Morendil comments on LessWrong downtime 2010-05-11, and other recent outages and instability - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 22 May 2010 01:07:09PM 1 point [-]

Definitely needs more testing and tweaking: as I said above I wasn't expecting these changes to get pulled in.

I've already committed a change that corrects the second issue, I've just reproduced the first on my local Safari, and am looking into it.

Comment author: wmoore 24 May 2010 05:21:28AM 2 points [-]

Morendil your latest patch has been applied and deployed. We took the liberty of inverting the preference for two reasons: Firstly it made more sense for the checkbox to be checked when the kibitzer was enabled and secondly we added a note that full compatibility requires Firefox for now, the text of which was hard to phrase with the uncheck to enable behaviour.

Comment author: Morendil 24 May 2010 07:40:11AM 1 point [-]

Great, thanks!

I note that the revision you've pulled is 0.5, which should be a lot more cross-browser than previous ones. I've done some testing under IE, Chrome and Safari.

The original relied on XPath queries to locate page elements corresponding to scores and names. Now that the script is part of the LW codebase, I was able to simplify the script's operation by including a special CSS stylesheet when the Anti-Kibitzer is active, and acting directly on the display rules. This is faster and more compatible.