Loucks posted:

I've used Awful for a longass time and really like it, but the upgrade screwed with the classic theme pretty badly:



I don't have an image, but the old version didn't have all that white (blue) space and the text spacing was better. Also the font itself was different as I recall. Maybe someone else has a screenshot, but the old version was a lot less ugly. This one just looks a hell of a lot more beta than it used to.

I dunno. It doesn't look fixable in settings, and I didn't think to export my settings because as far as I knew there was no reason to screw with the classic default.

...! posted:

There doesn't seem to be a way to set font/background colors anymore. Is there an option I'm missing?

swarthmeister posted:

Just updated to the new version, it's great but I'm missing the granular theme customization options of the old version. I assume the CSS is tweakable by editing a file or creating a new one. Works? Worth it? Also, is AmberPOS theme supposed to lock in the terminal font regardless of your selected default?

Everything about Awful Betamax is booyah-worthy, great job.

hey santa baby posted:

There are the css files that define the current layout (here: https://github.com/Awful/Awful.apk/tree/master/application/assets/css). However, modifying them on the phone is a royal pain in the rear end, so it would be totally rad if the html that the app actually displays was available somewhere for testing purposes. The browser version of the html seems to be different -- i.e. if I use the browser version of the forums html here: http://cssdesk.com/, and try to use one of the css files, it doesn't display like in the app.

So, does a test html file that has all the relevant elements exist somewhere?

gmq posted:

Wow, it's crazy fast now.

An easier way to test custom css would be nice though, maybe an example thread page html hosted somewhere?

404notfound posted:

After pulling to refresh, the progress bar overlaps the usual loading bar, and it looks really weird (you can see a pixel-wide gap between the two at the top).

Roundboy posted:

ack my themes!

Love the speed but I would love the dark theme to have its black background :/

Jethro posted:

I wish I had joined the beta program, because I kinda hate the new pull-to-refresh/next. Maybe I just need to give it some time, but it doesn't give clear enough feedback, gives that feedback away from where I'm looking, doesn't override scrolling if I decide to un-pull to not refresh, and just seems fiddly. It's no longer pull-to-refresh, it's swipe-kinda-like-you're-pulling-to-maybe-refresh-or-go-to-the-next-page-but-we're-calling-that-refresh-too.

The rest of the changes look pretty nice, though.

Geirskogul posted:

On a ten inch tablet (I'm on a note 10.1) you have to swipe your finger like seven inches up the screen to trigger a refresh in portrait, which is way too much. Can't be done with a thumb like before.

Mercury Hat posted:

Galaxy s3 with android 4.1.1 and my only problem is the thread ratings are a big black rectangle. I cleared the cache but it stayed the same.

anthonypants posted:

Just updated to the latest Market version, and noticed a bug from the earlier beta (I forgot to report it ) is still around. On the Bookmarks page, when you mark a thread unread, it throws an error and tells you to check your network connectivity. If you refresh the Bookmarks page, that thread is unread.

pokeyman posted:

Mercury Hat posted:

Yeah...

Jedit posted:

It's taking literally the entire length of the screen to get pull to refresh on my Galaxy S4. This is awkward and difficult on a phone with that large a screen.

-Anders posted:

I'd love to help out with the coding, but I can only do C# via Xamarin, I don't guess that's a likely avenue of approach.

404notfound posted:

Haven't figured out a pattern yet, but sometimes when I go to the bookmarks page through the app's widget shortcut, pull to refresh doesn't work. Dragging down on the list does not show the pull prompt.

LastInLine posted:

How open are you to using on/off toggle with the title leading to the options (like Wi-Fi is in AOSP settings, for instance)? I know you said it targeted too high of an API but it changes how you'd structure the settings so I need to know.

Cuntpunch posted:

1. If you are not on the final page of a thread and pull down to go to the next page, the bar at the top still reads "Release to Refresh" rather than whatever it used to say about the next page

2. Using the icon to go back no longer remembers if you accessed the thread through your bookmarks rather than the forums, it always takes you to the thread's back to the thread's forum. However if you swipe back it does seem to remember whether you came via bookmarks

Kibner posted:

I'd also like to agree with the others saying P4N takes too much scrolling on phones. I would like to see it at 35%. I use a DROID 3.

anthonypants posted:

Instead of making it a percentage of the screen size, could you make it like an inch or two and expand that based on whatever the vertical resolution is?

nexus6 posted:

Why on earth do you pull from the bottom to load the next page but the only visual indication that you are doing anything is at the top?

nexus6 posted:

Also, I have problems with animated GIFs not animating, even SA smilies. Disable gif animation is off.

HTC One S btw.

Also, just now when I posted this it tried to load page 10/5 instead of taking me to my reply.

clay_ posted:

Suggestion: Add support for two thread tags like in Awful iOS, that way SA Mart threads show whether it's a buying or selling thread. Plus it looks nice.

Edit: With everyone talking about square tags, I'd honestly like to see an option to enable/disable square tags. I really enjoy them personally, but obviously other people don't.

pokeyman posted:

Dev note: we have some little quarter-icon-size banners for buying/selling/auction/trade and ask/tell, before you go about making your own.

Salvador Dalvik posted:

If you want to contribute, you can fork the project on Github and submit a pull request with any changes. You can always post bug reports or feature requests under the Issues section, that's the best place for us to keep track of them.

hey santa baby posted:

Anybody got a screenshot so I can be properly outraged at this awful disgrace?

Aleph Null posted:

In threads with long posts, even without images, just walls of text, sometimes links, spoilers, and the little three dots won't work. Nothing happens when I tap them. I have tried clearing my cache.
I am on a Motorola Xoom tablet running stock Android 4.1.2.

Jeoh posted:

Is there a way to turn off highlighting the OP? That'd make the YOSPOS theme perfect for my battery-saving needs.

Rasmussen posted:

What do the three loading or progress bars/meters represent? There's the wobbly circular one on the top right, the segmented quickly moving one above the thread title and then the third left to right bar below the thread title.

nimper posted:

I can confirm this. I tested the bug with the link to the CSS test zip.

Lanky Coconut Tree posted:

I like the improvements you've made, but I think you broke long pressing on links. I can't copy them directly any more

anthonypants posted:

Just click on the link.

The Dark One posted:

A really slow-loading page seemed to break the CSS in the app until I killed it:

Internet Explorer posted:

This happened to me as well on a dark theme. Switched to a normal theme a day could see the text, but the formatting was still screwed up until I force closed the app.

hey santa baby posted:

Thank you for this.

Also thanks for posting the square thread tag screenshot earlier. It looks like with the square tags there will be less space for the title text, so count me as a vote against. I remember pestering SD in his Geekner period to allow linewrap of thread titles so that one could see the full thread title in forums view (I think it was him), so this is to me a step backwards.

superunknown posted:

Thank you for this!
Where on the phone do the edited .css files go?

jiffynuts posted:

Liking the new update, but one small issue I've seen so far. On my Nexus 7 (v2) when I rotate the app into landscape mode the screen blanks out and I loose all the posts (or the forums if I'm at that level). Rotating it back only seems to fix it once in a while, most times it remains blank. I usually have to quit out and go back into the app to get things working again. Other than that, the new look and feel is great.

spanky the dolphin posted:

So I've been fiddling around today making a DarkSpank theme. It's looking cool but for some reason it only affects the view within threads. the bookmarks and forum views are all light grey like the classic theme for some reason. Any idea why that is?

XIII posted:

Downloading this fails every time for me. I'm going to try it from my laptop.

Edit: fails there too

Internet Explorer posted:

Now that you mention it, yes I think I was following a link from another thread in the Awful app.

baka kaba posted:

If you're open to redoing the attractive new posts indicator so it's smaller (and less attractive), and use a slightly smaller font to make the lines shorter, you could probably save a bunch of vertical space, like zis


I only did the first two, just a janky moving around in Photoshop but you get the idea - icon on the left, then on the right you get the thread title up top and a line of info stuff below, sort of like it is right now! Really it's taking the space reserved for the unread posts marker and moving it to the other side for the thread tag.

The second thread has the text shrunk to 90% to fit longer lines in. The unread marker does fit but it might look better tweaked. If you're up for this kind of thing.

Lanky Coconut Tree posted:

Turning off the 'always open links' option now gives me a popup with sharing / copying. I just figured you'd want to stay with the general 'one press to open, long press for copy / share options' design all apps have for links. I think the old awful betamax had that.

spanky the dolphin posted:

Yeah it always ends up becoming a mucky vomity brown.

I noticed that with this theme the 3 vertical dots on each post are gone - it would probably have something to do with this file path in the css I'd imagine?:

ul.postoptions .more {
background-image:url(../images/ic_menu_more.png);
}

The Dave posted:

That's so android of you! Us iOS types just make the change and say "deal with it our opinion is perfect! "

Honestly though stuff like cramming things together to save a line or two usually isn't worth it. Your users are going to scroll if they're interested in the list, having say 5 threads visible on load vs. 6 is not really that significant or worth hurting aesthetics.

I know with the iOS app it looks like we have less text available for thread titles. However:

1) I don't think anyone has ever missed out on what a thread is because of the truncated titled

2) if they ate interest in the full title text they can tap and hold on a title to get a pop up action sheet which does display the full title text.

3) I just think the squares fit our Mobil limited width better. It's a more pleasing design to me then show horning in more text around the tag.

4) Low res tags looked like poo poo the one build we tried them in on retina display devices.

baka kaba posted:

Really minor thing I noticed, when you swipe left and right between the different views, it's super slick and smooth until you swipe back to the main forum list. There's this tiny glitch partway through that makes it catch. I looked at the logcat and I see this happening

code:

09-27 17:47:09.657: I/ForumsIndex(8424): Load Index Cursor
09-27 17:47:09.688: V/ForumsIndex(8424): Index cursor: 944

I can't profile it but I'm guessing this is what's causing it to pause? It's weird because swiping to a subforum view is completely smooth, the main forum view almost never changes but it has that stutter every time

Aphrodite posted:

I noticed an error in the Marvel Heroes thread that started after this guy posted:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=110569

After his first post here, text is all italic, quote doesn't work on other users, and you can't even click the menu button on his name

Since it's turning text italic I assume it has something to do with the <I in his title text.

He doesn't post very often, but I found another to test it and same deal here.

SlayVus posted:

Any way to disable this?

http://i.imgur.com/epoCBxZ.png

SlayVus posted:

Thread view and post view being side by side. I liked the previous version where categories and the thread view where their tile and post view was a separate tile.

LastInLine posted:

Isn't the plan to eventually use the left side pullout menu for the forums listing? Obviously that's probably a ways from being implemented but it would solve the problem.

spanky the dolphin posted:

Cool, this worked. One question - spoilers with this theme are showing the white text through the greyed out spoiler block. The css appears to be telling the text to be invisible if you haven't pressed the spoiler tag. How do I fix this? Or would it be easier to just make the spoiler block white, the same as the text?

Aleph Null posted:

All images or just attachments? Regular images load fine on my Galaxy Nexus but attachments and emoticons are hit or miss.
And clearing data only temporarily fixes it.

Mrit posted:

I also had this just happen, but it was on a Kindle which is flashed with CM10.2, so it just might be this crappy excuse for a tablet. It happened when my tablet slipped from my hand and went into tablet mode(I was in the regular mode) and I immediately tilted it back before it finished loading. Everything was blank, even through a refresh until I navigated back to the main forum view.

Geirskogul posted:

Also I can't get "pull for next page" to work, unless I'm an idiot of some sort.

Khisanth Magus posted:

I did a good amount of browsing on my galaxy nexus tonight on WiFi, so the image problem I have seems to be limited to non-wifi, and seems to be most common when I'm on a 3g signal.

Internet Explorer posted:

Sereri -

Actually, it just happened to me after replying to the thread. Is there anything I can do to help you troubleshoot it? I have a rooted Galaxy Nexus running stock. I think I can do whatever fancy logging is available.

Khisanth Magus posted:

Just had a new problem with my galaxy nexus. For some reason the app stopped using any CSS for thread viewing and then wouldn't load threads at all until I cleared the app data.

As for the image problem, it continues to happen periodically, and the only image losing setting I can find is load images on WiFi only and that is not selected.

The Dark One posted:

...! posted:

I had to switch back to Betamax today (the latest apk I could find is 2.4.3). This version just has way too many problems for me to deal with. At first I just didn't like the new UI but after using it for awhile, it seems like a lot of the core functionality is very broken. At first it was small things like tapping avatars not doing anything and then pull-to-refresh would randomly stop working and now, about half the time it tells me it couldn't load the page.

Sagacity posted:

Don't laugh, but I have just upgraded my Jiayu G3 to the latest MIUI rom based on Android 4.2.2. I realize this is a fairly esoteric combination, but most apps work without a flaw. The Awful app crashes on startup though, giving a NullReferenceException when it tries to launch the activity. It used to work on the same device with the stock Android 4.0.4 ROM.

I noticed in the code you use Bugsense, so maybe you're already right on top of things But is there a place where I can send any debug logging, or should I file a GitHub issue?

Plague of Hats posted:

Since the update from Betamax I've had a recurring problem. It seems to occur only in threads with lots of long posts, like grognards.txt, FATAL and Friends and rarely the Sequester/Shutdown thread. It usually only occurs in portrait mode, but sometimes it also happens in landscape. If it occurs in portrait mode and I move the phone to landscape the problem goes away as long as I stay in landscape, but it comes back if I reorient to portrait. The text from some or all of the thread seems to be recreated, but squeezed into a half-screen column on the left that floats over the properly displayed thread. If I'm actively scrolling the floating text "flashes" in and out of view, though it is mostly invisible. When I stop it reappears.

Here's a screenshot of the problem:



I took another screenshot in roughly the same spot just a second after, where I scrolled a bit so the problem went away, and then quickly took the picture. Before the UI indication that the screenshot was taken flashed, the problem came back, but it seems the screenshot was still from before that.

Crazy Achmed posted:

My experience with Awful has been pretty much flawless, but is there a setting that controls where you "land" when you select next/previous page while viewing a forum? On my phone, it seems to remember where I was - if I scroll to the bottom of page 1 of GBS and hit 'next page', it loads page 2 but starts me at the bottom of page 2 rather than the top.
I suspect I've missed something and/or am just doing it wrong, but other than that, stuff is great.

clay_ posted:

The only issues I've had thus far with the app is that occasionally the scroll to refresh/scroll to load next page functions occasionally gently caress up and don't work. There's the button less than a millimeter from my finger anyways, so I don't really mind. The new design looks good and this app is good. I dunno how interested you are in defining a separate template for FYAD so that users can get a similar experience on mobile as they would on the forums (ala Awful iOS), or if there's some serious CSS hackery that can be done that I'm not good enough to figure out...

bronin posted:

Whenever I make a post it won't redirect me to the last page but to an empty one and it will look something like this: 1604/835

So basically a page way ahead of the last one. It's only a minor inconvenience though.

Today I noticed another one: I can make posts with Umlauts in them no problem, but when I go back and edit my post they will get hosed up and look like this: Motörhead

Taffer posted:

I'm having a lot of trouble with spoilers, most if the time when I tap on then they don't reveal. A lot of the time they'll flash blue momentarily (dark theme), but still not reveal. I'm trying to read a CD thread and I'm not able to see like half of it.

E: may only be on, my GNex, doesn't seem to be happening on my N7 yet.

Papercut posted:

This app is fantastic and I really appreciate what it does, but one feature I wish it had was a way to disable swipes for page navigation. I can't use the app one-handed because at least 50-75% of the times that I'm trying to scroll down the page, it thinks I want to go to the previous page. I've tried being meticulous about only swiping vertically but it still wants to go back a page. I may just be a clumsy oaf.

anthonypants posted:

I noticed that the Android 4.4 documentation says there's a new implementation of WebView based on Chromium. Is that going to break everything?

hooah posted:

Is it something with minus itself or with the way Awful parses image links that cause images hosted on minus to just show up as question mark blocks?

pokeyman posted:

The issue is they redirect a straight up request for the image to an HTML page with the image, some stats, and all that poo poo. They whitelist SA though, for whatever reason. I actually sent Minus an email first, but I never heard back.

Glimm posted:

Has anyone looked into moving the project to building with Gradle/AS?

I was thinking of looking into implementing some 4.4 APIs/play around but thought it might make sense to set the project up "The Gradle Way" before getting started.

Would this be a welcome change?

Zorro KingOfEngland posted:

Is the new WebView going to make gifs not be such a battery drain in 4.4 or is that more of a systemic android thing?

Bicycle SexFucker posted:

Anyone get stuck in an infinite refresh in the yospos catte thread? It'll also randomly jump back to the last read post, not always but sometimes.

Edit: I've tried every setting related to images, since it seems to be related to them. Nothing seems to work. I've let it load for 5+ minutes but it doesn't seem to matter. All the images are loaded but it continues to load something, as the loading bar repeatedly pushes and then releases the thread.

Double edit: disabling embedded videos solved it...even though im pretty sure it did it on pages without* YouTube vids.

Tunga posted:

I'm getting that too. Infinite refresh loop on any page with a YouTube video.

N5 on 4.4 so maybe Chromium WebView related.

londonmoose posted:

I'm having an issue with the app on 4.4, on my N5. Emoticons aren't showing up, instead there is just a blank square. I'm using the latest market version, and I've cleared the cache and data. Default settings. It still works fine on my other devices. No other issues that I've noticed.


It's not a big deal, just slightly annoying. Thanks for any help, and in general for a very useful app.

Edit : also just noticed that some avatars aren't showing up, including the stupid newbie one. Others are fine, and again they all show up on my other devices. I have a slight suspicion that it could be network related though, so I'm going to do another quick test.

E2: no luck. Tried it on both 3g, and wifi with custom dns (my ISP default is often shockingly poor and has caused similar issues in the past, so I usually use Google DNS, but hadn't set it up on the new phone yet. Doesn't seem to make a difference in this case). Deleted data both times, and even did a full reinstall once. No change.

Tunga posted:

Looks like I have both of those issues too (N5).

Also confirming that disabling embedded YouTube fixes the refresh issue.

LastInLine posted:

I'm not seeing the avatar or emoticon issue on 4.4. I didn't attempt to recreate the refresh issue, I just went ahead and disabled embedded YouTube.

Brigadier Sockface posted:

I just installed the awful app on a new nexus phone but I can't log in. It keeps telling me login fail. I obviously know my username and password seeing as that I opened the browser logged in and posted this message...
Is this a thing?

pokeyman posted:

Haha what?

pokeyman posted:

Figured it out. Replace characters outside win1252 with their HTML entities before percent-encoding.

(This is true in general, including posting new replies. So if you implement a general-purpose POST request serializer that does this, you can delete any HTML escaping you were doing on replies.)

Diqnol posted:

Sereri, I need an option to post my signature. It is affecting my night crew cred. If you can't it's okay but it would be nice.

Diqnol posted:

Any way to do it would be good, be that eternally on or per post.

kri kri posted:

Found a bug, happens on both my n4 and n7.

In a thread, if the orientation switches, I can't go to a new page. It just hangs at about 80% loading. Going back out to bookmarks and then going in again works, but is not ideal.

ZeeBoi posted:

KitKat and Awful don't seem to play well with each other. Some pages constantly reload images over and over. Apologies if this was posted before, just wanted to add my two cents.