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

[aceindy]

It would be nice if users could see their level (and requirements) themselves

[petro]

Take that up with Discourse. We just use their software.

[boheme61]

@petro

Once you gain a badge, you never lose it

Good to know you haven’t banned me, do to being “abusive”

[petro]

what are you talking about? You’ve never even been disciplined…

[boheme61]

Ok, but i’ve “crossed the line” a few times, i know that
Sometimes one should not get into deep “emotional” discussions.
I know i should “take a walk” when im in that mood

[Stiltjack]

@aceindy

It would be nice if users could see their level (and requirements) themselves

I think you can have “Regular” appear next to your name in posts. If you’ve got it, flaunt it.

[aceindy]

I lost my regular…didn’t give enough likes

[petro]

You joke, but that’s actually why you lost it. You gained it back, you’re at 31 in 100 days. No reason to be stingy with likes

[aceindy]

I know, Tom told me…

I immediately like his PM

[armedad]

back to the realm of commonly asked questions. this one’s not an exact question, but a whole category:

‘what am i doing wrong, i’m getting: [insert error, for example, extra keys not allowed @ data[name_of_key]’

answer: the issue is… you have an extra key in the ‘data’ block. it’s named name_of_key. it’s not allowed.

reading the error and thinking about it for a minute would get you the answer…

however on the flip side, i get how, for a less technical person, an error that looks like ‘@ data[‘blah blah’]’ can just create a kneejerk reaction.

perhaps a feature request might be to have those errors include an “explain this error” hyperlink that takes it into either a doc or a community contributed guidelines post that explains that error (especially with examples).

[NathanCu (Nathan Curtis)]

@petro

20k posts read in 100 days and only 1 person was able to keep it consistently… which was @francisp.

Yeah, someone reads a LOT of posts. My default view is ‘new’ so I see a lot of posts but @francisp is “la Machine”

[petro]

He’s got ya beat by 6k!

[NathanCu (Nathan Curtis)]

Right?

I read a LOT - I don’t know how he does it.

[petro]

I think @tom_l (when in Antarctica) has everyone beat!

[armedad]

you didn’t see the “auto read discourse” hacs extension?

[NathanCu (Nathan Curtis)]

I tried installing that ‘addon’ from HACS.

It didn’t work… I got some kind of weird error…

@armedad

[insert error, for example, extra keys not allowed @ data[name_of_key

When I put the ‘code’ in my card?

Your stuff sucks - it doesn’t work for me now. And I don’t have any more time to read your docs that explain exactly where to drop the YAML to activate your integration…

[Stiltjack]

And it was fine until the last update.

[FriedCheese (Ryan)]

In that vein:

“I haven’t updated in 7 months…I just did yesterday and XX things broke. Why does HA suck?”

[aceindy]

@FriedCheese

“I haven’t updated in 7 months…I just did yesterday and XX things broke. Why does HA suck?”

Shouldn’t it be: “I haven’t updated in 7 months…I just did yesterday and XX things broke and I don’t have a backup. Do I really have to start all over now?”

[indeeed]

@aceindy

It would be nice if users could see their level

It’s actually visible for you and others in your profile

@aceindy