Basically there used to be magahost or something; I can’t find it; I want to share an image in a comment by turning it into a link that strips it of its data obviously as well.

It all started with writing a simple news briefing page, using OpenGraph meta tags to cache headlines and article images. Quickly discovered that meta tags on twitter only load after a couple of render cycles due to the React framework, and that they obfuscate any attached media or links in tweets.

I wasn't having it, so I did some digging. They do a pretty good job keeping the markup difficult to traverse so you can't easily scrape details from the webpage view -- however, after some digging, I found an exploit that allows one to retrieve the entire application state tree from any twitter page with two lines of code.

They probably can't patch it, because it's inherent in a framework on which they rely, but just in case they can, I won't share the details here [Edit: They can patch it]. But if anyone is interested in a tweet caching service (to make embedded tweets available without the use of javascript, the fear of censorship, or directing traffic to twitter), let me know. I don't feel like setting up the infrastructure or paying for the hosting costs, but can easily write a web application that takes any twitter status URL, caches the tweet and data on demand, and returns static markup of the original tweet, or even a screenshot of the tweet. So if anyone is interested in providing the other end, send me a message.

Here is a sample state tree pulled from a Jack Prosobiec tweet:

https://i.imgur.com/LmGxdT7.jpg

Full dump (1.4MB):

https://www.mediafire.com/file/kwmwgncgp5cd6na/dump.json/file

Unlike scraping the public-facing markup, using the application state, you can easily find direct links to attached media. And unlike using their API, you are not subject to twitter's terms, rate-limited, or tracked. Tweets with links can be resolved easily by pulling the source of the twitter shortened link, and saving the redirected url (which is in the header).

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I find that link posts are my least favorite. I never want to actually click the link to go to whatever website it links to. I'd much rather be able to expand it by clicking the thumbnail.

Archive.is is a pretty safe archiver, to my knowledge. If we could expand archive-is links to preview them without opening a window, that would be cool.

It would let people see what the article or whatever is about without having to leave the website.

And it sucks.

A while back, they put in a cutoff for how many comments are displayed in busy threads. The way you would expect it to work is that comments farther down the page than x amount don't load.

The way it actually works is it just (I'm guessing) stops returning comments from the database using whatever sorting is currently active.

The result is that comments posted in a subthread can just disappear and never show up, unless you switch the sorting from Top to New (or to something else.)

I get this when I click on notifications where it reverts to the parent comment, and won't show the response until I change it to New. And I also get it where I post a comment, and then reload the page later, and the comment disappears and never comes back, even though it's still there if you switch it to New.

I posted yesterday to The Donald board in more depth, but I believe that we are vastly underutilizing the power we have as a like minded and passionate group.

This was a suggestion I made back win dot win was back in beta. It didn't get any traction for good reason, because there were a ton of more pressing issues. However IMO it still is a serious problem.

The problem is that currently content is sorted out by number of upvotes, and that alone. In theory that is great, but in practice it leaves pages completely stale with "rising" being topped with older posts and "hot" being nearly a day old and completely dominated by stickies.

This is how to fix it.

TLDR: This is similar method to how reddit used to rank posts before they added a bunch of crap to their code and fucked it up. Long story short, the best new posts go to the top of rising and the best rising posts go to the top of hot.

The breakdown:

1. A post's ranking is calculated every ten minutes and that post is assigned a number. This number is based off of how many votes a post receives over that period. Less votes gives the post a lower ranking number and more votes gives the post a higher ranking number. Posts are organized via this percentage ranking. However this alone is not enough to fix rising and hot.

2. Posts in "New" are given a special ranking boost. Every ten minutes every post that is 5-15 minutes old has its ranking calculated. This ranking is a competition between other "New" posts created within that time frame only. The posts are ranked by average votes per minute meaning a post active for five minutes with 10 votes has a higher ranking than a post active for 10 minutes with 11 votes.

After the ranking is calculated these posts are distributed throughout "Rising". The post with the highest ranking gets to jump to the first page, second goes to the second, third to the third, etc. After this the posts ranking returns to normal being calculated every ten minutes by the amount of votes it receives and is repositioned accordingly.

This allows for "Rising" to receive the hottest of New every ten minutes, and it will be quickly judged by the greater number of people using "Rising".

3. "Rising" posts get a special "Hot" ranking boost. Every hour all the posts that made it to the front page of "Rising" that are 1-2 hours old have a separate rank calculated in a competition against each other just like "New" posts. These posts are then distributed to "Hot" in the same fashion as "New" posts were distributed to the pages of rising.

These were my findings from my autistic analysis of reddit's old ranking system. I'm pretty sure they fucked it up directly because we were using it so successfully. I don't know anything about the code or coding, and for all I know this could be too resource heavy to be executed by us. However, I know this would fix a lot of the problems with the current system.

I want to add Win to my home screen (like an app) but it flakes out. The three issues are

1. You can't visit other wins or it puts it back into browser format

2. I can't stick my navigation bar at the bottom of the screen for some reason or the page lags. It also won't stick even if I try to.

3. The bar at the top that displays connection and battery disappears.

It would be cool if this was better optimized. https://gab.com has a really good one so something like that would be nice.

We need a writing community. Having a place to share and discuss conservative literature would be terrific and enlightening.

Hi,

i made a script to upvote all posts loaded on a board.

This can be useful (imo) if you want to contribute to a board and you try to upvote when you can, expecially if it is a niche board with few users.

I don't consider it a hack, it is nothing you couldn't do manually by sacrificing a couple minutes. But why hassle for that when you can simply open the console and copypasta?

I optimized it to only click not upvoted posts, so you don't have to worry it will remove current upvotes.

Simply open your browser console (f12 does the trick on most browsers) and copypaste:

document.querySelectorAll("div.vote:not([data-vote=up]) > a:nth-child(1)").forEach(el => el.click())

then hit enter.

If you use it let me know if everything goes right. It shouldn't possibly break anything, it's a very simple function.

Cheers!

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It makes even less than consumeproduct, which seems to just be /pol/.

just an idea i had i was wondering if anything like a marketplace would sprout up here. reason being i seen somefolks mention they have websites and such and a place to advertise stuff as long as it wont violate global rules or get the site in hot water could be beneficial to it's growth.

Because it doesn't fit. There isn't much humor in anything posted there, it's just things the poster finds mockworthy.

Which, fair enough, sites like tumblrinaction on reddit are bellwethers for highlighting the next wave of progressive lunacy. But most of what's posted isn't funny. Alarming, yes. But funny, not so much.

Let's face it, some of the jannies go on power hungry rage fests. Eventually if this place continues on it's path, it will either turn into Reddit, or 4chan cesspool. But what if there is a middle road. Allow users to choose their own curators.

Split mod powers up.

Moderators:

• Powers are very strong, but limited to things that are generally illegal or a huge liability (sitewide rules)
• Have power to delete posts for breaking site rules
• Have power to ban users for breaking site rules.
• Will be demodded if they use power to ban/delete items that do not break site rules.
• Mods will be vetted somehow...

Curators:

• Powers are strong, but ignorable.
• Have power to shadow-delete posts for breaking sub rules.
• Have power to shadow-ban users for breaking sub rules.
• Have power to default collapse thread replies for whatever powertrip reason.
• Have power to sticky posts.
• Have power to set themes.
• Etc.
• Anyone can be a curator.
• Shadow Bans / Deletes will only show if you are subscribed to that curator
• Users can subscribe to curators in any of the major categories ( Style, Stickiness, Bans, Deletes)
• Users can subscribe to sub-categories as well (ignore deletes for being off topic, but not deletes for spam).

Syndicate:

• Just a list of lists. A collection of Curators. Hey, you could add each curator individually, but that may be tedious.
• Each sub would have a default Syndicate.
• A syndicate could be just traveling down the tree of curators... (subscribe to user A, and also whoever user A subscribes too.... This could create some very bad infinite loops)

Random thoughts:

• Some jannies do a good job of sweeping up the place, but they also sticky the dumbest stuff. Could now ignore their dumb stickies.
• Some jannies sticky some amazing stuff, but are power hungry fagoots. Can now undelete everyone they delete.
• Some jannies are amazingly talented in styling, but sticky and ban the most retarded shit, and then quit when people call them out on it.
• Yeah, I got specific mods pictured for each of the above things... One of the mods pissed me off so much, I deleted my year old account. (and then came back when I couldn't resist. Hence the name.)
• If the site can't handle the block feature, it probably can't handle this either. But I can dream.

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Can we please add an optional text box to Link Posts?

I hate having to share an article, then quickly trying to comment on it first so I can include important points/ call outs.

I think this will help a lot.

Thanks!

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I know this may not get used as much as it should be, but can we get flair to indicate the status of a bill that is being discussed?

All to often things get posted (and way to often stickied) which make it sound like a given law has been passed or repealed, when in reality it's only passed a hurdle and is not yet final/law.

We need to find a way to separate false hype from actual actions. It's no different from when we see a headline saying "<name> arrested!". Just because they got arrested doesn't mean justice has or will be done. The same applies to the majority of the laws that get talked about on patriots.win.

If we're going to turn this dumpster fire that is America around and get it back on course, we need to separate the noise from the actual victories.

The antipornography niche is currently unfilled and the communities on reddit aren't what they used to be. Right now there isn't a single place on the Internet where young people could be dissuaded from using porn via shaming. I'm pretty sure a coomer.win would be a success.

This has been missing for a while now, but from what I can see there is no button to return to the list of posts (e.g. the "Hot" page of TheDonald, while viewing a TheDonald post) when you're reading comments.

I understand I can just click the back button, but I tend to open posts in new tabs and thus it just makes the flow more difficult than necessary. The button is there when community styling is turned on.

Something that annoys me a small bit about communities.win is that /all is the default main page even when you are logged in. Is there an option to set it the default page to /home when you are already logged in? As /all contains a bit too much tinfoil hats for my liking and I am generally more interested in the subs that I am subscribed to anyway.

The search bar is missing on the default theme and we need it fixed.

Temp solution is to go into settings and enable the beta theme.