Forum Issues
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wrote on 12 Apr 2020, 12:02 last edited by
The Barge!
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wrote on 12 Apr 2020, 14:00 last edited by
Awesome place you set up here, Klaus! Much prefer it over Tapatalk.
One issue I came across is the following:
On iPad, I sorted posts to show most recent first. When scrolling down, it started refreshing and jumping around. Very weird. -
wrote on 12 Apr 2020, 14:03 last edited by
Yes, I also noticed that the behavior with regard to jumping to new posts is sometimes different from what I expected and seem a random. I don't control everything. But all technologies used in this forum are supported by a responsive community of developers who are likely to fix any major issues and respond to bug reports etc.
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Awesome place you set up here, Klaus! Much prefer it over Tapatalk.
One issue I came across is the following:
On iPad, I sorted posts to show most recent first. When scrolling down, it started refreshing and jumping around. Very weird.wrote on 12 Apr 2020, 18:51 last edited by@Nunatax
I, too, tried the 'most recent first' sorting, and it was a mess. I find it's actually easier to have the most recent at the bottom. Clicking on a thread with new posts always takes me to the range of the newest posts, or close enough that it's easy to scroll down and find them immediately. -
wrote on 12 Apr 2020, 19:23 last edited by Rainman 4 Dec 2020, 19:27
OK, thanks to you both for stepping up with cash, and of course thanks to Klaus for all the additional work. Pretty cool to do that, this is a great group of people!
I click on the "recent" tab that looks like a clock; Taiwan Girl's suggestion. Also use the caret. Seems those are both for navigation, not sure which is best. I do miss the "next unread thread" used in the old forum. That was handy.
I like the new forum. Klaus has put together a clean template, really looks good!
Edit: next come-around, I'd be more than happy to help pay as I'm sure most that are regular or semi-regular would. -
OK, thanks to you both for stepping up with cash, and of course thanks to Klaus for all the additional work. Pretty cool to do that, this is a great group of people!
I click on the "recent" tab that looks like a clock; Taiwan Girl's suggestion. Also use the caret. Seems those are both for navigation, not sure which is best. I do miss the "next unread thread" used in the old forum. That was handy.
I like the new forum. Klaus has put together a clean template, really looks good!
Edit: next come-around, I'd be more than happy to help pay as I'm sure most that are regular or semi-regular would.wrote on 12 Apr 2020, 19:55 last edited by@Rainman said in Forum Issues:
I click on the "recent" tab that looks like a clock; Taiwan Girl's suggestion. Also use the caret. Seems those are both for navigation, not sure which is best. I do miss the "next unread thread" used in the old forum. That was handy.
At the very top, you'll something that looks like this: your colors might be different - I changed mine:
That tells you how many new posts there are.
When you click on that, you'll see this:
These are all the new posts that you haven't read:
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wrote on 14 Apr 2020, 11:32 last edited by George K
@Klaus said in Forum Issues:
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Here's your spoiler tag!
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Test
[/s]?Not working?
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[/s]Neither is this.
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@Klaus said in Forum Issues:
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Here's your spoiler tag!
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Test
[/s]?Not working?
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[/s]Neither is this.
wrote on 14 Apr 2020, 11:59 last edited by@George-K That's why I removed the posts. I guess you still see them thanks to your mod status. I experimented with two plugins for spoiler support, but there seem to be some compatibility issues with the most recent forum version. I'll keep an eye on it.
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wrote on 14 Apr 2020, 12:04 last edited by
Just have to ‘purge’ after you delete.
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wrote on 15 Apr 2020, 19:00 last edited by George K
Formatting issues mentioned elsewhere.
Is it related to the dollar sign?
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wrote on 15 Apr 2020, 19:06 last edited by
I know the reason for the issue. I'm merely thinking about the best way to get rid of it. Yes, it is related to pairs of dollar signs.
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wrote on 15 Apr 2020, 19:19 last edited by
Fixed the formatting issue for now.
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wrote on 20 Jun 2020, 10:20 last edited by
Some people have trouble viewing embedded Youtube videos.
I've changed the way YT videos are embedded in that a link to open the video in a separate window is always added below the video.
For instance, here's a random YT video. You should see a link below the embedded video.
Link to videoPlease let me know if this solves the problem or creates any new problems I'm not aware of.
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wrote on 20 Jun 2020, 10:24 last edited by
For the other admins (and myself, if I forget later on): If this ever makes problems, what I changed is a rule of the "Embed" plugin. I added the part that starts with "<a href=...".
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wrote on 20 Jun 2020, 11:07 last edited by
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wrote on 5 Jul 2020, 18:37 last edited by Klaus 7 May 2020, 18:38
I'll experiment with the Twitter support of the forum a little to make it more reliable. Tweet embedding may not work properly at random times.
I may have to reboot the forum once or twice, which means that the forum may be unavailable for a few minutes.
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wrote on 5 Jul 2020, 18:41 last edited by
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wrote on 5 Jul 2020, 18:50 last edited by
OK, this seems to work. I'm now using a different, hopefully more robust way of embedding tweets.
I've also added a "Link to Tweet" link under every embedded Twitter post, so if for whatever reason the tweet is not embedded, you can click on the link.
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wrote on 6 Jul 2020, 06:35 last edited by
Klaus, the "Link to Tweet" is an OK solution. The problem as far as I was concerned once I realized I could see the link if quoting, was that a new user would be confused with posts that appeared to be blank. Initially I thought a viewer had to have their own Twitter account to access anything on Twitter. Guess not!
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