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Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Would there be an easy (and/or straightforward) way for the app to include the polls that are in some posts, or at least an indicator that voting is present? I mostly use the app and am often surprised when I use a browser and find that there's a vote going on. Yeah, it's often just a joke poll, but I've definitely missed some that were legitimate where I assumed the thread was just more casually discussing the topic at hand.

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Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Toshimo posted:

I love this app and it's really cool, but I have 1 request: Can you make it so that there's some way to open/zoom a timg? When someone posts a bugass screenshot and I have to quote the post, find the link, copy it manually and paste it into a browse, it make me sad. (FWIW, it occurs to me that the timg was from someone I have on ignore that I pressed buttan to show their post, if that's what's causing it.)

You sure? I just tried it and get the usual download/display/etc options on a timg in an ignored post.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Toshimo posted:

Yes. I just tried again. I'm on 3.6.8, idk if that's the most current.

Weird, same version here.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Flipperwaldt posted:

Some more dumb questions.

Does this gfycat mp4 embed and play in the app for anyone? Is it supposed to?

No but the link is busted in my browser too. Let's try this instead :

https://gfycat.com/BriefBlaringGeese-mobile.mp4

e: interesting, that version plays in my browser but apparently not here. Also, lol, oh anti-food porn thread

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Lol, sniped even before my own expected stealth edit

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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I get the same thing on mine (Moto G6 Play) but it very obviously got way worse after my system update a week or so back. Same as a lot of other apps, so I figured it was related to that.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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I was just starting initial research to post about my app crashing when I use the "find on page" function, and whaddaya know:

Thanks folks :toot:

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Got logged out on my kindle just I'm time to notice the update propagated to Amazon's dumb old app store, so yay! Our cyberpunk future looks :krad:

e: will leave that typo in as a testament to the kindle 's phenomenally garbage swipe keyboard

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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smoobles posted:

Hold up the Awful Android app works on Kindle??

Oh yeah it's great. The only real jankiness is on Amazon's end with their weird slightly bastardized version of the OS.

E: yeah it works on Fires, I've ignored the other kind so long I usually forget they exist

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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That would be an awesome change if doable but I always figured it was on your native keyboard at that level.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Here's a weird bugaboo I ran into today, if you have some text highlighted in a thread, its popup menu apparently supercedes menus you open in the app even when the text itself is covered, which makes accessing the menu confusing. Not sure if that's on the app or android end, but figured I'd mention it just in case.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Earlier example doesn't load for me in the app, that second one does (:3:).

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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That is something I've occasionally thought would be kinda nice too, no idea what scale of work would be required to add it/convert the quote URLs into something useful though.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Works for me too, every time some basic function like that breaks for me, it turns out that updating Chrome fixes it through the magic of [guesses at technological words in attempt to sound knowledgeable] shared libraries.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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I noticed a new bug while I was in cat jail earlier, the app's "on probation until..." message doesn't match the one in a browser. Now it updates to the current time every time you refresh. Something to do with the changes Jeffrey made to fix the server times not too long ago I guess.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Sereri posted:

Nobody told me that video auto-play/pause was broken. Has no one enabled that option?

Oh yeah, looks like it. Autoplay is always the first thing I turn off in apps that aren't kind enough to disable it by default so I would not have noticed.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Kheldarn posted:

Well, it finally happened. Work blocked access to forums.somethingawful.com (the Cisco Umbrella page says Reason: Weapons). I thought it was the app, until I had the bright idea to try accessing the forums via Firefox.

I guess I won't be using it as much, but I still wanna say thanks for everything!

Good news, Verizon hasn't blocked them yet!

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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I was hoping it was a new algorithm flagging people who are Horny Online, but that's useful too.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Sometimes the male is harder

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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ORIGINAL SUBROUTINE DO NOT STEAL

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Zerilan posted:

Ever since I updated the app to fix the login issue, every thread page just loads up blank. The forums/thread lists show up fine and the unread post count updates, but the posts themselves won't show up on any thread. Already tried clearing data and reinstalling.

Have you tried updating Chrome? That has solved more Awful app issues for me than updating the app itself, through what I assume to be a large conspiratorial network of app developers somehow making themselves rich via underhanded deals with one another.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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angryrobots posted:

Is the Imgur uploader broken for everyone?

Hmm, yep

Only registered members can see post attachments!

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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I guess this is somewhere between an app question and a general android one, but I've been getting a fair number of instances lately where the app completely hangs on loading a thread and has to be killed manually. It's updated, Chrome is updated, and I generally sorta suspect it's more my phone than the app, but I know essentially nothing about tracking down these issues' root causes on phones compared to Windows. Is there a good way to look somewhere that helps me look at error logs or something to see if it's twisted to the app vs the phone just being lovely?

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Zurtilik posted:

I'm not going to go so far to call this a bug report at this time as it could just be an issue with my connection and/or phone.

But does anyone else ever have issues when downloading an images where it just doesn't seem to start?

I definitely see this sporadically, but I've always assumed it was most likely on imgur/twitter's end or my connection was already slow in general.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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I just realized the app's imgur uploader refuses to work with .webp images despite imgur itself hosting them. Is that something that might be an easy fix for some update?

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Update posted:

Fixed probation time parsing
:toot: although sadly I didn't notice the update until after my probe ran out.

Also I was asking about imgur uploader .webp support earlier, but I just found out that the actual imgur upload site does not support them despite imgur itself commonly hosting them :psyduck:
So, uh, nevermind.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Vim Fuego posted:

Hey, it looks like imgurs recent addition of mandatory ads while uploading has also broken the built in imgur function on the awful app. Maybe the api is different now, I didn't take a look. But trying to upload an img to imgur through the awful app just gives an error.

It broke for me when they first started the ads, but has worked fine since a few hours after that :confused:

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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I know this is getting a bit outside of the app itself, but on my older phone (that I've deactivated and just use for browsing and stuff) the app doesn't recognize mp4 files for uploading to imgur, they're just grayed out and unselectable. I've updated the app and Chrome but that still happens. Just curious if there's something else obvious the app uses that I can update, no worries if it's something that'd take too much troubleshooting outside of it to figure out.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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The "view posts by user" option appears to be having some issues in the app, I initially get the full list of pages with "page number you requested does not appear in this thread" and then the thread just stops loading if I try to step through additional pages. But then it seems to work correctly if I select the same option for another user before I get to the loading problem though.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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I get that occasionally, but no more often than anything else precise on the phone touchscreen in general.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Haven't had a single problem all day, just lemme know what threads you guys want to read and I'll email you

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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They are slow to load for me, but eventually get there. As usual, I assume the blame for twitter behaving shittily is inherently related to twitter being lovely.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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The "search this thread" function almost never seems to work for me when I use it, even when I double check that the exact same search from a browser gives results. I was playing around with multiple threads and got the same results (e.g.
code:
threadid:3847325  butterflies
gives me nothing, with or without quotes around the search term, but a browser gives many results).

Curiously enough, I'd planned to use this thread as the example, but searching for "Samsung" here is one of the times it actually gives results :v:

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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hooah posted:

Is there a setting to automatically bookmark a thread when I post in it?

That's in the actual site's user settings, and also why my bookmarks are 20 pages long

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Party Boat posted:

Idk if it's an app specific issue or not but emotes are broken for me



Working fine for me, maybe the secret sorcery of updating Chrome will do something?

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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Sereri posted:

There was a WebView update about a week ago that I assume did this. To the people this happens regularly to, is it only in the default/dark themes or the other themes too?

Ugh that used to work. I even have a test case to prove it (that is now broken). Thanks Osundar.

They work fine for me in OLED mode without any recent updates, but they are broken in default.
e: and no changes for either after updating.

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Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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I'm on Android 10, just updated webview and the app, and the option still shows up for me fwiw.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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It's kinda funny, this wasn't a problem in my old phone, but I got a new one last week and most of the options disappeared when I highlight words now. Now the only options I get are copy/share/select all, no additional buttons or anything. Same ostensible os, android 11, aside from whatever background differences there are between phones. In short, :iiam:

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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cr0y posted:

Just an idea that I know a lot of people might find useful, if anyone else is interested let me know and I'll poke around and see if I can contribute in some way.

I would like that very much, but also understand how it's completely outside the forums' current architecture. I switch and reset browsers so much that trying to bookmark things there isn't really worthwhile, I've taken to PMing myself specific post links if there's something I want to keep track of long-term.

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Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

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UnfortunateSexFart posted:

Yes! That's it, but I can't as it's not there?



Click on your user icon in the Google Play app, then go to settings, you should be able to scroll down and see the app version and an update option.

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