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plex server to replace streaming services?
by orchids in general on nov 8, 2023
so i finally got a plex server set up on a tiny little VPS, which is something i've been meaning to do for a long time. to start, I only bought a $5/month server, which has 25GB of storage (obviously going to need to bump it up soon enough).
does anyone ...
Cooking hacks/Advice
by orchids in food, drink, fitness on nov 8, 2023
quoting milk:
I love cast iron, it does take a lil bit of extra effort to manage (sometimes more than I have on a work night)
my favorite thing about cast iron is people online who genuinely think you're not supposed ...
open request: contribute to the site logo
by orchids in community feedback on nov 8, 2023
quoting stonehead:
I tried
in the rotation now!
starting a completely blind playthrough of ffvii !!
by orchids in video games on oct 31, 2023
finally got around to finishing my ffvii post: https://basementcommunity.bearblog.dev/summers-playing-final-fantasy-7/
share your (blog) post
by orchids in the library on oct 30, 2023
<quoting=Eternity postID=1622 threadID=147> Haven't shared a post here in a while and I worked really hard on this one:
It's about an old acquaintance of mine, but also a touchy term that ...
wow thank you for allowing me to post here, lowtax would never let me post
by orchids in general on oct 28, 2023
how'd you get him so thick?
What I want from the internet - Artcile
by orchids in general on oct 18, 2023
<quoting=NovaVeles postID=991 threadID=148> Just came across this article about how we need to make the internet large again, not just 6 sites that we are locked into. I think this forum is a good example of this idea in action.
starting a completely blind playthrough of ffvii !!
by orchids in video games on oct 18, 2023
quoting forks:
i gotta say that this session had a lot more moments where i was just confused about where to go or what to do than literally any other point thus far.
agreed. i think i used a guide the first time ...
open request: contribute to the site logo
by orchids in community feedback on oct 18, 2023
quoting stonehead:
I tried
i love this so much. i'm traveling until november 1st, so i most likely won't get to adding this for a couple weeks but it ...
what are the "total_votes" and "rating" properties in the API?
by orchids in community feedback on oct 11, 2023
quoting starbreaker:
Might be a good idea to take these features out if you're not going to implement them.
definitely one of the many items on the to-do list, along with getting rid of the thread icon requirement ...
what are the "total_votes" and "rating" properties in the API?
by orchids in community feedback on oct 10, 2023
it's an idea that isn't quiiiiiiite fleshed out yet. currently you can "vote" on a thread with a score from 1-5 in the API, however as of right now, any user can vote any number of times. Until that part is finished, it won't make its way into the website ...
hi!!!
by orchids in welcomes on oct 10, 2023
hey welcome to the forum. comfy is the vibe we're going for!!
Video Games & Time
by orchids in video games on oct 9, 2023
quoting Eternity:
EDIT: Many games don't have to be as long as they are nowadays, the industry wants eternal, zombie-money cows.
this is a hill i always die on. some of my favorite games are short ones that explore their ...
share your (blog) post
by orchids in the library on oct 7, 2023
<quoting=stonehead postID=1571 threadID=147> Good article, with good advice. I wrote my first blog post partly as a response. (I added backlinks to you and Eden, don't worry) </quoting ...
starting a completely blind playthrough of ffvii !!
by orchids in video games on oct 5, 2023
the train graveyard is my least favorite part of midgar - it's all up from there IMO.
and yeah shinra is what makes this story so good imo. ffvii was really unique in this way. all the other FF games were pretty far removed from reality, with a large ...
RSS
by orchids in community feedback on oct 4, 2023
quoting Devastatia:
The quotes look very nice in my reader now though! They look like quotes in an e-mail. I styled <blockquote>
the same way on my site.
that's actually surprising. can you post a pic of what ...
JavaScript-powered webrings
by orchids in general on oct 3, 2023
i tried to join some webrings that were powered by JS, but i ended up deciding against it because a lot of the time, they were poorly written scripts, and would error out if it couldn't find the element on the page instead of silently failing, so they ...
report bugs here!!
by orchids in technical feedback on oct 3, 2023
quoting Devastatia:
Posts with multiple quotes are breaking. See post #1516.
i think that's just because you closed the quote with <quote />
instead of <quoting />
RSS
by orchids in community feedback on oct 3, 2023
<quoting=starbreaker postID=1512 threadID=139> Maybe replace <quoting> with <blockquote> as part of your conversion to standard HTML?
Also, I'd suggest testing the resulting feed by running it through the W3C RSS/Atom validator at https://validator.w3 ...
RSS
by orchids in community feedback on oct 3, 2023
<quoting=Devastatia postID=1509 threadID=139> I'm also seeing unconverted Markdown in my reader. I'm not sure if the expectation is that the reader will understand Markdown, but mine is an older reader that's no longer being maintained, so that's not ...
RSS
by orchids in community feedback on oct 3, 2023
<quoting=Devastatia postID=1506 threadID=139> I like how the "whole site" RSS feed only downloads the last 24 hours of posts when you subscribe. I was expecting literally the whole site to come flooding in. LOL
Can you append usernames to the posts so ...
starting a completely blind playthrough of ffvii !!
by orchids in video games on oct 3, 2023
idk what kind of controller you're playing on, but if you hit SELECT, the game will show you markers for places you can enter, which makes it a little easier to see where you're going.
also, did you talk to the sick man and have aeris say "this man are ...
CHANGELOG
by orchids in technical feedback on oct 3, 2023
anotha one. gotta few quick updates this time, mostly some quality-of-life features to make it easier to read the forums. let's go:
adds code snytax highlighting! typically, this is a pretty beefy feature that sometimes requires ...
is this thing on?
by orchids in welcomes on oct 2, 2023
<quoting=Devastatia postID=1493 threadID=190> Without all of the Markdown stuff added by the forum, I mean.
@orchids:
Here's how I solved this in my parser. I match all of the <code>
tagsets, generate a hash key for each code block, stash the blocks ...