hacked, there have been no instances of poor behaviour recently on my side and my username is acceptable as far as I know.
Resizing pictures inherently alters them, something that some users might find undesirable. I personally think it's better for the user to adjust their own avatar to fit the constraints of the forums, rather than have the forums modify the avatar. I've never tried to use an avatar myself, so I'm not exactly sure how it works.get_Snacked wrote: November 13th, 2024, 7:35 pm all one has to do as a website manager is just resize the picture to not be too big if it has too many pixels.
It was on the Lifewiki, but the problem no longer continues - it was a few days ago though.dvgrn wrote: November 13th, 2024, 10:38 amSome more specifics would be good here. Is this an apparent IP block on the forums, or on the LifeWiki? Is the problem still continuing?Haycat2009 wrote: November 11th, 2024, 10:51 pm Help: I think that I have been IP blocked by mistake. Can someone help me fix it please? My account is not hacked, there have been no instances of poor behaviour recently on my side and my username is acceptable as far as I know.
You need to create a page in the MediaWiki namespace "Category:" (i.e. Category:Guns with period 35).WhiteHawk wrote: December 5th, 2024, 2:16 pm While updating the Wiki to reflect the discovery of the period-35 glider gun, I found that I couldn't figure out how to properly format the Guns with period 35 page to properly group with the other gun periods on the page below.
Category:Guns with specific period
How do I properly format the page to correctly group the categories together?
The infobox viewer should be hidden in that case entirely, and the pattern should instead be shown in an embedded viewer within the body.WhiteHawk wrote: December 5th, 2024, 5:07 pm Thanks Confocaloid.
Somewhat related, but why is the lifeviewer window for the original p47 glider gun so large? It's really distracting and should probably be changed.
Period-47 glider gun
I generally post OCA Investigator rules in the same thread as LifeInvestigator (Extended Life Extensions).
I think it makes sense to have such a thread, and I started it because I could not find an existing match.
confocaloid wrote: December 21st, 2024, 11:18 pm This is a forum thread for discussing stuff found in "Investigator" versions of two-state cellular automata, including both StateInvestigator and <OCA>Investigator.
- viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4009 "Extended Life Extensions" is related-but-different, both because that thread is focused on StateInvestigator, and because that thread also contains some discussion of other ways to "extend" Conway's Life.
- viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6142 "[Rule]Investigator support in Golly" is about the built-in support in Golly 4.3 for the family.
- viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6000 "[R]Investigator rule generator" gives scripts to generate .rule files, e.g. for older versions of Golly without built-in support.
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The simplest way (especially for "one-time" or "demo" patterns) is to append the content of the .rule file after the RLE, like this:
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x = 8, y = 6, rule = Demo
.2A$2A$.A$6.2B$5.2B$6.B!
@RULE Demo
@TABLE
n_states:3
neighborhood:Moore
symmetries:permute
# ...
# ...
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x = 8, y = 6, rule = Symbiosis
.2A$2A$.A$6.2B$5.2B$6.B!
A username change isn't something that you can do yourself.
I guess it makes sense to state the obvious: just sending a PM from the new account doesn't prove that the owner of the account is the same person. That would open the vulnerability where someone claims that they are a new account of some other currently-inactive user, and takes ownership of posts by someone else. There needs to be additional confirmation from the old account.dvgrn wrote: January 17th, 2025, 9:02 am [...] If you send me a PM from the new account, something that I _do_ know how to do is to change the ownership of the sixteen existing posts from "TBPO" to the new account (if that's what you want to happen).
Heh, yes, I did mentally review that. In practice it's probably safe to assume that I will exercise basic common sense and check that things like IP addresses match. But again, this is a very special case -- I'm not volunteering to make a habit of doing this, or to do post reparenting for any account with more than about 2^4 posts.confocaloid wrote: January 17th, 2025, 9:11 am I guess it makes sense to state the obvious: just sending a PM from the new account doesn't prove that the owner of the account is the same person. That would open the vulnerability where someone claims that they are a new account of some other currently-inactive user, and takes ownership of posts by someone else. There needs to be additional confirmation from the old account.
Therefore, could a user with almost 2400 posts change his username? Maybe not. If could, I request change my username to T6970.dvgrn wrote: January 17th, 2025, 9:02 am I used to think that it required permissions that only the site admin had, but Sokwe (a moderator) seems to have permissions to do it now. I haven't looked into learning how to actually do a username change yet -- partly because the forums are only "reluctantly moderated", and partly because it can be fairly confusing and messy when long-established users change their names. It's something that ideally should happen only rarely and when there's a really good reason.
Heh, the method I used for PiSpaceships won't work -- I changed each of the sixteen posts to a new owner, one at a time -- didn't have to rename the account. I'm not sure exactly how that's done.b-engine wrote: January 20th, 2025, 10:41 pmTherefore, could a user with almost 2400 posts change his username? Maybe not. If could, I request change my username to T6970.