# Test thread — to test things out. Do not lock!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 27, 2021, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736 "2021-12-27T18:05:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/626 "2024-09-26T13:37:09Z")

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`$\color{#FF00FF}\text{Test test test testarooney}$`  
\color{#FF00FF}\text{Test test test testarooney}  
`$\color{#00FF00}\text{Test test test testarooney}$`  
\color{#00FF00}\text{Test test test testarooney}

So you can produce _any_ of the 256x256x256 = 16,777,216 posible RGB colors. Of which 140 have well-known pre-defined HTML names per my cite upthread.

No point in further experiments on available colors; the answer is they’re _all_ available.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/627 "2024-09-26T17:19:27Z")

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What I see is different from what you describe. In LATEX the L is not subscripted and the A is not superscripted.

Screen capture —→

[![](https://i.imgur.com/sAAmEm1.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/sAAmEm1.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/628 "2024-09-26T19:06:06Z")

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words for discourse

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cVFRxMLTEE8/maxresdefault.jpg "Zeytinyağlı Taze FASULYE Tarifi 💯 En Lezzetli Zeytinyağlı Fasulye Yemeği Nasıl Yapılır❗️") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVFRxMLTEE8)

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**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/629 "2024-09-26T19:09:21Z")

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Hmmm - I was struggling to embed that earlier. For the record, I had tried adding/ to the url, then /2, /3, /4…(then I gave up). But it worked fine with just /

Odd

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**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/630 "2024-09-28T00:16:01Z")

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I prefer to call it a “misfire.”

Tripler  
Not quite a ‘dud’ though.

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/631 "2024-10-01T20:40:01Z")

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Testing article preview. Not a gift link.

Why Do So Many Women Wear Giant Eyeglasses?

[https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/style/oversized-glasses-frames-women.html?smid=nytcore-android-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/style/oversized-glasses-frames-women.html?smid=nytcore-android-share)

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Why aren’t article previews showing up anymore. They always have up to now.

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/632 "2024-10-01T20:45:07Z")

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Another test with WaPo

[https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/09/28/jewish-high-holidays-recipes-brisket-kugel-challah/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/09/28/jewish-high-holidays-recipes-brisket-kugel-challah/)

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Okay, can somebody tell me what’s up?

I’m posting from my Android phone.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/633 "2024-10-01T20:48:38Z")

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Looks like a Discourse bug. NYTimes is returning error code 403, which basically means they recognize the request but refuse to respond to it. Discourse has to access NYTimes to get the preview material (image and text snippet), but that’s failing.

Normally I’d say the bug is on the NYTimes side but with WaPo failing too, I wonder. Still, other sites seem to work:

> **[The politically incorrect guide to saving NASA’s floundering Artemis Program](https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/10/heres-how-to-revive-nasas-artemis-moon-program-with-three-simple-tricks/)**
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> To get somewhere, Artemis must avoid going nowhere.

Weird.

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**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/634 "2024-10-01T20:54:59Z")

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Here’s my attempt at a gift link from the same article.

[https://wapo.st/3ZHpM1y](https://wapo.st/3ZHpM1y)

Here’s just copying the URL from the page.

[https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/09/28/jewish-high-holidays-recipes-brisket-kugel-challah/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/09/28/jewish-high-holidays-recipes-brisket-kugel-challah/)

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/635 "2024-10-01T22:48:19Z")

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Here’s a link to an article in The Atlantic

> **[The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/?gift=QgO_LHw-skz7EqtMG0lcxpelVAvrdcf4OhzXHUuxISM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share)**
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> To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.

That one works.

Supposedly a gift link. A really grim article, BTW.

Maybe the NYTimes and WaPo don’t want people sharing links online. But this has been a fairly recent change…

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/636 "2024-10-02T00:14:51Z")

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For Discourse to construct the preview, the page at the news source has to respond with a lot of typical stuff and no sign of a paywall. Darn few sites do that anymore.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2024, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/637 "2024-10-02T00:22:02Z")

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In principle, all that stuff should be in the HTML header and not subject to a paywall. Discourse’s preview is called “OneBox” and uses the oEmbed/OpenGraph standard. It puts metainformation in the header with names like “og:description”. And this is present in **ThelmaLou** ’s link:

```auto
<meta data-rh="true" property="og:url" content="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/style/oversized-glasses-frames-women.html"/>
<meta data-rh="true" property="og:type" content="article"/>
<meta data-rh="true" property="og:title" content="Why Do So Many Women Wear Giant Eyeglasses?"/>
<meta data-rh="true" property="og:image" content="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/09/27/multimedia/27OPENTHREAD-gvfb/27OPENTHREAD-gvfb-facebookJumbo.jpg"/>
<meta data-rh="true" property="og:image:alt" content="Jenna Lyons arrived at her style of eyewear because she didn’t like the way more delicate designs sat on her face,"/>
<meta data-rh="true" property="og:description" content="A reader wonders why more women start opting for chunky frames at a certain age. Our fashion critic explains the appeal."/>

```

So it’s a mystery why this would stop working.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/638 "2024-10-03T02:40:27Z")

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I’ll try this CNN article.

> **[Jimmy Carter is setting a new record for American presidents. It’s important...](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/09/30/politics/jimmy-carter-presidents-what-matters)**
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> Jimmy Carter sets a new record on October 1, his birthday, when he will become the first American president to reach triple digits.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/639 "2024-10-03T02:40:48Z")

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Yep, that worked.

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2024, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/640 "2024-10-03T02:44:16Z")

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The Atlantic link I posted above worked.

NYTimes & WaPo are the two sources I cite most often, using gift links, and it aggravates me that their previews have stopped working. I hope the gift links still work.

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**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/641 "2024-10-08T13:38:05Z")

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That didn’t work. never mind

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**Author:** ![Win\_Place\_Show](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/win_place_show/32/13469_2.png) [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/642 "2024-10-09T14:03:41Z")

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> [@Breaking news. Iran launches missile attack against Israel: 2024-10-01](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-news-iran-launches-missile-attack-against-israel-2024-10-01/1008344/17):
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> How to Reply as a linked Topic
> 
> Click Reply, in the upper left corner of the reply window is the reply type button, _looks like a curving arrow point to the right_.
> 
> Choose **Reply as linked topic** and it starts a new thread. As an example, you can choose GD, IMHO or The Pit for it.
> 
> That is actually the best method.

Sorry for the weird, random notification W\_E, I was trying to see if there’s a way to reply to a post in a past-tense dormant thread, but have it appear as a reply in a present-tense ongoing thread.

I believe your instructions above would work well if I was wanting to reply to a a post in a past-tense dormant thread, and start my own brand new thread - but that’s actually what I’m trying to avoid.

So what I did here is start a quote-reply of your post in the past-tense thread, copy the html code that pops up in the box, and then I navigated here to ATMB and pasted that html code into a brand new reply box.

_ETA : Damn, looks like it worked. I’m reminded now of the story about the broken clock._

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/643 "2024-10-09T15:19:32Z")

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_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/643))_

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**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/644 "2024-10-09T20:54:53Z")

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Interesting !

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**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/645 "2024-10-09T21:09:53Z")

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How do the “rounds” increment?

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