Awful app for iOS: hold longer

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The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

mawarannahr posted:

Is there some way a future version of the app could hook into some api to integrate the official smiley aliases in a more native emoji-keyboard-based interface?

I think all the different sizes would make that incredibly fiddly to try and do.

I just want the repeating error to go away.

# ? Sep 30, 2022 10:34

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 22:38

teen witch: Oct 9, 2012

mawarannahr posted:

Is there some way a future version of the app could hook into some api to integrate the official smiley aliases in a more native emoji-keyboard-based interface?

If there was any way I could assist in having the SA emotes tagged in a way that you can search for them via the keyboard you let me know immediately.

# ? Sep 30, 2022 10:52

Hippie Hedgehog: Feb 19, 2007; Ever cuddled a hedgehog?

Subjunctive posted:

Logout purges the cache, which is everything. If you log out it has no data kept that was related to your login.

That's not a terrible idea from a security standpoint, if we anticipate that multiple SA users will be sharing a device.

I think that's a bad assumption in today's world though, so I think having a separate action to clear the cache makes sense from a UX perspective as well as security.

# ? Sep 30, 2022 11:22

spankmeister: Jun 15, 2008

The_Doctor posted:

I think all the different sizes would make that incredibly fiddly to try and do.

I just want the repeating error to go away.

Agreed. The smiley picker is terrible and unusable.

# ? Sep 30, 2022 12:11

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

teen witch posted:

If there was any way I could assist in having the SA emotes tagged in a way that you can search for them via the keyboard you let me know immediately.

The aliases should be the ones appearing at

https://forums.somethingawful.com/misc.php?action=showsmilies

# ? Sep 30, 2022 12:15

Crime on a Dime: Nov 28, 2006

smiley picker is crashing the app for me when I tap on the faves menu

# ? Sep 30, 2022 12:36

The Dave: Sep 9, 2003

The_Doctor posted:

I think all the different sizes would make that incredibly fiddly to try and do.

I just want the repeating error to go away.

Doesn't this clear if you reinstall the app or something? I thought there was a fix but tbh I don't use it

# ? Sep 30, 2022 14:27

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

The Dave posted:

Doesn't this clear if you reinstall the app or something? I thought there was a fix but tbh I don't use it

I tried that and it didn�t work. :/

# ? Sep 30, 2022 14:35

Referee: Aug 25, 2004; "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."
(Wilma Rudolph)

The_Doctor posted:

I think all the different sizes would make that incredibly fiddly to try and do.

I just want the repeating error to go away.

I finally straight-up removed the smilie keyboard this week. It�s unusable. Wish it would be functional, but it�s been in this state for years for me so :shrug:

# ? Sep 30, 2022 15:42

jokes: Dec 20, 2012; Uh... Kupo?

All I want is to use SA smilies in text messages.

# ? Sep 30, 2022 18:51

Subjunctive: Sep 12, 2006; ✨sparkle and shine✨

I just don�t want to have to add them all to Slack.

# ? Sep 30, 2022 20:09

Mr. Nice!: Oct 13, 2005; c-spam cannot afford

Can we get this important new feature ported over to the app?

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=4007760&pagenumber=2&perpage=40#post526549384

# ? Oct 1, 2022 01:01

Warbird: May 23, 2012; America's Favorite Dumbass

jokes posted:

All I want is to use SA smilies in text messages.

That's a thing already. There's a keyboard you can use iirc.

# ? Oct 1, 2022 04:07

Subjunctive: Sep 12, 2006; ✨sparkle and shine✨

Warbird posted:

That's a thing already. There's a keyboard you can use iirc.

Except, as per the thread in question, it doesn�t work super well right now.

# ? Oct 1, 2022 05:59

Chasiubao: Apr 2, 2010

`Nemesis posted:

your login cookie expired, i think it happens once a year from your last actual login in the app. this is set by SA.

Ah. Thanks. I admit I didn�t think that it would clear my settings so that�s why I thought it was a bug.

# ? Oct 1, 2022 08:10

Warbird: May 23, 2012; America's Favorite Dumbass

Subjunctive posted:

Except, as per the thread in question, it doesn�t work super well right now.

That�s a bummer. I didn�t use it too often but it was fun to break lit every so often.

# ? Oct 1, 2022 13:50

Mister Facetious: Apr 21, 2007; I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

teen witch posted:

If there was any way I could assist in having the SA emotes tagged in a way that you can search for them via the keyboard you let me know immediately.

The smiles are long, long overdue for a re-sorting anyway. I've been tempted to go full nerd, manually sort them, and pm a sheet to the mods for everything. Adding tags in a binding of Isaac style system where you can use general color/shape/object tags to search stuff down would be cool too.

# ? Oct 2, 2022 02:27

teen witch: Oct 9, 2012

Mister Facetious posted:

The smiles are long, long overdue for a re-sorting anyway. I've been tempted to go full nerd, manually sort them, and pm a sheet to the mods for everything. Adding tags in a binding of Isaac style system where you can use general color/shape/object tags to search stuff down would be cool too.

God I would love that

# ? Oct 2, 2022 02:29

withak: Jan 15, 2003; Fun Shoe

Mister Facetious posted:

Adding tags in a binding of Isaac style system where you can use general color/shape/object tags to search stuff down would be cool too.

Oh my god.

# ? Oct 2, 2022 02:30

Mister Facetious: Apr 21, 2007; I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

For those that don't know, Binding of Isaac is a roguelike twin stick shooter with an incredibly huge list of unlockable items; the best website for cataloging them all is: https://platinumgod.co.uk/repentance.
The search field can use even basic terms like "red", "tooth", "face", etc. to help narrow down the one you're trying to get ability info on, as the game itself only gives you a sentence on pickup that may not explain much, and the pause menu doesn't tell you anything either.

# ? Oct 2, 2022 03:02

Cat Hassler: Feb 7, 2006; Slippery Tilde

Mister Facetious posted:

For those that don't know, Binding of Isaac is a roguelike twin stick shooter with an incredibly huge list of unlockable items; the best website for cataloging them all is: https://platinumgod.co.uk/repentance.
The search field can use even basic terms like "red", "tooth", "face", etc. to help narrow down the one you're trying to get ability info on, as the game itself only gives you a sentence on pickup that may not explain much, and the pause menu doesn't tell you anything either.

That kind of thing would be cool. Metadata behind the smilies would help! I can never remember the SA smilie tag names. I want the red smilie shaking his fist :grr:? No. the high five one? :highfive: no

The actual forums should delete a lot of them. There�s still four vanity smilies based on the avatar of the dude who is now in prison for child porn

# ? Oct 2, 2022 04:46

Mister Facetious: Apr 21, 2007; I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

Cat Hassler posted:

That kind of thing would be cool. Metadata behind the smilies would help! I can never remember the SA smilie tag names. I want the red smilie shaking his fist :grr:? No. the high five one? :highfive: no

The actual forums should delete a lot of them.

To add a smilie, goons have to pony up USD $30. If they started getting deleted, customers would (rightly) lose their poo poo.

# ? Oct 2, 2022 04:56

astral: Apr 26, 2004

Mister Facetious posted:

To add smilie, goons have to pony up USD $30. If they started getting deleted, customers would (rightly) lose their poo poo.

forums store posted:

There is no guaranteed time that your smilie will remain on the forums, but it will usually be at least a year unless your smilie is really horrible

# ? Oct 2, 2022 04:57

Mister Facetious: Apr 21, 2007; I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

Enh, fair enough.

# ? Oct 2, 2022 05:04

Silly Burrito: Nov 27, 2007; SET A COURSE FOR
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Mister Facetious posted:

To add a smilie, goons have to pony up USD $30. If they started getting deleted, customers would (rightly) lose their poo poo.

New feature: pay $50 to delete a smilie. Any attempt to use them results in your username showing up instead.

# ? Oct 2, 2022 05:19

Grace Baiting: Jul 20, 2012; Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.

Cat Hassler posted:

That kind of thing would be cool. Metadata behind the smilies would help! I can never remember the SA smilie tag names. I want the red smilie shaking his fist :grr:? No. the high five one? :highfive: no

The actual forums should delete a lot of them. There�s still four vanity smilies based on the avatar of the dude who is now in prison for child porn

The official SA Smilies page does actually include a number of tags/keywords for each emoticon, and the full list can be filtered by typing into the the helpfully-named Filter field. The tags are present in each smilie element's title attribute, so you can see those tags on a computer browser by mousing over a smilie and waiting for its tooltip to reveal them, or on an iPhone by pressing-and-holding the smilie and viewing the keywords above the contextual popup items. For example, here's :getin:

I've entirely given up on Awful app's emoticon keyboard and exclusively use my SA Smilies page bookmark for finding the emoticon I actually want -- but it would be fantastic if Awful app's picker just provided a cached skin of that page and its filtration functionality! ( :pray:

maybe even without the smilie duplication bug??)

# ? Oct 2, 2022 05:26

Mister Facetious: Apr 21, 2007; I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

Grace Baiting posted:

I exclusively use my SA Smilies page bookmark for finding the emoticon I actually want --

# ? Oct 2, 2022 05:34

Cat Hassler: Feb 7, 2006; Slippery Tilde

Mister Facetious posted:

To add a smilie, goons have to pony up USD $30. If they started getting deleted, customers would (rightly) lose their poo poo.

The �customer� in prison for child porn with 4 smilies based on his avatar can lose his poo poo all he wants but this is QCS stuff not App stuff so I�ll stop with this

# ? Oct 2, 2022 05:47

Fedule: Mar 27, 2010; No one left uncured.
I got you.

Fedule posted:

I'm seeing a bug lately that seems to be specific to the iPad version, in which certain threads (notably though possibly coincidentally all among the most recent threads I've bookmarked) seem to be getting stuck in the no-new-posts section of my bookmarks when sort unread bookmarks first is turned on, and also don't correctly show the unread post count (although they do correctly display the last poster). If I turn off sort unread bookmarks first, the threads will sort to the correct place in that order but still with the unread post count incorrect, so I guess somethings dodgy with the sort unread bookmarks code? Maybe?

E: If someone posts in such a thread and I refresh the iPad bookmarks list with sort unread bookmarks first turned off, the post count will update and if I then then sort unread bookmarks first back on the thread will be sorted correctly.

E:E: uh

This is a new one.

This is an old bug but it seems to still be around. Threads aren't consistently sorting by unread in Bookmarks (sometimes they do, sometimes they don't), and sometimes display with the wrong new post count. Only happens on iPad. Reinstalling fixes it but then it happens again. Is this still on the radar? It kinda defeats the point of sorting bookmarks by unread because I have to check every time if it's missed a thread... or cross check against the iPhone version. Must stress again that in three years I only see this happen on iPad.

# ? Oct 5, 2022 17:47

ScarecrowIntel: Oct 5, 2022; Que Mas Pues Parce

life is a joke posted:

Haha the little ghost icon cute

Love that icon!

# ? Oct 5, 2022 18:48

kefkafloyd: Jun 8, 2006; What really knocked me out
Was her cheap sunglasses

Fedule posted:

This is an old bug but it seems to still be around. Threads aren't consistently sorting by unread in Bookmarks (sometimes they do, sometimes they don't), and sometimes display with the wrong new post count. Only happens on iPad. Reinstalling fixes it but then it happens again. Is this still on the radar? It kinda defeats the point of sorting bookmarks by unread because I have to check every time if it's missed a thread... or cross check against the iPhone version. Must stress again that in three years I only see this happen on iPad.

This happens on MacOS as well (which is basically the iPad version on the desktop). I noticed it happens if I leave the app open for long periods of time. I�m betting there�s some counter or tracker that goes off the rails the longer the app is open. On iPhone it probably gets out-of-memoried pretty quickly, but iPads (and Macs) have more RAM and ergo it�s probably still resident in memory for a longer period of time.

My workaround has been to quit awful.app on the Mac, wait a minute, then relaunch it, then the counters and sorting are magically working again.

(I�ve also been quitting it when not using it because it lets animated avatars loop constantly when not in focus and it�s shockingly CPU hungry)

# ? Oct 5, 2022 19:07

goblin week: Jan 26, 2019; Absolute clown.

why do i see the limited collection forum again

# ? Oct 6, 2022 22:13

heehee: Sep 5, 2012; haha wow i cant believe how lucky we got to win

i got trolled by the app displaying embedded youtube vids when posting thinkin they were embedding properly with video tags :negative:

# ? Oct 10, 2022 19:26

Midjack: Dec 24, 2007

Grace Baiting posted:

The official SA Smilies page does actually include a number of tags/keywords for each emoticon, and the full list can be filtered by typing into the the helpfully-named Filter field. The tags are present in each smilie element's title attribute, so you can see those tags on a computer browser by mousing over a smilie and waiting for its tooltip to reveal them, or on an iPhone by pressing-and-holding the smilie and viewing the keywords above the contextual popup items. For example, here's :

I've entirely given up on Awful app's emoticon keyboard and exclusively use my SA Smilies page bookmark for finding the emoticon I actually want -- but it would be fantastic if Awful app's picker just provided a cached skin of that page and its filtration functionality! ( maybe even without the smilie duplication bug??)

A couple of years ago there was a qcs thread where several volunteers went through the smilies and added those description tags in a bandaid solution. We were limited by the total length of tags we could use and so there are a lot of useful words that don't help in the current implementation. But it's better than what was there before summer 2020.

# ? Oct 10, 2022 19:42

FlapYoJacks: Feb 12, 2009

I�m on 16.0.3 and the allow paste pop up persists. iPhone 14 pro max lol huge phone.

# ? Oct 11, 2022 00:18

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

I asked this as a forum feature in tech support but I think the app could also do this: strip Twitter URL parameters to thwart tracking cause I have to do it manually every time.

eg
twitter.com/trolli_usa/status/1578951295875964928?s=46&t=fckgwrhqq2yxrkt

to
twitter.com/trolli_usa/status/1578951295875964928

# ? Oct 11, 2022 00:45

Quantum of Phallus: Dec 27, 2010

FlapYoJacks posted:

I�m on 16.0.3 and the allow paste pop up persists.

Same on XS max

# ? Oct 14, 2022 21:07

DragQueenofAngmar: Dec 29, 2009; You shall not pass!

Having a problem getting forum specific themes to work. When I go into the tab for per-forum themes I can set it up however I want, but it doesn�t make any difference. The only setting that changes the themes is changing either the default light mode or default dark mode themes, which then apply to all forums. Does anyone know what the issue might be?

Not the end of the world but I�d like my byob threads to have the look that reminds me to be chill without every thread being that way

E: on further investigation, it appears to just be CCCC that doesn�t show in the BYOB theme, although it does when accessed on a PC.

DragQueenofAngmar fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Oct 14, 2022

# ? Oct 14, 2022 23:15

Crime on a Dime: Nov 28, 2006

CCCC has its own toggle

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 22:38

DragQueenofAngmar: Dec 29, 2009; You shall not pass!

Crime on a Dime posted:

CCCC has its own toggle

Hmm I don�t see it. I�ll try updating the app

# ? Oct 15, 2022 16:51

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