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Tenkaris
Feb 10, 2006

I would really prefer if you would be quiet.

GutBomb posted:

I love the app, I’ve been using it for many years, and very much appreciate the modernization updates. One thing that always gets me when I come into this app is the “swipe from the left edge to go back” thing in this app is very unforgiving when compared with pretty much anything else out there. The point where you have to swipe from is almost pixel perfect, as opposed to other apps where sometimes it can be done from anywhere on the screen.

I know it’s such a little thing, but the inconsistency with most other apps definitely stands out.

I used to do that on accident constantly and now barely ever do it, I wonder if it was downsized?

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NienNunb
Feb 15, 2012

Hi hello is there a reason why I can no longer upload images from my phone anymore? Any time I hit [img] it just posts this: [url=][/url]

History Comes Inside!
Nov 20, 2004




Imgur got removed because of the imgur purging all the images thing

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






Did the image attachment feature also get removed and for what reason? Or was it never there and am I just crazy :tinfoil:

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



spankmeister posted:

Did the image attachment feature also get removed and for what reason? Or was it never there and am I just crazy :tinfoil:

The forums attachment system was never a part of the app and will be integrated with the new one I think. Imgur posting was removed following their TOS change.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"
The forums attachment system with the 1MB/1024xWhatever size limitation that is not really worth implementing imho

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






Mr. Nice! posted:

The forums attachment system was never a part of the app and will be integrated with the new one I think. Imgur posting was removed following their TOS change.

Ah, I must be thinking of the Android app(s) then, before I switched to iphone a couple of years ago.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



Grassy Knowles posted:

The forums attachment system with the 1MB/1024xWhatever size limitation that is not really worth implementing imho

The current system definitely isn’t, and I’m pretty sure jeff and astral wouldn’t want it as those images are literally stored in the database.

Harton
Jun 13, 2001

drat so I can’t post pictures of my beautiful face anymore? This is a sad day for all posters

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



Harton posted:

drat so I can’t post pictures of my beautiful face anymore? This is a sad day for all posters

You can. You just need to upload it separate from the app to your image host of choice and copy the link here.

Harton
Jun 13, 2001

Mr. Nice! posted:

You can. You just need to upload it separate from the app to your image host of choice and copy the link here.

May as well ask me to jump over the Grand Canyon.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

"The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Harton posted:

May as well ask me to jump over the Grand Canyon.

I thought we were already discussing the impossible when you mentioned your beautiful face

Harton
Jun 13, 2001

Grassy Knowles posted:

I thought we were already discussing the impossible when you mentioned your beautiful face

Lmao owned

big deal
Sep 10, 2017

Harton posted:

May as well ask me to jump over the Grand Canyon.

couldn't hurt to try.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Love the app, could it maybe have a funny insulting pop up image when i try to paste a pic to own me for thinking i could?

big deal
Sep 10, 2017

maybe it could just execute my remaining parent. is that what you want? you sick fucks.

Jose Valasquez
Apr 8, 2005

The indicator for refreshing a forum or bookmarks when you pull down isn't showing up anymore, it's hard to tell if it's just failing to do anything or if it refreshed and there just aren't any changes

Real hurthling! posted:

Love the app, could it maybe have a funny insulting pop up image when i try to paste a pic to own me for thinking i could?

Bring back image posting but they're all goatse

whydirt
Apr 18, 2001


Gaz Posting Brigade :c00lbert:

Grassy Knowles posted:

I thought we were already discussing the impossible when you mentioned your beautiful face

:vince::vince::vince:

Android Apocalypse
Apr 28, 2009

The future is
AUTOMATED
and you are
OBSOLETE

Illegal Hen
It's kind of weird how the "end of thread" frog can be pretty far down if there's only one post on a new page.

Grace Baiting
Jul 20, 2012

Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.



commie kong posted:

I wondered that too, but I found screenshots from the olden times and Quote was still the second last option.

(This is one of your mockups from 2017 :v:)


Anyway, I'll happily reorder the menu items if that's the feedback. What's the preferred order? I saw mixed opinions on it.

But that old menu uses old tech that I'm slowly working to remove and it's a bit dated (imo In My Opinion) to replicate in SwiftUI. The new menus are pretty good and muscle memory will adapt.
A better menu order would be great. I overall agree that the popular "Quote, Last Read, Share, Report" order makes sense, because the biggest and easiest win is just getting Report as far away from Quote and Last Read as possible.

However I'm gonna take an alternate tack and suggest the ellipsis menu itself should be bottom-anchored — the ellipsis itself is at the bottom corner of each post, and it would be nice if the menu defaulted to living within the area of its own post. Then the aforementioned popular order could be simply used from the bottom up! So the Quote button is at the bottom and overlaying the dotdotdot itself (unless you tap on an ellipsis at the top of the screen), Last Read above that, then Share, then Report at the top. To wit:
    Report
    Share
    Last Read
    Quote
    Edit, when applicable
So while I'm asking for everything and a pony, then I might also request that Edit go at the bottom of the menu as a new slot, to keep the Quote bottom anchored on top of the ellipsis (thus facilitating the same muscle memory regardless of whether you have edit privs on the selected post!).

quote:

(Grace Baiting I have seen your posts on these menus, but I don't have a good answer for you yet. Those ones are a bit trickier than the steamed ham)
Oof, goodtimes + best of luck!!

Grace Baiting
Jul 20, 2012

Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.




These are fantastic but the blue on the Trans Awful icon is a bit too deep a blue (looks like #4E7AFC on top through #3433ED with the shadow at the bottom); I think something closer to the #5BCEFA or #5BCFFB values from commie kong's links would make it read better as the trans flag  🏳️‍⚧️:justtrans:🏳️‍⚧️

(The stripes being vertical is perfectly fine too, btw!)

Queer Grenadier
Jun 14, 2023

THIS GUY HAS A POOPY BOOM BOOM

HE NOT WARSHING HE HOLES LOL
Is implementing a search feature for the app on the roadmap?

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Harton posted:

May as well ask me to jump over the Grand Canyon.

I too, a few pages back, was sad to lose quick phone pic posting, but having downloaded imgur and followed GoonTips it is not that much more of a pain in the rear end to post, maybe 5 more clicks ?

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012
I use postimages.org for most images, though if anyone has a Shortcut for that, would be cool

whydirt
Apr 18, 2001


Gaz Posting Brigade :c00lbert:
I just manually convert all my images to ascii art

Harton
Jun 13, 2001

smellmycheese posted:

I too, a few pages back, was sad to lose quick phone pic posting, but having downloaded imgur and followed GoonTips it is not that much more of a pain in the rear end to post, maybe 5 more clicks ?

That’s a large number of clicks. Is there a reason they removed it? Was super convenient and fun to post pics on the go. Killing the spontaneity of it all having to have a separate upload app.

Was there at least a good reason to have it removed?

101
Oct 15, 2012


Vault Dweller

Harton posted:

That’s a large number of clicks. Is there a reason they removed it? Was super convenient and fun to post pics on the go. Killing the spontaneity of it all having to have a separate upload app.

Was there at least a good reason to have it removed?

Pragmatica posted:

thank you.

i advise everyone to stop using imgur unless you have an account so photos aren’t deleted. i’ve alerted Jeff and astral about this, and they are looking into options.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

c-spam cannot afford



Harton posted:

That’s a large number of clicks. Is there a reason they removed it? Was super convenient and fun to post pics on the go. Killing the spontaneity of it all having to have a separate upload app.

Was there at least a good reason to have it removed?

Mentioned in the last post, but imgur changed their TOS and have started purging older images not attached to an account and any images that violate the new policy, such as porno/adult content. The tech team and a group of goon volunteers worked their asses off to get a full download of every image on the forums (including archives) downloaded and rehosted on somethingawful’s servers. Astral is in the process of writing code that will replace all the old links with the now locally hosted images. New images posted after the initial searches will still try to be grabbed at some point in the future, but I don’t know when.

Astral has been working on attachments 2.0 which will function as the forum’s permanent image host when done. This will surely be integrated into the app.

The tldr is that imgur is not reliable for long term image storage anymore, and we do not want another waffleimages where half the goldmine is filled with empty threads. It sucks in the interim, but it makes sense why it happened.

Harton
Jun 13, 2001

Mr. Nice! posted:

Mentioned in the last post, but imgur changed their TOS and have started purging older images not attached to an account and any images that violate the new policy, such as porno/adult content. The tech team and a group of goon volunteers worked their asses off to get a full download of every image on the forums (including archives) downloaded and rehosted on somethingawful’s servers. Astral is in the process of writing code that will replace all the old links with the now locally hosted images. New images posted after the initial searches will still try to be grabbed at some point in the future, but I don’t know when.

Astral has been working on attachments 2.0 which will function as the forum’s permanent image host when done. This will surely be integrated into the app.

The tldr is that imgur is not reliable for long term image storage anymore, and we do not want another waffleimages where half the goldmine is filled with empty threads. It sucks in the interim, but it makes sense why it happened.

I’m not sure I want my random photos of beefers and cats and my dumb rear end face to be saved for all eternity. But ok, as long as there is a *reason* I’m cool with it.

Harton
Jun 13, 2001

Deleting my photos is a feature

Warbird
May 23, 2012

America's Favorite Dumbass

Shame the same can’t be said about your posts. :v:

It’s fun seeing who all were responsible for eating up the app’s API allotment.

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

Yeah I thought it was always super unreliable because of that. Lol

Harton
Jun 13, 2001

Warbird posted:

Shame the same can’t be said about your posts. :v:

It’s fun seeing who all were responsible for eating up the app’s API allotment.

Lots of post critics in the Awful App thread

Harton
Jun 13, 2001

We all can’t be IT nerds “uploading” things. I’m mostly a down loader

Harton
Jun 13, 2001

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ct6y9vRucp0/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Gonna have to start V-Logging now, nobody wants that.

big deal
Sep 10, 2017

Harton posted:



Was there at least a good reason to have it removed?

no. no reason at all.

Harton
Jun 13, 2001

b_d posted:

no. no reason at all.

I’m not convinced

big deal
Sep 10, 2017

who are you gonna believe. me or like 50% of the posts on the last ten pages.

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



smackfu posted:

Yeah I thought it was always super unreliable because of that. Lol

Yeah I never used it and assumed people were gaslighting me when they said they did all the time since it worked maybe one time out of ten when I tried.

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Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Just torture your discord friends with rando images the links from discord work in the [url] field and we all know you were gonna post in both places anyway

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