New forum bugs

Looks like the spel cheker has been re-instated !!

Thanks

Don

Once more with feeling...Which icons should I see populating the black header banner?

Thanks,

G

GraemeH posted:

Once more with feeling...Which icons should I see populating the black header banner?

Thanks,

G

 

On my Firefox enabled Thinkpad, I see from left to right

Forums

Music Room

Hi-Fi Corner

Streaming Audio

Home Theatre

Store

Activity

Q

+

My Avatar

My Name

Hi Graeme

I think it depends on what device you are looking at the forum. When I look on a PC it looks rather like it did before with buttons along the bottom of the black area.

But on an iPad or iPhone the only thing on the black area is an icon of three horizontal bars. If you tap that, you get a vertical menu which gives you all the choices that were there without tapping on the old forum.  You have to tap again to make the menu go away.  Apparently three taps on an iPad instead of one on a PC, or one tap on an iPad before the "upgrade", is all part of Zoopla's attempt to make it look and feel the same regardless of what device you are using.

best

David

Thanks Don, I see none of those, and thanks David, that explains it.

G

Frenchnaim posted:

Jan-Erik Nordoen posted:

1. Remove gray background and offset of every second post (this is confusing as every second reply looks like a quoted post)

Thank you

Jan

+1

+1

Perhaps someone told Hoopla to mark odd/even posts with different colours and their framework doesn't support this, so they came up with a "workaround": every second post is indented like a quote and there is a separation line only after every second post. This is at least as it appears on Mac and iPad.

This is so irritating, please turn it off!

...lets be really honest,Richard et al are grown ups thus don't need protecting with unnecessarily generous/tolerant feedback, the new format is terrible! It isn't better,it isn't an improvement...it is compromised and unlike the eponymous product development profile is not a step forward!

There is nothing more frustrating than change that doesn't herald improvement...

However,we have  limited options...leave or suck it up.

When writing a new post there doesn't seem to be a facility for abandoning and not posting - it appears that once you've stared a new post you have no option but to post it, and then delete if you've decided against it.

Also, on my iPad it seems very ready to paste whatever's saved to the clipboard (eg something from some other activity that I've copied for whatever reason), without any intention on my part to paste. It's probably something I'm brushing against unintentionally, but it's happened several times in only a few posts on the new system, whereas it never happened before - if no-one else reports the same then it must be me, but if others report the same it may be worthy of exploration.

Mike-B posted:

Derek Wright posted:

Dates on posts older than a few days are in the US date format not the UK format - the correct format could be determined from the location country - or assumed to be UK as this is a UK based community.

Hi Derek,  there was a post on this yesterday,  my dates show as formatted in European DD/MM/YY

My profile is set as GMT & my forum join date is correct including the month being spelt. 

I looked around to see if there was a way to change it,  including changing my location in my profile to USA & it did not cause a change.  One thought on a possible fix is in your profile settings (maybe).  It now has some new lines that are required to be completed such as post code & country (all are for internal use & nothing is displayed)  maybe with this section incomplete it places you in a default USA & if you do complete this section it will correct your date format.

Hi Mike - Just checked my profile and I see the same type of settings as you suggest.

Ps Apologies for the quote quote

PPS I spent many years beating up US based developers to get them to understand that each country may have it's own format of address, date, paper size, date format, measurement system, even it unique characters eg é, ê etc. The only way to really get them to understand was to forbid them to use the letter S in all correspondence.   

Derek Wright posted:

PPS I spent many years beating up US based developers to get them to understand that each country may have it's own format of address, date, paper size, date format, measurement system, even it unique characters eg é, ê etc. The only way to really get them to understand was to forbid them to use the letter S in all correspondence.   

Tell me about it !!!!   Before I retired I worked for a US company,  apart from the usual date issues, it was fun to watch the blank vacant looks when discussing technical issues.  (we design & mnft refrigeration equipment,  our US colleges were all degrees F,  BTU's & inches;  in Europe we work in Kelvin (the Celsius scale but starting at absolute zero - 0'c = 273'k)  joule & metres)

It interesting to note US Customs & Border Control has been using DD/MM/YY since so long I can't remember   

Mike-B posted:

A few other ways to abandon a post

Press the "Undo" arrow a few times

Left click & drag a hightlight across the post & press delete

Change the screen - e.g.  go from HiFi Corner to Music Room - the post is lost

Excellent Mike.

Should be added to the dictionary definition of "a Balls Up"

When I hit the back to top button after the last post in a thread, it does in deed go too the top but not quite ALL the way, so a couple of lines of movement are needed to access the info in he top grey box.

jfritzen posted:

Frenchnaim posted:

Jan-Erik Nordoen posted:

1. Remove gray background and offset of every second post (this is confusing as every second reply looks like a quoted post)

Thank you

Jan

+1

+1

Perhaps someone told Hoopla to mark odd/even posts with different colours and their framework doesn't support this, so they came up with a "workaround": every second post is indented like a quote and there is a separation line only after every second post. This is at least as it appears on Mac and iPad.

This is so irritating, please turn it off!

The indent is just done by some simple CSS:

article.post-box:nth-child(2n) {
    background: #ddd none repeat scroll 0 0;
    padding: 20px;
}

Every second article is given a grey background. Without the padding the text touches the border of the box what does not look that good. So I guess this was the reason for them to give the box a padding of 20px on all sides. If you remove this padding the indentation is gone.

Maybe they should find another solution to separate the articles. They could pack each article into the same box style (like a tile) with some background-color and the same padding regardless of odd or even articles. The sparation then could be done by some spacing (margin) between the article tiles.

Can we keep this thread to actual bugs that you are experiencing rather than issues of format or presentation, thanks.

BigH47 posted:

When I hit the back to top button after the last post in a thread, it does in deed go too the top but not quite ALL the way, so a couple of lines of movement are needed to access the info in he top grey box.

i find this too. but i have gotten into the habit of just hitting CTRL+Home to get right to the top.

on a slightly different matter, i do find 'Take Action' very annoying if all i want to do is respond to a post!!!

enjoy

ken

Has anyone else noticed that if you click on a picture icon to add an image, a separate 'add/edit' box is opened, but it's at the top of the page? If posting at the bottom of a long thread, there's a lot of scrolling to be done to get back to the post. I'm sure on the old forum the 'add/edit' box opened adjacent to the post you were editing.

On which device and OS does this occur?

Richard Dane posted:

On which device and OS does this occur?

I've noticed that too, on iOS devices, but not on Mac.

The change to using in-line AJAX for all replies can, in some circumstances, have a negative impact on performance resulting in the response to typing being slow and even missing characters.

I believe that the cause is the interaction of overly complex html/AJAX pages interacting with antivirus protection.  As the AJAX is in-line, the antivirus has to check the entire page code at each check point (which could well be at each typed character), not just checking the iFrame.

I don't believe you'll be able to fix this!

Richard Dane posted:

On which device and OS does this occur?

Sorry for the delay in replying, Richard, but the issue occurred on my iPad. When inserting a link to a picture, the add/edit box appears at the top of the page, which can be annoying when there are many posts on that page.

I'm finding that hitting 'first unread post' often takes me to the wrong place in a thread, usually back to posts I have read. The old forum never got this wrong.

ChrisSU posted:

I'm finding that hitting 'first unread post' often takes me to the wrong place in a thread, usually back to posts I have read. The old forum never got this wrong.

Yes, I've found this happening too. But not consistently. 

The "Forums" tab at the top doesn't provide a list of forums as promised, but has just two options "Directory and "All topics". Surely it wouldn't be hard to have the "Forums" tab offer the actual list of forums, including "Padded Cell", which bafflingly remains absent from the menu bar.

I am a completely unqualified website designer/programmer but could effect this change in about 30 seconds on the couple of websites I have put together.

(As an aside, I have stopped shopping at Naim Label since the time it threw me out to Bandcamp for some obscure reason.)

MDS posted:

ChrisSU posted:

I'm finding that hitting 'first unread post' often takes me to the wrong place in a thread, usually back to posts I have read. The old forum never got this wrong.

Yes, I've found this happening too. But not consistently. 

Me too, must be a bug.