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astral posted:If you have the 'Colorize threads according to the bookmark category I've assigned' forum option enabled, it highlights the whole thread in thread lists rather than the only difference being the star color. This lets you (barring exceptional circumstances) easily differentiate between your different-colored bookmarks. My impression of the whole thing was that you could assign whatever meaning you want to the different colors. Maybe one color represents a forum a thread came from; maybe it marks threads as "I'd like to read these first". Maybe it means something completely different. Yeah that's what I figured, but I guess I'm just lazy and want to go "beep boop, show me all my unread green threads or whatever" so I don't have to scroll to make sure I've found them all.
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Does Awful actually cache anything? Anytime I use the “empty cache” function it tells me it cleared 0 megabytes.
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ZeeBoi posted:Does Awful actually cache anything? Anytime I use the “empty cache” function it tells me it cleared 0 megabytes. It usually does, but yeah I just got 0 megs too and I haven't done it in weeks.
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I also just got zero megs when I did it, and I’m not sure I’ve ever cleared the cache before. It’s possible the cache, the mechanism to clear the cache, or the part that tells you how much was cleared is broken.
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Jan 8, 2021 16:50
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Yeah it worked when I added the manual clearing and then I never checked it again. I can look into it.
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Referee posted:I got a crash when I tried to open Leper’s Colony. I can browse it now, but I’m guessing it might have to do with YouTube embeds in probation/ban reasons? This is what I see in app. Opening a browser window shows there are actually YouTube links. Ooh YouTube links is a good clue, because I know this has been happening on and off for awhile now. ulvir posted:gonna ask here before perhaps bringing it up in QCS, but is the lowtax thread tag pulled directly from the forums themselves and as such is something active on both parts, or is it something that remains in the app? it would be nice if that disappeared now that he is gone The app checks the thread tag image's URL and swaps it for an image made for Awful. We could certainly change the image that Awful shows, if anyone has one handy! smackfu posted:Did something change in the most recent update that would make my iPhone 12 mini use OLED dark theme instead of normal dark? It was quite a jarring change! Yeah, OLED screens are meant to default to the OLED themes, and I'd gotten behind on the list of applicable devices. Sorry for the scare! ZeeBoi posted:The app is acting up for me again on iPad. Thread pages are constantly reloading and/or the app keeps crashing. Then it stops working completely by freezing up and seemingly making my iPad restart. I haven't seen anything like this for ages, and I use the app constantly on my iPad. Which doesn't mean much, so I'll keep an eye out. AcidRonin posted:Hey I just wanted to say this is evidently the most used app on my phone after like texting and the browser. So I appreciate all the hard work  wizzardstaff posted:That would be a pretty cool feature actually, if the app told you when a new post would show up on a different page. Awful takes you to your next unread post after posting though, so I think this only happens if you're posting before finishing reading the page. Which is fair enough, but I wonder how often that happens? 16-bit RDRAM posted:Problem that's been driving me nuts, but also may be the doing of twitter's poo poo-eating subhuman frontend team: Apparently this has been an issue for awhile, so I'll +1 it on the list. Stripping out tracking bits is a reasonable request too. Soricidus posted:Awful M1 thoughts: it’s good, I’m probably going to post with a keyboard more frequently now! Fair enough! I wonder if a pull-for-next gesture makes any sense on a Mac, I'm thinking not? But a hotkey or something would be nice. freeasinbeer posted:Can this workaround be implemented easily? Yep, it's on the list, just gotta get to it  Ok Comboomer posted:Is there a fix for uploading GIFs? Probably just Awful doing dumb things. I'll take a look. Woofer posted:Sometimes, clicking on a username in a quote to go to the quoted post will single out a post and ONLY show that post (but not the quoted post I was looking for). The only time Awful grabs exactly one post's worth of content is if you've ignored a user but still want to see a post of theirs. Any chance you've ignored the source of the quote? If not, can you link me a problematic post/quote? Ruggan posted:See this: I did see that, it would be nice if the app detected Cloudflare fuckery and opened a lil web view or something to let you read/bypass it. I'll add it to the list. b_d posted:Links appear blue and underlined in the lepers colony but there’s no way to click them without just jumping to the post. That's no good. I'd still like to do a proper webview-based Leper's Colony, which should handle this and other issues. Someday! Tetramin posted:Any chance at implementing the smilie tag searching goons worked hard on? Yep it's on the list, part of a larger smilies overhaul. Any year now! Quantum of Phallus posted:Any chance that if you turn Always Preview Posts off, you could instead preview a post by holding the Post button before a new reply or post in threads. That's a good idea, on the list it goes! carry on then posted:Long press on a navigation item isn't something I'd recommend doing, it's not discoverable at all and might even be against the HIG. I'm not sure it'll be easy to implement either. I think we can manage a long press, or possibly a menu on iOS 13+. Might be a bit finicky but we've done it elsewhere. Back buttons have menus as of iOS 13 I think, so it's not without precedent. Subjunctive posted:I’m hoping to get tweets embedding in previews, so it would be good if those and video links triggered preview as well I think. (I don’t know if we synthesize [img] or [url] bbcode for those.) If I recall, we send them as BBcode then we swap 'em back out in the returned HTML. Animal posted:I just tried again Awful's doing something fucky here. Though this was late in the month so we might've blown Imgur API limits? I think the error message is usually more descriptive in that case but wouldn't be the first time. carry on then posted:We're also at the end of the month and I have no idea what causes imgur to rate limit us so maybe that's implicated somehow?? There's some ImageIO key you can set to get a "for sharing" format, I think it does something with P3 color and also possibly avoids HEIC? Thought we were using that but maybe I broke it. I'll take a look. Warbird posted:How bouts an old rear end novelty Web 1.5 SA theme? It's been awhile since we made a new theme, sounds fun to me! I also want to figure out a sensible way to do more invasive theming, like with the navbars/toolbars and such. Stare-Out posted:I'm guessing this is just my old phone on its way out, but here's something that's only happened to me while using Awful; I'll be reading a thread and have about 25-29% battery left, slowly but steadily ticking down as I read. Then at some point, usually after switching to a new page, my phone freezes for a few seconds, screen goes black, I get the pinwheel and it goes into a boot loop. Once I plug it in to charge it wakes up normally with 10% battery left and starts charging, after which it's fine again until I get to reading Awful with my battery in the 20-something percent range. I haven't had any other app do this so far. Theoretically Awful shouldn't be able to do that if we tried, but I wonder if we're exhausting some OS resource limit or something. Maybe we're taking task assertions in a loop? I'll keep an eye out. Now that I write that, I'm pretty sure I've never taken task assertions anywhere in Awful, so that's probably worth looking into Snowy posted:Did the iMessage stickers go away or do I need to reinstall or something? As mentioned, I had some weird issue with them when trying to submit an app update a couple months back, and in frustration I just removed them. I plan on bringing them back! 16-bit RDRAM posted:Small bug: latest ipad pro, ios 14.2 (also observed on older os versions) This is a much faster way to reproduce this issue, which I think can also happen when relaunching Awful after it gets punted out of memory. Thanks! keseph posted:I don't actually use the drafts feature at all but reading about other people using it made me think: when there is a saved draft, change the pencil icon for posting to also have a piece of paper or an asterisk or something similar. The confusing part about drafts is whether it's an edit or a new post, and that goes doubly if you're able to edit other users' posts (mods etc.). We've tried a couple things to make it clearer, but eventually I settled on just making it super clear with kinda annoying alerts. I'm open to toning it down a bit, but my priority is avoiding accidentally erasing posts because of an unexpected draft edit. Mail apps are an inspiration here for sure. Though Awful doesn't currently support multiple drafts, even across threads, and I think that might be useful here. `Nemesis posted:Did anyone ever ask about being able to save images from the lepers colony? That’d be nice. You're the first! Or my search skills suck. But it's on the list now. EL BROMANCE posted:I don’t think I’ll ever understand the obsession this thread has with the lepers colony. I end up there maybe once every three years when someone mentions a purge  but I guess it's good for people to check it now and then, see what gets you probated/banned around here?Keith Atherton posted:Not the end of the world but the use of the term “Mark” for two different features confuses me no matter how many times I see this Fair points all around. This popover needs a rework, I just keep putting off these fixes in hopes of redoing the thing. Wording is easy to change though, I can do that! Diabolik900 posted:I personally would support the idea of switching to standard iOS context menus, which should allow for longer, more descriptive labels. This is my plan for iOS 13+, need a fallback for older versions though. (Could just keep the popover…) MarcusSA posted:I know this has come up before and it’s not feasible but I would legit pay good money to be able to sort my bookmarks out. MarcusSA posted:Hell just buy sub forum would be great. An entirely reasonable request, but it's complicated by some things that ideally you wouldn't have to care about : • The "bookmarked threads" page doesn't say which (sub)forum the thread is in, so we'd have to fetch that info for everything. Doable, though I try not to hit the Forums with too many extra requests compared to someone using a browser. • Loading subsequent pages of bookmarks makes sorting tricky. Say we put yellow stars up top, what happens to the yellow stars we find when you scroll down to page 2 of bookmarks? There's probably something reasonable we can do here but it's annoyingly finicky. ZeeBoi posted:Does Awful actually cache anything? Anytime I use the “empty cache” function it tells me it cleared 0 megabytes. It does, but it sounds like "delete things" and/or "report what was deleted" broke at some point. I'll add it to the list!
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pokeyman posted:• The "bookmarked threads" page doesn't say which (sub)forum the thread is in, so we'd have to fetch that info for everything. Doable, though I try not to hit the Forums with too many extra requests compared to someone using a browser. The forums might be able to expose this for you; I'll make a note to look into it. Still would have that multiple-pages issue, though.
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astral posted:The forums might be able to expose this for you; I'll make a note to look into it. Thanks! LODGE NORTH posted:Was there ever any update on the addition of mod buttons? Still on the list, no work done yet. Always ok to ask though
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Feature request: I just got a 12 mini and I very much enjoy the little haptic feedback bumps when long pressing or scrolling around in other apps, could we get something like that in Awful please? Adding these would take the Posting Experience even further beyond what was thought possible.
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I haven’t been able to replicate it yet, but I 100% saw one of my old usernames on the reply preview screen. Not sure if that’s ominous or not...
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Woof Blitzer posted:I haven’t been able to replicate it yet, but I 100% saw one of my old usernames on the reply preview screen. Not sure if that’s ominous or not... Could be that vB uses your first username as the static name for your account, and if you pay to 'Change Username' all it's actually doing is changing a Display Name. This is how Invision Power Board works, anyway.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Could be that vB uses your first username as the static name for your account, and if you pay to 'Change Username' all it's actually doing is changing a Display Name. This is how Invision Power Board works, anyway. That aspect is still vB2; your display name is your login name.
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I don’t know if this is helpful for the random slowdown thing but I’ve found that if I hit a page of a thread that’s slow (on iOS) if I drag down the notifications window so it fully covers the page and can scroll normally in there 99% of the time when I go back to my thread (just swiping up) I can freely scroll again. The other 1% of the time I regain control about a second later.
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Keith Atherton posted:How do you upload a video from your phone to SA using the app? I don't think you can!
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Feature request: Double tap a post to jump to the end of that post long posts and their quotes are killin me
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commie kong posted:Feature request: Double tap a post to jump to the end of that post I would also love something like this, or maybe a way to collapse posts.
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I wonder if figuring out an easy pattern to collapse a quote helps solves this instead of muddying up the touch areas of a post itself. Could be as simple as a caret in the top right of the quote bubble.
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Keith Atherton posted:How do you upload a video from your phone to SA using the app? Is this something that can even be done on the website?
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Keith Atherton posted:How do you upload a video from your phone to SA using the app? There is probably a shortcut that could be used to upload it to Imgur first then past it in.
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What about an alt viewing mode that works like instagram stories. Like you tap or hold to go to the next post / pause and if you don't tap in say 3 seconds it goes to the next post. Left side of screen tap to go back. This would also be the ultimate mode for reading in bed!
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What like one post a screen?
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spanky the dolphin posted:What about an alt viewing mode that works like instagram stories. Like you tap or hold to go to the next post / pause and if you don't tap in say 3 seconds it goes to the next post. Left side of screen tap to go back. It's really easy to think that sounds torturous but it would be interesting to experience it in practice. Seems like it still would make the issue of extremely long quotes potentially cumbersome.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:What like one post a screen? Yeah. Long posts you could scroll vertically. Or maybe it quickly auto scrolls to the next post so you get more of a sense of how far through you are? I dunno just spitballin'. Having one post per screen could allow for other fun layout options like a larger avatar. spanky the dolphin fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Jan 19, 2021 |
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The Dave posted:I wonder if figuring out an easy pattern to collapse a quote helps solves this instead of muddying up the touch areas of a post itself. Could be as simple as a caret in the top right of the quote bubble. Yeah, this was my original thought, but then I figured: 1) It's not just quotes that I want to skip. It's regular huge (on mobile) posts as well 2) Having the toggle at the top of a post means that I'd have to scroll back up after reading a little but then decided that the post was longer than anticipated. Like if a long article was shared and was interesting at first, but actually I'd rather move on. A gesture that's always available on posts would solve that. 3) Manipulating posts and quotes may be more technically difficult than an anchor link activated by a gesture? Of course, I'd appreciate any solution
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NFX posted:A couple of days ago my login expired, and when I logged back in a handful of settings were reset. I think it was mostly color schemes etc. is this on purpose? pokeyman posted:It's on purpose but not great. I wanted "log out" to double as an "erase everything" button. I think it's reasonable when you specifically ask to log out, but you didn't. It would be nice on session expiry to show some kind of "log back in?" screen that doesn't forget everything if you're the same user. So I'ma add that to the list! It happened again 
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Not sure the app has any control over this, but if I play a video in a Twitter embed, then full screen it, then rotate my phone to landscape, the video stops playing and I get dropped back to non-full screen. This is quite annoying.
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smackfu posted:Not sure the app has any control over this, but if I play a video in a Twitter embed, then full screen it, then rotate my phone to landscape, the video stops playing and I get dropped back to non-full screen. This is quite annoying. That’s been going on for a while now, cause I mentioned it in October. Seems to be a Twitter thing, as I think I’ve had it happen outside awful app as well.
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Yep. Doesn’t happen on Twitter proper iirc, but their embed stuff is fubar as usual.
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adding embedded tweets probably doubled the cpu usage of awful lmao
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carry on then posted:adding embedded tweets probably doubled the cpu usage of awful lmao
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That made me think; would it be possible to have a "tap to show" for tweets? Especially for ones in quotes. Could help with CPU usage in heavy tweet-threads and make scrolling past long strings of quoted tweets quicker.
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Stare-Out posted:That made me think; would it be possible to have a "tap to show" for tweets? Especially for ones in quotes. Could help with CPU usage in heavy tweet-threads and make scrolling past long strings of quoted tweets quicker. Not likely. We have very little control over how tweets are embedded, basically we have to just call a function that Twitter provides which searches the entire page for tweet links and does all the work of fetching the full embed and injecting it into the page.
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carry on then posted:Not likely. We have very little control over how tweets are embedded, basically we have to just call a function that Twitter provides which searches the entire page for tweet links and does all the work of fetching the full embed and injecting it into the page. Ahh, I see. That makes sense.
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The day we went from no tweets to tweets was the best.
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spanky the dolphin posted:The day we went from no tweets to tweets was the Pretty much
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Still can’t see text if you paste an image from your camera roll without hammering the return key. iPhone XS Max
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carry on then posted:Not likely. We have very little control over how tweets are embedded, basically we have to just call a function that Twitter provides which searches the entire page for tweet links and does all the work of fetching the full embed and injecting it into the page. Might you be able to extract the tweet links yourself and run the Twitter function on mini pages that contain just one at a time? Disclaimer: I don’t know what I’m talking about
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This has been done for a while, I think, but still here on 5.4 and latest iOS on 12 Mini. When a thread title is long enough to span 2 lines, when you make a post, the posting form that slides up doesn't go all the way to the top, letting 1 or 2 rows of pixels of the text through. Here's a comparison screenshot, with the form all the way up vs pulled down a bit manually, to help corroborate the exposed pixels.  E: you can also manually shift the posting form up the remaining pixels. And now that I play with it more, I think all forms are like this; it's just more noticeable with the 2 lines of text. kimbo305 fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Jan 27, 2021 |
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