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pokeyman
Nov 26, 2006

That elephant ate my entire platoon.
Post-vacay mass reply coming in hawt.

Acer Pilot posted:

Clicking on links no longer seems to do anything on the iPad app. I have to press and hold before it brings up a menu. Is that intended?

Not intended, gotta take a look.

Subjunctive posted:

It works for me, but sometimes takes a few taps. I blame ultramiraculous, based on no real data.

I blame me, based on careful analysis of the previous 1000 bugs in Awful.

nwin posted:

Sorry if this has been asked, but there's a little blue dot in the upper left that's there all the time now...normally near the "cancel" button while typing or to the left of the < when browsing...what is that?

It's the dot that appears over the cursors when you have text selected. I have no idea what's going on, but I have some thoughts, and I'ma take a look.

fordan posted:

Seeing an issue when changing awful from slide over (1/3 mode) to split view on an iPad Pro and viewing posts. I lose the headers telling me the thread title and more critically the arrow to navigate back up. If I'm looking at bookmarks while in slide over and switch to split view and then enter a thread the headers appear properly.



I think there's a similar issue (with possibly similar cause) on iPhones 6+. It's on the list!

carry on then posted:

Should we be considering just disabling third party keyboards in Awful for the moment? Or will the turnaround time be too much for what will probably be a short-lived issue?

I just use the stock keyboard so I don't have any opinion either way. I think people would be equally confused (if less inconvenienced) when Awful refuses to use third-party keyboards, and at least when it crashes people come here to (rightfully) complain and learn of the cause.

The smilie keyboard is still usable though, in case that was worrying anyone leaning towards "ban keyboards".

Subjunctive posted:

Does quoting a post use a webview, actually? I guess it could be related to the thread view being hidden.

Yeah it's the thread view's web view that fucks the dog.

Stare-Out posted:

Just a reminder that Last Post still only takes you to the last page, not the last post. Also, the thread list auto update only seems to work when first viewing a forum after launching the app, but not from there on in if you return to that same forum.

Check and check. (Back) on the list!]

El Burbo posted:

Dunno if it's been mentioned, but if you have images off and click an image that's supposed to be a gif, the gif overlay never shows up so you can't play it. On iPhone 4S

Whoops. Does Diabolik900 want to take a swing? If not I'll have a go.

Stare-Out posted:

Getting some errors about not being able to "merge changes" pretty frequently in this version, happens when trying to open a thread.

Sounds like some Core Data fuckery. I think I need to learn me some merge policies, and/or fix bugs!

Your Dead Gay Son posted:

Hard to replicate reliably but I'll try to explain it:

When I select text on the screen, the magnifier will shoot straight down and off screen when I release my finger. If the context menu disappears there's no way to retrieve it and I keep seeing the magnifier appear and shoot straight down and off the screen.

Navigating to a new page with text highlighted seems to drag the selection cursor along the left side. You can see the left side of the "scroll" on the top left next to the Cancel in this screenshot.

Minor.



This'll help narrow down the problem, thanks!

nwin posted:

Is there any reason why gifs take way longer to load now then they used to? Most of the time I click on one to load it, I end up just moving on in the thread because it's taking too long to load.

All I can think of is before, when we tried to load all gifs at once, maybe they were ready to go by the time you scrolled down to them? Otherwise I can't think of any reason they should be slower.

LampkinsMateSteve posted:

This was brought up maaaany moons ago, maybe even for the old app, but would it be possible to have the screen flip upside down in portrait mode when I turn my phone? I just want to try and save my poor headphones cord. Thanks.

Sure! I can't think of a sensible objection.

Subjunctive posted:

I think we'd want to show the overlay when it's loading at least. Having the overlay fade out quickly when scroll is done, or something similar, might make it less intrusive too.

Or, maybe this is overcomplicated but: could we warm the cache by downloading each GIF in a hidden <img> or whatever and somehow check if it's animated after downloading? Then remove the overlays for images that aren't animated.

unpurposed posted:

Is there going to be 3D Touch on web links in a future release?

It's on the list but as a non-owner of 3D Touch capability, I must admit my interest level is low.

Dewgy posted:

I've been having a problem lately where my thread view's getting all screwed up. Posts are replaced by blank space and chunks of posts are randomly re-rendered in odd spots, though I can scroll through it all. Usually means the app is about to crash too, and delete/reinstall didn't do anything. Any ideas?

My first guess is the app is perilously close to running out of RAM and is just barely managing not to crash. Can you tell if particular threads give you more trouble than others? Or does turning off images and video embeds help?

jivjov posted:

Since last night's forum migration thing, I've been getting duplicated bookmarks in my bookmark menu, and only one leads to the proper thread; the other leads to something else at random from my bookmarks menu. The top option seems to be the "correct" one a majority of the time, but this is not constant.

Subjunctive posted:

I think that's a long-standing bug, actually.

Yep.

LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:

Can 'pull to load next page' be a toggle in settings please I've jumped to the next page twice in literally the last 30 seconds before reading the last two posts on the page

I bet if I make it less sensitive we'll all be happy.

Nostalgia4Dicks posted:

Is there a way to embed YouTube links like when you copy and paste on a browser

1. Copy YouTube link.
2. Tap in new post text box.
3. Pick [video].
4. Tap "Paste".

Unless I completely misunderstood what you're after?

j. alfred moonrock posted:

Bookmarks list won't refresh for me since yesterday. I get the 'busy' spiral animation above and below the list, and the one below just continues indefinitely.

This one sounds like it won't be fun to reproduce. We probably shouldn't be trying to simultaneously reload and load more though, so I can take a look at that for sure.

the yeti posted:

Not sure if this is Awful's problem but it's odd behavior: if you tap on a YouTube link, open it in the app, full screen it, then directly come back to awful via the app switcher awful changes over to landscape display, and changes back to portrait if you leave the app and come back.

Latest awful latest iOS, iPhone 6.

Will take a look!

Kazy posted:

When can we expect the 9.2 swipable Safari controller to be implemented? :v:

I'm happy to add it once 9.2 ships!

drunken officeparty posted:

Coming here to complain that images that are also links like [url=anime.northkorea][img]weiners.jpg[/][/] work weird

Define "work weird". (I believe you, but I'm not sure which part of it you're referring to.)

Fedule posted:

Bug(?): When you have Safari set as your default for opening clicked links, and you have a link to a forum thread, and you want to open it in Safari, you have to manually copy the link. Oversight I guess? Normally I'd always want to open forum links in Awful and I imagine so would everyone else, but it'd be nice if there could be a way to show the "Open in [default browser]" context option on forums links.

Our Pro Mod™ in-app purchase is just $9.99.

Met posted:

One feature I would enjoy would be to be able to hide boards in the main list. I just don't need quite a few of them cluttering things up.

Edit: I suppose I could just favorite everything but the garbage stuff but that seems like the long way around and it's a little finicky about not staying between logging out/in and retaining the spot in the list it was added in.

I can ponder this while fixing the forums list for the next version. No guarantees it'll make it in but if it seems like an easy add then sure!

Fedule posted:

I don't know whether this is intended or fixable or even worth looking into since it only affects mods but: when you go to edit someone else's post and preview it, in the preview panel it shows up like its your post instead of the original author's.

I don't imagine much of anything mod specific is ever going to really natively work with Awful, is it. :(

Rank the mod-specific stuff you'd like to use in Awful in order of most to least valuable and I'll see what I can do!

Fedule posted:

For example; editing. Awful already lets you edit your own posts, and mods editing other people's posts works - basically - natively; you see the edit option pop up when you hit the "..." button, just like with your own posts, you hit it, and up pops the form and it works exactly how you expect (but with the small caveat I mentioned above which I presume exists because the username/avatar preview when you preview posts is entirely an invention of Awful and I don't think it ever occurred when making that feature that anyone would edit a post other than the poster). I can't open/lock threads in Awful, though I don't think users can open/lock their own threads in Awful either.

I think a mod might've mentioned it ages ago. Maybe Awful would use a couple rules of thumb to determine whether you could edit post (e.g. "you're the author and the thread is open") and that failed miserably for mods, and the simpler "is there an edit button?" won out. I definitely forgot about it when adding name/avatar to post preview though.

quote:

On which note; all other Mod Buttons don't show up at all in Awful because - presumably - Awful doesn't know what to do with all these weird buttons that the forums keep sending it, so they're not scraped. So there's no gas/stick/punish/history buttons. And if there were, they'd all call for even more forms that Awful doesn't have.

Mod buttons might be tricky because I think they're mostly (entirely?) inserted by javascript, which Awful does not even try to scrape or (ugh) run. But I can certainly take a look and solidify my disgust!

quote:

Where things get really odd is if I try to use the Report Forum in Awful. But I won't go into that here because the Report Forum is one of the radium-est parts of the forums and, yeah, that one's probably a lost cause.

Now I'm curious. What's busted in the Report Forum?

Abjad Soup posted:

If you have embedded image autoloading set "off", the new "freeze animated gifs till you click them" overlay never appears even after tapping the image URL to load it, and animated gifs stay frozen forever. :❄️:

Looks like you can fix it by enabling autoloading of gifs and then reloading the thread.

I'll +1 this on the list!

Also what the gently caress is up with the entitified emoji. How does that get encoded? I don't think they're surrogate pairs, but it seems to round-trip just fine? Anybody know? (If you quote the post, you'll see &#10052;&#65039; for the snowflake emoji.)

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Drastic Actions
Apr 7, 2009

FUCK YOU!
GET PUMPED!
Nap Ghost
For 3D Touch on web links, the big issue is that you can enable it on links in the web view easily, but it forces it on ALL links. So unless we come up with a way to control which controller the view goes, it's kinda useless :shrug:

Diabolik900
Mar 28, 2007

pokeyman posted:

Whoops. Does Diabolik900 want to take a swing? If not I'll have a go.

Yeah, I should have some time to take a look later this week.

pokeyman
Nov 26, 2006

That elephant ate my entire platoon.

punch drunk posted:

Yeah I think something to differentiate the subforums would be very nice. I really liked the nesting but a color difference or even just a small line indicator on the left side would make browsing to different forums way quicker for me.

I am on board with this.

Drastic Actions posted:

For 3D Touch on web links, the big issue is that you can enable it on links in the web view easily, but it forces it on ALL links. So unless we come up with a way to control which controller the view goes, it's kinda useless :shrug:

I had a thought on this. Could we not implement a(nother) UIViewControllerPreviewingDelegate that just vends an SFSafariViewController for peeking and popping? And use the way we already have for asking the posts view if there's a link at a particular point.

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

pokeyman posted:

Also what the gently caress is up with the entitified emoji. How does that get encoded? I don't think they're surrogate pairs, but it seems to round-trip just fine? Anybody know? (If you quote the post, you'll see ❄️ for the snowflake emoji.)

The 65039 is a variation selector that specifies that the preceding glyph should be rendered in emoji style.

pokeyman
Nov 26, 2006

That elephant ate my entire platoon.

Soricidus posted:

The 65039 is a variation selector that specifies that the preceding glyph should be rendered in emoji style.

Aha, thanks!

Verisimilidude
Dec 20, 2006

Strike quick and hurry at him,
not caring to hit or miss.
So that you dishonor him before the judges



I'm not sure if this is causing the problem but I downloaded SwiftKey on my 6S and sometimes the app crashes when I try to make a post. I deleted the standard English keyboard and that seems to have fixed the problem since I'm writing this on my phone using the SwiftKey keyboard.

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

It's a race condition in iOS that'll be fixed in 9.2, whenever that comes out. Interesting that removing the standard keyboard helped, maybe others can try that in the meantime.

Verisimilidude
Dec 20, 2006

Strike quick and hurry at him,
not caring to hit or miss.
So that you dishonor him before the judges



Seems like I spoke too soon. The app crashed again. But it is crashing less frequently if that means anything.

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

iOS 9.2 is out, and I'm successfully using SwiftKey so if others report the same, that issue should be resolved.

Fedule
Mar 27, 2010


No one left uncured.
I got you.

pokeyman posted:

Now I'm curious. What's busted in the Report Forum?

Okay, so. This makes a bit more sense in the light of what you said about mod buttons, but;

Here (for the most part) is what a report thread looks like:



Self explanatory for the most part. Notably, there's a separate frame in the report post containing the post that was reported, and it looks exactly like how you'd see the post normally in context. Note the lower right of the reported post; there's the punish, history, edit and quote buttons.

Here's the same report in Awful:



So that's an Actual Safari frame being displayed in Awful, which is always a bit jarring, but observe; the history/edit buttons are visible but the punish button isn't. I assume that there are a bunch of different bits of script crudely inserting these buttons at different points, and some of them work in Safari-In-Awful and some of them don't?

Also, that frame can break the tables in Awful, which is always fun.

Clicking on Edit, History, Quote, Message or Post History forwards me to Safari. Hitting Profile or Rapsheet open the correct parts of Awful.

pokeyman posted:

Rank the mod-specific stuff you'd like to use in Awful in order of most to least valuable and I'll see what I can do!

1) Lock/Open threads. This isn't particularly important to me but users generally might actually use this feature and the fact that it would work for mods is really just a bonus, like editing.

2) What other mod stuff are you even able to add anyway?

Drastic Actions
Apr 7, 2009

FUCK YOU!
GET PUMPED!
Nap Ghost

I fully support all Unofficial SA app developers becoming mods, so we can add proper support for this workflow.

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

pokeyman for cobol IK

e: and as of the 9.2 SDK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt3UiUScSuA

carry on then fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Dec 9, 2015

The Rabbi T. White
Jul 17, 2008





Follow up: reply crash does appear to be 3rd party keyboard related. Disabling SwiftKey and reverting back to stock on a reply that crashed 5 times in a row worked.

This is a WebKit bug, you believe?

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Have you upgraded to iOS 9.2?

The Rabbi T. White
Jul 17, 2008





carry on then posted:

Have you upgraded to iOS 9.2?

Just did. Didn't crash that time. Please excuse my idiocy.

Kazy
Oct 23, 2006

0x38: FLOPPY_INTERNAL_ERROR

carry on then posted:

pokeyman for cobol IK

e: and as of the 9.2 SDK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt3UiUScSuA

Hopefully this gets posted to Testflight soon :allears:

bawk
Mar 31, 2013

Suggestion: change the blue banner to purple while probated

pokeyman
Nov 26, 2006

That elephant ate my entire platoon.

This is great, thanks. No idea what other mod stuff we might be able to add (probably not much), but this gives me something to start with!

death .cab for qt posted:

Suggestion: change the blue banner to purple while probated

Ooh, I like this.

Mike-o
Dec 25, 2004

Now I'm in your room
And I'm in your bed


Grimey Drawer
I don't know if this is a bug or what, I'm seeing the mod forums and that apps in developmental states forum.



It doesn't show anything when I click them of course.

6s+ on 9.2

Doctor w-rw-rw-
Jun 24, 2008


Thread list sizing on a cold start of the app.

That Robot
Sep 16, 2004

ask me anything about robots
Buglord
it is super hard to click on links in Awful on my 6+

what did you do? if this is in regards to force touch, it may work for people on the latest phones but it sucks balls for the rest of us

please fix

Disappointing Pie
Feb 7, 2006
Words cannot describe what a disaster the pie was.

That Robot posted:

it is super hard to click on links in Awful on my 6+

what did you do? if this is in regards to force touch, it may work for people on the latest phones but it sucks balls for the rest of us

please fix

Just came here to say this. But I have a regular 6. If you hold on links it's fine but it's like the hit detection is non existent for tapping.

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

That was what was I looking for with pasting YouTube links thanks!


Still down to throw you guys a couple :10bux: but I know it's a large collaborative effort

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

Nostalgia4Dicks posted:

Still down to throw you guys a couple :10bux: but I know it's a large collaborative effort

I don't think anyone would object if they went to pokeyman.

Nostalgia4Dogges
Jun 18, 2004

Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

I'll buy you guys an emoji

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Have it tell the story of the App Store reviewer who wandered into FYAD and got goatse'd

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

carry on then posted:

Have it tell the story of the App Store reviewer who wandered into FYAD and got goatse'd

Narrated by the emojis having sex.

ChickenOfTomorrow
Nov 11, 2012

god damn it, you've got to be kind

Idea: force peek or whatever it's called on the "Idiot posted" section of a quote to see the thread from which it originated?

Vintimus Prime
Apr 24, 2008

DERRRRRPPP what are picture threads for????

Disappointing Pie posted:

Just came here to say this. But I have a regular 6. If you hold on links it's fine but it's like the hit detection is non existent for tapping.

That has been driving me nuts, glad to know it's just not me

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

Tapping on the probated / banned avatar should show their leper colony entry.

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

smackfu posted:

Tapping on the probated / banned avatar should show their leper colony entry.

Versus tapping and then picking "rap sheet"?

That Robot
Sep 16, 2004

ask me anything about robots
Buglord

Vintimus Prime posted:

That has been driving me nuts, glad to know it's just not me

we are all touched by this affliction

also YouTube videos still don't open in-app and it's annoying af

thank you guys for doing this app tho

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

That Robot posted:

we are all touched by this affliction

also YouTube videos still don't open in-app and it's annoying af

thank you guys for doing this app tho

Did you flip the YouTube switch in settings?

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

Subjunctive posted:

Versus tapping and then picking "rap sheet"?

Yes! One less step.

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib
I like the YouTube videos getting handed off cause i hate how embedded you tubes (on iPhone iOS vs iPad iOS) don't have a full screen button. Just a stupid loving "zoom" that doesn't do anything helpful.

At least handed off Youtubes let me full screen landscape without having to unlock my orientation

(This post isn't mad at awful app or the wonderful developers just at IOS for having a stupid zoom button for Youtubes in the first place)

AARP LARPer
Feb 19, 2005

THE DARK SIDE OF SCIENCE BREEDS A WEAPON OF WAR

Buglord
Maybe I having a setting wrong, but when I click on a thread with, say, five unread posts, I'm only able to see those five posts and none of the earlier ones on the same page. In order to see the previously viewed posts, I need to click back a page, and then forward again and they'll show up. I would prefer that all posts be viewable, with the app taking me to where I left the thread, with the first unread post.

Also, the app seems to take me to the end of the unread posts; if a string of unread posts span two pages, the app takes me to the second page and I have to click back a page to start reading where I left off.

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe

Do Not Resuscitate posted:

Maybe I having a setting wrong, but when I click on a thread with, say, five unread posts, I'm only able to see those five posts and none of the earlier ones on the same page. In order to see the previously viewed posts, I need to click back a page, and then forward again and they'll show up. I would prefer that all posts be viewable, with the app taking me to where I left the thread, with the first unread post.

Scroll up, then hit "previous posts".

AARP LARPer
Feb 19, 2005

THE DARK SIDE OF SCIENCE BREEDS A WEAPON OF WAR

Buglord

withak posted:

Scroll up, then hit "previous posts".

Duh. That'll work. Thanks!

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JazzFlight
Apr 29, 2006

Oooooooooooh!

As other goons may have mentioned before, my main issues with the app are:
-Hard to tap links, like it takes a good 5 or 6 times before the device recognizes the right pixel to hit (after opening the app after the latest update, I think this was fixed)
-I miss YouTube links being able to be loaded in the Awful built-in browser instead of always having to jump over to the YouTube app. I've tried toggling the setting for it and that doesn't make any difference, it still says "Open page in Youtube?" when I tap a link and doesn't load if I hit cancel instead.
-Can gifs just automatically load anymore or is it just the way that iOS works now that all gifs are manually activated one by one?

JazzFlight fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Dec 31, 2015

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