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The Saddest Thing (new web site)
« on: June 07, 2006, 08:44:55 pm »
Hey kids!

I am pleased to unveil to all of you a new web site based on folks competing for what is The Saddest Thing.

http://saddestthing.com

I'm still tweaking and adding features, but I thought it was time to get the message out to those on the board here to give you all first dibs on playing with this thing, since of course the saddest thing is a common reference here.

So try it out, vote on stuff, sign up and post your own stuff (photos, text, or both) and feel free to tell your friends, or help a brother out with a link if you have a web site or blog.

Let me know what you think, of course any problems you have with it, and any suggestions for how it may be improved upon.

Thanks to the mods here for helping me test things.

http://saddestthing.com
« Last Edit: June 07, 2006, 09:30:49 pm by jough »
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Re: The Saddest Thing (new web site)
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2006, 08:55:50 pm »
This is great, but when I try to sign in it says my email is invalid. I got the confirmation email and everything!
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Re: The Saddest Thing (new web site)
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2006, 09:01:00 pm »
Hey, some of us non-mods tested!  :P
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Re: The Saddest Thing (new web site)
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2006, 09:05:15 pm »
Oops.

Damn you unusual email addresses.

Okay, I'm pretty sure it will validate all actual email addresses now.

Please let me know if it is still complaining at you.
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Re: The Saddest Thing (new web site)
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2006, 09:06:48 pm »
Oh yes, thank you to M Queue and Mlle Hobot as well.
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Re: The Saddest Thing (new web site)
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2006, 09:11:55 pm »
It still ain't recognising Judy, and I can't re-sign up under my gmail account as Jude because it went 'INVALID EMAIL - ABORT!'* and now thinks I have already signed that email up. I am probably ruining everything. Sorry Jough.

*I even love the error messages on this website. 'Not so fast, Slick!' Awesome.

Christ. Turns out I was putting 'Judy' into the sign-in email box. -sidles off-
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Re: The Saddest Thing (new web site)
« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2006, 09:21:19 pm »
You should be able to log in with the user name and email you originally signed up with.

EDIT: Ah, you have signed in.  Never mind me.

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Re: The Saddest Thing (new web site)
« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2006, 09:26:11 pm »
Heh! I've already voted on everything. Time for me to find a photo to upload! Awesome website, joughy#####.
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Re: The Saddest Thing (new web site)
« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2006, 09:29:30 pm »
Yeah, there are not many things yet, which is itself a sad thing, but so far only a dozen or so people have seen the thing, so, you know, give it time.

For those who have already added things, you should be able to edit your stuff and add tags to them now and such.  I know the tag form element was there when you uploaded your stuff, but because I wasn't actually adding the tags to the database, it um, just kind of threw out that info when you uploaded your thing.

That should not happen again.

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Re: The Saddest Thing (new web site)
« Reply #9 on: June 10, 2006, 11:15:28 am »
I uploaded three sad things.  I hope they are goodbad.

Also, when you edit your tags, it says "uncheck tags to delete," but it is actually the checked tags that get deleted.

Also also, once you edit one sad thing, there is not an easy way to get back to my list of sad things again.
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Lister.  Not that one, the other one.

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Re: The Saddest Thing (new web site)
« Reply #10 on: June 10, 2006, 11:57:11 am »
Thanks, Lister.  I will work on these things to make them suck less.

Yeah, check tags to delete.  Man, what the hell was I doing...?

After you've edited a tag I'll add more options, like to view the thing you just edited, re-edit it, or view your things again.

More stuff coming soon.  I'm working on more tag-related stuff, as well as adding comments to sad things.
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Re: The Saddest Thing (new web site)
« Reply #11 on: June 10, 2006, 11:58:31 am »
Also: Lister, your submissions made me LOL more than any others so far.

Thank you for "getting" the site.
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Re: The Saddest Thing (new web site)
« Reply #12 on: June 10, 2006, 04:32:48 pm »
Lister-- the thing that makes me the saddest about Starbucks, as per your post, is that they have copyrighted the word "Venti." Which means 20 (as in, oz. I assume.) in Italian. This is equivalent to a Mexican restaurant copywriting "grande."

I get mad every time I see the little (c)
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Re: The Saddest Thing (new web site)
« Reply #13 on: June 10, 2006, 04:47:14 pm »
Judy, I am pleased to see that your incredibly tragic story about Italian Restaurant Sobbing Man is "winning."  Truly it is the Saddest Thing.  Congratulations to you, good sir.
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Re: The Saddest Thing (new web site)
« Reply #14 on: June 10, 2006, 04:52:56 pm »
Quote from: Hobot on June 10, 2006, 04:47:14 pm
Judy, I am pleased to see that your incredibly tragic story about Italian Restaurant Sobbing Man is "winning."  Truly it is the Saddest Thing.  Congratulations to you, good sir.

Many thanks Miss Hobot. It's also the only thing I didn't steal from somewhere else, so that's good. I applaud all of you and your very good photography skills, that put me right in the heart of the sadness.

Quote from: jough on June 10, 2006, 11:58:31 am
Also: Lister, your submissions made me LOL more than any others so far.

Thank you for "getting" the site.


I was also impressed at how well Lister 'got' the Saddest Thing, which I didn't understand at first fully.
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