R.J. Steinert

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Feature: Ability to mark Topic as a "Call To Action" R.J. Steinert Monday, February 11, 2013 - 4:20pm Monday, February 11, 2013 - 4:20pm 0
Organization Profile wireframe from Dorn. RJ's quick prototype. R.J. Steinert Sunday, February 17, 2013 - 4:44pm Sunday, February 17, 2013 - 4:44pm 0
You can now log into FarmHack.net with your Google or Facebook account R.J. Steinert Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 6:11pm Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 6:11pm 0
You can now log into FarmHack.net with your Google or Facebook account R.J. Steinert Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 6:18pm Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 6:18pm 0
Great job on this Jenna! R.J. Steinert Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 3:53am Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - 10:49pm 1
Cool stuff! Any documentation on how to use it? R.J. Steinert Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 4:22am Saturday, February 1, 2014 - 12:28pm 2
Encyclopedia of Practical Farm Knowledge on GitHub R.J. Steinert Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 6:24am Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 6:24am 0
FarmHack.net Next Steps Proposal. Feedback encouraged! R.J. Steinert Monday, May 20, 2013 - 12:15pm Monday, May 20, 2013 - 10:35pm 4
GitHub now shows previews of 3D Models! (STL files) R.J. Steinert Thursday, September 5, 2013 - 2:15pm Thursday, September 5, 2013 - 2:15pm 0
Idea on a short explanation for what a "Farm Hack" is R.J. Steinert Monday, September 23, 2013 - 12:54am Monday, September 23, 2013 - 7:51am 1

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Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 2:19pm

Inspired by Louis's comment that got mangled from a text filter, I enabled am more flexible text filter AND enabled user's to edit their own comments. Maybe in the future we'll lock this down but for now it's a nuisance especially while preview comment isn't working.

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Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 12:47am

Hi guys, I agree, confusing, but it's classic flexible wiki functionality where you can create Wiki pages and then you have to link to them manually otherwise they hang out in the black hole of cyberspace. I've threw a link up there to create wiki pages in that fashion thinking that some users might find it useful (I did for creating a wiki page of the notes on the last meet up). I'm on the fence about it.

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Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 12:27am

Haha amazing, so meta. This one is definitely influenced by my experience in the Drupal issue queues where the original text is editable by anyone and the comments are permanent. Having the original text editable allows you to update the thread AT THE TOP so when the thread gets into the triple digits then someone can edit the original text to summarize the discussion. In the Drupal community we suffer from conversations that will start up again like 50 times because no one has the time to read the whole conversation.

As for the needing to go back and edit in general, I agree, I'm the same way and I try to use the preview button as much as possible to force myself to reread things. Unfortunately there is something funny with the preview mode right now. See http://dev.farmhack.gotpantheon.com/forums/clicking-preview-button-forum-topics-results-error.

I also see a need to keep comments permanent for accountability. I think it keeps people civil. I might be wrong though.

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Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 9:26pm

Sorry, I meant a new forum topic titled "Community Collaboration Rules Proposal .2".

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Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 9:19pm

Cool, I'm glad you find that to be a good example. It's also good to know we have someone using IE in the crowd who is willing to point out issues!

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Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 9:15pm

Haha, ya, we're definitely going to have to expand/modify those rules. If anyone wants to keep the ball rolling feel free to post a new forum topic called "Community Collaboration Rules Proposal .1". After a few iterations and some discussion we can vote on one. We could do a vote right now though, an "is this good enough to launch with?" vote.

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Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 6:40pm

Emily asked me a few questions about this proposal and I've decided to paraphrase my answers here.

It's worth pointing out that not all collaboration is going to be good fit for Farm Hack if it is going to be run as a Bazaar. Collaboration in the Cathedral mode is more efficient when you need to limit the amount collaboration to a few people while the Bazaar mode is more efficient if you want that collaboration to scale up to a large number of people.

Collaboration will happen in Forum topics and Wiki Pages under each Farm Hack Topic. For now we can just forums under a "Topic" category and down the line those Topic forums will look like a Tool page does now with a Wiki and a Forum.

Lastly, note that users can create wiki pages right now for whatever purpose they want and link to them from Forum Topics or other Wiki pages.

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Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 11:22pm

Hi David, Thanks for the bug report! I can't seem to reproduce it that problem in IE 8. Does that always happen for you or only sometimes? If only sometimes, then is there a URL where it happens consistently? Also, if you take a screenshot of the problem and post it here then I might be able to figure it out.

I just realized we can't attach files to comments. I'll enable that so you can post that screenshot! Also, in case you don't know how to take a screenshot, there might be a "Print Screen" button on your keyboard that will save your screen to an image on your desktop. Sometimes it's abbreviated on your keyboard like "Prnt Scrn".

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Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 2:58pm

Hi David, Making things collapsible would definitely help squeeze things in. I've been thinking a lot lately about how to accomplish usability but still make it accessible for 99% of users. What I worry about is users who aren't familiar with modern UI elements like collapsible elements on a page not knowing that there is more information behind a click of an expand button. I guess if we made anything collapsible expanded by default then we might avoid that problem.. hmmm..

Here's an example of I imagine clicking on a table of contents might behave. Check out http://rasantiago.com/ and click on "solutions" at the top. It will scroll you down the page to the Solutions section of the page. What do folks think about the table of contents scrolling down with the user? Does that sound confusing or helpful?

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Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 11:55pm

@Dorn Is this fixed? If not then I'm not understanding your description correctly.

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Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 10:41pm

Just added these to the Stages vocabulary and added this as help text for that field on tools. Check it out http://dev.farmhack.gotpantheon.com/node/add/opentools-tool.

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Submitted by R.J. Steinert on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 5:28pm

Yay! Nice icon.