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Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



Remember that digging DOWN will only make your situation worse, Goon In A Well.

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qbert
Oct 23, 2003

It's both thrilling and terrifying.

Sudo Echo posted:

App randomly freezes when the screen rotates. No idea why it happens on both threas indexes and on posts. iPhone 5 IOS 9.3.4

I'm experiencing this issue as well. If I rotate to landscape view from the Bookmarks page, the app will freeze.

This doesn't happen for all pages as I just tried it on this page while writing this post. iPhone 6 9.3.4.

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Sudo Echo posted:

App randomly freezes when the screen rotates. No idea why it happens on both threas indexes and on posts. iPhone 5 IOS 9.3.4

It's a known issue for forum and thread lists (and I'm stuck working on another issue before I can get back to this one :argh:) but this is the first I've heard of it affecting post pages as well. Does it do it reliably on a page of posts?

various cheeses
Jan 24, 2013

Endless Mike posted:

Remember that digging DOWN will only make your situation worse, Goon In A Well.

Just waiting for the part where we all piss in the well. :mrgw:

Any plans on adding images to the leper colony btw?

Hugh G. Rectum
Mar 1, 2011

carry on then posted:

It's a known issue for forum and thread lists (and I'm stuck working on another issue before I can get back to this one :argh:) but this is the first I've heard of it affecting post pages as well. Does it do it reliably on a page of posts?

No, totally random as far as I can tell. It also happened once on a web view. Mostly on the bookmarks and thread index pages though.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Idk if this has been mentioned but on my 6S Plus running iOS 10 Beta 6 links do not work, nor can you do anything when you hold a link and the option bar pops up. It freezes and you have to close the app

I'm sure this will be fixed in the future so I guess this is a warning to be ready for it??

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

Tusen Takk posted:

Idk if this has been mentioned but on my 6S Plus running iOS 10 Beta 6 links do not work, nor can you do anything when you hold a link and the option bar pops up. It freezes and you have to close the app

I'm sure this will be fixed in the future so I guess this is a warning to be ready for it??
There's a beta 7 out (build 14A5345a), maybe that'll help? I'm on beta 7 beta 6 and don't have issues with links. Here are some links to test with:

https://www.somethingawful.com/

test link


e: for some reason I thought this build was beta 7 but that is not the case for the public beta branch

anthonypants fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Aug 23, 2016

Grace Baiting
Jul 20, 2012

Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.



various cheeses posted:

Any plans on adding images to the leper colony btw?

Oh yeah +1 from me on this one.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



anthonypants posted:

There's a beta 7 out (build 14A5345a), maybe that'll help? I'm on beta 7 beta 6 and don't have issues with links. Here are some links to test with:

https://www.somethingawful.com/

test link


e: for some reason I thought this build was beta 7 but that is not the case for the public beta branch

It looks like those links work when I press and hold and select open in safari, but the in app browser seems borked

Beve Stuscemi
Jun 6, 2001




Storysmith posted:

I've gotten the bouncing bookmarks page twice in the last week after not getting it this whole time. I'm not complaining, I'm bragging. It's an awesome bug and if you ever get it triggering reliably enough to fix it please consider making a "bounce the bookmarks" Easter egg.

I get this every time I go to bookmarks, and it will do it seemingly forever until I switch away from bookmarks and go back

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
Please add a way to go back to the thread page that you were viewing after clicking on embedded tweets.

Thanks that's all I got have a nice day.

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

TBeats posted:

Please add a way to go back to the thread page that you were viewing after clicking on embedded tweets.

Thanks that's all I got have a nice day.
It's in the top left once you're in the twitter app:

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

anthonypants posted:

It's in the top left once you're in the twitter app:


Mine doesn't open in the app. It opens the mobile site is the awful app. Picture:



The only back arrow available takes me to the parent forum of the thread I was reading. Opening it in the app gives me the same arrow you have to go back to the app, but I takes me back to the picture shown above, which gives me the same problem. Clicking the X on the right side only closes the "open in app" option. I checked the app settings and didn't see an option for opening tweets in this app.

I am using iOS 9 on my iPhone 6S and the most updated app version of that info makes any difference.

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

TBeats posted:

Mine doesn't open in the app. It opens the mobile site is the awful app. Picture:



The only back arrow available takes me to the parent forum of the thread I was reading. Opening it in the app gives me the same arrow you have to go back to the app, but I takes me back to the picture shown above, which gives me the same problem. Clicking the X on the right side only closes the "open in app" option. I checked the app settings and didn't see an option for opening tweets in this app.

I am using iOS 9 on my iPhone 6S and the most updated app version of that info makes any difference.

This is fucky and annoying but the workaround is to tap on the time/date on the tweet and it opens in a webview like a normal link

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Astounding, twitter probably changed their backend around. I'll look into it when I get a chance.

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

carry on then posted:

Astounding, twitter probably changed their backend around. I'll look into it when I get a chance.

I've observed that issue since tweet embeds were first added to the app

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

TBeats posted:

Mine doesn't open in the app. It opens the mobile site is the awful app. Picture:



The only back arrow available takes me to the parent forum of the thread I was reading. Opening it in the app gives me the same arrow you have to go back to the app, but I takes me back to the picture shown above, which gives me the same problem. Clicking the X on the right side only closes the "open in app" option. I checked the app settings and didn't see an option for opening tweets in this app.

I am using iOS 9 on my iPhone 6S and the most updated app version of that info makes any difference.
There's a link in your screenshot that says "Open in app". What do you think it does.

POCKET CHOMP
Jul 20, 2003

me irl.
The problem is that after he clicks the tweet, it opens that webview and there's no way to go back to the thread he came from. If it had opened in the app in the first place, it wouldn't be an issue because it'd just be a matter of switching back to Awful, but by the time that webview opens it doesn't matter anymore.

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

anthonypants posted:

There's a link in your screenshot that says "Open in app". What do you think it does.

Replace errant periods with question marks?

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Regular Nintendo posted:

I've observed that issue since tweet embeds were first added to the app

I don't care.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

anthonypants posted:

There's a link in your screenshot that says "Open in app". What do you think it does.

Did you even read my post lol

pokeyman
Nov 26, 2006

That elephant ate my entire platoon.

Regular Nintendo posted:

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

Sounds about right, an artifact of how we store the last page you're on.


Not gonna blame myself for that one.

The Dave posted:

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!)

:toot:

korora posted:

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.

I understand where you're coming from. Your guess on priority is probably correct but it's a good idea, I'll add it to the list!

quote:

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.

Yeah this has been fucky for awhile. It annoys me too, just not quite long enough to fix it :(

ZeeBoi posted:

Any idea why my iPad (Retina display) often fails to load a page with error code -1001? I never get it on my iPhone 6S.

That error code probably means "timed out". Probably not super helpful information for you.

drunken officeparty posted:

I opened the app and was logged out and all the settings (all like 5 of them) had reverted back to default on me. I son't know why this happened, I never hit log out and I've never had it do this before. What did I break.

That's pretty weird. All I can think of that might cause that is some fuckery when restoring from a(nother device's) backup or somehow deleting/reinstalling the app without noticing (seems pretty unlikely though). Settings are stored in the system standard place (NSUserDefaults) and your session cookie is stored in the system standard cookie storage. Only time I see those disappear is when I delete the app.

Solvent posted:

Shittingdicknipples it's no joke. This seems like something I'd like, donate or go beta over. What can I do to help since my stupid palsy hands can't type in portrait mode, and I love this app so

Poke around the app in a debugger and/or printing out stuff until you figure out wtf is going on? That's my plan when I get around to looking at it!

Boris Galerkin posted:

Is there a way to not go to the next page/reload the page if I scroll all the way down to the bottom? It's happened too much where I'm scrolling down to get to the bottom and accidentally pull too hard/much and either go on to the next page or reload and end up at the top again.

There's the setting that was mentioned, but the real problem is we should consider where you started scrolling before deciding to interpret the gesture as "next page plz". If you flick a scroll a couple screenfuls away from the bottom, that shouldn't trigger the pull-for-next.

Your Dead Gay Son posted:

That works. Any reason why it works?

My artisanal bespoke Imgur upload library seems to choke when uploading original images, but do literally anything to the image and it avoids the chokepoint.

Weedle posted:

As of just now, I can't load any threads in the app on my iPad or iPhone. They all return an error saying I need archives, which I have. I deleted and redownloaded the app and it won't let me log in, saying my username or password is incorrect.

The "need archives" error is a bit of a catch-all when the app can't figure out wtf is going on with the HTML it's trying to scrape. It was probably trying to understand some CloudFlare error page or something.

Abjad Soup posted:

Currently a right-to-left swipe collides between the gesture shortcuts for Delete Thread and Return To Current/Last Thread View, distinguished (as you point out) only by whether the swipe started close enough to the edge of the screen or not... which can be tricky if your phone case has any kind of lip on the right side. But there's no gesture shortcut on the Bookmarks screen associated with a left-to-right swipe!

SOLUTIONS??
• So maybe make the Delete Thread gesture shortcut be that left-to-right swipe, exposing the Delete button on the left side behind the thread icons? Then a right-to-left swipe can't start deleting a thread at all.
• Or if the swipe direction is a dealbreaker, I'd be in favor of removing the Delete Thread gesture shortcut entirely.

I will personally thank, and mean it, themsoever who implements one and/or both of these solutions on my Awful app on my phone. My post is my bond.

I could see putting (restoring? seems like we had this before) an Edit button on the Bookmarks navbar and doing away with swipe-to-delete. I don't delete bookmarks often enough to make the swipe a useful accelerator.

Changing swipe-to-delete direction is a pain in the rear end unfortunately.

Teddybear posted:

After reading many threads or pages in a thread the app will often crash out. When I reload it and go back to the page that crashed it usually it loads fine. Latest ios9 on a 5s.

Not sure what's going on here. Possible there's a memory leak somewhere.

Tony Homo posted:

In SA Mart put Buy as the title and Sell came out. This is the second time. I made triple sure the B was highlighted and it showed up in the preview as "B" and when it posted it came out as an "S".

I use the iPhone app and have an iPhone 6s Plus.

My apologies! I've probably never actually tested that functionality, so I wonder if we've either got them mixed up or just failing to pass it along and getting the default tag.

various cheeses posted:

Just waiting for the part where we all piss in the well. :mrgw:

Any plans on adding images to the leper colony btw?

No, though it's a good idea. Seems like leper's colony entries can have basically arbitrary HTML, so for now we just grab the text content and call it Good Enough. A proper implementation probably needs to switch from a table view to a web view for presentation.

TBeats posted:

Please add a way to go back to the thread page that you were viewing after clicking on embedded tweets.

Thanks that's all I got have a nice day.

That's a fuckup in the app, it shouldn't allow taking over the webview like that. YouTube embeds have a similar issue that we have to special-case. It's on my list!

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

pokeyman posted:


That's a fuckup in the app, it shouldn't allow taking over the webview like that. YouTube embeds have a similar issue that we have to special-case. It's on my list!

Thanks, friend :) I'm pretty useless but if you need anything I'm sure I can let you down with the best of 'em ;)

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

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Is there a shortcut to embedding YouTube videos other than typing the (video type="youtube"] etc part by hand? No biggy if not.

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

EL BROMANCE posted:

Is there a shortcut to embedding YouTube videos other than typing the (video type="youtube"] etc part by hand? No biggy if not.

The forums themselves are smart enough to embed if you just paste the link, are we somehow defeating that in Awful?

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
I will test it! This is from the YouTube app. If it doesn't work I will retry from the browser.

https://youtu.be/4W9VesCCgKo

http://youtu.be/-iM1oaRKPt8

First link is from the YouTube app. Second link is from safari.

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
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Yeah that's the same result I've always had with pasting the links directly. I don't need it often, but it usually ends up taking an attempt or two before I remember exactly what it needs to embed (im pretty sure if you let the phone autocorrect youtube to YouTube it doesn't work, for example).

dragon enthusiast
Jan 1, 2010
3.16 SE

if I log out, the app crashes the first time I try to log back in. Works just fine the second time

BigFactory
Sep 17, 2002
Possibly a known issue, but the app freezes when I rotate from portrait to landscape more often than not. iOS version.

glassyalabolas
Oct 21, 2006
I want to bowl with the gangsters...

Awful 3.17 is in the App Store but I keep getting an error message trying to update it. I'm posting this from my computer like a neanderthal.

david_a
Apr 24, 2010




Megamarm

glassyalabolas posted:

Awful 3.17 is in the App Store but I keep getting an error message trying to update it. I'm posting this from my computer like a neanderthal.
Unfortunately I have to confirm. The update on my phone got stuck (no progress). Rebooting didn't help so I removed the app and now I can't download it - the App Store thinks there is a phantom update despite the app not existing on the phone.

I realize iOS app updates have some quirks but Awful is the only app where I have had this happen. I've seen something similar to this on one or two previous updates.

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
It took a while in the app store but it installed for me. iOS 10 beta 7 (for reals this time)

EugeneJ
Feb 5, 2012

by FactsAreUseless

glassyalabolas posted:

Awful 3.17 is in the App Store but I keep getting an error message trying to update it.

Same

Solvent
Jan 24, 2013

by Hand Knit

pokeyman posted:


Poke around the app in a debugger and/or printing out stuff until you figure out wtf is going on? That's my plan when I get around to looking at it!

Niggle niggle niggle.
I think I love you pokeyman

qbert
Oct 23, 2003

It's both thrilling and terrifying.
Still getting landscape freeze on 3.17 on Bookmarks screen. Happens after doing a pull to reload.

go play outside Skyler
Nov 7, 2005


qbert posted:

Still getting landscape freeze on 3.17 on Bookmarks screen. Happens after doing a pull to reload.

Same. Sorry pokeyman

david_a
Apr 24, 2010




Megamarm
The app downloaded on my phone! It's a Festivus miracle!

Was there an issue with the Apple servers? Is there anything special about Awful that would have caused this problem? I don't get why Awful is the only app I have where this happens.

Housh
Jul 9, 2001




I get a bug when I refresh my bookmarked threads only on my iPad Pro. The smiley face icon to indicate it's refreshing will keep bouncing forever until I terminate the app. Works fine on my iPhone though.

POCKET CHOMP
Jul 20, 2003

me irl.

david_a posted:

The app downloaded on my phone! It's a Festivus miracle!

Was there an issue with the Apple servers? Is there anything special about Awful that would have caused this problem? I don't get why Awful is the only app I have where this happens.

I was able to download the Awful update just fine but had some other random app update unable to download on both my iPad and my iPhone until I told it to retry five or six times, so I'm gonna wager it's an Apple glitch.

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stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

david_a posted:

The app downloaded on my phone! It's a Festivus miracle!

Was there an issue with the Apple servers? Is there anything special about Awful that would have caused this problem? I don't get why Awful is the only app I have where this happens.

This just happens once in a while, it's happened to me on different apps. I can tell you first hand as an ios dev I get real annoyed with Apple when support calls come in about it like I can do anything to fix it

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