“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
This thread will be used for testing only. Site members please refrain from commenting here, as I work with plugin developers on the YouTube embedding problem and the manual video embedding problem. If and when I need your assistance to help provide examples, I will ask for it.
Thank you!
Wolf
PS, Developers – please note that I will need to approve your first comments as “guests” – I can also register you on the site on an as-needed basis. Don’t worry if your first post falls into moderation – I will approve it, and you should be OK to post comments after that.
I will provide some embedding examples in both posts and comments.
YouTube by URL (attempted embed – unconverted to link)
YouTube by URL (attempted embed – converted to link)
All wpDiscuz addons are being developed by wpDiscuz developers at gVectors Team. These addons help us to keep top level development of the free wpDiscuz plugin. All essential and even dozens of extra-cool features are already available for free in the core wpDiscuz plugin. There are not any limits, any pro and paid versions of wpDiscuz. We have another dozens of awesome features in our to-do list which will be added for free in the future releases.
Thank you! Sincerely yours, gVectors Team
The full package of add-ons which was purchased for this site includes 18 add-ons, each of which has a full page of features. We have only added 4 of these add-ons. We probably don’t want ALL 18 of them, based on feedback from users here, but we definitely want MORE OF THEM, because some features in some of the add-ons appear to answer requests and complaints from users.
I say “appear to”, because some of these bells and whistles are ANNOYING. Some are “less so”.
Sometimes we have to TRY SOMETHING OUT to see if we like it.
I don’t THINK that top page numbering of comments is possible through these features, but we don’t really know positively until we’ve dug into them. wpDiscuz is full of interesting surprises.
My plan is to – as quickly as possible – install more of the add-ons and tweak the features ON or OFF, etc., to obtain a STABLE commenting system. It is after THAT system is obtained, that I will begin making slower code changes – securely and according to design – that will address any desires not fixable through the add-ons themselves.
Please use this thread as much as possible to register your thoughts, opinions, suggestions, and observations regarding the new features as they roll out. I will sticky this intermittently as I add new features, so that people can find it easily. Don’t be afraid to speak up.
Well, maybe that’s a bit of an overstatement. Maybe a bit of a bad attribution. Maybe a bit poetic.
If anybody thinks Andrew Torba of Gab isn’t leading the way to freedom, they’re not being honest. But the President Washington of MAGA certainly helped.
This is simple, yet seems complicated because it’s very new and mind-altering, so stay with me.
None of this would have been possible without Trump. Let’s be honest. The communists did their best to destroy Gab, but – HAHAHA – because Trump held the socialist scum off at the pass – long enough that Gab was able to save themselves – Gab is about to destroy communism (knock on wood).
Well – it’s more like Gab is going to make their liddle communist lives QUITE miserable, but that’s almost the same thing
I’ve already made the first comment at this site:
If you’re interested in trying it, follow along.
PLEASE NOTE that this ADDED layer of commenting will NOT replace our WordPress discussion, but it will likely augment it.
Here is the Dissenter homepage:
After you log in, you get this screen:
At this point, you can click on “Download” in the upper left-hand corner, and go to this page, where you can select your browser extension:
Just follow the directions. You will get a “green G plus speech bubbles” button in your browser. See my first comment again:
Click on the green button, and the window pops up to see comments.
Whether this works for all platforms, browser, devices, etc., I do not know. We will just have to find out. But I think it’s already working very nicely in the Brave browser on the desktop.
You can also get to any URL to comment, through the Dissenter homepage.
The Dissenter homepage even has several ways to get to current “hot” articles. There are lists, but there is also a scrolling banner at the top.
Basically, it becomes like the Drudge Report WITH comments.
What this means is that you don’t even need the browser extension. Just go to dissenter.com and start commenting.
If there is already a discussion, you join it. Otherwise, you start it.
Here is what one looks like:
In other words, they’re talking about a Twitter post (has its own URL) in a dimension that TWITTER does not control.
Here is a Gab post on Twitter (has a URL) being discussed:
Whoops – can’t see that comment – let’s try lower….
Here is discussion of a Twitter tweet about a Spectator article about Facebook banning people:
The thing is, I can also click on the Tweet itself IN DISSENTER and go straight to the ARTICLE itself. Indeed, I was the first person to comment at THAT URL:
Look more closely at the Dissenter window:
What I said is important.
Notice that I can go BACK to the Dissenter homepage and see this comment:
What you are seeing here is FREE SPEECH going TOTALLY META on the ASS of controlled speech.
5:5?
The whole thing feels revolutionary. To quote Flep – who fortuitously said this today……
NO ####### SHIT!!!
Welcome to the WALLS FALLING DOWN!!!
W
FREEDOM. It’s back in style.
PS – extra points for figuring out why the opening image seems weird. -Wolf
PPS – MOAR NEWS!
Gab has just updated its join policy – NO INVITATION NEEDED.
What if I told you that free speech was about to strike back hard against censorship by Silicon Valley, using a simple but profound revolution in technology that can only be invented – and cannot be uninvented?
What if I told you that this PROJECT was based on an IDEA that should have been seen long ago, except that a kind of large-scale MIND CONTROL had prevented us from actually SEEING it?
I saved this tweet as an image, so Twitter can never destroy this moment.
Imagine. You cannot be banned from commenting on a site, because the FREE DISCUSSION of the site is no longer in the hands of the SITE or the hands of Silicon Valley Tech Censors. It is in the hands of people whose JOB it is to allow FREE SPEECH.
This is why I call it the BANHATTAN PROJECT. It NUKES the censors. You CANNOT BE BANNED from what will undoubtedly be THE most vigorous and unrestrained discussion of all.
And it will be ALL OVER THE INTERNET. There will even be a GAB LEVEL for every post here, where OTHERS (including ourselves, perhaps) can discuss things even more freely than we do here.
This is a revolutionary idea, and one that I eagerly support.
One thing I am counting on is the BRAVE BROWSER helping to back freedom of speech by backing the extension. Other browsers may make it hard to use the Gab commenting extension but BRAVE is likely to fight Gab less than anybody, and possibly even HELP them deploy the new extension.
One of the things I find incredibly interesting is the fact that this idea didn’t appear sooner. The question is WHY NOT?
In my opinion, the same reason Gab had to appear. We took free speech for granted, even as it disappeared.
Looking forward to this Gab comment extension very much.
