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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: jr2 on October 10, 2020, 01:36:42 pm

Title: Alright, who pissed off @jack Dorsey
Post by: jr2 on October 10, 2020, 01:36:42 pm
1) Go to Twitter DMs
2) Try to send someone HLP's site URL www.hard-light.net/forums
3)  :confused: :wtf:

EDIT: Oh yeah, it will keep doing that, until it works perfectly just as soon as you break the URL, so no, Twitter isn't "over capacity", that's a straight-up lie.
Title: Re: Alright, who pissed off @jack Dorcy?
Post by: mjn.mixael on October 10, 2020, 01:40:45 pm
It's a Deep State, Fake News conspiracy against space sims.
Title: Re: Alright, who pissed off @jack Dorcy?
Post by: jr2 on October 10, 2020, 01:42:27 pm
It's a Deep State, Fake News conspiracy against space sims.

Nah, Dorcy's just mad cause he never had a flight stick or controller and his mousepad wasn't big enough to compete.
Title: Re: Alright, who pissed off @jack Dorcy?
Post by: Nightmare on October 10, 2020, 04:06:26 pm
What is a Jack Dorcy and what is some dude from Botswana having to do with HLP? :confused: :wtf:
Title: Re: Alright, who pissed off @jack Dorcy?
Post by: jr2 on October 10, 2020, 08:23:40 pm
What is a Jack Dorcy and what is some dude from Botswana having to do with HLP? :confused: :wtf:

Someone explain the Botswana bit, I don't get that if it's a joke.
Title: Re: Alright, who pissed off @jack Dorcy?
Post by: X3N0-Life-Form on October 11, 2020, 03:28:52 am
Someone explain this entire thread, I don't know if it's a joke either.
Title: Re: Alright, who pissed off @jack Dorcy?
Post by: Nightmare on October 11, 2020, 07:43:24 am
What is a Jack Dorcy and what is some dude from Botswana having to do with HLP? :confused: :wtf:

Someone explain the Botswana bit, I don't get that if it's a joke.

https://twitter.com/jack_Dorcy

It wasn't meant as a joke. I don't get why some dude from Africa who posted 3 times in 2018 is relevant to HLP. :confused:
Title: Re: Alright, who pissed off @jack Dorcy?
Post by: Strygon on October 11, 2020, 07:59:26 am
Probably a misspelling. Jack Dorsey is the CEO of Twitter, with his tag being @jack.
Title: Re: Alright, who pissed off @jack Dorcy?
Post by: Nightmare on October 11, 2020, 09:10:59 am
Ah ok my bad.

Just look at all the fox I give about Twitter:
Title: Re: Alright, who pissed off @jack Dorcy?
Post by: Strygon on October 11, 2020, 09:20:44 am
I only use twitter to post my art every.... 6-7 months, when I actually remember my login again  :P
Title: Re: Alright, who pissed off @jack Dorcy?
Post by: jr2 on October 11, 2020, 03:04:29 pm
Probably a misspelling. Jack Dorsey is the CEO of Twitter, with his tag being @jack.

Exactly so.  I should have searched to be sure.  Basically just wondering why t.f. HLP is on a blacklist, or why Twitter uses a whitelist, for URLs in Twitter DMs.

EDIT: fixed title
Title: Re: Alright, who pissed off @jack Dorsey
Post by: The E on October 12, 2020, 05:56:57 am
You know what I think is more likely? That a) Twitter's code isn't particularly good and b) whatever was going wrong for you has since been fixed. At least on my end, I can send DMs containing the string "www.hard-light.net/forums" without issue.

(This reminds me of that time when people were screaming about shadowbanning on twitter when what was actually happening was some replication server falling out of sync....)
Title: Re: Alright, who pissed off @jack Dorsey
Post by: jr2 on October 12, 2020, 07:13:10 pm
You know what I think is more likely? That a) Twitter's code isn't particularly good and b) whatever was going wrong for you has since been fixed. At least on my end, I can send DMs containing the string "www.hard-light.net/forums" without issue.

(This reminds me of that time when people were screaming about shadowbanning on twitter when what was actually happening was some replication server falling out of sync....)

I just checked, and yeah, it works now.  WTF kind of bug doesn't allow you to send a message containing a URL and instead spits out a message saying Twitter is "over capacity" but send the same text in non-URL format just fine?   Maybe someone forgot to give Cthulhu his offering that day.