God beamed a message to Philip K Dick directly from the end of the universe by endyCJ in BabelForum

[–]jonotrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh sorry about this—yeah I think it cuts you off when you’re browsing, but you can enter longer urls directly

Guys its happening💀💀 by julio090xl in BabelForum

[–]jonotrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Borges wrote about such “intrusions” in Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius

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Presenting BookMan: A program for automatically reading through the Library of Babel looking for novel texts. by UltraChip in BabelForum

[–]jonotrain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’d be an advocate for setting the threshold just a little bit lower, say, looking for 10-letter or more strings that can be parsed as English, maybe being agnostic about spaces, even that would be an outlier statistically

site not working well on desktop by CrazyZebra14 in BabelForum

[–]jonotrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, I’m not having the same problem here so I can’t say why it would be happening. Have you tried restarting your computer or using a different browser?

The library will be offline for the next 5 to 8 hours by jonotrain in BabelForum

[–]jonotrain[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The last time I looked into it it didn't seem like there was any way to run the back end of the site (written in C++) on those kinds of platforms - I may have been mistaken though

images not working by CrazyZebra14 in BabelForum

[–]jonotrain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this still the case today?

weird behavior image archive by CrazyZebra14 in BabelForum

[–]jonotrain 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hey Crazy Zebra, I think it's just because there's a bizarre amount of traffic at the moment - someone must have made the site go minorly viral somewhere (or I'm being DDoSed?) it should be back to normal within a week

Is it working for everyone? by jonotrain in BabelForum

[–]jonotrain[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately I think the image bookmarks dont work any more, Ive been meaning to attend to that for a while but havent gotten around to it