Forum Issues

[Nunatax]

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.

[Klaus]

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.

[brenda]

@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.

[Rainman]

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.

[George K]

@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:

[George K]

@Klaus said in Forum Issues:

[s=Spoiler]
Here's your spoiler tag!
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[s=Spoiler]
Test
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?Not working?

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Test
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Neither is this.

[Klaus]

@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.

[jon-nyc]

Just have to ‘purge’ after you delete.

[George K]

Formatting issues mentioned elsewhere.

Is it related to the dollar sign?

[Klaus]

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.

[Klaus]

Fixed the formatting issue for now.

[Klaus]

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 video

Please let me know if this solves the problem or creates any new problems I'm not aware of.

[Klaus]

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=...".

[Axtremus]

[Klaus]

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.

[Klaus]

[Klaus]

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.

[Rainman]

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!

[Klaus]

@Rainman do embedded Tweets still not show up when you use the forum?

Do they a) never show up or b) sometimes show up? What OS/browser do you use?

If you click on this link, does a bunch of computer code show up?

[taiwan_girl]

@Klaus said in Forum Issues:

@Rainman do embedded Tweets still not show up when you use the forum?

Do they a) never show up or b) sometimes show up? What OS/browser do you use?

If you click on this link, does a bunch of computer code show up?

I know I am not Rainman, but I will answer in my experience.

Embedded Tweets have always shown top
I use iMac 10.14.6
When I click on the link, a bunch of code does show up