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sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

spanky the dolphin posted:

For those wanting a dark theme, I've been working on this one.

I've adjusted the edge padding a wee bit in here too and fixed the spoiler display from my last one.

I feel like I'm missing something obvious. How do I actually apply this theme? I noticed you or someone said to make a folder "Awful" in the internal memory and throw it in there.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2013 15:46

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sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

nimper posted:

That's correct. Once it's in that folder the name should show up in the theme selector.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong

Tried clearing cache, then tried clearing data. Nexus 4, 4.3 stock, if it matters, though it sounds like I'm just doing something wrong since no one else mentioned having an issue.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2013 16:05

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

That did it, thanks guys. I appreciate it! Also thanks for the app everyone and the theme spanky.

E: Never mind, I think spanky's theme just has read posts as the same color as the new dark theme. I'm dumb.

sourdough fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Sep 28, 2013

# ¿ Sep 28, 2013 16:42

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Quick question about something I probably missed by not following the thread closely. Avatars are only showing 1/4 until I click to see av text and other options. I'm on a stock Nexus 4 running 4.4, and whatever the latest market version of the app is. Also using spanky's dark theme. No big deal, just wondering if that's working as designed.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2013 19:44

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Sereri posted:

You scared me there for a second. This is because the latest gif disabling change required modifications of the HTML regarding the avatars. This breaks custom CSS files a bit. I'm using awful right now so I can't look things up for you but I gave instructions a page or 2 back.

Have any of you tried whether enabling gifs resolves the black box problem?

Thanks, and it isn't a big deal so I don't know that I'll bother fixing it. Just thought I should mention it.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2013 20:48

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Sereri posted:

I think 4.4.1 broke the P2R in the thread view. Can anyone confirm this?

Yes, looks like it. Stock Nexus 4 on 4.4.1.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2013 18:17

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Immersive mode owns, thank you! The jumpiness is a little quirky, but is pretty minor as far as I can tell and in general I think it works very well. Confirming that P2R/P4N looks to be working properly in threads now.

# ¿ Dec 18, 2013 02:25

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

I have had a couple crashes from trying to open a thread from bookmarks. Sent reports, one last night and one a free minutes ago. It seems to happen right as the app starts to lead the thread. Nexus 5, stock 4.4.2, not rooted or anything.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2014 18:54

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Sereri posted:

I just took a look and they seem to be crashes inside the webview library.

I like the crash description:

Native crash
in unknown.unknown

I also just destroyed my AS by installing a preview version and now Gradle isn't working, so there's that.

Hah, super helpful description! Also I just noticed all the typos in my post, glad you could decipher it

# ¿ Feb 15, 2014 19:52

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Are you planning on putting it on the Play store soon?

# ¿ Mar 14, 2014 18:53

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Thermopyle posted:

Wow, i'm a terrible mod.

Blame Awful for posting to the wrong thread :newlol:

# ¿ Aug 15, 2014 03:01

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

ephex posted:

Idk if this is an issue with the app or Android, but when I paste links into the provided img tags it adds an extra space in front and at the end of the link that I then have to manually remove which is annoying.

I think this is an Android issue, but I could be wrong. Pretty sure this has happened to me on both Nexus 4 and 5.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2014 14:25

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

hooah posted:

Where do you get the idea of a questionable ROM? This is stock (albeit rooted).

I'm perfectly willing to accept that it's a hardware issue. I'd like to figure out what's triggering it, and what I can do to mitigate unexpected shutdowns.

In any case, this is all predicated on the phone springing back into life as it did the first time, although this hasn't happened yet, and it's been a couple hours longer than the first time. I think I might be looking at a short-term dumbphone

Next time sell your phone when the battery starts getting worse and let someone else deal with it

# ¿ Jan 24, 2015 19:36

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

Maybe on the hardware menu button

The what now?

# ¿ Mar 6, 2015 19:31

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Everything's different :byodood:

But it's awesome and has been working great, so thanks a ton.

# ¿ May 22, 2015 19:27

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

zenintrude posted:

Please make the post button not the way it is now.

site posted:

That's the new FAB (whatever that means) post button

E: it can be disabled in Device and Navigation

# ¿ May 23, 2015 03:53

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Also having like 3 loading indicators for a process that usually only takes a couple seconds is an Awful app tradition, so suck it up :colbert:

In fact, here's a request: please make the reload button spin while loading like it used to.

# ¿ May 24, 2015 21:38

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Caffeine IV posted:

The update looks great, except I'm not sure this is supposed to be happening.

I'm on a Nexus 7 running 5.1.1, and I've tried disabling page transformation, reloading the app, uninstalling/reinstalling, and rebooting my tablet. No dice so far, and my layout's been like that since the update.

Looks like the normal tablet layout. Why do you think it shouldn't be happening?

# ¿ May 25, 2015 14:59

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Frocobo posted:

Gotta agree with this. It feels really out of place. Would it be possible to add an option to remove it?

site posted:

That's the new FAB (whatever that means) post button

E: it can be disabled in Device and Navigation

# ¿ May 26, 2015 06:13

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

cthulhoo posted:

I know its easy because I implemented it in my app before. There's no need to become passive-aggressive even if people don't immediately do stuff for you for free, friend.

e: I actually went as far as trying to import awful.apk into android studio but then it started to complain about dependencies and basically .

- he says, after asking for the second time for a feature in a free app to be added/changed, adding "it's easy!"

(I don't actually think what you said was rude or anything, but come on, haha)

# ¿ May 27, 2015 21:48

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Javid posted:

Just got given a droid device. Searching for this, I found two - Awful and Awful Legacy. What's the difference?

In computing, a legacy system is an old method, technology, computer system, or application program, "of, relating to, or being a previous or outdated computer system."[1]Often a pejorative term, referencing a system as "legacy" often implies that the system is out of date or in need of replacement.

# ¿ Sep 10, 2015 05:41

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Dodoman posted:

Anybody?

Happened to me for the first time ever yesterday, clearing cache didn't do anything, so I uninstalled and reinstalled the app and it hasn't been a problem since.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2015 22:07

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Wish I'd caught a screenshot. I had a thread with -2 new posts. Any simple explanation? Some weirdness with how the unread count is calculated when a post is marked as last read or something? Just curious

# ¿ Oct 2, 2015 04:32

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

What's the solution for the forum index not showing up? My bookmarks load, but none of the subforums, it's just empty. Tried clearing data and uninstalling.

E: Huh, fixed itself after 10-15 minutes.

sourdough fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Nov 30, 2015

# ¿ Nov 30, 2015 00:03

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Busy Bee posted:

I'm currently subscribed to Google Music - What is the difference between "Add to Playlist" and "Add to Library" when viewing songs on Google Music? If I add to a playlist does it not add to the library? What's the point of adding to library?

Your library and any individual playlist are distinct... You can click "my library" and see all songs in your library. You can also make playlists that are only a subset of songs. You might want to add something to your library so it's there and not add it to any specific playlist. Adding it to a playlist does put it in your library, afaik.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2015 01:18

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Midjack posted:

They sometimes run movie and book spoilers in the forum title.

Link?

# ¿ Dec 21, 2015 15:39

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Sereri posted:

Weird, works for me™

Did anyone's forum tags disappear on refresh? ZDR messed with the url and it confuses the library tasked with fetching the images.
Just checking so I'm not fixing something happening just to me.

Yep, gone for me as well.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2016 19:09

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

baka kaba posted:

My app version is (under About in Settings):
3.2.3.2

Which orientation do you generally use?
portrait

If you use portrait, which layout do you prefer to use?
Tablet. I use a Nexus 10, so plenty of space to have the bookmarks on the side, and it's a tiny bit faster always having those there, or the thread list for a subforum, than swiping back in phone layout.

If you use landscape, which layout do you prefer?
In the like two times ever that I've used it in landscape, I kept it in tablet layout

TABLET LAYOUT:
Do you like threads opening fullscreen in landscape, or would you prefer to keep the thread/forum list on the side?
I like next to the list. It wouldn't really bother me either way though, because ->

Do you like swiping around, like in the phone layout?
Swiping around is totally good, in either layout.

What do you like about the tablet layout?
Makes at least a tiny bit of use of all the dumb space on my dumb tablet.

And what's bad / stops you from using it?
As with many apps, I'm not sure a thread list is the best use of space, but I couldn't tell you what would be a better use. One thing I'd definitely like, at least on tablets, is when you're composing a reply, to have that be a card to the right. That is, you hit reply, current thread slides to the left so it is still visible, and your reply text box is visible. Besides that, I can't think of any very useful uses of tablet space.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2016 12:59

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

pokeyman posted:

Is this a common feature? It sounds hilarious to my iOS-centric self.

It's like old Kindles with the page turn buttons, and is typically used in ebook or reading apps.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2016 05:16

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Oldstench posted:

The nav menu? All the time. I change forums, go to my bookmarks, etc. It's nbd though.

You can also just swipe from left to right (but not swipe in/rightward from the left edge), fyi. Takes you from a thread back to the subforum or your bookmarks, and from either of those to the main forum index.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2016 00:36

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Bobcats posted:

I am too stupid to figure out how to post a new thread

Hit the "new post" button

# ¿ Apr 25, 2017 04:24

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

spankmeister posted:

Whenever I click on a forums link and the app opens, it takes me to the correct thread and page, but never to the correct post. Is this a known issue?

Just chiming in to say I think this describes my experience too (Pixel, but across last couple phones too). I think if you follow the link, it'll load the page but not go to the correct post (instead, it just stays at top of page). Then if you hit back and re-follow the link to the post, I thiiink it usually goes to the post. I may be wrong, but that's how I think it works.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2017 23:23

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Hipster_Doofus posted:

I think there's a worthwhile discussion to be had on this subject, but I don't think this thread is the place to have it.

Agreed. This thread is for berating the devs for restricting my freedom to make awful new threads, and for removing my spinny frog!!

# ¿ Jun 25, 2017 16:27

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Smiling Jack posted:

I texted the link to myself and clicked it. Worked fine.

Pasting to the address bar won't work.

Yeah, that's how it should be. I don't think any app will ask to handle it if you directly paste an address into the Chrome or whatever browser bar, the browser will just do it. Not sure why Peachfart says different unless they were confused or some browsers handle it differently than I'm used to.

Edit: Just confirmed that chrome works how I said: click a link and you can open in app, paste a forum link into the address and Chrome just does it. Makes sense to me.

sourdough fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Jun 29, 2017

# ¿ Jun 29, 2017 04:37

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Smiling Jack posted:

Yeah I was hoping there was a way to paste the link into the app

Well, stupid work around, but text/Hangouts the link to yourself, then click it?

# ¿ Jun 29, 2017 05:01

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

drunken officeparty posted:

It's amazing how much I absolutely do not give a poo poo about admin announcements and want the notification bar thing to go away forever

Click to view it

# ¿ Jul 9, 2017 07:24

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:

But GBS sucks so hard right now.

"right now"

# ¿ Sep 16, 2017 18:52

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

The Bloop posted:

You dinguses the point isn't that I don't know porntoes from pepe it's that I'm concerned about other people seeing the frog and misunderstanding.

If I saw someone with a white supremacist symbol on their phone, I would not inquire as to its meaning and the average non goon in 2017 will see a cartoon frog and think MRA not SA

It is a minor possibly even non issue, but I thought it was worth an ask. Better to be safe than sorry in some social situations.

Lol. Esteemed devs, please add more frogs, preferably spinning ones.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2017 03:19

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

Sereri posted:

No, go away (like the announcements snackbar does after 3 seconds)

Or if you view it once. Seriously, what a non-issue, unlike adding more 🐸

# ¿ Sep 29, 2017 15:18

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 00:17

sourdough: Apr 30, 2012

There Bias Two posted:

He's not funny.

Reported

# ¿ Sep 29, 2017 23:45

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