Bugs and Suggestions for Metabunk.org

Mick West said:
The inline "Reply" relies on Javascript working. As I was trying to figure out what was broken, I turned various plugins on and off, some of which might have crashed Javascript execution on a page. I've not changed anything for a while (and will not before Friday afternoon), so it should currently be working.
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No, "reply" gets the whole post, not just the part I selected. I see that holding the "like" a little longer gets all the options to come up, so that's OK. Thanks for the struggle!

One more point: after (and while) I post, I'm no longer in the thread, just isolated. I have to use the back arrow (twice, in the case of an edit) to return to reference a point.
 
Mick West said:
Just isolate? Can you post a screenshot?
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It did it to me too, but not now. When I started a post, the posting box would become isolated and separate from the thread. Like its own window with the rest of the thread sorta out of focus in the background. I couldn't scroll back up the thread to find anything. Seems to be working fine now.

Once again, thanks so much for the work you do for this forum. I only participate on one other forum occasionally (about RVs). It's klunky, full of ads and worse, it's full of un-evidenced opinions.
 
Mick West said:
Just isolate? Can you post a screenshot?
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No, it seems to be all OK now, thanks. What it was doing was giving me the reply screen for me to add my message, but not allowing me to scroll up to see other posts on the subject, including the post to which I was replying.

@NorCal Dave I responded to Mick without seeing that you had done the same. Sorry!
 
@Mick West , it seems as if whenever one problem is fixed, another goes haywire. Now it won't give the "reply" cue when I just select a portion of a post, and that's a problem that went away (briefly) and is back again.

Sorry this is all dumped in your lap again. When companies change formats and procedures, they seem to be concerned about the future, but never consider the past usage.
 
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Like this- Highlighting still not bringing up reply. If it is just me at this point, it is pr/bably not worth a lot of effort on your end, maybe I need to do something?
 
JMartJr said:
Like this- Highlighting still not bringing up reply. If it is just me at this point, it is pr/bably not worth a lot of effort on your end, maybe I need to do something?
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Something is broken - I see errors in the Javascript console. I thinking I need to update or disable some more things.... BRB!
 
FYI... it is no longer letting me quote from two previous posts in one of my posts. If I try to quote a second one, it overwrites the first and anything I have typed.
 
It's a bit of a mess - the inline "Reply" works for administrators, but not (always) others. I think there's some leftover JavaScript from a plugin, or maybe a change I made.

I might have to do a clean re-install, which I won't be able to get to until next week.
 
More weirdness, possibly will resolve when you do what you are already planning to do...

For me, search for for content by member only finds stuff in my conversations with them, it does not show any posts by any of us when searched by name. Searching for words within posts seems fine, after a quick spot-check.
 
Sorry Mick, not piling on here, but as I can't code for shit all I can do is provide examples. This is the "isolated" post window Ann and I were talking about. After successfully hitting the "reply" button on Gidierone's post, my posting box now appears by itself without the thread:

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MonkeeSage said:
Formatting for ex blocks and articles seems hosed example1 example2
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I've munged together something to fix them for now.

Article:
"I don't think anybody's more qualified to be president or win this race than me," Mr Biden said, blaming his poor performance last week on exhaustion and a "bad cold".

External Quote:
What is odd about the analysis? No one denies explosions happen during fires. The real argument would be evidence of detonations powerful enough to cut steel.
 
This just started yesterday. My "Whats's New" tab now looks like this.

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This is on an old iPad but both Safari and Chrome display the same. I only mention it because it worked fine earlier in the week.
 
Mechanik said:
This just started yesterday. My "Whats's New" tab now looks like this.

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This is on an old iPad but both Safari and Chrome display the same. I only mention it because it worked fine earlier in the week.
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Confirmed - it's the "responsive design" of the pages. Shrinking the window leaves all columns at a fixed width apart from the column reserved for thread titles. If you shrink the window down to just over 900px width (see the "-geometry" of the two windows in my screenshot) only one character's width is reserved for the thread title, and hilarity ensues. However, as you shrink below that width, a new layout kicks in which doesn't reserve the sides for menus, and gives you more space for the threads.

Possible solution: change the stylesheets (are they "media queries", this ain't my wheelhouse at all?) to use the "wide" design only down to ~1200px rather than ~900px, so that you've always got room for 300px of thread title.

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Mechanik said:
This is on an old iPad but both Safari and Chrome display the same. I only mention it because it worked fine earlier in the week.
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I see this on my Android tablet in "desktop" mode. When I set the browser to "mobile" mode, the layout is readable.
 
JMartJr said:
More weirdness, possibly will resolve when you do what you are already planning to do...

For me, search for for content by member only finds stuff in my conversations with them, it does not show any posts by any of us when searched by name. Searching for words within posts seems fine, after a quick spot-check.
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This seems to be working now, but I had to disabled the advanced search addon, so search might not be as good. And the Google search was one of those addon that was not updated.
 
Not sure if I missed the posts about this (perhaps it was requested?) but is the text + emoji necessary? It seems a bit hand-holdy.

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Also, quite liked the fairly anonymous numbered emoji tally instead of how it now looks with usernames.
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Giddierone said:
Not sure if I missed the posts about this (perhaps it was requested?) but is the text + emoji necessary? It seems a bit hand-holdy.
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The addon I was using for reactions broke with the last Xenforo update, so I'm just using the built-in version now - which has been updated to be nearly the same as the add-on, and it's generally more stable not to use addons. Let's see how it goes.
 
Giddierone said:
Also, quite liked the fairly anonymous numbered emoji tally instead of how it now looks with usernames.
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Ann K said:
I think I'll just verbally disagree
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I second Ann on this.
The old "Like"/ response indicator or whatever it's called was as good as any I've seen.

Having your username linked to your response adds accountability, I think- negative responses are quite rare (and often indicate you've made a serious factual error or really annoyed someone), and having your name linked with your positive response seems more, well, personal.
And to a small degree it helps indicate what other Metabunkers think about a particular topic or view.

I liked it a lot; hope it returns.
 
Concerning the insertion of youtube links to videos, it always makes the videos as wide as the forum width.. Is there a way to be able to make them smaller?
 
JMartJr said:
@Mick West

Hi!
As you go through all the aggravation of dealing with upgrades, plug-ins and all of us reporting the bugs resulting there-from, just wanted to take a moment to say thank you for doing all the work it takes to keep MB running. Know that you and your efforts are appreciated!
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I agree very much!
 
Ravi said:
Concerning the insertion of youtube links to videos, it always makes the videos as wide as the forum width.. Is there a way to be able to make them smaller?
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Try putting them in a table.

(I noticed tables tend to not resize things, which can backfire with large images.)
 
This may not be a bug or issue, may well be exactly what is supposed to be there, but it has me curious:

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So when I search for posts by a member (in this example, me, but it seems to be the case for any member) I get this "enable moderation" button. I hesitate to click "direct message" as I'm not sure what it would do and don't want to do the Internet equivalent of pulling the fire alarm or something! But I'd be interested in knowing what it does...
 
Sorry, but came upon this while making a post. It seems when trying to quote from a Wiki page what I assume is the hidden code for the footnotes becomes unhidden:

External Quote:

The end of the Clovis culture may have been driven by the decline of the megafauna that the Clovis hunted, as well as decreasing mobility resulting in local differentiation of lithic and cultural traditions across North America.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture#cite_note-Haynes2002-16">[15]</a> Beginning around 12,750-12,600 years Before Present, the Clovis culture was succeeded by more regional cultures,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture#cite_note-:6-17">[16]</a> including the Folsom tradition in central North America,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture#cite_note-:6-17">[16]</a> the Cumberland point in mid/southern North America,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture#cite_note-:20-18">[17]</a> the Suwannee and Simpson points in the southeast,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture#cite_note-:21-19">[18]</a> and Gainey points in the northeast-Great Lakes region.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture#cite_note-:22-20">[19]</a> The Clovis and Folsom traditions may have overlapped, perhaps for around 80-400 years.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture#cite_note-:14-21">[20]</a> The end of the Clovis culture is generally thought be the result of normal cultural change through time.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture#cite_note-Haynes2002-16">[15]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_culture#cite_note-:14-21">[20]</a>
It's fixable in the post, but strange.

And here's to really hoping the blue EX boxes will come back some day. It made the posts so clear and compelling and really took the forum to the next level. Here's what I'm talking about and here's a blue box of evidence that's clearly not me just blabbing.
 
NorCal Dave said:
Sorry, but came upon this while making a post. It seems when trying to quote from a Wiki page what I assume is the hidden code for the footnotes becomes unhidden:
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The workaround to get rid of unwanted formatting is to switch the editor to text mode before pasting the quote:
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It switches back the same way.

It's true, though, that links used to be converted to BBcode when pasting rich text. Maybe another plugin that stopped working?
 
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