Threads for Francis

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   Francis 10 years ago | link | on: Stop Validating Email Addresses With Regex

   tl;dr Don’t try to over validate an email.

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   Francis 10 years ago | link | on: feature request: separate tag request page

   “old tag submission thread” referred by moses and another discussion on tags.

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   Francis 10 years ago | link | on: How are tags created?

   No, normal user do not seem to be able to add new tags. I guess that only administrators can do it. I’m sure that the decision to not allow everybody to add tags is because tags would be quickly duplicated and non-standardized.

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      pkhamre 10 years ago | link

      The sites at stackexchange got this working, and the community is actively working on improving the tags. Maybe lobste.rs could have it implemented in a similar way?

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         Francis 10 years ago | link

         You are right, stackexchange tags work very well.

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   Francis 10 years ago | link | on: Amazon phone confirmed

   It amazes me how Amazon has been diverging its strategy and going from selling books to hardware owned products.

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      skalnik 10 years ago | link

      Yeah it really surprises me. The move into web services made a lot of sense to me due to Amazon’s experience with it on their own infrastructure. The Kindle made a lot of sense to me since it seemed like a move back to their roots of books.

      I guess the Kindle Fire and now this phone are Amazon realizing the Kindle hardware they’ve been working on isn’t bad and having a crack at other big markets.

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   Francis 10 years ago | link | on: Brand-new Firefox 16 Beta lays a sharp focus on web developers

   I wonder why the Mozilla team have not only built the Firebug extension in Firefox core and expanded on it rather than compete with it.