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NihilCredo: Jun 6, 2011; iram omni possibili modo preme:
plus una illa te diffamabit, quam multæ virtutes commendabunt

Sorry my Google-fu sucks, but basically the following have stopped working:

- Tapping on a timg tag to expand it
- Tapping on the three dots menu on a post (to quote it etc.)

The three dots menu in the header still works fine.

Anybody else had a similar issue? I'm on LineageOS and I have some privacy firewalls so In used to various apps misbehaving, but those don't look like network issues.

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# ? May 9, 2024 21:35

knuthgrush: Jun 25, 2008; Be brave; clench fists.

NihilCredo posted:

Sorry my Google-fu sucks, but basically the following have stopped working:

- Tapping on a timg tag to expand it
- Tapping on the three dots menu on a post (to quote it etc.)

The three dots menu in the header still works fine.

Anybody else had a similar issue? I'm on LineageOS and I have some privacy firewalls so In used to various apps misbehaving, but those don't look like network issues.

I'm not sure what a time tag is but just for some counter evidence I'm on lineage with weird privacy things and I used the dots menu to quote this.

# ? Sep 3, 2022 14:27

Kheldarn: Feb 17, 2011

NihilCredo posted:

Sorry my Google-fu sucks, but basically the following have stopped working:

- Tapping on a timg tag to expand it
- Tapping on the three dots menu on a post (to quote it etc.)

The three dots menu in the header still works fine.

Anybody else had a similar issue? I'm on LineageOS and I have some privacy firewalls so In used to various apps misbehaving, but those don't look like network issues.

Did you check to see if you have any updates for Android System Webview?

# ? Sep 3, 2022 17:36

Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; You mess with the crabbo...

Yep, I've mentioned it before, but every time I have a weird bug in basic functionality it turns out that I need to update Chrome and whatever Android stuff that automatically fixes.

# ? Sep 3, 2022 17:40

Kheldarn: Feb 17, 2011

Captain Hygiene posted:

Yep, I've mentioned it before, but every time I have a weird bug in basic functionality it turns out that I need to update Chrome and whatever Android stuff that automatically fixes.

Oh yeah, I always forget about Chrome, since I don't use it.

Here's hoping it's something easy like updating those.

# ? Sep 3, 2022 17:42

Rand Brittain: Mar 25, 2013; "Go on until you're stopped."

Hm, I'm having some issues on my tablet, and installing Android System WebView (which I didn't actually have before) didn't fix them.

1) I don't seem to be able to get the sidebar to stay in place while reading a thread in landscape and mode. I'm supposed to be able to do that, right? (At least, it works that way in the iPad app.)
2) Tapping on spoilers to reveal them does nothing.
3) Tapping on a post from an ignored user reloads the entire thread instead of revealing it.

EDIT: Doing a thread search indicates that everybody hates the Android version of tablet mode and I should disable it, and that running LineageOS may be hurting me here. I have to say if I had to pick an app that would just randomly refuse to work on a custom ROM, it would probably have been Netflix or something. (I have not actually checked to see if Netflix still works.)

Rand Brittain fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Sep 8, 2022

# ? Sep 8, 2022 07:47

Sereri: Sep 30, 2008; awwwrigami

Rand Brittain posted:

Hm, I'm having some issues on my tablet, and installing Android System WebView (which I didn't actually have before) didn't fix them.

1) I don't seem to be able to get the sidebar to stay in place while reading a thread in landscape and mode. I'm supposed to be able to do that, right? (At least, it works that way in the iPad app.)
2) Tapping on spoilers to reveal them does nothing.
3) Tapping on a post from an ignored user reloads the entire thread instead of revealing it.

EDIT: Doing a thread search indicates that everybody hates the Android version of tablet mode and I should disable it, and that running LineageOS may be hurting me here. I have to say if I had to pick an app that would just randomly refuse to work on a custom ROM, it would probably have been Netflix or something. (I have not actually checked to see if Netflix still works.)

1) That's how it works, sorry. The thread list is just a short swipe away.

2/3) If the WebView wasn't install, it's probably using Chrome instead. Can you try updating that?

What device is that?

# ? Sep 8, 2022 08:11

Rand Brittain: Mar 25, 2013; "Go on until you're stopped."

Sereri posted:

1) That's how it works, sorry. The thread list is just a short swipe away.

2/3) If the WebView wasn't install, it's probably using Chrome instead. Can you try updating that?

What device is that?

1) Well, that's the way the cookie crumbles. I don't really mind the swiping; it's just way too far for the eye to travel in landscape. I guess I'll stick to portrait.

2/3) I didn't have Chrome installed, either, but installing it doesn't change anything.

I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite with LineageOS installed.

# ? Sep 8, 2022 08:30

Blue Nation: Nov 25, 2012

Hello thread!

I've been having an issue this week, the app refuses to work with WiFi, I get a Loading Failed message. Works fine with my data plan tho

Mine's a Motorola moto e6 play, android 9.

# ? Sep 8, 2022 15:04

Daztek: Jun 2, 2006

Blue Nation posted:

Hello thread!

I've been having an issue this week, the app refuses to work with WiFi, I get a Loading Failed message. Works fine with my data plan tho

Mine's a Motorola moto e6 play, android 9.

Does the forum work in the browser when on wifi? You might be getting a captcha

# ? Sep 8, 2022 15:45

Blue Nation: Nov 25, 2012

Daztek posted:

Does the forum work in the browser when on wifi? You might be getting a captcha

Yes, it did work with the browser, I got "checking if the site connection is secure" just before the forum loaded.

# ? Sep 8, 2022 17:07

astral: Apr 26, 2004

Blue Nation posted:

Yes, it did work with the browser, I got "checking if the site connection is secure" just before the forum loaded.

Cloudflare believes that some combination of your IP, user agent, etc. constitute a threat. Not being able to pass their managed challenge in the app likely reinforces that belief in their system.

Since you were able to get it to work properly with your data plan, it's most likely the IP itself triggering some red flags; perhaps a previous owner of that IP address did some malicious stuff. If your ISP assigns IP addresses dynamically, you might have better luck the next time it cycles (when/how this happens depends on your ISP).

# ? Sep 8, 2022 20:02

Blue Nation: Nov 25, 2012

astral posted:

Cloudflare believes that some combination of your IP, user agent, etc. constitute a threat. Not being able to pass their managed challenge in the app likely reinforces that belief in their system.

Since you were able to get it to work properly with your data plan, it's most likely the IP itself triggering some red flags; perhaps a previous owner of that IP address did some malicious stuff. If your ISP assigns IP addresses dynamically, you might have better luck the next time it cycles (when/how this happens depends on your ISP).

Guess I'll just have to wait for it to cycle. Thanks!

# ? Sep 8, 2022 20:56

Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

I just had a thread with 3500ish unread posts change to -81601 unread posts, what would have caused that? I realized it was there right as I hit reload, and it reset to 0 unread upon reloading. Weird. It was the pinned small questions thread in ask/tell

# ? Sep 15, 2022 06:20

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Captain Invictus posted:

I just had a thread with 3500ish unread posts change to -81601 unread posts, what would have caused that? I realized it was there right as I hit reload, and it reset to 0 unread upon reloading. Weird. It was the pinned small questions thread in ask/tell

had you just viewed someone's posts in that thread?

# ? Sep 15, 2022 06:36

Captain Invictus: Apr 5, 2005; Try reading some manga!; Clever Betty

ah yeah, if that's the cause, I wonder why.

# ? Sep 15, 2022 09:22

BabyFur Denny: Mar 18, 2003

Does this app already have a themed icon for android 13?

# ? Sep 15, 2022 09:43

ArcMage: Sep 14, 2007; What is this thread?; Ramrod XTreme

I had been having a problem with pull-to-refresh not firing when there were ignored posts on a page and I was hiding ignored posts, but I'm no longer using the 'hide ignored posts' option and still having trouble with pull-to-refresh.

I'll hit the end of a page, pull, and the app will reload that same page.

This is not just happening on the latest page of a thread, either, but eight or ten pages back or whatever.

# ? Sep 15, 2022 11:24

Skarsnik: Oct 21, 2008; I...AM...RUUUDE!

BabyFur Denny posted:

Does this app already have a themed icon for android 13?

Ooh I've been meaning to ask this

# ? Sep 15, 2022 11:53

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

ArcMage posted:

I had been having a problem with pull-to-refresh not firing when there were ignored posts on a page and I was hiding ignored posts, but I'm no longer using the 'hide ignored posts' option and still having trouble with pull-to-refresh.

I'll hit the end of a page, pull, and the app will reload that same page.

This is not just happening on the latest page of a thread, either, but eight or ten pages back or whatever.

I've also seen this occasionally and it's possible it's related to ignored users, but I don't honestly know. I've been assuming user error so far due to switching to a new phone recently (physical swipe distance changing between phones or something). Anyway, maybe it is something weird the app is doing if it's not just me?

# ? Sep 15, 2022 14:27

Confusedslight: Jan 9, 2020

I've had that problem very occasionally myself as well and I don't have any ignored users. While I'm here just want to say my thanks for the app. It's really really great.

# ? Sep 15, 2022 14:40

Gadzuko: Feb 14, 2005

I get the pull to refresh failure in fast moving threads like GDTs in SAS. I think it's related to the page count changing between the time the page loads and when the pull to refresh happens, but I haven't really tested it.

# ? Sep 15, 2022 16:11

handle: Jan 20, 2011

ArcMage posted:

I had been having a problem with pull-to-refresh not firing when there were ignored posts on a page and I was hiding ignored posts, but I'm no longer using the 'hide ignored posts' option and still having trouble with pull-to-refresh.

I'll hit the end of a page, pull, and the app will reload that same page.

This is not just happening on the latest page of a thread, either, but eight or ten pages back or whatever.

I know Sereri pushed out a fix related to this a while back, are you upgraded to 3.8.15 in Settings > About? If so, can you give an example page and your ignore list? (You can PM the ignore list if you'd like.)

Captain Invictus posted:

I just had a thread with 3500ish unread posts change to -81601 unread posts, what would have caused that? I realized it was there right as I hit reload, and it reset to 0 unread upon reloading. Weird. It was the pinned small questions thread in ask/tell

Yeah, sorry, it's an artifact of viewing a specific user's posts within a thread. Enough data is reused between the full thread and the filtered thread that unread post counts get screwy.

# ? Sep 15, 2022 16:35

ArcMage: Sep 14, 2007; What is this thread?; Ramrod XTreme

handle posted:

I know Sereri pushed out a fix related to this a while back, are you upgraded to 3.8.15 in Settings > About? If so, can you give an example page and your ignore list? (You can PM the ignore list if you'd like.)

Yeah, sorry, it's an artifact of viewing a specific user's posts within a thread. Enough data is reused between the full thread and the filtered thread that unread post counts get screwy.

I am on 3.8.1.5 currently; I'll PM you my ignore list once I figure out a decent way to extract it; it's large because I am a rank coward.

Next time I have the thing happen I'll make a note of the page and PM you that as well.

:patriot:

e: man there is loving no way to easily dump this.

# ? Sep 15, 2022 21:23

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

I just had it happen on page 3213 of the pyf funny pictures thread. There's no ignored posts on there for me. Pulling up a second time brings me to the new page entirely as expected. I set the last read marker a page back and tried again and everything just worked as expected. At this point there was only one post on the new page, but I don't know that's relevant.

To be clear, what happens is I reach the bottom of a page, I swipe up to go to the next page, the app seemingly goes through the motions of loading something and sends me to the top of the same page I swipe up on.

# ? Sep 16, 2022 01:22

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Happened again in the schadenfreude thread, with only one post on the next page.

E: can't recreate it by setting the last read marker back though

Flipperwaldt fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Sep 17, 2022

# ? Sep 17, 2022 00:16

handle: Jan 20, 2011

Flipperwaldt posted:

Happened again in the schadenfreude thread, with only one post on the next page.

E: can't recreate it by setting the last read marker back though

Thanks for looking into this, sucks that I haven't been able to reproduce it yet.. when this happens, is the page counter showing that it's not on the last page yet?

# ? Sep 17, 2022 01:50

ArcMage: Sep 14, 2007; What is this thread?; Ramrod XTreme

Page 66 of the cursed images thread did it for me just now.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4008230&pagenumber=66&perpage=40

The page counter showed it as 66/67 at the time.

# ? Sep 17, 2022 17:10

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

It may still be a massive red herring, but looking at the time of your post here and the times of the posts there, there was one post on the new page.

So far haven't been able to observe what the page numbers are like, but I think I'm mostly trained well enough not to pull for next page if the bottom right has a refresh symbol rather than a right pointing arrow to indicate a next page. Keeping an eye on it though.

# ? Sep 17, 2022 17:56

handle: Jan 20, 2011

OK, I was able to reproduce this on newer, faster-moving threads. (Optional: set posts per page to 5 to make it easier.)

Load a thread where the last page is maxed out on posts.
Wait until there are new posts. (Double edit: requires a lot of luck, with the initial load right before someone posts again.)
Switch away from the app, and switch back. Metadata will update and the page bar will reflect the new posts.
Swipe up and the page will refresh instead of loading the new page.

I'll see if I can figure out a root cause, thank you all for the info!

Edit: ArcMage, I don't know if this is the issue you're seeing 8-10 pages back in a thread, though.

handle fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Sep 22, 2022

# ? Sep 17, 2022 23:30

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

handle posted:

OK, I was able to reproduce this on newer, faster-moving threads. (Optional: set posts per page to 5 to make it easier.)

Load a thread where the last page is maxed out on posts.

Wait until there are new posts.

Switch away from the app, and switch back. Metadata will update and the page bar will reflect the new posts.

Swipe up and the page will refresh instead of loading the new page.

I'll see if I can figure out a root cause, thank you all for the info!

Edit: ArcMage, I don't know if this is the issue you're seeing 8-10 pages back in a thread, though.

I've definitely seen this one

# ? Sep 18, 2022 03:39

ArcMage: Sep 14, 2007; What is this thread?; Ramrod XTreme

handle posted:

OK, I was able to reproduce this on newer, faster-moving threads. (Optional: set posts per page to 5 to make it easier.)

Load a thread where the last page is maxed out on posts.

Wait until there are new posts.

Switch away from the app, and switch back. Metadata will update and the page bar will reflect the new posts.

Swipe up and the page will refresh instead of loading the new page.

I'll see if I can figure out a root cause, thank you all for the info!

Edit: ArcMage, I don't know if this is the issue you're seeing 8-10 pages back in a thread, though.

That is likely to be the issue, as that describes my usage patterns pretty well.

# ? Sep 18, 2022 22:08

Rand Brittain: Mar 25, 2013; "Go on until you're stopped."

Incidentally, the most recent Android System WebView update caused the app to suddenly start working correctly for me.

# ? Sep 19, 2022 00:22

Quaint Quail Quilt: Jun 19, 2006; Ask me about that time I told people mixing bleach and vinegar is okay

Great app!
The first issue I've noticed is:
Failing to resume properly when the app has gone dormant over multiple hours. I believe in the past it would just boot me back to the thread list, now it stays exactly where I was, but is unresponsive. (I solve it by closing and reopening the app)

I'm on a pixel 6 pro and I guess it started when I updated to Android 13
E: I did a clean reflash maybe 4 updates ago.

Quaint Quail Quilt fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Sep 27, 2022

# ? Sep 22, 2022 10:09

ZombieApostate: Mar 13, 2011; Sorry, I didn't read your post.

I'm too busy replying to what I wish you said

NihilCredo posted:

Sorry my Google-fu sucks, but basically the following have stopped working:

- Tapping on a timg tag to expand it
- Tapping on the three dots menu on a post (to quote it etc.)

The three dots menu in the header still works fine.

Anybody else had a similar issue? I'm on LineageOS and I have some privacy firewalls so In used to various apps misbehaving, but those don't look like network issues.

I am also getting this. Also on LineageOS, but with a Nexus 7 2013. No privacy firewall stuff.

I tried reinstalling the app, no change.

Didn't have Chrome or Webview installed, so I installed Webview, reinstalled the app, no change.

I think it started happening after I updated LineageOS sometime in the last month or so. Maybe it's using the built in Browser that you can't remove and they broke something with an update?

# ? Sep 22, 2022 10:55

handle: Jan 20, 2011

ZombieApostate posted:

I am also getting this. Also on LineageOS, but with a Nexus 7 2013. No privacy firewall stuff.

I tried reinstalling the app, no change.

Didn't have Chrome or Webview installed, so I installed Webview, reinstalled the app, no change.

I think it started happening after I updated LineageOS sometime in the last month or so. Maybe it's using the built in Browser that you can't remove and they broke something with an update?

Can you enable developer options and see what is being being used as your WebView implementation? It should show up under Developer Options > WebView implementation.

Here are some instructions for enabling the developer menu on stock Android. (Just the developer menu is fine, you shouldn't need to enable USB debugging.)

# ? Sep 22, 2022 15:26

ZombieApostate: Mar 13, 2011; Sorry, I didn't read your post.

I'm too busy replying to what I wish you said

handle posted:

Can you enable developer options and see what is being being used as your WebView implementation? It should show up under Developer Options > WebView implementation.

Here are some instructions for enabling the developer menu on stock Android. (Just the developer menu is fine, you shouldn't need to enable USB debugging.)

What it looked like when I first looked at it. Swapped it to the other option and now it seems like it works.

I'm guessing the one that doesn't work is a replacement that lineageos uses in order to not rely on Google's stuff.

ZombieApostate fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Sep 22, 2022

# ? Sep 22, 2022 19:10

handle: Jan 20, 2011

ZombieApostate posted:

What it looked like when I first looked at it. Swapped it to the other option and now it seems like it works.

I'm guessing the one that doesn't work is a replacement that lineageos uses in order to not rely on Google's stuff.

Thanks for looking! Yeah, unfortunately there may not be much to do other than hope an update gets Lineage's version to play nice with Awful.

# ? Sep 22, 2022 20:02

ZombieApostate: Mar 13, 2011; Sorry, I didn't read your post.

I'm too busy replying to what I wish you said

Yeah, it works for me. This is the device I read the forums while I'm on the shitter and read manga on. The only reason it has LineageOS on it at all is that it runs better than the last official release, which was like Android 6 or some poo poo, lol. Mileage may vary for people that actually want to hide from google, though.

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# ? May 9, 2024 21:35

other people: Jun 27, 2004; Associate Christ

Is there an option to toggle embedding of tiktok videos? It seems to be missing from the list of toggles.

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