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by Nathaniel
March 25th, 2024, 9:50 pm
Forum: Scripts
Topic: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
Replies: 29
Views: 442

Re: safeopenclip.lua usability issues

Yep, I think that should work. (Is that how links to patterns/*.rle files are also handled?) This is now set up (e.g., https://conwaylife.com/rules/DoubleB3S23.rule points to the rule that's on the wiki). This is done via a server-side URL rewrite, so it is instantaneous (i.e., it's not a script th...
by Nathaniel
March 25th, 2024, 9:32 am
Forum: Scripts
Topic: safeopenclip.lua usability issues
Replies: 29
Views: 442

Re: safeopenclip.lua usability issues

You could also use Golly's "get:url" feature to download a .rule file and switch to that rule. This requires the url to end in ".rule" so it might be necessary to ask Nathaniel to write a little script to periodically store all the current rule info in .rule files somewhere on conwaylife.com. Hopef...
by Nathaniel
February 15th, 2024, 12:37 pm
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Life viewer is not allowed
Replies: 18
Views: 3357

Re: Life viewer is not allowed

Add a new "LV" tag that does the exact same as the "viewer" tag. Have the "LV" button displayed, but the "viewer" button hidden. Then the "viewer" tag would still exist for backwards compatibility reasons, but the "LV" tag would be the visible one, which is less enticing to newcomers. Add a new "pa...
by Nathaniel
February 12th, 2024, 12:49 pm
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Thread for your website-related questions
Replies: 311
Views: 55324

Re: Thread for your website-related questions

I've added a few more accepted answers to the forums registration question, including "line of three".
by Nathaniel
February 11th, 2024, 6:11 pm
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Life viewer is not allowed
Replies: 18
Views: 3357

Re: Life viewer is not allowed

Is it still possible, though? Basically anything is possible. PHP is Turing-complete, after all. It's just a matter of (a) how much effort it would take on my part to make it work (I don't know whether things like "account creation date" are already pulled into the posting page's scope, for example...
by Nathaniel
February 11th, 2024, 3:28 pm
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Life viewer is not allowed
Replies: 18
Views: 3357

Re: Life viewer is not allowed

hotcrystal0 wrote:
February 11th, 2024, 3:17 pm
How about making the viewer/LV tag invisible to people with accounts under three months old?
Not possible without quite a bit of under-the-hood mucking, unfortunately.
by Nathaniel
February 11th, 2024, 11:30 am
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Life viewer is not allowed
Replies: 18
Views: 3357

Re: Life viewer is not allowed

I can muck around with the phpBB internals if needed, but I prefer not to do that without really good reason, since it can cause issues when we update to a new software version. The "off the shelf" phpBB code customization options are very limited -- I can only add new phpBB codes, and optionally di...
by Nathaniel
December 10th, 2023, 6:03 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Regarding the name of the """logarithmic""" replicator rule
Replies: 59
Views: 5004

Re: Regarding the name of the """logarithmic""" replicator rule

An executive decision (as per Step 5 of LW:DR ) has been requested, so here I am to make it. Executive decision: This page will be moved to OCA:sqrt replicator rule . Its introductory paragraph should mention the common-usage name "logarithmic replicator rule" as well though, and the redirect from ...
by Nathaniel
November 27th, 2023, 4:00 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Mikipedia clutter
Replies: 33
Views: 2250

Re: Mikipedia clutter

I understand, but the userpage is one's castle. One can do anything they like as long as it does not spread out to the main page space. I realize that we currently don't have any rules contrary to this, but that's just because we seem to have a habit here of not writing down rules until we need the...
by Nathaniel
November 22nd, 2023, 10:38 pm
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Proposed home page refresh
Replies: 65
Views: 11782

Re: Proposed home page refresh

Let me try it: https://conwaylife.com/?rle=b!&name=Small-color-changing-90-degree-glider-reflector ... Darn. It didn't fill in properly based on my description. I'll work on the ChatGPT auto-generate-pattern-you-describe integration over the next week or so. As a more serious bug report, it appears...
by Nathaniel
November 22nd, 2023, 2:40 pm
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Proposed home page refresh
Replies: 65
Views: 11782

Re: Proposed home page refresh

One minor update to the homepage today: you can now load in custom RLEs via the "rle" URL parameter, and you can optionally load a custom name via a "name" URL parameter. For example, go to https://conwaylife.com/?rle=3o&name=Blinker and see what pattern loads.
by Nathaniel
November 12th, 2023, 8:07 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: LifeWiki Edit War Reporting Thread
Replies: 46
Views: 3156

Re: LifeWiki Edit War Reporting Thread

I disagree with dvgrn's 'solution'. I think keeping these pages is a disservice to the community. Disagreeing of course is fine, but as stated at LifeWiki:Deletion policy , the decision to delete a page or not is made at the discretion of Moderators. Undoing a Moderator's decision on the wiki is no...
by Nathaniel
November 12th, 2023, 7:42 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: RFC: The default public place to discuss LifeWiki-related issues
Replies: 19
Views: 3463

Re: RFC: The default public place to discuss LifeWiki-related issues

Minor point: the group name "Editors" is somewhat strange, because everyone who edits LifeWiki pages can consider themselves an editor, regardless of any additional abilities (i.e. deleting pages, etc.) I agree with this -- I actually don't particularly like the name "Editor", since (for example) i...
by Nathaniel
November 10th, 2023, 10:31 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: Suggested LifeWiki edits
Replies: 869
Views: 176685

Re: Suggested LifeWiki edits

MEisSCAMMER wrote:
November 10th, 2023, 10:21 pm
Now that this is a separate subforum (is that the word?) I think it's time to pin this thread.
Done!
by Nathaniel
October 28th, 2023, 2:35 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: RFC: The default public place to discuss LifeWiki-related issues
Replies: 19
Views: 3463

Re: RFC: The default public place to discuss LifeWiki-related issues

In my mind, the ideal situation would be that discussion of LifeWiki issues happens on LifeWiki, since that keeps everything in one place. Talk pages keep discussion close to the relevant page, for example. However , in practice I find LifeWiki much worse for having long discussions, much worse for ...
by Nathaniel
August 5th, 2023, 10:25 am
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Thread for your website-related questions
Replies: 311
Views: 55324

Re: Thread for your website-related questions

Nathaniel, can I run this? It gets all Life RLEs from the oscillator discussion thread. I've already tested it on pages 1 and 2. (Already replied on Discord, but just replying here too for consistency/visibility.) Yep, go ahead! For anyone else wondering: scraping scripts like this are generally fi...
by Nathaniel
May 8th, 2023, 7:49 am
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: LifeWiki infoboxes
Replies: 90
Views: 26574

Re: LifeWiki infoboxes

When gallery items have different heights, is it possible to align them to the top by default (like in the galleryContainer/galleryItem case), rather than to the bottom? I have now made this change, so that the new "galIt" class aligns boxes to the top by default (you can now see this behaviour at ...
by Nathaniel
May 7th, 2023, 10:48 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: LifeWiki infoboxes
Replies: 90
Views: 26574

Re: LifeWiki infoboxes

I think I (finally) have a solution that provides the best of all worlds re: gallery items properly positioning themselves. See https://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=User:Nathaniel/SandboxC Make sure you do a hard refresh of your browser's cache (Ctrl+Shift+R or equivalent) to see the effects. At...
by Nathaniel
April 28th, 2023, 3:32 pm
Forum: LifeWiki Discussion
Topic: LifeWiki infoboxes
Replies: 90
Views: 26574

Re: LifeWiki infoboxes

I have done two things that will hopefully help. Please let me know if these are actually helpful, and how they can be improved: 1. I have added a "hideimg" parameter to all infobox templates, which can be used to hide the image/LV that appears at the top of the pattern's infobox. Specify "hideimg=1...
by Nathaniel
March 31st, 2023, 8:51 am
Forum: Bugs & Errors
Topic: 403 Errors on LifeWiki
Replies: 4
Views: 1662

Re: 403 Errors on LifeWiki

Thanks for the report -- there was a recent Apache security fix that caused this problem (see here for info). Fortunately it's an easy fix, and it's now fixed.
by Nathaniel
November 12th, 2022, 4:21 pm
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Thread for your website-related questions
Replies: 311
Views: 55324

Re: Thread for your website-related questions

The same password for multiple accounts ... seems like a rather silly and pointless thing to do, but it's not something that moderators would have a lot of insight into necessarily. Or even administrators, for that matter. Password are hashed + salted in the phpBB database, so even I can't tell if ...
by Nathaniel
November 10th, 2022, 2:39 pm
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Thread for your website-related questions
Replies: 311
Views: 55324

Re: Thread for your website-related questions

Also, speaking for myself, I had forgotten that the book website doesn't automatically use the latest LifeViewer version from the forums and LifeWiki. Yeah, my thinking with using a static version of LV on the book website was that, just like the book, the book's website should be static/unchanging...
by Nathaniel
April 13th, 2022, 10:41 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: (Engineered) diehards
Replies: 315
Views: 46994

Re: (Engineered) diehards

And how large is that in scientific notation? It's hard to get a good idea of how large something is when its expressed in recursive equations like that. The reason for using recursive equations or tetration notation is that you cannot effectively write the lifespan using scientific notation. It's ...
by Nathaniel
March 21st, 2022, 9:04 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Conway's Game of Life Textbook Launch
Replies: 22
Views: 5886

Re: Conway's Game of Life Textbook Launch

Dave and I are running an "Ask Us Anything" on reddit right now, if anyone is interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ ... essor_who/
by Nathaniel
March 20th, 2022, 2:06 pm
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Proposed home page refresh
Replies: 65
Views: 11782

Re: Proposed home page refresh

77551enpassant wrote:
March 20th, 2022, 1:02 pm
The mobile version of the home page is broken.
A fix is in the works (Macbi mentioned it earlier too). Can you let me know what browser/type of phone you're using? It works fine on all phones I have access to (all iPhones), which makes it somewhat annoying for me to test.