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The Dave
Sep 9, 2003

Yeah that’s really of the point of it, you can dismiss it if you need to copy something or reference something else while composing, then you can bring it back — it’s actually kind of nice.

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commie kong
Mar 7, 2019

Necronormiecon posted:

I can’t use the App from a Russian IP (have to do it via a VPN). I guess this is intentional? Sorry for all the hacking.

Can you access the forums via phone or desktop browser? I'd think it's either cloudflare blocking Russian IPs or Russian ISPs blocking SA/cloudflare.

I did a code search for "russia" and only found an html file of a d&d post from 2012. Don't think the app is the issue


The Dave posted:

Yeah that's really of the point of it, you can dismiss it if you need to copy something or reference something else while composing, then you can bring it back — it's actually kind of nice.

Yeah, I thought it was neat and I'll be using it for sure. But I did think it was cancelled the first time I did it

Necronormiecon
Mar 12, 2019

Farewell, sweet Nerevar. Better luck on your next incarnation.

commie kong posted:

Can you access the forums via phone or desktop browser? I'd think it's either cloudflare blocking Russian IPs or Russian ISPs blocking SA/cloudflare.

I did a code search for "russia" and only found an html file of a d&d post from 2012. Don't think the app is the issue

The forums work just fine on my desktop (same ISP), although they do force me to complete a CAPTCHA.

The phone browser doesn’t work. But it resumes normal function as soon as I cross the border (like, into the neighboring Belarus). Idk, this is not a critical issue. I just though this was weird.

spanky the dolphin
Sep 3, 2006

commie kong posted:

Ahh, new mail message vs reply is different. Good to know



I found myself stuck in the same situation (without the cancel button) the other day - the layout in the mail app would be a big improvement I think, it's the behaviour I expect. I think calling it 'cancel' is right too, even thought there'll be two cancels on screen at once.

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



Cancel culture run amok imo

commie kong
Mar 7, 2019



Edit: lol i see now that the Delete and Save options are in a different order compared to the mail app. That's how this app originally was, but will change

commie kong fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Feb 11, 2021

pokeyman
Nov 26, 2006

That elephant ate my entire platoon.

Necronormiecon posted:

I can’t use the App from a Russian IP (have to do it via a VPN). I guess this is intentional? Sorry for all the hacking.

Awful falls apart in the face of captchas or other Cloudflare bits, so if you're seeing those in the browser then that's my guess. I'll add it to the list, we really should handle it, though at the moment I’m not totally sure how to test possible fixes.

commie kong posted:



Edit: lol i see now that the Delete and Save options are in a different order compared to the mail app. That's how this app originally was, but will change



Thanks for this! New beta coming up.

pokeyman fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Feb 12, 2021

Warbird
May 23, 2012

America's Favorite Dumbass

Yeah, I had similar issues when viewing the site/app in China; it was basically read only iirc. Much to the relief of everyone else I’m sure.


Bug(?) time: When using a keyboard with the app, a down press results in a pleasant “glide” transition downwards. However, pressing up makes the screen “jump” to the next scroll point or the like; no transition.

commie kong
Mar 7, 2019

pokeyman posted:

Awful falls apart in the face of captchas or other Cloudflare bits, so if you're seeing those in the browser then that's my guess. I'll add it to the list, we really should handle it, though at the moment I'm not totally sure how to test possible fixes.

It can be tested using a VPN to Russia/China. Not sure where would be best to detect a Cloudflare hcaptcha interruption tho. Or how to store and utilise the cookie that keeps Cloudflare sated for however long.

commie kong
Mar 7, 2019

Warbird posted:

Bug(?) time: When using a keyboard with the app, a down press results in a pleasant “glide” transition downwards. However, pressing up makes the screen “jump” to the next scroll point or the like; no transition.

I've submitted a fix for this :)

spanky the dolphin
Sep 3, 2006

Can we make just the user name act as a button rather than the whole space horizontally to the right? I’m currently double tapping in that blank space and it brings up the menu instead of jumping.

The Dave
Sep 9, 2003

On an iPhone 12 and I can't seem to get the double tap scroll to work at all.

Warbird
May 23, 2012

America's Favorite Dumbass

commie kong posted:

I've submitted a fix for this :)

Appreciate it my good goon.

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe

The Dave posted:

On an iPhone 12 and I can't seem to get the double tap scroll to work at all.

Same here on the Xs

commie kong
Mar 7, 2019

Hate to ask, but have you guys enabled it in the settings?

Works on my XS and I’ve tested using a 12 Pro Max simulator

Diabolik900
Mar 28, 2007

commie kong posted:

Hate to ask, but have you guys enabled it in the settings?

Works on my XS and I’ve tested using a 12 Pro Max simulator

I can’t get it to work either and definitely turned it on. I’m on 14.4 on a 12 Mini if it means anything.

The Dave
Sep 9, 2003

Weird it didn't work when I first went back but worked when I went to a new thread. Something cache?

TBH it's just not a feature for me. Feel like I wouldn't know when I want to scroll past a post. Giant quotes that are uninterrupted just aren't a part of the threads I visit.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009
It works on my 12 PRO MAX, although I can't double tap a post to go up, only down. :mad:

commie kong
Mar 7, 2019

Oh I think I know what’s going on.

You’re holding it wrong.


Actually, Pokeyman fixed some of my amateurish code, so it doesn’t work as the video posted earlier. It’ll only work on posts where the footer is offscreen.

If it’s a short post then the footer is visible, so nothing will happen.

And it doesn’t go up

I actually like it now because there’s less room for error and it’s mostly useful for long posts & quotes, which was the original intent anyway

spanky the dolphin posted:

Can we make just the user name act as a button rather than the whole space horizontally to the right? I’m currently double tapping in that blank space and it brings up the menu instead of jumping.

Hooray, another easy task for me
I've submitted a change that limits the display of this menu to the username and the avatar. Long press on avatars works as before.

commie kong fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Feb 12, 2021

spanky the dolphin
Sep 3, 2006

What about a double tap to snap the next post to the top of the screen? So you could control the page with taps rather than swipes?

That could be cool? Like I’d like to try it if it’s not so hard cause you’re already rooting around in that area.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009
Can we make it that if there is a :nws: tag anywhere in the post that images and tweets don’t embed anymore? People are idiots and refuse to surround the images and tweets on both sides.

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



I'm sure this has been noted before, but Youtube URLs of the form:

https ://youtu.be/PDy5Jmb8bmw

... do not get converted to [ video] tags by Awful, but instead become [ url] links. Awful then shows the video inline as a video, but if you view that same post on desktop, it's just a link. So if you're only viewing it in Awful, you'll never know there's a problem unless you look at it on desktop.

This is kinda annoying because that's the URL format given by the iOS Youtube app's sharing pane.

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

DoomTrainPhD posted:

Can we make it that if there is a :nws: tag anywhere in the post that images and tweets don’t embed anymore? People are idiots and refuse to surround the images and tweets on both sides.

I thought I did that for tweets. Can you link me a post that expands a tweet and shouldn’t?

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

Subjunctive posted:

I thought I did that for tweets. Can you link me a post that expands a tweet and shouldn’t?

The Joe Biden thread in cspam is a good case for this.

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

DoomTrainPhD posted:

The Joe Biden thread in cspam is a good case for this.

Can you link a specific post so I know we’re looking at the same thing?

commie kong
Mar 7, 2019

Subjunctive posted:

Can you link a specific post so I know we’re looking at the same thing?

Just keep in mind that you asked for this
:nws: nut jar

e: Oh, I should have done the edited quote thing

commie kong fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Feb 14, 2021

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

Subjunctive posted:

Can you link a specific post so I know we’re looking at the same thing?

Filthy Hans posted:

This post is a good post.

Hed
Mar 31, 2004

Fun Shoe

carry on then posted:

What's an image that didn't copy what you expected?

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3762868&perpage=40&noseen=1&pagenumber=323#post512491619

Both the image and the quoted one, if I long press and copy, then paste into iMessage, only the first frame will send over iMessage.

I feel like sometimes I can get it to transfer the full thing? Obviously copying the URL will cause the other communicant to fetch the image but I used to be able to paste in.

commie kong
Mar 7, 2019

Data Graham posted:

I'm sure this has been noted before, but Youtube URLs of the form:

https ://youtu.be/PDy5Jmb8bmw

... do not get converted to [ video] tags by Awful, but instead become [ url] links. Awful then shows the video inline as a video, but if you view that same post on desktop, it's just a link. So if you're only viewing it in Awful, you'll never know there's a problem unless you look at it on desktop.

This is kinda annoying because that's the URL format given by the iOS Youtube app's sharing pane.

When I go Reply > [ video ] > Paste, it pastes a link like this: [ video ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDy5Jmb8bmw[ /video ]

Then when I quote that post it looks like: [ video type="youtube" ]PDy5Jmb8bmw[/ video ]

Do you have "Show video embedded in posts with the [video] tag?" enabled in your settings?

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



commie kong posted:

When I go Reply > [ video ] > Paste, it pastes a link like this: [ video ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDy5Jmb8bmw[ /video ]

Then when I quote that post it looks like: [ video type="youtube" ]PDy5Jmb8bmw[/ video ]

Do you have "Show video embedded in posts with the [video type=""]tag?\" enabled in your settings?

Is my copy/paste toolbar different from yours?

When I tap in the compose pane, I get Select | Select All | Paste | [ url ] | [ img ] | Format | [ video ] . If I hit [ video ], it just makes a set of [ video ][/video] tags (which I then have to painstakingly get the cursor in between, and then coax it to let me paste the url, which is almost impossible; and then figure out how to trim out the video ID and so on, which is definitely not the intended use case, I'm sure).

That's not what I'm doing. When I have the Youtube URL in my clipboard from the Youtube sharing pane, I just tap > Paste and it pastes the URL in the format I gave above. Then in the Preview pane, and in the final post, it renders it as an embedded video; but on desktop it's just a linked URL, using [ url].

https://youtu.be/PDy5Jmb8bmw


e: and yes, that setting is on for me.

Data Graham fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Feb 14, 2021

commie kong
Mar 7, 2019

ahh ok

yeah, if you do manage to paste between the tags, the app converts it to a full youtube link. You can just post it like that and I think it's SA that reformats it. I tested this on a post of mine from the last page before replying to you

That whole menu is a bit annoying and I don't think you can dismiss it without selecting something, either.

A second menu option for "Paste" pops up for me after "[video]" if I have the youtu.be link in my clipboard.

https://i.imgur.com/vMb0j26.mp4


This looks good: https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/use-mails-new-formatting-attachments-toolbar-ios-13-for-rich-text-document-scanning-more-0202173/

commie kong fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Feb 14, 2021

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

Is there anything I can click on in the YouTube embed to open the video in YouTube app? It’s easy to open the channel by clicking on the channel logo but clicking on the title doesn’t do anything.

I suppose this is not a common ask but basically sometimes I want to get videos into my watch history so I can watch them later, and the embedded ones don’t do that.

Turning off YouTube embeds entirely would work but now you can’t see the video subject at all without playing it.

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



No it does come up sometimes and for similar reasons as you, and ever since YouTube changed things a while back it’s stopped working. I usually end up copying the url from the share sheet.

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



commie kong posted:

A second menu option for "Paste" pops up for me after "[video]" if I have the youtu.be link in my clipboard.

I see, interesting. I'll have to remember that option is there.

I think the problematic workflow is that the bare Paste option which creates the [ url] link gets parsed as a video by Awful, but not by the desktop site, so I see a lot of bare-link youtu.be URLs that the poster probably didn't realize didn't get pasted as videos, so they don't know they should be doing anything different. I know I sure didn't realize there was a difference until now.

Kia Soul Enthusias
May 9, 2004

zoom-zoom
Toilet Rascal

smackfu posted:

Is there anything I can click on in the YouTube embed to open the video in YouTube app? It’s easy to open the channel by clicking on the channel logo but clicking on the title doesn’t do anything.

I suppose this is not a common ask but basically sometimes I want to get videos into my watch history so I can watch them later, and the embedded ones don’t do that.

Turning off YouTube embeds entirely would work but now you can’t see the video subject at all without playing it.

Long press it for the option.

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 58 minutes!
Yeah if you hold on the embed it should open a pop up

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨


Great, thanks. I’ll look into that tomorrow.

(I used to debug porn site browser crashes at the tender age of 20, weird test cases are fine.)

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

Awesome, didn’t think of long pressing! Works great.

commie kong
Mar 7, 2019

Hed posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3762868&perpage=40&noseen=1&pagenumber=323#post512491619

Both the image and the quoted one, if I long press and copy, then paste into iMessage, only the first frame will send over iMessage.

I feel like sometimes I can get it to transfer the full thing? Obviously copying the URL will cause the other communicant to fetch the image but I used to be able to paste in.

Holy crap, I have a fix for this.

Will clean it up and submit after testing a bit more

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Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

commie kong posted:

Holy crap, I have a fix for this.

You’re on fire, friend. Love it!

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