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Ben Halpern

A Canadian software developer who thinks he’s funny. He/Him.

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Webmaster at Forem

"Display Ads" will be renamed "Billboards" in the near future
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"Display Ads" will be renamed "Billboards" in the near future

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The *hardcoded* concept of "sponsorships" is being removed
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The *hardcoded* concept of "sponsorships" is being removed

#product #changelog #features
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A new community space for open source maintainers and contributors! 🚀
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A new community space for open source maintainers and contributors! 🚀

#newforemlaunch
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Interested in high performance programming on the LLVM? There's a new community for you.
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Interested in high performance programming on the LLVM? There's a new community for you.

#newforemlaunch
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This is Exciting: A New Destination for All Things DevOps
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This is Exciting: A New Destination for All Things DevOps

#newforemlaunch
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Interested in getting deeper into Web Components?
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Interested in getting deeper into Web Components?

#newforemlaunch
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Call to action for all VS Code users!
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Call to action for all VS Code users!

#newforemlaunch #meta
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It is great to see what Wasm Builders is becoming
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It is great to see what Wasm Builders is becoming

#newforemlaunch #meta
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Have a Community-Powered Earth Day 🌍
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Have a Community-Powered Earth Day 🌍

#newforemlaunch #meta
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Interested in the social impact you can have as a developer? Read this post.
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Interested in the social impact you can have as a developer? Read this post.

#newforemlaunch #meta
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Web3 Enthusiasts Have a Home: MetaPunk
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Web3 Enthusiasts Have a Home: MetaPunk

#newforemlaunch #meta
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Curious about content-driven micropayments? You may want to join the Web Monetization Community
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Curious about content-driven micropayments? You may want to join the Web Monetization Community

#meta #newforemlaunch
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Interested in learning more about Commercial Open Source? There’s a Forem for that.
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Interested in learning more about Commercial Open Source? There’s a Forem for that.

#meta #newforemlaunch
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If you’re interested in WebAssembly, and don’t get enough depth on DEV, read this…
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If you’re interested in WebAssembly, and don’t get enough depth on DEV, read this…

#meta #newforemlaunch
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Feed test experiment 5 results: Tag point summing leads to mixed results.
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Feed test experiment 5 results: Tag point summing leads to mixed results.

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Feed test experiment 4 results: "Final ordering" helps close the loop on feed quality.
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Feed test experiment 4 results: "Final ordering" helps close the loop on feed quality.

#feedalgorithm #product #growth
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Feed test experiment 3 results: A bit more comment weight results in better retention
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Feed test experiment 3 results: A bit more comment weight results in better retention

#discuss #feedalgorithm #product #growth
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Feed test experiment 2 results: New query strategy has pulled even
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Feed test experiment 2 results: New query strategy has pulled even

#discuss #product #feedalgorithm
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Podcast page improvements
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Podcast page improvements

#changelog
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Use bin/untranslated_erb to find hardcoded text that could be moved to i18n files.
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Use bin/untranslated_erb to find hardcoded text that could be moved to i18n files.

#backend #requestforcontribution #i18n
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Deprecation: Removing "Events"
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Deprecation: Removing "Events"

#features #changelog #deprecation
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Forem: Open for Internationalization
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Forem: Open for Internationalization

#backend #frontend #i18n #テストタグ
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Our pace of UI improvements is picking up... Make sure you keep your Forems regularly updated!
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Our pace of UI improvements is picking up... Make sure you keep your Forems regularly updated!

#selfhost #design #features
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Deprecating "Connect" (chat)
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Deprecating "Connect" (chat)

#features #connect #changelog
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DigitalOcean: forem-traefik.service: Job forem-traefik.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
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DigitalOcean: forem-traefik.service: Job forem-traefik.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.

#help #selfhost
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How Cumulative Layout Shift needs to be considered in Forem development
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How Cumulative Layout Shift needs to be considered in Forem development

#frontend
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Happy New Year
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Happy New Year

#watercooler
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Forem Browser Extension v0.1.3 is live
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Forem Browser Extension v0.1.3 is live

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Forem Progress and expectations for the rest of the year and into 2021
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Forem Progress and expectations for the rest of the year and into 2021

#meta
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Results of implementing Puma's nakayoshi_fork on Forem
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Results of implementing Puma's nakayoshi_fork on Forem

#optimizations #dev #ruby #rails
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Congrats to the.community.club on being the latest Forem to go live!
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Congrats to the.community.club on being the latest Forem to go live!

#newforemlaunch
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The Forem extension is available in the Chrome store
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The Forem extension is available in the Chrome store

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Let's close the loop on @ mention autocomplete in comments
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Let's close the loop on @ mention autocomplete in comments

#frontend #design
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Community activity box?
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Community activity box?

#frontend #design
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Forem Browser Extension to allow "unlisted" or "private" Forems onto sidebar....
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Forem Browser Extension to allow "unlisted" or "private" Forems onto sidebar....

#ecosystem #browserextension
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Forem "meta tags" have just shipped....
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Forem "meta tags" have just shipped....

#changelog #ecosystem
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feed_strategy: Coming soon to a forem near you.
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feed_strategy: Coming soon to a forem near you.

#feedalgorithm #admintooling
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Forem visual customization
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Forem visual customization

#design #admintooling
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New "starter state" coming soon
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New "starter state" coming soon

#admintooling
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Explore Poxa as an open Pusher implementation?
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Explore Poxa as an open Pusher implementation?

#systems #foremcloud #foss #realtime
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How to properly enable multiple call-to-action buttons in nav bar...
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How to properly enable multiple call-to-action buttons in nav bar...

#design #admintooling
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Moving from ENV to database-backed config
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Moving from ENV to database-backed config

#systems #backend #foremcloud #admintooling
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One cool thing about private forems.
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One cool thing about private forems.

#feedalgorithm #features #product
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Changes made to forem browser extension.
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Changes made to forem browser extension.

#changelog #ecosystem
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Is the browser extension working for anyone?
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Is the browser extension working for anyone?

#ecosystem
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What's the state of ApplicationConfig and ENVied, etc?
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What's the state of ApplicationConfig and ENVied, etc?

#help #systems
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"I'm stuck" — should this be a forem.dev #help thread or a GitHub issue?
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"I'm stuck" — should this be a forem.dev #help thread or a GitHub issue?

#meta
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We can run Forem without the Lambda dependency
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We can run Forem without the Lambda dependency

#foremcloud #systems #feedalgorithm
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Has anyone used the browser extension?
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Has anyone used the browser extension?

#ecosystem
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How should Forem do versioning?
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How should Forem do versioning?

#versioning #foremcloud #selfhost #deployment
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Is the approach to privacy within the forem browser extension valid?
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Is the approach to privacy within the forem browser extension valid?

#security #ecosystem
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I'll be adding some "language" docs
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I'll be adding some "language" docs

#product #documentation #headsup
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Let's do this
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Let's do this

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