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euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

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.

Thanks.

Miss the ability to quick post screen shots and images as mentioned

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Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

The shortcut works pretty well, I keep it in the shortcuts widget on the screen left of home.

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Anyone have a good shortcut for small video clips? Right now I just upload it to my discord server and pull the link from there.

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

Can you not use the Imgur one without the jpeg conversion? Hmm.

commie kong
Mar 7, 2019

New beta is out :woop:

If your page selector is crashing and you're in the beta program (see the op if you're not but would like to be) AND you don't want to update to iOS 16 for whatever reason - install the latest build from TestFlight.

The post actions menu items have been reordered in that build as well

commie kong
Mar 7, 2019

101 posted:

Speaking of, and I think I've mentioned it before, but I'd love to start/help facilitate another Awful fresh start. iOS 16+. SwiftUI. Composable Architecture. No CocoaPods. Not a whiff of Objective-C. No 665 issues.

I have a feeling (because I feel this way) that more people would contribute if it was more reflective of a modern Apple codebase, but I have no idea if that would actually bear out in practice.

Maybe when I get a moment I'll tool around and get a proof of concept working. I've never looked at AwfulCore, but I assume that would transfer and do the heavy lifting on the scraping side of things.

I asked a while back if anyone would be interested in helping overhaul this app to SwiftUI and everyone said no lol

But you've basically described my long term goals for the current app. I've watched many many hours of point-free and love their stuff. The only TCA stuff I'm not super keen on is the massive modularisation of every little thing. Looks annoying to set up. But new screens I've added so far have been in SwiftUI (BookmarkColorPicker is one) and uses the observable object model approach I saw from point-free.

One of the next big list items for myself is to increase the minimum target to 14 and update the app entry point to SwiftUI, get rid of appdelegate, storyboards, nibs, etc. Also to replace the kvo stuff with combine stuff. Will be really nice to have settings and theme changes immediately and automatically reflected in views without having to set things in multiple themeDidChange functions

Warbird
May 23, 2012

America's Favorite Dumbass

commie kong posted:

The post actions menu items have been reordered in that build as well

Do not negotiate with terrorists commie.

Brain Curry
Feb 15, 2007

People think that I'm lazy
People think that I'm this fool because
I give a fuck about the government
I didn't graduate from high school



It seems that when I load a thread with blank space after the last post, the frog gets very separated from the last post. This was especially bad. 13 pro max, 16.5.1

DRINK ME
Jul 31, 2006
i cant fix avs like this because idk the bbcode - HTML IS BS MAN
I have an issue with Awful app 6.2 on iPhone 11 Pro running iOS 16.5.1

Sometimes when I get to the bottom of a thread I just sit there, moving the screen up a little bit and not triggering a refresh but still triggering the animation. And I just watch the frog.

I feel bad for posting about this because I’m sure a bunch of work goes in to the app and I never post about that, but I love the frog. Thanks for the free app that I spend hours using and never really think about because it always works.


withak
Jan 15, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 50 minutes!
Fun Shoe
Feature request: change The Frog's expression little to match the general tone of the last post on the page.

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

withak posted:

Feature request: change The Frog's expression little to match the general tone of the last post on the page.

Optional get AI involved somehow.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009
Make the frog's mouth open up and say “Get out” when you have pulled up enough to refresh.

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

railroad graffiti

FlapYoJacks posted:

Make the frog's mouth open up and say “Get out” when you have pulled up enough to refresh.

if you pull up at the end of a thread, it should say that

ssb
Feb 16, 2006

WOULD YOU ACCOMPANY ME ON A BRISK WALK? I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH YOU!!


`Nemesis posted:

if you pull up at the end of a thread, it should say that

Where else does the frog appear?

spanky the dolphin
Sep 3, 2006

I think the app is very close to reaching maximum frog. There are still some bells and whistles missing from the beta though - I made a :toot: for new posts which still needs to be added to the main.

RandolphCarter
Jul 30, 2005


Any chance of a thread tag refresh in the next update? A lot of tags don’t show in the app.

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

railroad graffiti

ssb posted:

Where else does the frog appear?

oh i meant end as in last post, so it tells you to get out of the thread since there's nothing left, wasn't clear

ssb
Feb 16, 2006

WOULD YOU ACCOMPANY ME ON A BRISK WALK? I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH YOU!!


`Nemesis posted:

oh i meant end as in last post, so it tells you to get out of the thread since there's nothing left, wasn't clear

Well, yes, but my point was that’s the only time the frog ever appears that I know of. But we’re probably either talking past each other or saying the same exact thing!

The Dave
Sep 9, 2003

RandolphCarter posted:

Any chance of a thread tag refresh in the next update? A lot of tags don’t show in the app.

If a list was made they could probably be tackled rather quickly.

spanky the dolphin
Sep 3, 2006

ssb posted:

Well, yes, but my point was that’s the only time the frog ever appears that I know of. But we’re probably either talking past each other or saying the same exact thing!

That’s the only frog other than the blue/black topped frog app icons.

You could squeeze more frog into the app by replacing the default missing thread tag with a frog.

Grassy Knowles
Apr 4, 2003

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

spanky the dolphin posted:

That’s the only frog other than the blue/black topped frog app icons.

You could squeeze more frog into the app by replacing the default missing thread tag with a frog.

frog behind the lepers colony barred window

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

railroad graffiti

ssb posted:

Well, yes, but my point was that’s the only time the frog ever appears that I know of. But we’re probably either talking past each other or saying the same exact thing!

oh, i have pull for next page disabled so it never shows up for me, anyways never mind!

Duckman2008
Jan 6, 2010

TFW you see Flyers goaltending.
Grimey Drawer
So I have the awful app for iPhone and iPad, and the app will crash within 2 minutes on both when browsing almost without fail right now. Anyone else running into this?

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009

Duckman2008 posted:

So I have the awful app for iPhone and iPad, and the app will crash within 2 minutes on both when browsing almost without fail right now. Anyone else running into this?

Rock solid for me. What your iOS / device?

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

Duckman2008 posted:

So I have the awful app for iPhone and iPad, and the app will crash within 2 minutes on both when browsing almost without fail right now. Anyone else running into this?

Get a better phone/pad

spanky the dolphin
Sep 3, 2006

Set Color isn’t working permanently on bookmarks on my Awful. It looks like it works but on refresh it reverts back.

Also, minor tweaks but Set color should have a capital C, and Mark as last read should have caps too.

Along similar lines, it might make more sense to rename:

Mark as Last Read —> Seen
Mark Unread —> Unseen

Makes more sense to me and uses a lot fewer characters.

The Dave
Sep 9, 2003

I would actually suggest going the other way and replace any instances of title case with sentence case. So like “Automatic Dark Mode” should be “Automatic dark mode”.

Title case should be saved for, well, actual proper nouns.

spanky the dolphin
Sep 3, 2006

The Dave posted:

I would actually suggest going the other way and replace any instances of title case with sentence case. So like “Automatic Dark Mode” should be “Automatic dark mode”.

Title case should be saved for, well, actual proper nouns.

Yeah that's better actually.

Duckman2008
Jan 6, 2010

TFW you see Flyers goaltending.
Grimey Drawer

FlapYoJacks posted:

Rock solid for me. What your iOS / device?

14 Pro. Deleting and re installing seems to have fixed it for now.

Zaroff
Nov 10, 2009

Nothing in the world can stop me now!
Just downloaded the new iOS update and it’s fixed the ‘crashing when changing pages’ bug - thanks!

Android Apocalypse
Apr 28, 2009

The future is
AUTOMATED
and you are
OBSOLETE

Illegal Hen
I noticed the speed of the smilies animation is 2x faster when using the ":-)" option but it is at regular speed when posted.

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Android Apocalypse posted:

I noticed the speed of the smilies animation is 2x faster when using the ":-)" option but it is at regular speed when posted.

Are you on a phone with a 120hz screen?

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

I wonder if that’s related to the fact that the icons show up twice, too. Something getting initialized twice and setting two animation timers?

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

Afaik the animations in that screen are tied to the refresh rate of the screen.

FlapYoJacks
Feb 12, 2009
If I could ask for a single feature it would be smiley filtering.

Tenkaris
Feb 10, 2006

I would really prefer if you would be quiet.

FlapYoJacks posted:

If I could ask for a single feature it would be smiley filtering.

I've pretty much not bothered with the app's smilies for a year+ at this point, it needs a lot of work. I just know all the smilies I like by heart I guess. :kheldragar:

big deal
Sep 10, 2017

maybe i could take a shot at that, or start thinking about it and immediately give up.

The Dave
Sep 9, 2003

In retrospect having recents and favorites is a bit redundant. UX wise you could just steal how messages or slack lays them out.

whydirt
Apr 18, 2001


Gaz Posting Brigade :c00lbert:
At the very least finding a way to stop them from doubling in the selection menu so there’s half as many to sort through while searching would be nice

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spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






FlapYoJacks posted:

If I could ask for a single feature it would be smiley filtering.

Absolutely this. The smiley picker is completely unusable.

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