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AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
I don't see it on the git issues page or the last 2 pages, sorry if this is commonly known:

Twitter embedded videos have been super hosed for me in the app for at least 6 months. They desync immediately and skip around in both audio and video.

Unrelated, and probably not app related,

I sometimes click on what I think are TIMGs from Imgur, and it takes me to imgur. When I then click again to maximize it's clearly been reduced to like 600x400 so any text is unreadable. I can't figure out how to get to the full sized image to read the text. This doesn't happen on my PC. Is there a way to tell imgur the app isn't mobile or something? Or is?

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AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

Scaramouche posted:

Twitter embeds are usually Twitter hq rate limiting the apps request against the API.

Losing your place on the page is when it swaps in/out of memory due to other stuff/gc on your phone. Lotta potential reasons for this one.

For the last 6 months I have had to watch every twitter embedded video in an outside browser. I have gigabit internet. I really, really doubt this random limiting. I have not seen even one video, viewed at 2am, work correctly.

Edit: wouldn't other people be complaining? If it was impossible for anyone at all to watch twitter embeds?

AARD VARKMAN fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Jul 4, 2019

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
I'm currently an IK in C-SPAM. I've been looking for a new Android hobby project. I am going to try and implement some rudimentary mod tools because I post 99% mobile.

Anyone familiar with the project able to give me an outline for how they could be implemented?

I.e. what class implements:

Deciding if you can select "edit" on a post or not? I think it'll work with mod buttons.

AARD VARKMAN fucked around with this message at 05:29 on May 18, 2020

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

The most important missing mod tool is making new threads :getin:

FWIW the app shows me the edit button on every post, does it not show it on C-SPAM posts for you?

It does show it. I'm trying to figure out a way to add 6ers to it. The fact I can hit "edit" on some posts means something is reading posts in a way that will read whether or not mod buttons are active.

I assume this is going to be a huge bitch of trial and error but I want a project and even 1 week of being a single thread IK made me want it, so I bet a lot of mods would be happy.

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
also I'm motivated because I don't know how long I will have buttons, and I like having a bit of a deadline

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

baka kaba posted:

The menu's built in PostContextMenu, if you want to add more options you can stick in a new entry in the PostMenuAction enum and then handle it in the generateMenuItems and onActionClicked methods

Depending on what the things do you'll need to implement some UI for that, if it's just like a "probe this rear end" button that fires off a request then you'll just need to create an AwfulRequest to do that (just look at one of the subclasses like VoteRequest, there's not much to it if you're just pinging the server)



The app doesn't have a concept of you being a mod or admin or whatever (since none of us are) but it knows if you have plat - the post menu thing checks that status by looking at AwfulPreferences (so it can decide whether to show the PM option - also good luck if you've never looked at that class before lol)

So it would probly make the most sense to do the same for mod options - get that info from somewhere, stick it in AwfulPreferences (it's more of a prefs and state object really), and then check it when you're deciding whether to add a mod option to a thing. I'm guessing you'll need to scrape that info from a page at some point - Jeffrey's been doing a JSON endpoint thing with a lot of useful info in one place that would be great for querying every so often and updating the app state, unfortunately the app don't work like that and I haven't had time to even look at it for a while

Thanks for the directions.

For extra information, here's the link the mod tool button for probation actually generates:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/modqueue.php?action=request_probation&userid=40558&tpostid=504938037&threadid=3923839

That in turn presents you with a page containing this form:

code:
<form action="modqueue.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="userid" value="40558">
<input type="hidden" name="postid" value="504938037">
<input type="hidden" name="act" value="2">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="submitrequest">
<div class="standard">
<h2>ModQueue Probation Request</h2>
<div class="inner">
Request an admin to put a user on probation using the form below. Probation is a warning period during which the user is not allowed to post. All fields, including reason, are required. Requests by moderators will go into a queue awaiting administrator approval. Administrators requests will be processed immediately.<br>
<br>
<hr size=1>
<table>
<tr>
<td align="right" valign="top" nowrap><b>User:</b></td>
<td>Pocket_Pool</td>
<td rowspan=3><img src="//fi.somethingawful.com/images/probation.jpg" border=0 width=100 height=100></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right" valign="top" nowrap><b>History:</b></td>
<td>None</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan=2>
<b>Block posting for:</b>
<select name="data">
<option value=1>6 hours
<option value=2>12 hours
<option value=8>18 hours
<option value=3>1 day
<option value=4>3 days
<option value=5>1 week
<option value=9>2 weeks
<option value=6>1 month
<option value=7>100,000 hours
</select>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<hr size=1>
<b>Reason for probation:</b> (visible to <b>ALL</b> forum members!)<br>Will be used as the warning reason in Leper's Colony. <span style="color:red;font-size:11px;font-weight: bold;"><blink>PLEASE capitalize the first letter of sentences and end them with a period or something!</blink></style><br>
<textarea name="reason" rows=6 cols=50></textarea><br>
<br>
<b>Moderator Notes:</b> (optional, visible only to mods and admins!)<br>Use this to leave private notes for other mods/admins about your request.<br>
<textarea name="notes" rows=6 cols=50></textarea><br>
<br>
<hr size=1>
<input type="submit" class="bginput" name="submit" value="Submit" accesskey="s">
</div>
</div>
</form>
Out of curiosity, I built a link manually using modqueue.php and tested it on a probation:

edited to remove link so some admin or c-spam mod doesn't accidentally probe that guy

Seems to have worked... except I created a probation without a link in the Leper's Colony lol

https://forums.somethingawful.com/banlist.php

AARD VARKMAN fucked around with this message at 21:28 on May 20, 2020

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

Sereri posted:

There's an extra t before the postid parameter, maybe it's that

thats exactly what it is, I went specifically to test it and accidentally didn't change the one thing that I was testing because I changed the post ID/poster to someone else and forgot :downs:

I then ran it again with the t removed and the link it shows in the results page for the second "Queued" probation is correct. which is interesting, I guess any second action on the same post might default to requiring admin approval? sorry admins

also that "t" is there in the link to the probation request page

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

baka kaba posted:

Hmm yeah you'll need to pop up some kind of dialog fragment - at a minimum with a text box to put a reason in, and have things like the 6hr length hardcoded in the request class (just a fyi if you didn't notice, the AwfulRequest constructor defaults to GET but has an option for POST, you add the params the same way)

Ideally you'd have a proper fragment with all the options, and ideally you'd get that page, parse out all the current options like the possible lengths, and kinda dynamically generate that stuff so if it's ever changed it Just Works

e- I guess this is the kind of thing where you need to be careful because if it goes wrong there could be extreme forums drama lol

Right. For now I want to minimize any opportunity for causing real damage by just going as minimal as possible with a pop-up and POST request sent to modqueue.php. I think the danger is pretty low that way.

Thanks for tips. be on the lookout for me accidentally probating someone ten thousand times or something

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

baka kaba posted:

I just checked and awful.apk does not have the bug where you can post threads

it does have the bug where i had to reformat my computer when i tried to get the gradle wrapper back in to the project to work on it

however there's a 95% chance that was the fact my computer's HDD was failing before I began

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
Here's something weird: this guy has hosed up HTML img code that doesn't work on desktop but does... this.. on android.







Nothing to fix really other than that person's title, but for a minute I thought someone had pushed out an update to display gangtags.

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

Persiflagist posted:

just saw a post in qcs that the app doesnt give you mod/admin buttons. phoneposting rn but who the hell develops this and can i get into your codebase to fix this lol

please do. i finally got started on it in june and then lowtax happened, so was waiting for the purchase to go through. if you want to then more power to you.

i think if you look at my posts itt there was some good information given to me earlier in the year about approaches to this, etc.


e: the OP of the thread still has the right info. here's the development thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3743815

and the github repository: https://github.com/Awful/Awful.apk

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
Need to swap the input boxes around in new PMs. Subject is above recipients, not expected anymore

Every pm I send I first put the to: in the subject and the title in the to:





AARD VARKMAN fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Oct 11, 2020

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
Q: what size/type is best for the app version of thread tags?

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

END OF AN ERROR posted:

Just switched from an iphone to a Pixel 5, so obviously using the Awful app now. One thing I miss from using it on iphone, is I could long press on any image that was posted, and one of the options would be share, and I could directly share that image via text message on my phone. Now with the Android version, I have to download the image and then attach it like a normal picture message, or I have to share the URL, which obviously isn't the same as just sharing the pic.

Is there a way to quickly share the image like on the apple version that I'm simply overlooking?

Under settings > posts, at the bottom, you can turn off always open links. Then a single click will give you a menu with a Share Url button. Might be what you're looking for?

I will say a way to have "always open links" for single press and hold-down for that menu would be awesome.

Edit: I can't read, sorry. I see where you said share url wasn't the same. :downs:

AARD VARKMAN fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Nov 28, 2020

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
man the Midwest thread tag is way better in the app, i applaud whoever put the tractor on it

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
HTML avatars are kinda grandfathered in, when mods replace them we have to convert them to BBL code. If you see one of those avs you should PM Astral and he should be able to take care of it. If you can PM me a post by them in GBS I can do it.

I've fixed handful of them when I see them on the app.

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
Queued the fix for that one.

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
I just figured out after years of using the app that you can read long thread titles by dragging on them horizontally :psyduck:

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

It seems kinda weird that that's a tap menu at all - I don't think anything would be lost if you had to long press to copy the url of an image.

Could this have the unintended side effect of causing pop ups while scrolling through a thread? I keep my thumb down while scrolling a lot and the tap menu doesn't come up. It might be worth an options menu switch though.

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
I believe that's a known issue with the themed thread lists, though I don't know what causes it. Every once in a while it just happens until you restart the app.

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

Daztek posted:

Twitter's embed stuff is just really bad and randomly breaks

I think it's a thing on non mobile too, but I hate that the "replies" button now sends you to the person's twitter page. Not the replies, not even the tweet, just top of their page. It enrages me and I keep falling for it every single day

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
Is there any trick I can use to get past the 50 imgur uploads limit? It's failing 4 out of 5 times recently but using up the images so I ran out making one post earlier.

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1429794299210870785?s=20

I get the https error on this one.

On the other hand, the image previews on the imgur uploader now. So thanks for that!

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

hooah posted:

FWIW I can load that link just fine on 3.8.5.

The tweet or the link to EW? The link to EW works but not the tweet when I try clicking on it or the comment button

E: fb

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
I can't seem to highlight text and Google search it in the app anymore. I don't know if I messed up a system setting or something maybe? I used that function a lot

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
thank you for the return of web search. I kees you

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
The whole page seems to be refreshing when I click on a same page quote link lately. I remember it happening as a fluke before but it's been happening a lot the last couple days

E:
a quote for testing purposes

Hyperlynx posted:

I still don't have "search" back :(

E2:

AARD VARKMAN posted:

E:
a quote for testing purposes

E3: I guess it's just doing it every time when clicking on my own quote? I don't remember that being a guaranteed thing. Might be losing my mind

AARD VARKMAN fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Feb 11, 2022

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

bagmonkey posted:

Hello friends! I recently started a thread over in The Geebis (thread for reference) and something I noticed while posting in there is that the Awful App doesn't seem to automagically video markup Youtube links like the web client doesn't. I was curious if there's a way we could potentially add a prompt for Youtube links or maybe add a feature to enable auto-vide-embedding? While I do work in tech, I have zero coding experience but would be more than glad to help with feedback, testing, etc

Hit [bb] and select insert video. It even auto fills with your clipboard.

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

Flipperwaldt posted:

Very rarely when you select text in a post and immediately swipe back to the thread list without dismissing the cut/copy/web search/etc popup, the latter gets stuck and can't be dismissed anymore. Not even by selecting different text or picking one of the options or something. Kicking the app out of memory and restarting it should work though.

I've had this happen two or three times in all the years using this app and never thought of it being worth reporting.

I have also had it happen about about once a month for years, even through multiple phones, yet until now I never gave it a thought more than "gotta restart the app" or "gently caress it I'm gonna finish this page anyway" lol

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

Hyperlynx posted:

Also on the last page of the discusses specific user's posts, it started including posts from other users after.

That's how it's always functioned in the app as far as I know.

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
If you asked me before I would have told you I was positive the insert video button on the app added the necessary time start to the video tag if it had one in the URL. Am I losing my mind?

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
I have a problem with Search This Thread frequently that never returns results

Example


Proof the text exists


What shows up when I put the word in the mobile chrome "search this thread" text box


Link to page containing the word

I tried clicking it, writing it in, then clicking it, erasing the space, write it in. I repeated this 3 times over 10 minutes, with retries after attempt 1 and 2.

AARD VARKMAN fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Jul 15, 2022

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

run on sentience posted:

I was going to say it doesn't work for me either but I think it may be a platinum only feature? Although I guess aard varkman probably has that.

I think the entire search this thread feature has been broken for like a year but when I'm using it I always just need an answer and throw it in chrome instead and forget about it lol

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
Obscure searches failing would explain a lot. It does seem more likely to fail the more information you put in

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

SeaGoatSupreme posted:

The vast, vast majority of the time this app Just Works and I'm incredibly grateful, but sometimes with random threads it just will fail at loading the next page. One that seems to fail for three pages in a row is the gbs trump thread, the three most recent pages. I can't really view the thread until *whatever* some idiot did isn't in the page. I assume there's no fix possible because of how nebulous this is, but I'd love to know why poo poo goes sideways.



I went through 12/13/14 and I don't see any unusual media across all 3. More YouTube videos than usual, but not on 14, and someone embedded an image from Steam on one page, but only that page. Try disabling embed options maybe?

(On 14 at the time of this post the only media is a single quote of an imgur embedded still image)

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
also thank you blessed awful.apk developer for fixing the search function

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
ty for the auto select imgur image upload. i use it like 20 times a day so it'll be weeks before I stop clicking that drop-down every time though :argh:

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

Flipperwaldt posted:

Is not insert image the way to attach an image? How would you do that otherwise?

There's "add file attachment" in the 3 dot menu, but otherwise the only way to add an image in the Android app has always been insert imgur or already having an uploaded url to img tag.

I vote keep the insert imgur button in the app until an alternative is available

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

Sereri posted:

Update seems to have gone through to beta, please test the imgur upload, tia



Seems to work, thanks for doing this!

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AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993
Wow that sucks. Ok we desperately need that upgraded forums attachment system now

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