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Sep 12, 2006

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When I post in this thread, apostrophes are stripped between compose and preview. People already think I’m an idiot, so no real harm, but weird. On the TestFlight channel.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3861354&perpage=40&pagenumber=9

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Sep 12, 2006

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Can we start scraping https://www.twitter.com and mobile.twitter.com? Maybe it’s bad to diverge from the site there, I dunno. (Why doesn’t the site do it?)

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Sep 12, 2006

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anthonypants posted:

What do you mean?

I mean that we auto expand “twitter.com” links, but not “www.twitter.com” or “mobile.twitter.com” ones.

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Sep 12, 2006

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star eater posted:

could it be that the swipe to next page only activates if you’ve solidly hit the bottom? like, momentum from swiping up can’t activate it from the top or middle of a thread, only if you’re already at the bottom?

Yeah, that’s my preference.

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Sep 12, 2006

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I don’t think you can do the tag auto-closing with just regexes. You need to work backwards to track matched pairs, so you’d have to reverse the string, do the search, manage an arbitrarily deep capture set, and generally befoul things. I loaned a friend my laptop, but I suspect a straight port of the old logic into Swift would be reasonable.

Also, when replying to a PM, the text area doesn’t resize out of the way of the keyboard, so you end up with text and caret hidden underneath it. I bet that’s on the list somewhere.

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Sep 12, 2006

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ratbert90 posted:

You don’t need to reverse the string, you just have to traverse backwards. :v:

You can’t run regexes backwards, AFAIK.

The old code traversed backwards, indeed.

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Sep 12, 2006

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ratbert90 posted:

That is true. However, the old saying goes:

If you are trying to solve a problem using regex, you now have two problems. :v:

Sure, I am recommending against them in this case! (The quote happens to be from a friend of mine, in fact.)

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Sep 12, 2006

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You’re roughly describing how the ObjC I wrote before worked (though tags are more than one character, you don’t want to “close” [*] or look inside [code] tags, and other incursions of reality). The code (and test cases) will be in the GitHub history if you want to look at it.

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Sep 12, 2006

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What type of data is in the clipboard?

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Sep 12, 2006

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Why do share sheets take so long to pop up? It’s not just Awful, but it definitely affects Awful.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Two things that don’t work in the current beta:

- tapping on entries in someone’s rap sheet, and
- tapping on “go to awful’s thread” in settings

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Sep 12, 2006

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No, I think it’s because of lovely JS from Twitter.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Brain Curry posted:

I can’t tap on any forums links at all in the latest beta. I can long press and copy the links but that’s it

That’s the case for me as well, though clicking “Goon posted” links to quoted posts works.

I’ll try to remember to watch the status bar.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Most recent beta also seems to have broken the “parent forum” button. It’s a bloodbath in here.

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Sep 12, 2006

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PleasureKevin posted:

is the app reading my clipboard?

When you switch to it, yes. That’s how it offers to open forums URLs in-app. You can disable that in settings.

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Sep 12, 2006

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pokeyman posted:

Should be fixed in the next beta.

:toot:

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Sep 12, 2006

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Could make it forum-keyed, like autocapitalize is.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Did that get fixed in the most recent beta? It was fixed for the PM case.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Pirate Radar posted:

I just got logged out of the app while I wasn’t using it. Did something break?

Happened to me the other day in both app and a browser.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Works for me on the beta build, running iOS 11.4.1 on a 6S+.

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Sep 12, 2006

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boop the snoot posted:

How do I/Can I get links to threads to open in the awful app rather than in the browser?

Settings > Default Browser > Awful

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Sep 12, 2006

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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3838405 and others which I think share the same thread icon are showing a black X now since the update.

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Sep 12, 2006

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A bobbin of thread?

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Sep 12, 2006

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pokeyman posted:

Tempted to mash release on the current beta but it still has the X icon for "missing tag". Should I ship it or revert it?

I think revert, tbh. It looks pretty broken.

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Sep 12, 2006

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It seems like the several-a-day crashes I get are almost certainly webkit resource exhaustion, based on symptoms that appear around the same time, but then I find myself wondering why that doesn't happen to the webkit browsers I use. Does the app destroy and recreate webviews, or is it just one that lives until something bursts?

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Sep 12, 2006

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Yeah, mobile-friendliness is part of search ranking now. Good thing posting quality isn’t!

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Sep 12, 2006

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Yeah, you nailed it Pokeypal.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Never leave the app for more than a minute. Done and dusted.

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Sep 12, 2006

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pokeyman posted:

Crashlytics has it. My "fix" for the memory leak broke in the other direction. I'll take a look this weekend.

That fix was hot awesome on beta, FWIW.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Can we either

a) move “PM” to the end of the user action list, or
b) have “PM” always present but greyed out without plat

so that the position of the last two items don’t change depending on whether or not the targeted user has plat? I don’t like UI that moves or disappears, generally!

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Sep 12, 2006

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carry on then posted:

lol who’s your alt?

No, I mean when the person I tap on doesn’t have plat the rap sheet button is in a different place, because PM disappears.

If I had an alt it would have plat, I’m classy like that.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Grassy Knowles posted:

This isn't a bug; this is how you can reply to multiple users and you're adding the quote to the post you were editing, not prepending the old post to a new reply

It’s a bug that it happens with edit, IMO. Having the quote button re-enter an edit is very weird semantically.

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Sep 12, 2006

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The Dave posted:

Gonna hop on my design box:

I think adding stuff like that, when it's easily accessible through the iOS control panel, only puts Awful in a worse place of bloat. It would be better to get into the habit of toggling it at the OS level and building up that muscle memory to make it feel seamless.

Awful is 100% of the reason I have rotation lock in my control center.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Not usefully, since the site doesn’t accept HTML.

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Sep 12, 2006

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pokeyman posted:

That�s what it does now :) learned that the hard way.

Wait, what? The site accepts raw HTML and doesn’t encode it itself?

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Sep 12, 2006

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pokeyman posted:

The newreply endpoint expects win1252 so anything outside of that gets turned into a numeric entity per the html spec.

Oh of course, it’s form-encoded, not HTML. Duh.

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Sep 12, 2006

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The post here (above mine about dithering) doesn’t show the poster’s name.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3796985&perpage=40&pagenumber=43#post488883297

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Sep 12, 2006

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Poster name is displaying now so :iiam:

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Sep 12, 2006

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MarcusSA posted:

Yeah it seems to fix itself? Like holding on the link brings up the options to open in safari or whatever but tapping it doesn’t do anything.

Not a huge deal just kinda weird.

TBH if the long press menu had an “Open” entry to just do the default action (internal browser for me), I wouldn’t mind the dead-link situation very much at all.

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Sep 12, 2006

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Stare-Out posted:

Having the app on in the background (on the bookmarks page) and accessing it makes all the threads on it unresponsive. I can still scroll the list but tapping on the threads does nothing. Restarting fixes it. Might have something to do with the app being on for extended periods of time but I can't confirm that.

Are you on the public release or the beta? I used to get that, but haven’t in a while with the latest betas.

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