Uhh...the mute feature was on mary herself in the demonstration.

The truncating was on redfox but honestly, that one time when she had weird breaks in her comments was quite frustrating.

The example for muting was my username: mary

I just checked again and redfox's comment was in the background, but that's because she was first comment in that post and my sample comment was in reply to her.

The truncate example was hers because she had a long comment. I don't see why people find being truncated offensive. I don't delete the rest of the comment. There's an option to expand it. People on YouTube don't complain when their comments get replaced with a "Read more" option.

But now that you've raised these points I want to know if redfox prefers that I change the screenshots. Because those were NOT intentional at all and not a campaign to get her muted.

With the length of of many comments here, it really gets too much. A person can lose their train of thought completely.

I talked to alua on twitter, and I changed the sample image now to truncate my username instead.

I can't completely erase redfox's name on the pics though, because she comments a lot on DB and most of the time her name WILL be in the shot. But at least now she is just part of the background like that half-nekkid pic of Jang Hyuk.

Both examples now mute and truncate my username.

I hope this is the end of the issue. Those who want a streamlined beanut gallery can use the app. Those who don't, well... no changes necessary.

@redfox Short, to the point comments are fine by me.

"...and all the people who ATE part of it."

I LOL'd so hard at that.

That aside...I'm one of those people who was a bit tired of seeing super long comments in recaps so this is interesting... even though it feels kinda mean (especially the mute feature). Is it weird to have mixed feelings about this? :/

Anyways, I added the extension....but I don't see any long comments collapsing...so not sure if I downloaded it correctly....

@DayDreamer, there will be a small icon that looks like this in the address bar: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EwHoWH92R1s/VPbJGALnpSI/AAAAAAAAEy4/7PH4bhoM388/s1600/dbrief_icon.png

Click on that icon and check the Enable DBrief box.

Long comments will now have that read more/read less feature.

Again, the mute feature is not required. Even I don't have it activated.

Oh my autocorrects are epic. I think the app is good for those who want it. I just don't think it's necessary for people to then go into what or who they're blocking. I know my posts are long and not to everyone's taste so if I'm skipped then I'm skipped.

I think it was nice for the app to be made since people expressed a desire for it. And now we can go back to eating each other...

Thanks, mary. I did that and it now shows up. Just another question....you said it doesn't work on mobiles...but I have Chrome on my phone so will it still not work?

@DayDreamer, quick answer is no, it won't work for Chrome mobile. :(((

Chrome says the Web Store is available on Windows, Linux, Mac, and Chrome OS. So no mobile support yet (that would be Android, WP, or iOS).

Though if they add support, I still have to update the code because it depends a lot on the actual layout of the dramabeans website.

(Meaning, if javabeans switches themes tomorrow, I'm screwed! Haha)

exactly. What's the big deal?! Long comments are truncated everywhere. Facebook, Disqus, etc. It's NORMAL. If you want to read on, you click. If you think "muting" is mean (also done of Facebook and on Twitter), don't do it

THIS. EXACTLY this. Mary's VERY generous use of her time and skills has created a gift to the DB user community. Those who want to use it can. Those who don't want to use it, don't have to. People can still write posts which make War and Peace seem like a postcard if they want to. No one is stopping them, and all their words are still available to be read, even to those using the extension.

It's all about choice - if I see a truncated comment that looks interesting, I'll click on it. If not, then I won't. No one is being hurt or offended, unless they choose to be. So once again, THANK YOU, mary.

I don't get it either! Maybe because Javascript doesn't compile?

(I went and Googled "why javascript not a programming language" and just became more confused at the conflicting results.)

Maybe it's like what you said. real-men-don't-eat-quiche kind of thing. Something like this xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/378/

:D

@whimsyful, aaah... so it's the object oriented stuff that made it an outcast? It handles objects so much better now! Been doing afaik since maybe 2008.

I do remember a time circa 2005 when everyone, including webdevs, were saying javascript is bad, don't use it. But it's changed now and I love it so much. There is server side js and non-relational database js stuff now. Even a js based game engine.

I'm just a hobbyist with poor internet connection so I always liked things that are easy to setup with minimal download and install. :) it's why I fell into webdev bec all you need is notepad, a browser, and the html/css/js docu.

All the new js libraries give me opportunities to play with code and build things for others use like DBrief and the Kdrama Bingo game. :D

BTW I've always been wanted to learn python because my real life crush keeps talking about it on Facebook... Hehe.

@mary Ha. I thought real programmer use notepad? :D I'm torn between emacs and vim really. Love the automated tabbing on emacs, but the keyboard shortcuts are painful. Vim is much easier to navigate but it doesn't have that fancy tabbing feature to help you look for that missing semi-colon or bracket..

@whimsyful hehe. don't get me wrong, I do like python. And I do agree with you about the libraries. I highly depend on them to do my analysis :D. But it mostly reminds me of work, which is fun (when you got it to work) but stressful (when it didn't). While javascript will now remind me of mary's rim's butt jokes, which is just fun :D

@latteholic You're a bigger nerd than I am! Haha (err that was a compliment)

I've only started using vim bec the boss in my new job scoffed at me using notepad++ :((((

I haven't tried emacs. *clueless* But my coworker who does the C/binaries part of our work uses a Chrome plugin that lets you work on terminals on Chrome. And I think she uses it because the terminals can be tabbed. Maybe you can hunt that plugin down so you can marry that emacs feature thingy with vim?

@mary omg. the lovechild of emacs and vim. I'd LOVE that! Oh, quick google showed that they exit already.. Evil and Vimacs! I need to check if the machine I'm working on has them installed :D
My advisor also scoffed at me for using notepad/gedit (for linux) at first, and she told me to start learning how to use emacs (mostly because of the tabbing feature). Then I rebel a little and started using vim :D But now I use them because I have to ssh into another machine to do my work and I can just run them in terminal mode for ease of use. I don't think I can do that with gedt...

@whimsyful javascript has C-like syntax right? then yeah I can see how that can be a nightmare to debug. I hate it when my code won't compile just because I missed a semi-colon or bracket.. But then I don't like it either when I have an extra white space on my python code and my code won't run because of that :D