It has been a week since Mathchan has been launched into existence - last Saturday on Christmas, 25th of December 2021. Today, it's New Year's eve. Mathchan wishes you all a Happy New Year! We hope you continue following us as we make this website ever more useful and, hopefully by the end 2022, we will make it feature complete and bug free.
To celebrate this occasion, Mathchan implemented a new feature today - one without which Mathchan would certainly be unusable: instantaneous post prevewing. The feature is toggled by checking the
Preview Post check box, or by pressing
ALT + P while focused inside the comment text field. Upon activation, a new section will appear rendered identically as it would be if you posted it. Almost all of Mathchan's markup can be rendered instantaneously. The commands that cannot be rendered instantaneously are the ones which require server rendering, such as
\chemfig{...} and
\tikzpicture{...}. To render these, simply
stop typing for 25 seconds and they will be automatically rendered too.
In the first week of our existence, we were raided by the folks from Soyjak Party. Because they are among the first users of Mathchan (and thus Mathchan's historical oldfags), I have banned
none of them - in fact, two global emojis were added in order to honor your legacy to this website - soyjak
and thrembo
. In addition, to accommodate our visiting guests from Soyjak Party better, a new board -
/ret/ - Retards - was created. Users from Soyjak Party are welcome to continue their ironic funposting in
/ret/ - Retards and
/test/ - Testing/Spamming boards, as well as voice their criticism against the scientific establishment in
/sss/ - Stuff Scientists Say board.
That is all for today.
Once again, happy new year!
