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Whenever I’m scrolling through a thread, and there are youtube videos on the page, I keep on activating them accidentally while trying to scroll past them. Like, I’m using my thumb to flick up on the screen, to scroll down, but if I happen to do the flicking motion on a youtube video then it starts playing that video. It’s not totally consistent…Sometimes doing the flick motion on a youtube video will just scroll the page, like normal. Other times it’ll scroll the page and start playing the video (after a slight delay so the video being played has already scrolled off the screen). I tried changing up how I was scrolling but it didn’t seems to make a huge difference. A fast flick vs a slower, more deliberate movement was also inconsistent in when it would activate. Same with where on the screen I was doing this. Normally my thumb’s maybe around the right 1/3rd of the screen, so it’s not like I’m hitting the actual YouTube play icon in the middle of the embed. I’m guessing it’s because if you tap anywhere on a youtube video, it’ll start playing, and my phone and/or the app is getting confused about whether I’m flicking or tapping on a given part of the screen. Could this be changed so that Youtube videos only play if you tap directly on the youtube icon in the center? This is really only an issue on my phone. I also use Awful on my iPad but the scrolling there isn’t an issue because the screen’s wide enough that thumb isn’t anywhere near the videos.
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Sep 11, 2021 16:51
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I have noticed the scrolling thing with YouTube videos too but I’ve also noticed it outside of the awful app so I think something either changed with safari (and thus the webview component) or with the YouTube player that lives in the page when embedded. It’s super annoying.
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Sep 11, 2021 17:39
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Yeah, as far as I know we don't manually handle gestures on the web view, so fixing it in Awful might not be easy if even possible.
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Sep 11, 2021 17:43
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And here I was just thinking it was my fingers getting fatter or something
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Sep 11, 2021 17:51
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Same, started happening after the most recent iOS update so it's almost certainly that.
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Sep 11, 2021 18:09
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GutBomb posted:I’ve also noticed it outside of the awful app so I think something either changed with safari (and thus the webview component) or with the YouTube player that lives in the page when embedded. carry on then posted:Yeah, as far as I know we don't manually handle gestures on the web view, so fixing it in Awful might not be easy if even possible. Midjack posted:Same, started happening after the most recent iOS update so it's almost certainly that. Ah, gotcha. Oh well! Hopefully it’s something that iOS fixes eventually, then.
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Sep 11, 2021 18:13
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I don’t think it has any connection to an iOS update, it happens every now and again and eventually just goes away. It’s most likely down to Google messing with things.
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Sep 11, 2021 18:20
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Snowy posted:And here I was just thinking it was my fingers getting fatter or something Yeah same. Glad it’s not just me.
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Sep 11, 2021 18:35
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Is it me, or do YouTube videos in the app accidentally activate WAY more easily while scrolling now? Ah, I see I'm not the only one. Didn't it used to require actually pressing the Play triangle to activate? Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Sep 11, 2021 |
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Sep 11, 2021 20:45
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Wish there was a way to at least make the video play in the damned feed instead of fading to black and playing in its own window that requires closing before doing anything else in the Awful app.
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Sep 11, 2021 21:35
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it's almost like being forced to allow third parties to arbitrarily inject whatever the gently caress they want into any page in order to embed a video or tweet sucks dick
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Sep 11, 2021 22:32
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This may be too niche an ask, but would it be possible to have a “feed” view for threads? I’m specifically thinking of GDT or other time specific threads that have folks reacting to and posting about events as they happen. It would be sweet to just have things flow by as they come in instead of refreshing every few seconds to see if new takes are in. Totally get if it’s not worth the effort.
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Sep 11, 2021 23:04
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carry on then posted:it's almost like being forced to allow third parties to arbitrarily inject whatever the gently caress they want into any page in order to embed a video or tweet sucks dick Google sucks 
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Sep 11, 2021 23:09
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i, also, have started having videos play during scroll attempts in the past few days. hope this helps
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Sep 11, 2021 23:15
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*bustles into thread* hey guess what I just recently noticed happening
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Sep 11, 2021 23:17
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This post (by BlankSystemDaemon) is interesting: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3750534&perpage=40&noseen=1&pagenumber=350#post517661073 For me, the video in the quote triggers play-on-scroll, but the 3 others in the post proper don’t. I wonder what the difference is, and if we could transform the former structure to the latter.
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Sep 11, 2021 23:30
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Subjunctive posted:This post (by BlankSystemDaemon) is interesting: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3750534&perpage=40&noseen=1&pagenumber=350#post517661073 Seems to happen to me with all the videos.
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Sep 11, 2021 23:44
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carry on then posted:it's almost like being forced to allow third parties to arbitrarily inject whatever the gently caress they want into any page in order to embed a video or tweet sucks dick lol yeah I’ve had this issue myself for many months and I think the only real options within our power are: 1. Play with the iframe parameters. Maybe there’s a magic combination that sorts it. This “YouTube iframe api” does get regular updates, so maybe? It’s a long shot, since this is more of an error than a configuration issue, I think 2. Handle iframes similarly to gifs that don’t auto play. ie don’t embed the iframe until pressed. I think this would be more annoying than the actual issue cuz it wouldnt work the way everyone expects (press to embed the iframe, then press again to play) and I don’t think we’d get a preview image the way that we get the first frame of gifs. So it’d be a custom icon/frame/something, which would be a step down from current Hopefully google just fixes it or we stumble across a decent way to mitigate it. I’m personally not gonna chase this one right now, but I’m always keeping an eye open for fixes to old issues 
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Sep 11, 2021 23:51
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Warbird posted:This may be too niche an ask, but would it be possible to have a “feed” view for threads? I’m specifically thinking of GDT or other time specific threads that have folks reacting to and posting about events as they happen. It would be sweet to just have things flow by as they come in instead of refreshing every few seconds to see if new takes are in. The issue with this one is pulling those new posts from the server. There are lots of awfulapp users (I imagine. In my head. When I break something) and it’d be no good to have them all constantly making automated network requests to fetch new posts. If the site itself started offering this, we’d be good to go. Until then, I don’t think we should do this (or anything similar. I’ve had similar ideas lol) before we have a good way to rate limit automated fetches. And we run that by the site admins before releasing anything along those lines. Just my thoughts, hope my posts don’t come across as any kind of official word. I’m just a recent minor contributor lol
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Sep 12, 2021 00:14
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Diabolik900 posted:Seems to happen to me with all the videos. Well fine then.
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Sep 12, 2021 00:34
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commie kong posted:The issue with this one is pulling those new posts from the server. There are lots of awfulapp users (I imagine. In my head. When I break something) and it’d be no good to have them all constantly making automated network requests to fetch new posts. You've got it right. It's definitely been requested before and I think pokeyman has been in favor it but it's exactly like you said, we've always been hesitant about doing things that would massively increase the load on the servers and even recently we've been asked by Jeffery to prefer letting the site handle features outside enabling mobile use. So it'd just be a lot easier to do and feel good about if the site gave us the tools and blessing to go do it.
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Sep 12, 2021 01:16
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And just like that, the YouTube issue seems to have gone away for me. It’s not the first time this particular issue has come and gone, and I’m sure it won’t be the last.
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Sep 12, 2021 19:24
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Is there a way to turn sigs on or off?
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Sep 13, 2021 02:10
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BigFactory posted:Is there a way to turn sigs on or off? That's handled by the usercp on the website.
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Sep 13, 2021 02:37
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commie kong posted:The issue with this one is pulling those new posts from the server. There are lots of awfulapp users (I imagine. In my head. When I break something) and it’d be no good to have them all constantly making automated network requests to fetch new posts. No you’re good. I figured something like that was the case but didn’t know if there was some quirk in the way the app does its thing that would enable such a thing without melting the servers. While I’m thinking of it, does SA have an API? I had the vague notion that the app is largely a browser type affair that scrapes in the target page and does some CSS wizardry and lord knows what else so we can shitpost.
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Sep 13, 2021 03:41
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Warbird posted:No you’re good. I figured something like that was the case but didn’t know if there was some quirk in the way the app does its thing that would enable such a thing without melting the servers. I'm pretty sure they're working on it but all there is right now is a JSON endpoint for the list of forums. Everything else is either moustache templates to bang the HTML into position, our own custom CSS files, and a decent pile of JS and Swift/JS interop for the posts page or manual scraping in Swift for thread lists etc.
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Sep 13, 2021 03:52
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The YouTubes are still doing it for me, it’s so weird.
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Sep 14, 2021 12:17
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Sep 14, 2021 13:52
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I think I have a fix. It seems that YouTube treats us better if it thinks we’re using MacOS Chrome. I’m feeding a custom user agent into the webview and can’t reproduce the issue while it’s in place. If I comment it out, issue comes back. I tested this back and forth multiple times, so I am truly unlucky if this isn’t actually a fix.
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Sep 14, 2021 14:03
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Sometimes when I scroll through a thread I accidentally start playing a YouTube video. I think this has gotten more sensitive recently (6-12 months). I use a iPad mini 4. Anything he else see this? edit: I don't even remember posting this and I thought it was just me so I'll just say me too please fix it if you can if not that's okay too. I love the app mlnhd fucked around with this message at 13:39 on Sep 15, 2021 |
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Sep 15, 2021 04:31
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Scroll up friend.
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Sep 15, 2021 04:45
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Warbird posted:Scroll up friend. It's safe, there are no videos on this page! 
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Sep 15, 2021 05:48
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I’m going to get fired if YouTubes don’t stop auto playing whenever I touch near them them.
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Sep 15, 2021 05:52
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turn your
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Sep 15, 2021 06:24
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I haven’t once had the issue since applying my fix, so hopefully pokeyman approves and does a new beta. It also seems to make YouTube playback controls load consistently (as opposed to native controls that are sometimes missing options) It’s odd that this is flaring up for people right now. I’ve had the problem a while, but I also have multiple versions of the app installed, all in various states of hosed with Here are my fix notes, for those interested: quote:Custom user agent for webview: MacOS Chrome agent fixes youtube embed issues
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Sep 15, 2021 11:22
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Is fudging the user agent going to fail app review? And/or have other unexpected side effects rendering other content (twitter? other embeds?)
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Sep 15, 2021 17:01
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Not sure about app review, but Twitter has been fine for me. I tested rotating my phone while a Twitter embedded video was playing and it didn’t exit like it used to. But then I tried that in the current beta version and it also worked - so my thing didn’t fix that. But it didn’t hurt it either
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Sep 15, 2021 23:04
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shortspecialbus posted:Is fudging the user agent going to fail app review? And/or have other unexpected side effects rendering other content (twitter? other embeds?) Mostof the history of User-Agent headers is gentle impersonation of another browser whose content you want, so I will laugh exceptionally hard if they bounce the app for that.
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Sep 16, 2021 00:25
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Most of the app review failure reasons I've ever heard tend to be really pedantic, inane, or just blatantly foolish. But it may not matter, was just asking.
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Sep 16, 2021 18:15
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There is a large luck factor, it’s true. My team at work once accidentally submitted builds of exactly the same code a few times in a row and got back different rejections each time until the last one when it was accepted.
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