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Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Just opened the app on my tablet, and got hit with :smugdog:. Time to see if it continues, or was just a one off thing…

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Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Kheldarn posted:

Just opened the app on my tablet, and got hit with :smugdog:. Time to see if it continues, or was just a one off thing…

It's been 2 days since this happened, and it seems to have just been a one off thing.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Meanwhile, in current app news, it's not showing me a poster's rap sheet when I select it from the 3 dot menu of a post. I just get a blank screen with the back arrow in the top left corner. Tapping that takes me to the Leper Colony page.

Interestingly, it DOES work when I try it on Jeffrey Of YOSPOS, but nobody else, including when I first tried it on the mod named Jeffrey, who I saw probated in the Tech Issues Thread.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Captain Hygiene posted:

Works for me too, every time some basic function like that breaks for me, it turns out that updating Chrome fixes it through the magic of [guesses at technological words in attempt to sound knowledgeable] shared libraries.

I don't have Chrome installed, and Webview is up to date. :shrug:

Fortunately for me, it's not a big deal. I almost never look at them anyway.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



baka kaba posted:

That mod doesn't have any raps, I guess the page should probably say something like that huh...

does it work for other people?

Yeah, turns out that's a Jeffery Of YOSPOS alt for testing things, so the probe was cleared.

And it now seems to be working everywhere else in the app. :radium:

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Sereri posted:

Nobody told me that video auto-play/pause was broken. Has no one enabled that option?

I don't watch videos, so like Captain Hygiene, I always disable that option. Sorry.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Well, it finally happened. Work blocked access to forums.somethingawful.com (the Cisco Umbrella page says Reason: Weapons). I thought it was the app, until I had the bright idea to try accessing the forums via Firefox.

I guess I won't be using it as much, but I still wanna say thanks for everything!

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Tablet Mode is the dumbest loving thing in Android.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



I find it funny that

Kheldarn posted:

Work blocked access to forums.somethingawful.com (the Cisco Umbrella page says Reason: Weapons).

is still a thing for me, but so far, I haven't found a single subreddit that's been blocked.


calandryll posted:

My work only blocks https://www.somethingawful.com. So the forums work but the CSS does not on Firefox, et al. But the app works great when I want to browse the forums. Supposedly https://www.somethingawful.com is pornographic.

I discovered today that I can visit somethingawful.com and read any article on the front page. :downs:

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



The Bloop posted:

I get that when I'm near corporate wifi and have to turn it off

Lots of places block the forums. I know McDonald's does, for example

Yeah, not too long ago, my job blocked the forums (but not the website), so unless I use data, I can't use the app at work.

On a tangent, the This Page Is Blocked page says the reason it's blocked is Weapons, yet I can still visit /r/weapons on reddit. Makes me think someone in IT got a probe/ban here, and this is their petty revenge...

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Farten Barfen posted:

Odd. I'm on my home wifi and nothing has changed. I'll just try reinstalling the app.

Don't forget to make sure Chrome and/or Android Webview are up to date.


Blue Footed Booby posted:

Or, just as likely, someone in management likes reddit.

Midjack posted:

Or it’s an old rear end filter list that predates reddit and was never updated.

I'm gonna go with All Of The Above.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



The Bloop posted:

It's been "over limit" or whatever for me for over 24 hours, yes

I wouldn't be surprised if imgur hosed something up while pushing their emerald poo poo.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Sereri posted:

Well this is already dead to me

Do it or I'm demanding a refund. :colbert:

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011




Well now I really want a refund.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



LastInLine posted:

The nice thing about this would be that it would eliminate the step I have where I long press the image every. loving. time. to bring up that menu and it never works.

Oh good. It's not just me.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



If you're dumb like me, you might don't know this, but if you long press a thread in your Bookmarks, you get a pop up menu with a nice list of options!

I literally just discovered this fact when I did a long press on a thread in an attempt to see the time and date of the last post in it. I was hoping it would work like when you tap the Username area of a post in a thread, and expand with that info.

It didn't, but I do like the other stuff it offers.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Maugrim posted:

A hotfix for Chrome and Webview has now been rolled out so if you're experiencing this issue just make sure those are fully up to date.

This worked fine. No need for uninstall/reboot shenanigans.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



punk rebel ecks posted:

Will this app ever give me the ability to create new threads?

Your device has to mine enough Awfulcoin to unlock creating new threads.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Red Warrior posted:

FYI I was having this with my 3 last year before I got rid of it, and carefully scraping out around the socket with a toothpick got a lot of compressed lint out that was stopping cables from clicking in all the way.

Yeah, my Samsung was having an issue where the USB C cable didn't stay in, so I'd wake up to my phone at random percentages of charged. Thought it was the cord, tried another one, same thing. Was thinking about replacing the phone, but did a seaerch about it, and it turns out that using something like a sewing needle or toothpick to clean the charging port on the phone works.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Sereri posted:

As far as I can tell, the videos that are embedded are not supported by chrome, probably some codec stuff. TikTok prevents loading the video (http error 403 (Forbidden) for those who care)

The same thing happens if you open the announcement in desktop or mobile chrome, there is nothing the app can do. :shrug:

Maybe I'm misunderstanding (or maybe astral fixed it between your post and my reply), but I'm currently on desktop Chrome, and the video embeds and plays fine for me.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



For me, I get a big empty space where it should be when I use the app on my tablet, but I get the embedded video on my phone. Tapping play makes the bottom left and right corners animate, but the video never loads. My tablet is running Android 8 and my phone is running Android 10.

My initial guess is that it has something to do with the differences between Android 8 and 10. But then again, it could be :google: or TikTok or internet ghosts or

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



other people posted:

people can make new threads?

You can't?

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Sereri posted:

There was a WebView update about a week ago that I assume did this. To the people this happens regularly to, is it only in the default/dark themes or the other themes too?

Just happened to me for the first time, but tapping the poster's avatar area made it load the post.

I'm using the Dark Theme, but I'm gonna switch to see if it happens again.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



I have Awful v3.8.7 and WebView v96.0.4664.45 on my phone, running Android 11, and no Web Search option.

I have Awful v.3.8.3 and WebView v96.0.4664.45 on my tablet, running Android 8, and I have the Web Search option.

After upgrading Awful on my tablet to v3.8.7, I still have it.

I'd say Android 11 is to blame.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



The Bloop posted:

A free app I use every day where the devs respond immediately to bugs is NOT anything you should be apologizing for

It's something we should thank you for more often



THANK YOU

Oh, I get it. It's because it's April Fool's.

Seriously, though, thank you!

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



This is the 2nd time I've been logged out after updating the app. Both times, it's only been on my tablet, not my phone. (Also, this time, after logging in, it didn't give me the pop up with update notes. Weird.)

Is there some weird setting I missed?

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



nashona posted:

I think that's tablet mode

Yup. One of the dumbest design decisions ever created. (Not by the app devs, but by whoever came up with it in the first place)

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Dabir posted:

Looks like you've got some posting to do to make up the deficit!

(it's happened to me before too)

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?

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.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



This is probably due to lovely work wifi, but I just had all avatars stop showing. I had to go to Settings > Images, turn off Show Avatars, and then turn it back on.

Running Android EMUI 8 with Webview 106.0.529.126 (524912603)

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Pushbullet recently did a blog post about the process . It's all AI.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Sereri posted:

Update was rejected again, will have to open an appeal.

I'll post an APK later today with the current build so you don't have to wait for the nice people at google to find the report button that is clearly in the screenshots they sent me

Good ol' Google AI reviewing things.

Too bad there's no humans involved in the process, so that things like this don't happen.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



I'm having this problem, too, but I'm pretty sure that the problem is with the Imgur app.

If I tap an image in Awful and choose to open it, the Imgur app opens to the image, but never swaps to be the active app. Pressing your softkey that shows all opens apps will show Imgur is open, but it won't switch to it. Even if you close Awful.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Just got the newest update for the Imgur app, and it's a little better for the problem. It still doesn't switch to the Imgur app, but if you select it, it'll load the image like normal.

I'd say that's proof that the Imgur app is the problem.



Captain Invictus posted:

for their crimes of web2.0ing imgur and the app, they deserve it

:haibrow:

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Captain Invictus posted:

Yeah it feels like they fixed whatever was wrong since I can now open images and such into imgur again. Or maybe it only worked the one time. But I choose to believe crisis averted!!

That one, maybe. But it seems that the bug of MP4s not playing unless you move the post is back. The one I had it happen on was hosted on Imgur, so I'm blaming them by default.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Am I missing something, or is there no support for quoting multiple posts?

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Larry Parrish posted:

it kinda depends. it can be hard to diagnose on a cellphone because some apps handle spotty network way better than others and also ive noticed even on wifi sometimes apps will just inexplicably not load anything until i kill them and start them again. i suspect android just has really lovely network handling

I wouldn't be surprised if this is it. I have a few different apps that I have to force stop before they'll work again, though there's no pattern as to when I'll have to do it. Except for Peacock. I have to do it quite frequently, and pretty much every time I want to cast to my Chromecast.

Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Aware posted:

Probably handy for android tablet users too. All 3 of us.

You, me, and who makes 3?

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Kheldarn
Feb 17, 2011



Meanwhile, I get it on Android 8.0.0 EMIU 8.0.0 on my tablet.

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