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pokeyman
Nov 26, 2006

That elephant ate my entire platoon.

Virion posted:

Has there been any talk about adding keyboard shortcuts and navigation? I bought a keyboard to make my tiny laptop dreams come true and button scrolling is the one thing I miss from browsers.

I think you're the first to mention it, though in retrospect it's a pretty obvious addition! I'll add it to the list.

Lazyhound posted:

Feature request: if you hold on a forum emoticon, show the bbcode for it instead of showing it full-screen.

This is definitely on the list and it's a great idea so lemme put it on that list once more.

Abjad Soup posted:

Tweet embedding (tweembedding) is neat but I have some complaints about it already!!! [snip]

Jotted these down, thanks!

zen death robot posted:

I turned it back off. The apps are too dependent on nothing major changing with the html

Yeah, joys of informal APIs :) if I can get a preview of the HTML changes I'd be more than happy to test them out. And of course if you decide to throw the switch for good we'll just figure it out!

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carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

That's odd, when you flipped the switch before and I came up with the fix it appeared to work fine with images. Now they quit showing up?

life is a joke
Mar 7, 2016
You prob already got this one, but if I scroll to the end of a thread with no new replies I get error code 999 instead of just refreshing to the bottom.

Grace Baiting
Jul 20, 2012

Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.



Subjunctive posted:

None of those you cited above have a white background though?

Hah I was using the image viewer sheet and I guess it renders a white rectangle behind animated gifs or something, ignore that part then

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

zen death robot posted:

You can't really do anything to make the tweets look different that isn't supported by Twitter's own API unless you move to API v1.1 with requires app authentication and also rate limits the number of tweets you can query in a 15 minute window. It gets really complex really quick - which is why I haven't bothered to implement that on the forums themselves. Also I know the site would eat the 150 tweet per 15 minute thing up too fast and not work most of the time.

Yeah, Twitter happily provides a dark theme in the JS embed API, but for other things we'd need to move to user auth to keep up with the traffic. Then people need to tie their Twitter account to the app/forums, and things get gross fast. I looked into this for imgur as well, in my unsuccessful quest to diagnose the posting-too-fast error.

Pissflaps
Oct 20, 2002

by VideoGames
Can links to YouTube be made to open in the YouTube app immediately rather than via the browser and that annoying prompt?

life is a joke
Mar 7, 2016

Pissflaps posted:

Can links to YouTube be made to open in the YouTube app immediately rather than via the browser and that annoying prompt?

Ya, it's in the options screen, set "open youtube in youtube" to on.

I used to hate that poo poo because the middleman step made it so it dont say "back to awful" up the top. If you set that slider to on itll open em and you can go back to the app via iOS which makes browsing video heavy threads much more fun.

Pissflaps
Oct 20, 2002

by VideoGames
That's great stuff thankyou.

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

Did we change the default on that? I keep meaning to.

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill
If I tap the link in the post below, it opens fine in awful browser. If I long-tap and open in safari, I get a 404. Something messing up the url escaping I guess?

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3548182&perpage=40&pagenumber=760#post458545691

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

Soricidus posted:

If I tap the link in the post below, it opens fine in awful browser. If I long-tap and open in safari, I get a 404. Something messing up the url escaping I guess?

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3548182&perpage=40&pagenumber=760#post458545691
Works for me :shrug:

Ultimate Mango
Jan 18, 2005

A,axing work on the app everyone. Has something changed today to make bookmarks not work? Because bookmarks totally don't work for me now. The bookmark sidebar appears to load data but shows blank. Forums display works.

Also I see Handoff support, which is awesome, but what does it handoff to? A browser or some app I need?

Ultimate Mango
Jan 18, 2005

Bookmarks are back so thanks?

Would be interesting to hear how handoff works.

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

It will open the current thread and page in Awful on other iOS devices with it installed, or Safari on iOS without Awful (I think) and OS X.

Grace Baiting
Jul 20, 2012

Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.



pokeyman posted:

Jotted these down, thanks!

Add another to the initial tweembedding bugs pile: long-pressing a tweet and then choosing the "Copy URL" button seems to do nothing but place "https://forums.somethingawful.com" into your clipboard, regardless of the tweet, which I don't think is the correct behavior. Same result when long-pressing on a link within the embedded tweet.

Also +1 to re-adding the simple "Open" choice to the popup menu when you long-press on a link in a thread. Everyone who has previously made this suggestion is undoubtedly strong and physically attractive!

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

Hmm, apparently Apple pulled all the third party Reddit clients from the App Store.

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

smackfu posted:

Hmm, apparently Apple pulled all the third party Reddit clients from the App Store.
Good

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
I know Reddit delisted alien blue last week when their new official client launched

wattershed
Dec 27, 2002

Radio got his free iPod, did you get yours???
Apple removed them from the store over nsfw content being accessible on them. Yes, it makes no sense. The Bacon Reader devs (in their subreddit) said it wasn't Reddit's doing and that Reddit's reached out to them to help them get back in business.

Just FYI.

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

:rip: then

hotsauce
Jan 14, 2007
Good thing there isn't porn on twitter, tumbler, safari....well, nevermind.

Endymion FRS MK1
Oct 29, 2011

I don't know what this thing is, and I don't care. I'm just tired of seeing your stupid newbie av from 2011.
The official Reddit app has NSFW disabled by default, so yeah they probably did pull some strings.

Doctor w-rw-rw-
Jun 24, 2008
Yeah, Apple rejections got pretty out of hand a while back...even when we submitted the AMA app (when I worked on it) we had to take some rather extreme measures. For AMAs. I mean, really, c'mon, Apple.

Definitely Apple's agenda, not Reddit's.

(for the record, I no longer work there)

smackfu
Jun 7, 2004

I mentioned it here because I thought it might impact Awful but it looks to be related to NSFW content and I guess we don't have that much of that compare to Reddit.

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

And we're already 17+, were those apps?

Sereri
Sep 30, 2008

awwwrigami

I guess you'll be fine if you guys don't start with the emoji sex again. :gooncamp:

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



Sounds like Tim's doing God's work.

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

Sereri posted:

I guess you'll be fine if you guys don't start with the emoji sex again. :gooncamp:

Thread challenge!

My 8-year-old daughter saw that emoticon over my shoulder. How should I explain it to her?

Sereri
Sep 30, 2008

awwwrigami

Subjunctive posted:

Thread challenge!

My 8-year-old daughter saw that emoticon over my shoulder. How should I explain it to her?

I THOUGHT YOU WERE RATED 17+

Do I have to register as a sex offender now?

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe

Subjunctive posted:

Thread challenge!

My 8-year-old daughter saw that emoticon over my shoulder. How should I explain it to her?

You should go to jail for exposing your child to this filth IMO. The app is clearly labeled 17+!

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

Sereri posted:

Do I have to register as a sex offender now?

No, I think it auto-renews.

The Lord Bude
May 23, 2007

ASK ME ABOUT MY SHITTY, BOUGIE INTERIOR DECORATING ADVICE

Sereri posted:

I THOUGHT YOU WERE RATED 17+

Do I have to register as a sex offender now?

Only in the US. The rest of the world doesn't engage in mass hysteria when confronted with mild sexuality in media.

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

The Lord Bude posted:

Only in the US. The rest of the world doesn't engage in mass hysteria when confronted with mild sexuality in media.
I think you would be surprised

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

The Lord Bude posted:

Only in the US. The rest of the world doesn't engage in mass hysteria when confronted with mild sexuality in media.

Try it in the emirates and let us know how you get on

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Yeah he should've said civilized world

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING

The Lord Bude posted:

Only in the US. A small handful of Western European countriesdoesn't engage in mass hysteria when confronted with mild sexuality in media.

FTFY

Cactus Ghost
Dec 20, 2003

you can actually inflate your scrote pretty safely with sterile saline, syringes, needles, and aseptic technique. its a niche kink iirc

the saline just slowly gets absorbed into your blood but in the meantime you got a big round smooth distended nutsack

so is the app ever going to stop mixing up quote and edit, or is it supposed to be some meta joke about q!=e

The Lord Bude
May 23, 2007

ASK ME ABOUT MY SHITTY, BOUGIE INTERIOR DECORATING ADVICE

Also Northern European, Eastern European, Southern European, Asian (Japan and china at least, russia if you want to count russia as asia rather than Eastern Europe), South america, Australia - basically any country that isn't the United states, or predominantly Muslim.

Sereri
Sep 30, 2008

awwwrigami

Sorry about your thread, pokeyman

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Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

OMGVBFLOL posted:

so is the app ever going to stop mixing up quote and edit, or is it supposed to be some meta joke about q!=e

What do you mean?

Edit(!): oh, that on others' posts quote is in position 3, but on your own that spot is edit? I think it reduces q!=e, but I haven't thought much about it.

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