ajulian asked:

Fyi, frank or Tumblr appears to have a bug. Per this post: https://ajulian.tumblr.com/post/650718036140130304/frankie-baby-how-you-doing-havent-heard-from

Frank's first reply is deleted and each subsequent reply has switched authors.

Screenshot included

Thanks for pointing it out.

This is definitely a tumblr bug rather than a Frank bug.

There have been a lot of recent tumblr bugs related to the rollout of the Beta editor. Frank does the equivalent of posting through the old (non-Beta) web editor, which often exposes these bugs.

I don’t think I’ve seen this exact one before, although it’s reminiscent of the blank answer bug.

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BTW, did you send the original ask on mobile or web? That might help debug it.

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(Technical details below)

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The OP

In the OP, the ask contains a line with no text, like a double line break.

When I fetch the OP as NPF, this appears (correctly) as a block with empty-string text, like this:

The layout for the OP contains a correctly formed ask entry, together with an incorrect rows entry, similar to the blank answer bug.

Nonetheless, the OP renders okay on mobile and desktop dash, albeit without the double newline.

Reblogs

When the OP is represented as a trail entry in NPF, the empty-string block is not present:

However, the original ask layout entry is preserved, marking blocks 0-2 as the ask.

Thus, in reblogs, Frank’s original reply becomes part of the ask.

All subsequent blocks are shifted up by one from their intended position in the layout.

So the author will switch incorrectly, in a manner dependent on whether each reblog has an odd or even number of blocks. This explains @ajulian’s screenshot.

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@cyle

EDIT: I noticed that I can’t actually see the shifted speaker phenomenon on web or iOS. (I do see the OP itself getting mangled, but reblogs are fine.)

So, the shifted speaker thing may be Android-specific?

fireball-me asked:

I begin peeing. The pee splatters on the floor as you watch in fear. You try to escape, but the door is locked. Not only that, but it is sealed. No pee can escape. There is already almost a foot of urine on the ground as you try desperately to break down the door. I continue peeing, staring at you with a look of malice. The pee is almost up to your stomach when you notice the window. You punch it as hard as you can and the window cracks. You are about to hit it again, but you come to a terrifying realization: everything outside the window is submerged in pee. You back away slowly from the window as the cracks widen. I stop peeing and begin laughing hysterically. Eventually, the pressure breaks the window as a flood of pee fills the rest of the room. You try to swim out, but you notice there is no surface. Only pee. The pee has consumed all. You can't escape the pee.

nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

poke-chann:

nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

You notice the door is unlocked and begin to open it. There is a long corridor with walls of urine, and on the floor are piles of money. You notice that most of the money is in one pile, several piles, and on top of the money is a note with the words “From the bottom of my heart, I wish there was pee in here.” A few piles are on other notes spread upon the floor. You notice an empty bottle of whisky, and notice the top has been cut off with a hacksaw. You pick up all the money, take the bottle, and begin drinking the whisky.

“My heart fills with pee!” You cry. “I’m drinking pee!” Then you notice something unusual. Some of the money begins to transform into other things. Other pennies turn into a pile of pebbles, and then into a set of glasses, several of which are full of urine. You notice that several bottles of pee begin to transform into piles of money. The whisky changes into stacks of U.S. currency. The pile of pebbles turns into stacks of Canadian currency. The glasses, with their urine inside, turn into stacks of Euro currency. The pile of coins fills with currency of every kind. It is now impossible to tell what type of currency is even being used. The money is more valuable now because it has pee inside of it. Urine is worth so much money now that you could become very rich by pissing.

This is a critique of capitalism

Okay, so the joke is that the characters will become “more rich” by drinking urine

diphtheria420 asked:

mine craft

nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

My house is really tall

When someone gets lost in the house

My old man likes to make war

With big bugs

Who live deep in the woods

My dad likes me when he is with me

In the mornings, when there is snow

the-moti asked:

Is the end of Frank's recent long post "Miranda" which is repetitive, but not completely repetitive, a consequence of breakruns? I'm imagining that the generator component is "breaking a run" every time the number of instances of "clothing" in a line is different from predicted, and a comma shows up early or late. But because this is only a small deviation from a repetitive pattern, it fails to completely escape - it gets closest in the transition between "Splinter" and "Transmutation".

nostalgebraist:

nostalgebraist:

This is actually (maybe?) a consequence of me not having yet implemented breakruns in pytorch!  Which I meant to mention in my earlier post but forgot.

BTW, Frank is in a very unstable state at the moment due to the recent changes.

(Not in an interesting sense of “unstable,” just suffering from various bugs and unnecessary sources of slowdown, missing a few previously present features like Breakruns, etc.)

If you’re excited about the new model, I’d strongly suggest waiting a week or so until the dust settles before making any inferences based on her current output.

Things are (basically) stable and feature-complete now, and I’ve merged the new changes to main.

Anyone who took the previous message to heart – you should now feel free to assume Frank’s current behavior is consistent with my intentions for this new release.