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Call it "Something" so I can have the old sitting on the right of the new one and make a great joke.
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Just don't do that thing where the font steps up in size when I switch to horizontal because that poo poo drives me nuts.
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Oct 5, 2012 23:47
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I'm a fan of ditching the icons just because it seems like wasted screen space. On the full website they're kind of handy because you can click them to filter threads and the like, but the Awful app doesn't really do anything with them. It's not that the interface is cluttered with the icons, but every pixel counts on a mobile device I guess?
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Oct 11, 2012 19:27
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Make it an icon of the toxx barrel pouring neon green ooze.
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Oct 11, 2012 22:13
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smackfu posted:To be honest, I don't use the feature except by accident. Yeah, I thought the app was bugging out on me the first couple times the navigation bars disappeared. I had no idea what happened, and the only way to get them back was to force kill the app and restart.  Then I read the Awful thread and became educated.
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Oct 30, 2012 15:45
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I paid the  /2 and get no ads with Awful.
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Oct 30, 2012 19:03
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Odds are good that once you get the app approved you can wait a few months and then re-enable TCC. Or maybe sneak it by during the Christmas rush.  There's no way they check every little detail every time, right?
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Nov 2, 2012 06:20
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pokeyman posted:The bigger question for me is where do custom titles go on iPhone? Hopefully behind an option in settings so I never have to look at them. The screen is already pretty cramped, which is why I have avatars shut off. I get that they're nice to see but there just isn't room for them.
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Nov 6, 2012 17:56
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TACD posted:What the...? Since when does the Mac support Emoji? You're blowing my mind right now. Last year I think? I remember some chatter about it when it went in, but I forget when that was. Only works in Safari though.. Chrome just shows a blank.
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Nov 8, 2012 20:34
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Put me in the camp that likes opening urls in the safari app. Viewing an image or a single page in the awful app is fine, but if you end up actually browsing, the full web browser is a lot better for it.
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Nov 11, 2012 20:16
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That's my experience too. The old app isn't faster, it just "did stuff" to hide that data was still loading. I guess from a usability perspective the old behavior is better, as a lot of people are complaining about it, but in a stopwatch test there's no difference.
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Nov 12, 2012 17:04
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HolySwissCheese posted:As an iPad mini owner, I would love to be able to increase the default font size in the iPad version of the app. The new Register app has a cool option to shrink/enlarge the font that I haven't encountered anywhere else. It's quite handy because there's no extra screen to do it.. you just tap the gear icon, a little popup shows up, and you can change the font size. Also nifty is the popup has a night mode setting, which makes switching back and forth quite a bit easier than how Awful does it. I appreciate it because my choice of font size changes depending on whether I have my glasses on or off. It might be something worth copying if font scaling becomes a feature for Awful.
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Nov 15, 2012 23:07
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That's some bullshit. I'd flip out if I found my ISP/carrier filtering what sites I can visit.
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Nov 19, 2012 22:11
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It's pretty indispensable.. this forum doesn't have any kind of mobile interface and using the site as presented is pretty painful. Only time I've visited the site in Safari is when the old Awful app stopped working because the site was down and I didn't get a sensible error message.
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Nov 27, 2012 23:16
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Nope, the app has no search features implemented currently. But if you need to search you could visit the forum in Safari.
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Dec 10, 2012 20:10
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My assumption is that the archives are just forum posts that have been moved to a new table in the database to save on them cluttering the indexing for current threads. They function just like normal forum posts, the urls are even the same, but a new input shows up on the forum index to specify a date range. I don't think you even need the archives upgrade to view the posts.. you just need the upgrade to be able to search dates. A random archived thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1737471
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Dec 10, 2012 21:56
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Eagerly awaiting version 1.9999999.
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Dec 11, 2012 14:51
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I'm not jumping to the first unread post when tapping a bookmarked thread on 1.9.. was that taken out or is there some bad cached data from the previous version?
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Dec 13, 2012 01:54
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Diabolik900 posted:No it's in your forums options on the site. Holy cow I need to pay more attention to the options screen. I had no idea that was available.
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Dec 13, 2012 03:57
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If you need some way to hint that there's more thread pages, might the "torn paper" zig zag that twitter sometimes does work? A few time I've missed that more pages await because my brain ignores the page counter at the bottom. Some visual hint might be useful.
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Dec 14, 2012 08:39
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Yes, there's a "mentions" feature in the app settings that will highlight any occurrence of your user name. Guess it's just a simple text match. I guess it could be smarter by requiring white space on either side of the string occurrence, but there's still cases where that can fail.
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Dec 14, 2012 23:07
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pokeyman posted:Yeah I took it out, it's back in 1.9.1. It's starting to sound like every single feature in the app needs to come with a yes/no box to turn it off and on. The joys of writing software and trying to make everyone happy.
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Dec 14, 2012 23:35
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I shut the avatars off entirely and am happier for it.
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Dec 15, 2012 04:05
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pokeyman posted:I poked around for a few minutes to see if anyone knew how to do this, and the closest I got required cutting up the .gif which is far more work than I'm willing to do. For now I suggest just turning off avatars if they get annoying. Assuming iOS is using giflib, there are ways to override the frame delay. So you just set it to some absurdly high number and it's effectively frozen. I don't know enough about iOS programming to be more useful though.. don't know what kind of access they provide for modifying gif images.
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Dec 19, 2012 23:09
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pokeyman posted:The entire posts view is a web view (for reasons I covered somewhere in the first few pages of this thread, if you're curious), so we'd be looking for a way to do this with javascript, html, and CSS. Oh, I suppose that makes more sense.  JS has no access to modifying a gif image's properties, so file that one under "not gonna happen".
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Dec 20, 2012 01:12
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The Dave posted:Well what were the problems? The way it rendered things? What precisely would be the problem with a billion setting toggles? You set it once and forget about it forever, and everyone can have the app behave exactly how they like.
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Dec 31, 2012 23:33
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They could always visit the thread in a normal web browser to see whats up. 
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Jan 1, 2013 16:53
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If you did a git clone, it will be the latest version. Maybe someone didn't update the version in xcode? 
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Jan 1, 2013 19:41
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I am actually really surprised that with the redesign, they didn't put any effort into making a native mobile version. I mean, it seems like the thing to do these days.
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Jan 2, 2013 15:38
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If nothing else, this glitch reveals how many people read the forums using only this app and never ever visit the site in a web browser.
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Jan 2, 2013 16:45
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This is why whenever I write software, my release numbers have no periods. I just take the current version number and add one.  Gotten into some nasty fights over it though. I've had programmers fork the project and stop talking to me because they were so convinced that I was wrong.
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Jan 2, 2013 19:43
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I used to not be afraid of change, but then 2013 happened and I wasn't able to read something awful forums on my smartphone. 
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Jan 2, 2013 20:21
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If you google around there's apparently ways to do it by editing xcode related config files and making your own certs, but I'm unclear if it still works with iOS 6. The certs are the tricky part, Apple will only hand them out if you pay the $99, and it takes some hoop jumping to get self-signed certs onto the phone.
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Jan 2, 2013 20:30
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The app store shuts down for the last week of the year, every year. It's not really something they sprung on us. The forum update was kind of a surprise.. Lowtax tweeted about a "big" something that was on the way a few days ago, so not sure that really counts as a notification. But I can't see how forewarning would have helped, not like there was a dev version of the site for app developers to test against.
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Jan 2, 2013 20:54
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When the new style went live I saw some android users bitching that their Awful reader hadn't been updated since May, so maybe they're still wallowing in the mud like we are.
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Jan 3, 2013 22:54
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It's just really bad timing.. the end of year shutdown of the review process creates an enormous backlog and they haven't quite caught up yet. Any other time of year and the fix would already be out.
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Jan 6, 2013 16:05
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Yes, it teaches young internet visitors that everything you read on the internet is bullshit.
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Jan 8, 2013 00:50
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The Dave posted:Hmm well I just did it like the original, I would personally rather go that route because I'm weird: Instantly millions of TF2 players start using it for their own threads.
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Jan 9, 2013 21:31
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Actually you should do the whole world a favor and pressure Apple to put features in their OS to allow users to choose their own default programs for opening stuff.
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Beastie posted:Oh I didn't realize it was an Apple thing. I'm still glad the app is back, checking the forums in browser is quite tedious. Well, that's the problem. It should be an Apple thing. But currently if developers want users to be able to control which app opens, it has to be done on a per-app basis.
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