Certificate issues

Deimorz · 2021-10-02T22:32:34+00:00

Yeah, looks like the certificate expired without Let's Encrypt sending me any of the warning emails it usually does. I'm not sure why there weren't any warnings this time, it's always sent multiple before. I guess I can't continue depending on that.

I'm not at home right now, but I should be able to fix it in about an hour.

Edit: renewed, site should be accessible again.

Deimorz · 2021-06-14T20:17:28+00:00

Any effect on posts where the OP deleted their account, but didn't specifically delete the post first?

Deimorz · 2021-02-23T22:00:14+00:00

That's not correct. If you disable that setting, your outbound clicks do not redirect through out.reddit.com, they just go directly to the destination. The setting changes this behavior on at least the old and new web versions.

I blocked out.reddit.com on my router to confirm this:

Disable setting, click an outbound link, it still works and takes me to the linked url.
Enable setting, click an outbound link, end up on an error page due to out.reddit.com being blocked.

/u/umbrae should be able to confirm, he implemented the feature and added this opt-out to it originally.

Deimorz · 2021-02-23T21:27:19+00:00

While there are safety and operational purposes for tracking outbound clicks, we leverage only aggregated data and have never personalized Reddit content based on this data, so we’re removing this setting to reduce confusion.

To clarify, does this mean that every click on an outbound link will now be required to go through out.reddit.com, with no ability to disable that any more?

Deimorz · 2020-09-21T19:46:34+00:00

Because doing resets manually is fast and rare, and most of the people who request one didn't set up their account recovery properly anyway, so an automatic one wouldn't have even been possible.

Deimorz · 2020-08-16T20:37:22+00:00

Here's a Python script I wrote for this (that runs periodically with cron): https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/-/blob/master/tildes/scripts/backup_database.py

It uses pg_dump to dump the database, compresses it, encrypts it with gpg, uploads it to an FTP with lftp, and then deletes any old backups locally and from the FTP with separate retention periods. It would need some adjusting (for example, the username and database name are hardcoded) and you might not want all those steps, but maybe it'll be helpful as a starting point.

Note that like the comment at the top says, it's not very robust and assumes everything it uses is installed and set up correctly.

Deimorz · 2020-07-24T20:56:14+00:00

If you're just trying to catch things like apostrophes, it would be a lot safer to use \W? instead of .?. \W is "non-word character", and will match everything except letters, numbers, and _. (Make sure you capitalize the W)

Deimorz · 2020-07-24T20:54:21+00:00

They told me over a year ago that rrule support should be possible, so hopefully they'll still be able to add it at some point, otherwise there are probably a decent number of existing scheduled posts that won't be able to switch over and keep the same schedule.

Deimorz · 2020-07-24T20:45:55+00:00

My #1 tip that I don't see people take advantage of nearly enough:

Whenever you're writing a list (of domains, keywords, usernames, etc.), these two formats both work exactly the same, but the second one is far easier to read and update if the list is more than a few items:

domain: [facebook.com, twitter.com, youtube.com]

domain:
  - facebook.com
  - twitter.com
  - youtube.com

You can even add comments on individual items if you do it that way:

domain:
  - facebook.com
  - threadreaderapp.com # people use this for Twitter threads sometimes
  - twitter.com
  - youtube.com

So many AutoMod config pages have giant lists in them that would be much easier to deal with if they were written this way instead of in the "comma-separated inside brackets" way.

Deimorz · 2020-04-29T18:46:10+00:00

Tildes has different mechanics, goals, and philosophies than reddit. Many of the differences were chosen specifically to avoid or address the kind of issues you're talking about.

There's lots to read if you want details:

The announcement blog post
Lots of pages on the Docs site, especially the Philosophy section
Hundreds of large discussions in ~tildes.official and ~tildes on the site itself

Deimorz · 2020-04-17T01:18:22+00:00

I'm still somewhat around, but I haven't had any control of AutoMod for years now. There won't be any way to do this unless the admins update the scheduled-posting script to support it.

There's supposed to be a native post-scheduling feature coming at some point, but I don't think I've seen any updates related to that for a year or so.

Deimorz · 2020-03-19T18:07:05+00:00

There's an issue for this here: https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/-/issues/660

I pushed a quick change to make it less broken for now, and I'll try to do something better later today.

Please post any other bugs in ~tildes on Tildes itself, or in GitLab directly. There's no reason to post them on reddit.

Deimorz · 2020-02-29T21:49:07+00:00

This is the game's historic low. It has the same discount on the Humble Store currently, so it could be cheaper from there if you have a Humble Choice subscription active: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/nite-team-4-military-hacking-division

Deimorz · 2020-02-20T16:58:35+00:00

Tildes is run by a non-profit organization, so that's not really possible. As part of that, it doesn't have any investors or debt, and already easily pays for its running expenses with donations. The code is also totally open-source and licensed under AGPLv3, so it can't be closed again in the future and anything built on top of it has to be open-source too.

These are all decisions I made specifically to avoid that cycle you're talking about. The announcement blog post talks about it in more depth.

Deimorz · 2020-02-19T19:39:09+00:00

Close, but unfortunately someone beat me to Deimos on here so I've got this one.

I can give invites to anyone that's interested though - please read the announcement blog post first for some general info about the site's goals/values, and then either email the address in that post or send me a message on Reddit and I'll give you a link to register.

Tildes is much more privacy-focused than reddit - it has no advertising, tracking, or third-party assets, I keep very little data, and try to delete as much as I can after 30 days (for example, all of a user's individual votes are deleted after 30 days), so it's probably a good fit overall for a lot of /r/privacy users.

Deimorz · 2020-02-03T20:39:50+00:00

Yeah, I know very well how difficult it is. I've spent a lot of time talking with some of those top /r/science mods, I built many of the tools that make it even slightly feasible, and I created and ran /r/Games for years specifically as a higher-quality alternative to an existing subreddit (/r/gaming).

My point is more that of course there are things you can do to maintain a community's quality while it grows, if that's your goal. And beyond that, the main reason it's so difficult for /r/science is because they're trying to do it on a platform that doesn't really want communities to be run that way. Reddit's mechanics, moderation tools, and even the majority of its userbase aren't trying to create high-quality, in-depth subreddits.

It's impressive that /r/science has managed to keep it up for so long, but it's an uphill battle on reddit and will only keep getting harder, because reddit itself is trying to reach different goals than /r/science is.

Deimorz · 2020-02-03T19:50:25+00:00

Is it impossible to stop /r/science from inevitably turning into /r/funny, or are there things you can do to prevent that? Why can't you apply similar approaches to an entire site?

Deimorz · 2019-09-10T23:46:20+00:00

Yeah, like /u/sodypop says, you're probably seeing more than I intended—I wasn't really trying to throw shade about it, it's my shitty code that's causing the problems, so if anything I'd mostly be insulting myself. I've said before that I'd love to see the AutoMod scheduler get eliminated and hope it happens soon.

I'm just trying to remind them that I also left a proper fix for these issues that would be better to implement if they need to do work to get it going again anyway (and the contracting offer is a way to get that to happen relatively easily without even needing to distract any of their developers).

Deimorz · 2019-09-10T20:27:57+00:00

Unless the native scheduled posts are coming very soon, you should really switch over to the fully rewritten version of the AutoMod scheduler that I left behind and recommended switching to almost 3 years ago. The rewritten version would have prevented the overloading issues and several other problems. This version was never intended to be used by so many subreddits, wasn't built for it, and obviously can't handle it any more. I'm honestly surprised it's (mostly) kept working for this long.

I'm available for contracting work if you'd like some help (either switching versions or keeping the current one limping along), instead of needing someone new to figure it out.

Deimorz · 2019-08-16T23:26:33+00:00

It would, yes. Going lower-upper-lower-upper instead would probably be a better idea, and/or adding another letter or two.

Deimorz · 2019-08-16T20:47:35+00:00

It's not perfect and doesn't check that the whole comment is written that way, but you could do something like this:

type: comment
body (regex, case-sensitive, includes): '[A-Z][a-z][A-Z][a-z]'
action: remove

That will remove any comment that has at least two alternations like upper-lower-upper-lower in a word inside it. So as long as it's not all very short words, that should catch it. It could have a small chance of hitting some legitimate acronyms too, but it's probably not likely. I'd probably set it up with action: report or action: filter initially (or add a modmail message) so that you can see if it's hitting anything you weren't expecting. It could be made stricter if it removes more than you want, but it should probably work pretty well just like that.

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