Old screenshot. They used to have basic security features like 2FA behind a paywall. That’s just stupid. But at least they recently changed it, allowing free users to secure their accounts.

Instance admins can appoint new moderators to any community if/when someone wants to take over one of the currently dead ones. That’s why many instances have a community_requests community, where anyone can request mod rights for a community that no longer has an active moderator.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kuin_Esterin_perseestä

One urban legend has it that Esteri was the goddess of rain in pre-Christian Finland, but in fact the name is of Biblical origin. Another folk etymology suggests the phrase derives from Esteri, a brand of water pumps used by fire brigades.

Well, actually I don’t think the <blink> tag works in any modern browser anymore. Just like <marquee>, it was never part of any standard, it was overused back in the day to the point where it became super annoying, not to mention the accessibility nightmare it was. So no, blinking text on websites is not something we should bring back.

And regardless, nowadays HTML should only be used to describe the structure of a page, not how it looks or behaves, and that’s why many of the old tags are deprecated and support slowly dropped. Nowadays different “languages” are used to set how the page should look and operate. Using those it’s ofc possible to make text (or any element on the page) blink, there just isn’t a single HTML tag for it anymore.

Ah, the classic old marquee element. That takes me back to the old internet. I wonder if any of them figured out <blink> yet.

And yeah, the website seems to escape everything properly but maybe in the app or in the eReader device it doesn’t and the HTML renders.

Yeah, me too. It would have been the coolest thing ever as a kid to have some “secret” chat room with code names and all that.

Kinda disappointed tho that there wasn’t some grand ARG or internet mystery to discover xD

The site seemed to fix itself.

Seems some kids are using the reviews as a chat platform and the “Was this helpful to you?” feature as a sort of upvote system. Clever and funny xD

The “glitches” they’re talking about are probably just using html for fancy styling (“Can any please teach me glowing text?”) or maybe even display images (“Picture Glitch”) if the site/app isn’t escaping user input properly. Makes me a little worried about the security of the website tho… I wouldn’t put my personal details into there.

But really, there are way worse things kids could be doing on the internet than exploiting a bookstore website/app to chat with friends. Some might find an interesting book every once in a while or maybe even get interested in how to make actual websites with their “glitches”

Reply on the first book on Kobo Store if you type «S»unney«a»tl«n»notji«d».gjdj
Hint: « »

If you take the letters between « and », you get “Sand”. Typing that into the search field on the site and taking the first result leads to this one: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/sand-10?sId=cc51142f-b5e7-4ba0-91d2-1055fe04382b and it’s comments section has more of the weird comments.

Kinda interesting, I would look more into it if the site weren’t being super slow right now for some reason.

For example, there’s an achievement for using all the colors in the palette and only using one color of the palette. Cannot do both obviously, so you can only get one of those two achievements.

The available achievements can be checked from the source on GitHub.

As a bit of a statistics nerd, this is my favorite thing after the event itself. Thanks for once again compiling the data into an easy to browse format.

Looking at the pixel counts and the pixels placed per hour charts for the top 10 users, it seems most of them had very little sleep over the 48 hours… Gotta admire the dedication.

Achievements are a cool addition, although it hurts my completionist soul that they’re set up in a way where you can never get all of them… As for suggestions, maybe add a page listing all the possible achievements? And taking it one step further, how about global stats showing what percentage of users have each achievement?

It doesn’t matter whether you place 1 pixel every 30 seconds or 6 every 3 minutes. One thing to keep in mind tho is that the 30 second timer seems to reset every time you place a pixel. For example, if you’re at 0 pixels, gain 1, wait 15 seconds, and then place it, you’ll still have to wait another 30 seconds for the next pixel. Meaning you basically lost 15 seconds. So I think the most efficient strategy is to place all 6 pixels as soon as you gain the 6th one.

Probably the fact how I just freaking teleported and somehow I’m still alive

I can highly recommend this one for anyone who’s into the genre

Glad to hear it seems to be more optimized than 99% of modern webapps. Way too many devs nowadays treat bandwidth like it’s unlimited.

Let’s hope everything works smoothly when the event starts ^^

Thanks for the info, I was infact wondering how it works technically. If the cursor position is always snapped to the grid, won’t it make your cursor movement look noticeably choppy to others? Or maybe I’m just imagining it wrong…

That’s amazing! Cannot wait to see it in action. Is it on by default or is it an opt-in?

And I remember cursors.io, it was super fun (before it became overrun by cheaters). I wish someone recreates something with similar concept someday.

I think the whole thing is a bit clickbaity. The only reason it works is that they specifically configured the AI workflow to have access to both the public and the private repositories. The solution? Don’t do that. The only thing GitHub could fix here is disallowing such an obviously unsafe configuration.

Yep, it worked now. Thanks!

I seem to have a problem logging in. The private message with the code from auth@authfediverse.events never arrives. Last year it worked fine using this same account 🤔

Don’t worry about it at all. Nothing against the popufurs but I don’t think they are what make the fandom so freaking good.