New Version - Official Issues/Comment Thread

[B.J. Porter 838]

2 minutes ago, Merrill Levi said:

I am trying to find the profile settings that let Ish become a Mental ecdysiast 

It's gone...

The Default configuration is to allow anyone to create their own Titles. We declined to do that in the past, and there was a brief window when that default option was in place.

Now it's removed.

I'm of the opinion that as a nod to those with a ridiculous amount of posts, we put a stupidly high threshold to where that feature kicks in. I don't know if it's worth bothering though.

I believe in the past we figured it was just another area for some people to put up obnoxious crap we'd have to moderate...

[B.J. Porter 838]

6 minutes ago, Merrill Levi said:

I can see new Edit notes

Can you see Ishmael's from post 104?

I'm not sure if we should required that if it shows. We never have before.

[Ishmael 1,903]

8 minutes ago, Merrill Levi said:

I am trying to find the profile settings that let Ish become a Mental ecdysiast 

I got lucky. I'm glad it's something I can live with.

[B.J. Porter 838]

Just now, Ishmael said:

I got lucky. I'm glad it's something I can live with.

I can easily change that to "Serial Onanist" if you prefer.

[Ishmael 1,903]

4 minutes ago, B.J. Porter said:

I can easily change that to "Serial Onanist" if you prefer.

I'm sure you can change it to any number of things of which my late mother would not approve.

 

What the hell, let me change it once a year.

 

[Merrill Levi 31]

31 minutes ago, B.J. Porter said:

Can you see Ishmael's from post 104?

I'm not sure if we should required that if it shows. We never have before.

yes I can

seems a little OTT to show it.

[oldgoatroper 9]

 

 

29 minutes ago, B.J. Porter said:

30 minutes ago, Ishmael said:

39 minutes ago, Merrill Levi said:

I am trying to find the profile settings that let Ish become a Mental ecdysiast 

I got lucky. I'm glad it's something I can live with.

I can easily change that to "Serial Onanist" if you prefer.

I learned two things, today....

Not sure yet, how valuable they're going to be, though...

[B.J. Porter 838]

54 minutes ago, Merrill Levi said:

yes I can

seems a little OTT to show it.

To clarify - can you just see that Ishmael edited?

Or can you see the REASON he stated for the edit?

[B.J. Porter 838]

Check this new feature out. The question is, is it worth using so we can help the newbs out?

The freaking A/C forums could use it, it's like reading a US govt operations memo trying to follow some of those threads.

I give you...Acronym Expansion. Just playing with it so far, so HTFU if we decide to take it away.

I'm not sure it will work properly with the DTS headlines though.

[floating dutchman 252]

Thank you BJ for all the work you are putting in here.

 

Can we change the posts per change, maybe make it user changeable?

The Random picture thread on my cell connection is unusable.

 

Hey, my sig line is back!

Edited May 8, 2017 by floating dutchman

[B.J. Porter 838]

2 minutes ago, floating dutchman said:

Thank you BJ for all the work you are putting in here.

 

Can we change the posts per change, maybe make it user changeable?

The Random picture thread on my cell connection is unusable.

 

Hey, my sig line is back!

I'm not sure what this means.

[Alex W 82]

Can't edit what subforums I see in "new content", instead I have to make a custom activity stream that is buried in the UI.

[fixed, thanks!] Activity steam doesn't show stars for threads that I've contributed to.

Activity steam shows me the preview of the latest post instead of the one that is first unread.

I lived in sa forums out of "new content", so these are major takebacks.

 

 

[Merrill Levi 31]

1 hour ago, B.J. Porter said:

To clarify - can you just see that Ishmael edited?

Or can you see the REASON he stated for the edit?

both, that it is edited AND that he is itchy

[B.J. Porter 838]

40 minutes ago, Alex W said:

Can't edit what subforums I see in "new content", instead I have to make a custom activity stream that is buried in the UI.

[fixed, thanks!] Activity steam doesn't show stars for threads that I've contributed to.

Activity steam shows me the preview of the latest post instead of the one that is first unread.

I lived in sa forums out of "new content", so these are major takebacks.

 

 

I tend to agree that the screwed the blue pooch eliminating the old "New Content" in favor of the new Unread content/streams thing.

I'm still looking into alternatives for that.

[floating dutchman 252]

1 hour ago, B.J. Porter said:

I'm not sure what this means.

Sorry.

Posts per page.

100 posts in the random picture thread takes forever to load on a cell phone connection.

[B.J. Porter 838]

5 minutes ago, Merrill Levi said:

1 hour ago, B.J. Porter said:

To clarify - can you just see that Ishmael edited?

Or can you see the REASON he stated for the edit?

both, that it is edited AND that he is itchy

Well that's a nuisance that needs to be addressed.

[B.J. Porter 838]

Just now, floating dutchman said:

Sorry.

Posts per page.

100 posts in the random picture thread takes forever to load on a cell phone connection.

Aha. I've looked around for a customs posts/page setting. I couldn't find one in the system configs OR the user preferences. On my "to look" list.

One thing I am finding, is that many things have plugins or add-ins to supply fixes for missing/changed functionality, like the Post number thing. That was a quick and easy fix. There may be a few other ones we find.

[dash34 82]

I'm not able to create a new topic in Fix It Anarchy.  When I tried to create one, I was shown a screen with the title and the tags.  I entered the title and a tag, but when I submitted it, I got an error screen that said I hadn't filled in something.  There is nothing I can click on to fill in, however.  Same in both FF and Chrome.

 

 

[random 467]

2 hours ago, B.J. Porter said:

Check this new feature out. The question is, is it worth using so we can help the newbs out?

The freaking A/C forums could use it, it's like reading a US govt operations memo trying to follow some of those threads.

I give you...Acronym Expansion. Just playing with it so far, so HTFU if we decide to take it away.

I'm not sure it will work properly with the DTS headlines though.

 

What new feature?

[Shootist Jeff 705]

2 hours ago, B.J. Porter said:

Check this new feature out. The question is, is it worth using so we can help the newbs out?

The freaking A/C forums could use it, it's like reading a US govt operations memo trying to follow some of those threads.

I give you...Acronym Expansion. Just playing with it so far, so HTFU if we decide to take it away.

I'm not sure it will work properly with the DTS headlines though.

How did you do that?

[Shootist Jeff 705]

6 hours ago, B.J. Porter said:

6 hours ago, B.J. Porter said:

7 hours ago, Ishmael said:

7 hours ago, B.J. Porter said:

No, you preview, then have to click the 'X' to "return to edit" which puts you back in the editor. It's more like Print Preview in Word, where you can't edit there.

See, this is why we need at least some nested quotes.

Oooh...look what I did!

To nest quotes, you can select the quote you want to nest AND the new quote. Hover the mouse over the selection (don't include the nested quote header) and a "Quote This" option pops up.

Click it, and Voila! A nested quote.

In a way, it may be smarter. Default, no nesting to keep things clean. But give you the option to do it intentionally if you need it.

With practice it will probably be easier. I will play with some deeper nesting.

So how many times can I nest this?

COOL!

How does this work on a phone????

[B.J. Porter 838]

47 minutes ago, Simple Jeff said:

How did you do that?

 

There's a property under the "Posting" setting to "Expand Acronyms".

So I can define a list of Acronyms, and they will automatically get tagged like this as the post is created. It doesn't seem to work retroactively, so HTFU in older posts will not show the mouse over help.

It's on the Admin stuff - you can't get to it.

[B.J. Porter 838]

2 hours ago, dash34 said:

I'm not able to create a new topic in Fix It Anarchy.  When I tried to create one, I was shown a screen with the title and the tags.  I entered the title and a tag, but when I submitted it, I got an error screen that said I hadn't filled in something.  There is nothing I can click on to fill in, however.  Same in both FF and Chrome.

 

 

Something is screwed hard on this one, trying to track it down.

[Shootist Jeff 705]

44 minutes ago, B.J. Porter said:

 

There's a property under the "Posting" setting to "Expand Acronyms".

So I can define a list of Acronyms, and they will automatically get tagged like this as the post is created. It doesn't seem to work retroactively, so HTFU in older posts will not show the mouse over help.

It's on the Admin stuff - you can't get to it.

Cool, thanks!

24 minutes ago, B.J. Porter said:

2 hours ago, dash34 said:

ut when I submitted it, I got an error screen that said I hadn't filled in something.  There is nothing I can click on to fill in, however.  Same in both FF and Chrome.

 

 

Something is screwed hard on this one, trying to track it down.

I'm seeing the same thing!  Using chrome

[PBO 3]

I have the same in Aus with FF

[TwoLegged 348]

The new software seems faster, which I like.

I dislike 4 things about the editor:

1. Nested quotes gone. They could be overdone, but they were often v useful
2. Post numbering was really useful.  Please bring it back!
3. Raw editing is v helpful. I don't mind whether it is BB code or HTML, but please give us the option to use it

 

[atoyot 36]

Hey, boss.

There will be a learning curve on the user side, no problem there.

On the user name thing, though,  it seems needless to hold us to a once-in-30-day name change just for the present, given that many of our names were just changed on our behalf without permission by the software.  I don't hold the board owners or the moderatoors responsible, please understand that;  just the same, given that "I" didn't make a name change three days ago, I'd like to suggest that this time limit be adjusted to, say, one name change per day for a limited period.  Make this condition last for a few days only, so we can put up the names by which we are known.  

Is this possible?

 

WIth appreciation,

"atoyot"

[B.J. Porter 838]

5 minutes ago, rteda said:

Hey, boss.

There will be a learning curve on the user side, no problem there.

On the user name thing, though,  it seems needless to hold us to a once-in-30-day name change just for the present, given that many of our names were just changed on our behalf without permission by the software.  I don't hold the board owners or the moderatoors responsible, please understand that;  just the same, given that "I" didn't make a name change three days ago, I'd like to suggest that this time limit be adjusted to, say, one name change per day for a limited period.  Make this condition last for a few days only, so we can put up the names by which we are known.  

Is this possible?

 

WIth appreciation,

"atoyot"

That should be fairly reasonable to do for a short while.

With the "No new topics" thing kicking my ass short term, it's not #1 on the list...

[B.J. Porter 838]

New Topics thing is fixed for now, though you all will have to live without ads for a while. Try to tough it out while we fix those.

[mustang__1 207]

mobile site b-lowws. Scrolls to right even though there is nothing there (nor should there be anything there. 

[IStream 625]

I saw post numbers yesterday but they're gone today.

[El Mariachi 38]

1 hour ago, mustang__1 said:

mobile site b-lowws. Scrolls to right even though there is nothing there (nor should there be anything there. 

Same here. Must be the shitty weather.....

[Shootist Jeff 705]

19 minutes ago, El Mariachi said:

Same here. Must be the shitty weather.....

Dude!  Where have you been hiding???

[DRIFTW00D 18]

What's a mouse is it anything like a finger? I got not mouse on this iPad what now?

[WoobaGooba 7]

Apologies if this issue has already been raised.

For a short period, the forum was displaying my user name instead of my display name.  I did not alter my Display Name in the profile (had not touched profile in years).  I did go into the profile to change it back to WoobaGooba, but the sw would not allow that as it said I had changed the Display Name within the last 30 days (which I had not).

This may have been related to login using the user name but same password.  I am not sure.  The issue seems to have self corrected.

Weird.

 

 

[jaysper 42]

I can't seem to use emojis, or some of them at least.

[BayRacer 3]

With the update, I now get a popup notification on EVERY view, that says the site wants to send me notifications (Windows 10 Pro, yeah, yeah, but we are stuck with it at work).  I don't really need to know what is going on when I am not on the site.  I don't have notifications enabled on Windows and don't really want to just for this site. 

In the SA profile settings, I turned off all notifications except that "Profile, Someone posts on my profile," the ability to toggle on/off is disabled by the administrator.  I don't know the purpose of this, but can this be changed so it can be turned off as well?

[Owen 40]

5 hours ago, Simple Jeff said:

Dude!  Where have you been hiding???

it's like the kid who comes home from college and complains that his room's been turned into an s + m parlor.  kinda like that anyway, it was a long time ago...

[LB 15 2,145]

39 minutes ago, jaysper said:

I can't seem to use emojis, or some of them at least.

The new software can detect if you are a girl or a foreigner. 

[MR.CLEAN 231]

haven't read through the thread BJ, but I definitely think the lack of color differentiation between quote blocks and the rest of the page makes things far less readable.

 

[LB 15 2,145]

Has anyone done a porn test yet? What about Bents Ignore quote blocker? Did it survive the apocalypse?

I think we should be able to put our own avatars on other people's profiles that only we can see. My version would look like a gynaecologist's pin board. 

[B.J. Porter 838]

54 minutes ago, BayRacer said:

With the update, I now get a popup notification on EVERY view, that says the site wants to send me notifications (Windows 10 Pro, yeah, yeah, but we are stuck with it at work).  I don't really need to know what is going on when I am not on the site.  I don't have notifications enabled on Windows and don't really want to just for this site. 

In the SA profile settings, I turned off all notifications except that "Profile, Someone posts on my profile," the ability to toggle on/off is disabled by the administrator.  I don't know the purpose of this, but can this be changed so it can be turned off as well?

You should have the option to answer that question "NO" in your browser, and have it remember those options.

I'll check into that item. In fourteen years on the boards I think I've had one person post something to my profile, so I don't know if that's a big deal.

[Ishmael 1,903]

What happened to post numbering?

[B.J. Porter 838]

1 hour ago, jaysper said:

I can't seem to use emojis, or some of them at least.

I don't see any in this thread, so here are some to test with. They are working OK for me, it may be something on your end.

 

 

[B.J. Porter 838]

1 minute ago, Ishmael said:

What happened to post numbering?

It's there...

Last night when the board stopped letting you create new posts I had to back out a bunch of changes looking for the problem. I removed that plugin. It's back in now though.

[BayRacer 3]

9 minutes ago, B.J. Porter said:

You should have the option to answer that question "NO" in your browser, and have it remember those options.

I'll check into that item. In fourteen years on the boards I think I've had one person post something to my profile, so I don't know if that's a big deal.

When I hover over that on/off button in the SA notification settings, a pop-up says the administrator has disabled this from being toggled.

Probably not the highest item on your list, I'll just close the box for now.

[LB 15 2,145]

1 hour ago, Ishmael said:

What happened to post numbering?

It went the same way a female pubic hair. 

[Ishmael 1,903]

1 hour ago, LB 15 said:

It went the same way a female pubic hair. 

Say what?

[yl75 215]

Not really linked to the new version, but I think you should decrease the number of messages per page a bit (not too much, but quite a bit)

[Ishmael 1,903]

No nested quotes? Or is there a secret key?

 

Edit: we seem to be stuck in the numbering sequence, we have two #101 in a row.

 

Edit edit: disregard. Reloading made it work.

[B.J. Porter 838]

21 minutes ago, Ishmael said:

No nested quotes? Or is there a secret key?

 

Edit: we seem to be stuck in the numbering sequence, we have two #101 in a row.

 

Edit edit: disregard. Reloading made it work.

Nested quotes are possible, discussed above. You have to consciously do it though by selected the quotes you want to nest and hitting "Quote This" instead of automatically nesting everything multiple layers deep.

An improvement in my view. You don't always need to nest every comment in a thread...

[B.J. Porter 838]

23 minutes ago, yl75 said:

Not really linked to the new version, but I think you should decrease the number of messages per page a bit (not too much, but quite a bit)

There seems to be a global default set, which is presently 100.

As a frequent denizen of places with crap bandwidth, I'd prefer a lower number too.

I think in the old version it was user definable in your profile, I'm not sure it is any more. I can't figure out where to do it.

[Joey Testa 0]

FWIW - this is my "Civilian" test account for looking at SA like a non privileged account. Yeah, I can see Ishmael's itchy balls edit note. We need to stop that, it's annoying.

I'll probably make a note of that somewhere...

 

- B.J.

[couchsurfer 178]

....wow, what the fuck is this shit?..... yer took this forum back to the 70's!?  <;~D

Been away a while,, think I'll stay that way.    Bye bye.

 

[Ishmael 1,903]

39 minutes ago, B.J. Porter said:

Nested quotes are possible, discussed above. You have to consciously do it though by selected the quotes you want to nest and hitting "Quote This" instead of automatically nesting everything multiple layers deep.

An improvement in my view. You don't always need to nest every comment in a thread...

I'm missing something here. So I have to go find the original post to nest it?

[Joey Testa 0]

 

This is what happens when you push the Quote button:

1 minute ago, Ishmael said:

I'm missing something here. So I have to go find the original post to nest it?

 

THIS is what happens when you select the post and quotes you wish to nest and hit the "Quote This" button that appears after a second or so.

1 minute ago, Ishmael said:

47 minutes ago, B.J. Porter said:

Nested quotes are possible, discussed above. You have to consciously do it though by selected the quotes you want to nest and hitting "Quote This" instead of automatically nesting everything multiple layers deep.

An improvement in my view. You don't always need to nest every comment in a thread...

I'm missing something here. So I have to go find the original post to nest it?

So if you want to reply to a quote and nest quotes, do NOT hit the "Quote" button. Rather, select the text you want to nest in the original quote and hit "Quote This" when it appears.

[austin1972 322]

I hate the paragraph formatting.

Really, it sucks as a default.

[B.J. Porter 838]

10 minutes ago, austin1972 said:

I hate the paragraph formatting.

Really, it sucks as a default.

Doesn't look too much different to me than last time, except a hard return now double spaces, and you can shift-enter a soft return for less space.

[Ishmael 1,903]

 

 

15 minutes ago, Joey Testa said:

1 hour ago, B.J. Porter said:

Nested quotes are possible, discussed above. You have to consciously do it though by selected the quotes you want to nest and hitting "Quote This" instead of automatically nesting everything multiple layers deep.

An improvement in my view. You don't always need to nest every comment in a thread...

I'm missing something here. So I have to go find the original post to nest it?

This has great potential.

[B.J. Porter 838]

1 minute ago, Ishmael said:

17 minutes ago, Joey Testa said:

1 hour ago, B.J. Porter said:

Nested quotes are possible, discussed above. You have to consciously do it though by selected the quotes you want to nest and hitting "Quote This" instead of automatically nesting everything multiple layers deep.

An improvement in my view. You don't always need to nest every comment in a thread...

I'm missing something here. So I have to go find the original post to nest it?

This has great potential.

Well, if you fuck it up and screw with the attributions, yeah.

But you could always do that in the old forums, too.

I suspect it will be harder to get away with though, since you can now get a notification when when you are quoted. So people will know you did it and come check.

[B.J. Porter 838]

Not also that you can collapse any nest quote for clarity if there are too many for your eyes by clicking the little down-caret next to the quote attribution.

[Ishmael 1,903]

21 minutes ago, B.J. Porter said:

Well, if you fuck it up and screw with the attributions, yeah.

But you could always do that in the old forums, too.

I suspect it will be harder to get away with though, since you can now get a notification when when you are quoted. So people will know you did it and come check.

I didn't try and fuck it up, it was automatically done for me. It's going to take a while for this to percolate.

 

[RobG 74]

On 5/8/2017 at 1:33 AM, B.J. Porter said:

Someone else pointed out that Undo is a system hotkey on every OS.

I can easily add it if people want it, but it's just Ctrl-Z on your Windows PC.

 

The "Source" button is in the upper left hand corner, next to Bold.

There is an add-in out there that will replace that HTML source with BB Code for editing. I do not know 1) what if costs and 2) if we really want to do that.

On Mac undo is Command-Z.

The "Source" button is removed, can it be returned please? If it was available I could interleave quotes and replies, rather than having to rely on people working out what the reply is to. Inserting replies into quotes using coloured fonts is rubbish as it defeats quote markup.

 

[B.J. Porter 838]

Just now, RobG said:

On Mac undo is Command-Z.

The "Source" button is removed, can it be returned please? If it was available I could interleave quotes and replies, rather than having to rely on people working out what the reply is to. Inserting replies into quotes using coloured fonts is rubbish as it defeats quote markup.

 

The BB Code "Source" button is just...gone...from the editor. I agree, I miss it.

There IS a plugin that will return something like it, but it needs to be procured, tested, then installed. I'm not sure if that will happen.

[Joey Testa 0]

10 minutes ago, RobG said:

Wow, look, you can select some text, then use "Quote" and it's quoted. Put the insertion point below the quote and select some more text and click the "Quote" text and…

It's quoted too. 

Nesting behaviour seems a little weird, I think it's easy to screwup the thread sequence. But at least I think I can quote reasonably well now.

It is slightly odd, compared to what we are used to. But I like the fact we don't nest everything automatically any more.

[B.J. Porter 838]

HUGE...HUGE find in Activity Streams.

There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth because "Unread Content" no longer eliminates PA, and is sort of stupid.

On a global level, it IS sort of stupid - I can not find a way to exclude one forum from it.

But here is the cool part. You CAN create your own version it set is as a default for your "Unread/New" stream.

Notice at the top of the screen you have "Browse" and "Activity". Click ACTIVITY.

From there, you can look at "My Activity Streams" which includes the system streams. But you can create a custom stream. Filter by "Topics" and you can then choose Which forums to monitor. From there you can pick whatever you want to see or not see in your stream - so if the AC doesn't excite you any more than PA does, you can turn it off.

When you save the Stream and view it, you have three buttons next to the title. Edit Title, Delete Stream, and Set as Default. If you do that last one, your default "New Topics" button because your custom stream.

Problem of PA fixed on an individual basis...I'm going to write this up more clearly for FAQ Anarchy and pin it there.

[B.J. Porter 838]

17 minutes ago, B.J. Porter said:

HUGE...HUGE find in Activity Streams.

There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth because "Unread Content" no longer eliminates PA, and is sort of stupid.

On a global level, it IS sort of stupid - I can not find a way to exclude one forum from it.

But here is the cool part. You CAN create your own version it set is as a default for your "Unread/New" stream.

Notice at the top of the screen you have "Browse" and "Activity". Click ACTIVITY.

From there, you can look at "My Activity Streams" which includes the system streams. But you can create a custom stream. Filter by "Topics" and you can then choose Which forums to monitor. From there you can pick whatever you want to see or not see in your stream - so if the AC doesn't excite you any more than PA does, you can turn it off.

When you save the Stream and view it, you have three buttons next to the title. Edit Title, Delete Stream, and Set as Default. If you do that last one, your default "New Topics" button because your custom stream.

Problem of PA fixed on an individual basis...I'm going to write this up more clearly for FAQ Anarchy and pin it there.

There's a better way still.

Go here:

http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?/discover/45/

Add it to Your Streams. Make it default. Done.

[Hard On The Wind 174]

On 5/7/2017 at 6:20 PM, B.J. Porter said:

Apparently it has something to do with having Admin privileges, I have since learned. You all don't have that option.

That can and should be enabled for the rest of us. That was an option in the older software as well but now that there is no BBC edit then please turn on the html edit.

[Ishmael 1,903]

3 minutes ago, HardOnWind said:

On 2017-05-07 at 6:20 PM, B.J. Porter said:

Apparently it has something to do with having Admin privileges, I have since learned. You all don't have that option.

That can and should be enabled for the rest of us. That was an option in the older software as well but now that there is no BBC edit then please turn on the html edit.

I agree, we should all have Admin access. Well, anybody over 15000 posts, anyhow.

[B.J. Porter 838]

7 minutes ago, HardOnWind said:

That can and should be enabled for the rest of us. That was an option in the older software as well but now that there is no BBC edit then please turn on the html edit.

I could if I would. But it does not seem to support it native, we'd need to install a plugin we do not have.

[Shootist Jeff 705]

8 hours ago, jaysper said:

I can't seem to use emojis, or some of them at least.

I like this new forum already then!

[Shootist Jeff 705]

3 hours ago, B.J. Porter said:

 

4 hours ago, Ishmael said:

No nested quotes? Or is there a secret key?

 

Edit: we seem to be stuck in the numbering sequence, we have two #101 in a row.

 

Edit edit: disregard. Reloading made it work.

Nested quotes are possible, discussed above. You have to consciously do it though by selected the quotes you want to nest and hitting "Quote This" instead of automatically nesting everything multiple layers deep.

An improvement in my view. You don't always need to nest every comment in a thread...

 

Yep, I really like this feature!

[B.J. Porter 838]

17 minutes ago, Vigilante Jeff said:

8 hours ago, jaysper said:

I can't seem to use emojis, or some of them at least.

I like this new forum already then!

[Point Break 975]

20 hours ago, Vigilante Jeff said:

COOL!

How does this work on a phone????

Did we ever answer this. I use iPad mostly and I got no "hover" mouse........

[Alex W 82]

Is the save as default button only on the desktop version?  I don't see it on mobile. The rest I had discovered and posted about in the old thread, nut save as default would be a nice improvement.

[Shootist Jeff 705]

1 hour ago, B.J. Porter said:

I see what you did there, dick!  

[B.J. Porter 838]

1 hour ago, Point Break said:

Did we ever answer this. I use iPad mostly and I got no "hover" mouse........

All thought all you phone and tablet users hated nested quotes anyway. I don't have an iPad, so I can't test it for you. But I am guessing if you select the text/quotes in question and hit the Quote button, it might just work.

[B.J. Porter 838]

1 hour ago, Alex W said:

Is the save as default button only on the desktop version?  I don't see it on mobile. The rest I had discovered and posted about in the old thread, nut save as default would be a nice improvement.

I'm not sure of the differences with the mobile.

If you try the Save as Default option on your desktop, it would make sense for it to carry over to the mobile.

[Shootist Jeff 705]

23 minutes ago, B.J. Porter said:

 

1 hour ago, Point Break said:

Did we ever answer this. I use iPad mostly and I got no "hover" mouse........

All thought all you phone and tablet users hated nested quotes anyway. I don't have an iPad, so I can't test it for you. But I am guessing if you select the text/quotes in question and hit the Quote button, it might just work.

 

Yes. I just did this on my iPhone. You have to highlight the quote you want with your finger and drag the selection down to highlight what you want to include. Then when you let go you get the same "quote this" selection as you do with the desktop version. 

Love it!  10000x better on mobile for this feature than the old forums. 

Edit:  just like with the desktop version, do not hit the "quote" button or you will get just the last reply.  If you want more than one nested quote, highlight the text first and then tap "quote this". 

[DayTripper 4]

No obvious glitches running Firefox on Win 10. A better quoting functionality, thanks.

[BR3232 10]

Looks great on mobile, huge improvement. Thanks for not forcing that Tapatalk shit.

[+] Quote button looks quite awkward on desktop. Perhaps move it to the right hand side of the comment block rather than left where it is now.

I suggest limiting signatures to ~5 lines. Having TWO WHOLE VIDEOS or GIFs and empty space like below, of DRIFTW00D's, Is fucking pointless and clogs up the the thread. I'm here to read comments and view relevant content, not scroll over bullshit which takes up half or sometimes all of the screen.

[BR3232 10]

19 hours ago, DRIFTW00D said:

What's a mouse is it anything like a finger? I got not mouse on this iPad what now?

Hey grandpa, get rid of your bloody signature

[TwoLegged 348]

1 hour ago, BR3232 said:

20 hours ago, DRIFTW00D said:

What's a mouse is it anything like a finger? I got not mouse on this iPad what now?

Hey grandpa, get rid of your bloody signature

+1

A sig consisting of two whole screenfuls of video is plain disruptive

[chuso007 319]

8 hours ago, B.J. Porter said:

HUGE...HUGE find in Activity Streams.

There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth because "Unread Content" no longer eliminates PA, and is sort of stupid.

On a global level, it IS sort of stupid - I can not find a way to exclude one forum from it.

But here is the cool part. You CAN create your own version it set is as a default for your "Unread/New" stream.

Notice at the top of the screen you have "Browse" and "Activity". Click ACTIVITY.

From there, you can look at "My Activity Streams" which includes the system streams. But you can create a custom stream. Filter by "Topics" and you can then choose Which forums to monitor. From there you can pick whatever you want to see or not see in your stream - so if the AC doesn't excite you any more than PA does, you can turn it off.

When you save the Stream and view it, you have three buttons next to the title. Edit Title, Delete Stream, and Set as Default. If you do that last one, your default "New Topics" button because your custom stream.

Problem of PA fixed on an individual basis...I'm going to write this up more clearly for FAQ Anarchy and pin it there.

Too awesome...

[chuso007 319]

10 minutes ago, TwoLegged said:

+1

A sig consisting of two whole screenfuls of video is plain disruptive

+1

[Importunate Tom 761]

On 5/7/2017 at 2:23 PM, Albatros said:

for starters... by reading the thread ? and next go to settings

the irony is also that there is this rule on SA that if you out somebody you get banned, like in your case my name was also outed by this software update, so who gets banned ?

And on a related note, I guess the name history showing my original Display Name as Tom Ray is gone. Just to be clear, I don't care if anyone uses my real name. It's never been a secret here and won't be.

[Xlot 66]

Great improvement, but ...

using an iPad, about 4 months ago the site would no longer "remember" me, i.e. I had to login anew every time. After the change, for a couple of days It went back to recognizing me, but then it went back and I have to login again. Any explanation?