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carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

The Dave posted:

I think it needs to be hidden by default though because some people have ridiculous long titles and they get repetitive.

I do feel we can do something wild in landscape where we have two columns and the left author column sticks to the screen while the post is in view.

Edit: maybe I'm being too protective of vertical space.

No, you're right, the titles are vertically oriented and our author view is horizontally oriented, so things would get very tall very fast and most actual posts would be much much shorter than the author pane. Which is fine on a desktop monitor and may be even an iPad, but we'll have to at least default off on iPhones.

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The Dave
Sep 9, 2003

Depends. You can decide join date isn't important and relegate it to some sort of popover and jam avatar text under the name in the smaller font and disrespect line breaks.

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

The Dave posted:

Depends. You can decide join date isn't important and relegate it to some sort of popover and jam avatar text under the name in the smaller font and disrespect line breaks.

Unfortunately I think that'll mess up quite a few custom titles. Plus what do we do about gang tags?

e: I'm not saying we can't but I really think we should think this feature through and test it thoroughly. Especially since we have multiple pretty serious bugs to fix now and a Swift 3 conversion to do.

carry on then fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Aug 5, 2016

Doctor w-rw-rw-
Jun 24, 2008
Long/3D touch on the user header area of posts to show a popover with the title?

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Doctor w-rw-rw- posted:

Long/3D touch on the user header area of posts to show a popover with the title?

Well you can already go see it on their profile by tapping the username, then profile.

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
It is a bit of a pickle. I know D&D would be (more) unreadable with all the trump tower gamg tag things they all have

Drastic Actions
Apr 7, 2009

FUCK YOU!
GET PUMPED!
Nap Ghost
I would say it would make more sense on an iPad or iPad Pro to have more of the websites layout. Like, when they're full screen and have the space for it, it could have the avatars (and gang tags and text) on the left side and the content on the right. When you shrink it, it can remove those elements before showing it as the "phone" version, or how it is right now.

Grace Baiting
Jul 20, 2012

Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.



Doctor w-rw-rw- posted:

Long/3D touch on the user header area of posts to show a popover with the title?

I like this! And/or mb the title could start in the right-side mostly-empty space next to the name, and tap (or 3D/long-press) to show the rest in a popover? 👇🔜👍

pokeyman
Nov 26, 2006

That elephant ate my entire platoon.
Everything up to here I've read and recorded, even if I don't directly reply below. Sorry for the extended absence.

And while I'm apologizing, I've been sitting on the filter-thread-by-tag bugfix for no good reason for like a month, so I'ma ship that off for review pronto.

drunken officeparty posted:

Is there a way to see the poster post counts of a thread like when you click on the number column on the full website?

Nope. It's a good idea though!

drunken officeparty posted:

What determines when the bookmark page auto refreshes when you click it as opposed to having to pull down

A (possibly broken) comparison, each time the bookmarks list appears, of the current time to a record of the last time a refresh happened. If it's been more than 10 minutes, it should refresh automatically.

Lichy posted:

Do you reckon there is ever going to be a way to cache threads for offline reading?

Anything you read right now is cached for a few days (unless iOS decides to purge Awful's cache while it's not running), though to some extent images and to a much larger extent embedded content (tweets/videos) are less likely to remain cached.

Lichy posted:

I think there used to be an option to connect to SA by IP address? Can't find it in the settings anymore but it must be still active because I can only read SA on my phone right now since it's blocked by court order here courtesy of the harm prevention specialists in TCC.

I pulled it out when we switched to https, but maybe there's a way to do both. Or, failing that, we could probably put it back in and mention it's less secure.

life is a joke posted:

Is there a way that when u interact with an embedded tweet, it comes up in the twitter app? Instead of the apps browser

I know there's an open in Twitter app banner on the page, but it keeps signing me out even tho I log in in a window that's not private. Basically I want to click follow and have it work like in the app instead of a 3 step process, can twitter do this?

I can find out!

Abjad Soup posted:

The 6699 quotation icon is bad and I liked the previous one which was better. (I think the previous one was also better than a hypothetical filled-in-circles version of 6699, too!)

I don't feel strongly about it, I'll do whatever. I've gotten used to the filled-in one.

quote:

Also I would super duper love to have the app remember your place in an open thread when it's evicted from memory.

Yeah that's a lovely bug.

quote:

I've noticed that the "[/..]" button on the reply screen's keyboard no longer works correctly with nested tags, and instead will just attempt to close the most recent tag even if that was already a close-tag -- and even if it's not actually a tag at all! So you'll get like "[//..][///..][////..][/////..]" if you hit that button four times as it attempts to close my "[/..]" "tag" from the beginning of this paragraph. Did something happen within the past few releases to the parser or regex engine that recognized open-tags?

I think I ported it to Swift for no good reason, so that could be it!

quote:

The "remember in-thread location" is probably my top request, if that matters!

It does.

life is a joke
Mar 7, 2016
pokeyman youre the best.

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)

life is a joke posted:

pokeyman youre the best.

Yeah, this. Thanks to all of you who are working on making this the best way to waste my time :cheers:

tehinternet
Feb 14, 2005

Semantically, "you" is both singular and plural, though syntactically it is always plural. It always takes a verb form that originally marked the word as plural.

Also, there is no plural when the context is an argument with an individual rather than a group. Somfin shouldn't put words in my mouth.
Hey dude, just wanted to say thanks for making this app. Been using it for years and it's always been great so far as I'm concerned (unlike MURICA #TRUMP2016).

Appreciate it dude, is there a donate link for you or something? Didn't see one in the a quick scan of the OP.

pokeyman
Nov 26, 2006

That elephant ate my entire platoon.
I've always avoided that stuff because I'm not the only contributor and figuring out how to fairly divide whatever seems like more work than it's worth. But I appreciate the gesture! :glomp:

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
I request a million dollars for the pull to next page toggle

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

I pledge ten bucks to bring back some kind of full screen post view for my tiny iPhone SE. Ages ago you used to be able to triple tap when viewing threads and hide the top/bottom bars. It was amazing

Coq au Nandos
Nov 7, 2006

I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... A shitpost is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.

zen death robot posted:

SE users are subhuman

Tiny hands like Donald Trump

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

*Blows dust off Special Edition*

"This says Subhuman Edition!"

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
I've noticed that when the app crashes it doesn't have the latest last-read value, I usually have to jump 2-3 pages ahead

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
This happened :wtf:

The Dave
Sep 9, 2003

Got off my rear end to work on the missing tags from my personal bookmarks, does anyone know who this is in the BSS specific movie tag?


My guess is Howard the Duck but I think his movie costume was actually shittier.

Also I added a F2P icon to the repo and I made it at 200x200 because we did the previous icons in 90x90 for no good reason and we could stand to bump up the fidelity.
(5 years from now we'll embark on all SVG icons!)

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



I think you're right that it's Howard. I think it's this image:

korora
Sep 3, 2011
This is probably pretty low-priority but I wish there were a way in the iPad app to get out of a thread view and just leave the main pane empty. I'm used to the phone version where you can go back to the bookmark list and so when I come back to the iPad app I have to figure out if I am in the middle of reading whatever thread is open or if I already read it.

It doesn't help that Awful always reopens in the middle of the thread even if I was at the bottom, even if the app was not purged—if I close the app while at the bottom of a thread and reopen immediately it jumps up several posts. This only happens in landscape and the position it jumps to is the same as the position it goes to if you scroll to the bottom in landscape and then rotate to portrait and back, so I think it's just resetting the scroll position based on where the "bottom" is in portrait.

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
A filled-in 6699 icon? Nice.

e: I can rotate the screen, too :toot:

Coq au Nandos
Nov 7, 2006

I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... A shitpost is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.

anthonypants posted:

A filled-in 6699 icon? Nice.

e: I can rotate the screen, too :toot:

Oh it's beautiful.

Rob was taken
Mar 8, 2006
For what it's worth, that bug that showed the unread post count as x... has been fixed in the new iOS 10 beta

life is a joke
Mar 7, 2016
What is the 6699 thing???? I use the app almost every day and have no idea what anyone's talking about :X

spanky the dolphin
Sep 3, 2006

life is a joke posted:

What is the 6699 thing???? I use the app almost every day and have no idea what anyone's talking about :X

It's just the icon for the quote button - it changed to large 66/99 style quotation marks for one version but now has changed to filled in, smaller quote marks.

/iconchat

life is a joke
Mar 7, 2016
Oh I see, I thought it was something around quotes from others within the thread or something thanks big dawg

Solvent
Jan 24, 2013

by Hand Knit

GutBomb posted:

I'm also experiencing the landscape causing the app to freeze while not in a thread bug. I'm on the latest app beta. Using whatever the latest iOS 9 is on a 6s.

Yeah, noticed an update today and still this. Any word on when it's gonna get fixed? It's a pain in the rear end.

rufius
Feb 27, 2011

Clear alcohols are for rich women on diets.

Solvent posted:

Yeah, noticed an update today and still this. Any word on when it's gonna get fixed? It's a pain in the rear end.

Ditto. I'm using an iPhone 6S.

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

I still can't figure it out. And now I'm stuck on the Swift 3 conversion too, although I haven't tried the new Xcode beta released yesterday. ugh.

LampkinsMateSteve
Jan 1, 2005

I've really fucked it. Have I fucked it?

Solvent posted:

Yeah, noticed an update today and still this. Any word on when it's gonna get fixed? It's a pain in the rear end.

This is my only non-updated app because of these reports, and my OCD is suffering.

But for reals, would a work-around fix be to add a toggle to make the app portrait only? That's what I've kinda wanted anyway for some time. I never use the app in landscape mode, but it can be annoying toggling the portrait lock, even if it's only in the control center.

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Lol @ "solving" the quote icon disagreement in the most microsoft way possible

drunken officeparty
Aug 23, 2006

Regular Nintendo posted:

Lol @ "solving" the quote icon disagreement in the most microsoft way possible

Idk what that means but I like the new icon way better

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

drunken officeparty posted:

Idk what that means but I like the new icon way better

"I liked the speech bubble better"
"I liked the 6699 icon better"

*ships update with current Modern Icon*

Grace Baiting
Jul 20, 2012

Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.



Regular Nintendo posted:

"I liked the speech bubble better"
"I liked the 6699 icon better"

*ships update with current Modern Icon*

Yeah the new icon still looks a little weird with the two double quotes partially overlapping but it looks way way way better than the garbage pile of trash that was the unfilled 6699 icon, so I'm just glad the review process was so expedited to deal with specifically my recent concerns!!   thx 4 listening friendz

spider wisdom
Nov 4, 2011

og data bandit
The Planetside 2 thread kills Awful dead on my iphone5 (latest version) and 2nd gen ipad (probably 5 updates old) every time I load the 2nd page. But only the 2nd page. I just want to read how best to outfit my purple spandex plasma men. :(

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3646470

Does that happen to anyone else?

1997
Jan 20, 2008

calmer than you are
The second page loads fine on my 6s. Replace your old stuff.

trypsin
Jul 8, 2007
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