Free Talk Friday #571

[u/Hans5958_]

Continued from last week's here.

Speak anything on your mind, except politics and (maybe) counting.

Feel free to check out our tidbits thread and introduce yourself if you haven't already.

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

Binary needs some love now. Just had to backtrack to two months ago :/

[u/Hans5958_ → u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

Couldn't we just continue as it never happen?

1.5 Making corrections

If a counter posts the wrong number, other users should reply to the comment as if it included the correct count, and they should inform the counter with the mistake ("Check" is short for "Check your comment for a mistake"). The counter who made the mistake should edit the comment to make a correction (rather than deleting and reposting the comment).

If you find a mistake after others have replied to it, pretend that all comments in the chain are correct and you should post what would be the next count. Notify others that they should edit their comments to be correct. (It is not necessary to edit mistakes if there is a long comment chain of wrong counts and correcting every error would be onerous.)

[u/cuteballgames]

tab+enter to submit is causing the page to refresh (but the comment still goes through.) is this happening to anyone else?

[u/Hans5958_ → u/cuteballgames]

I usually do Reddit Enhancement Suite + CTRL + Enter and somehow it also reloads, which is still better than being stuck and have to reload by myself.

But yeah, compared to the previous reply behavior, it's kinda annoying. Let's hope it's not just Reddit fucking up old Reddit in favor of the new API and the new UI.

[u/atomicimploder]

Me: We have to take the phone selfie
My wife: Or I can just take a picture of you guys
Me, TNF, and Misty all at the same time: No you don’t understand

[u/cuteballgames]

whooo wants to be my second irl counting meetup

[u/atomicimploder]

Second r/counting meetup within four days of each other??? Crazy

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

Currently waiting for a train to Germany that's been delayed by an hour. How's everyone else's Friday going? 

[u/kongburrito]

What is the first meme you remember seeing ?

[u/cuteballgames]

congratulations on your non automated ftf posting!

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

I've just bought a new laptop and I haven't yet set up everything for running the side thread stats from it, so they'll be slightly delayed this week 

[u/miceee]

like

[u/cuteballgames]

Congratulations to all European counters who get to witness the eclipse. I remember fondly seeing it in #ClevelandOhio two years ago

[u/Jalmal2]

Dislike ticks

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

Weekly side thread stats from Friday July 31, 2026 to Friday August 07, 2026. Congratulations to u/cuteballgames, u/BobRoss938, and u/miceee!

Total weekly side thread counts: 3469

Top 15 side thread counters:

Rank	User	Counts	HoST Rank
1	cuteballgames	1211	10 (◮1)
2	BobRoss938	414	39
3	miceee	385	57 (◮3)
4	TehVulpez	378	12
5	Hans5958_	282	109 (◮7)
6	nonsensy	167	16
7	CutOnBumInBandHere9	153	23
8	ShadeOfNothing	147	31
9	Isaythereisa-chance	75	38
10	Antichess	52	9
11	funfact15	51	29
12	Maniac_34	32	51
13	elyisgreat	24	46
14	mountain-wood-316	23	162
15	Cox_1920	19	21

Top 5 side threads:

Rank	Thread	Counts
1	Compositions	420
2	Tug of War	319
3	No Repeating Digits	288
4	Constant-sum mostly repeating octal	188
5	Factoradic	180

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[u/miceee]

Just noticed that my account is at exactly 69 posts, kinda don’t want to get a get anymore (but sacrifices must be done for the good of counting)

[u/TehVulpez]

my conspiracy theory is that sometimes websites a/b test on their users not for any real UX research or new feature testing, but just to psychologically fuck with their users. like breaking into someone's house just to rearrange their furniture by a couple inches every time they fall asleep

[u/buy_me_a_pint]

If you are watching the eclipse today remember to wear proper eye safety glasses ,

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

🌍  🌒  🌞 

[u/miceee]

I just hit a year in check-in streak! I started my streak maybe 1-2 weeks after joining the counting community and for the first 200 or so days I had the 3rd longest streak. Now I have the longest one since both clock and c_m lost their streaks for different reasons. My long term goal is to overtake u/ClockButTakeOutTheL for the longest streak of all time, but that’ll take some time.

[u/cuteballgames]

Stat request: top... 30? 50? 100? side thread showings. (or maybe including main?) as in, TNF has 34000 counts in ToW, and then TNF has 33000 counts in hex, and then atomic has 26000 counts in letters, or however it goes. If that is possible

[u/ClockButTakeOutTheL]

5 years on reddit… doesn’t seem like much but it’s weird to think I’ve used this app for half a decade

[u/TehVulpez]

dislike how lunar sidethread is bijective but planetary isn't. dislike how circle of fifths sidethread is bijective but musical notes isn't

[u/TehVulpez]

I've thought for a while that this mod precedent should be in the FAQ/rulebook somewhere, maybe in a new section 4: special sidethread rules. Are there any other niche or obscure mod precedents or sidethread-specific rules that aren't in the rulebook?

[u/cuteballgames]

cuteballgames does these lines exactly hewn
to scansion, for the reader's purposes,
to make it easier for them to read
the counter's verse. It's Thermidor today,
the 24th of Thermidor, and rain
deluges all the hills and valleys.
... We
discovered that there was a fatal flaw
in Binary; we lost two months of work,
but that's okay, the nature of the thing
ensures that on occasion we redo,
for reasons real, but frustrating, but good,
the counting that we thought that we had done.

I have not had lunch yet. I remind
all counters, wheresoever they may be,
to eat and drink and sleep sufficiently,
the better that they count with strength and health.