Why are people asking the same questions over and over again? (Or the Regulars' Chatroom) 🤷

[ShadowFist]

Side note. Any of you regulars or mods ever seen this before? You can’t quote an entire post, even if it’s just 1 sentence?

[NathanCu (Nathan Curtis)]

Yeah I have @ShadowFist

Delete the last character in the quote it stops complaining.

[francisp (Francis)]

Yes, I have.

[ShadowFist]

The one time my fat fingers actually copied all the text on mobile, and the damn system doesn’t let me enjoy the moment

[petro]

The system has been doing that for years.

[NathanCu (Nathan Curtis)]

@petro

The system has been doing that for years

What…? not letting us enjoy the moments?

Totally agree @petro

[petro]

@NathanCu

@petro

The system has been doing that for years

What…? not letting us enjoy the moments?

Totally agree @petro

If you know how to game the system, you can make it work

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

no!

[tom_l]

This is going to need a major edit next release with the introduction of labels, categories and floors.

Organising and annotating automations

Automations multiply very quickly, and although it may seem obvious what you are trying to achieve while you’re writing one, three months later, when you come to make a change, it won’t be obvious at all. The sooner you adopt a systematic approach to organising them, the easier your life will be. How you organise them is up to you - everyone has their own system - but consistency is important. Here are a few options. Naming Give automations names that include a bit of context, and bear in mind…

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

True. There are also trigger_id’s that I often use to name or document the trigger even if I don’t use the elsewhere in the yaml. They show up nice in the trace when troubleshooting. Plus there are template comments. I’ll work on those 2.

There are always more edits to do.

[ShadowFist]

Yay, looks like I’m now officially a Regular. I knew all that fibre in my diet would eventually pay off!

[Stiltjack]

@tom_l

This is going to need a major edit next release with the introduction of labels, categories and floors.

I expect it will just disappear.

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

That’s pretty optimistic…

[Stiltjack]

Although five people seem to have dropped off the list. This is like living over the San Andreas fault.

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

Got to keep reading, liking, posting to get likes, all the things.
I had everything for a coupe of months and didn’t know why not… Found out I had to read 50 posts, so I read a couple hundred. Next day…

Now I just turn on a couple of topics I think I can help in to read all, and it takes care of itself. Being retired gives me time to read them, though.

Also having it post the flag by my name it to make sure I notice if I drop, not so much for others.

[code-in-progress (Bill - I write code.)]

@Sir_Goodenough

Being retired gives me time to read them, though.

I was wondering how you were getting to so many posts so quickly… lol

[francisp (Francis)]

I have dropped before, it just happens.

[Stiltjack]

@Sir_Goodenough

Got to keep reading, liking, posting to get likes

Aaaaaaargh!

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

That’s funny…
You dropped when you were the ONLY one able to read enough stuff to stay on, and the minimum was at 20000 reads or something. That’s now set at 500, so we slackers could compete with you…

It started a while back when I was trying to add a tag, and you and the mods were the only ones with the ability, but there there were tens of thousands of members. Mods decided the limits were a bit out of wack…

[francisp (Francis)]

And still I had to ask a question today. And I should have known, just didn’t see it. (And had not tested it in a real situation)