I don't know why this happened, but if you end up at the top of the thread you can also click on "Jump to New", which usually works.
Bugs and Suggestions for Metabunk.org
- Thread starter Mick West
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Ann K
Senior Member.
I think if you click on the title, you'll get the latest, but if a careless finger lands on the line beneath (with the name of the OP) you'll go to post #1.
Jack Mallory
Senior Member.
When using the Alerts drop-down menu, is there any way to separate "replies" from "reactions"?
It'd be nice if there was a way to isolate any actual quotes and responses from merely a "thumbs-up" or other similar icons that may have been applied to a previous post. Just a thought.
It'd be nice if there was a way to isolate any actual quotes and responses from merely a "thumbs-up" or other similar icons that may have been applied to a previous post. Just a thought.
Mendel
Senior Member.
You can turn notifications of reactions off in https://www.metabunk.org/account/preferences ; you can still see them in https://www.metabunk.org/account/reactions .
Or you could close the alerts drop-down, and then reopen it, to have the reactions marked as read, but your unread responses stay unread.
Mendel
Senior Member.
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/gimbal-blender-simulation-with-clouds.12209/post-264451 has really suffered from the latest forum update not displaying some attachment. The quick fix would be to change these to image tags.
Suggestion - include the ability to embed URLs generated from the Reddit mobile app, in the same way that links from the web page are embedded...
Example 1 - copied from the "share" button on the mobile app:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/s/J2g8ZXGsm7
Example 2 - if I paste that into a browser, and then "share" the page it brings up we see this...
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1gv9kll/aaro_recycling_metabunk_analysis_of_resolved_ufos/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Example 1 - copied from the "share" button on the mobile app:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/s/J2g8ZXGsm7
Example 2 - if I paste that into a browser, and then "share" the page it brings up we see this...
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1gv9kll/aaro_recycling_metabunk_analysis_of_resolved_ufos/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Mendel
Senior Member.
This is the wrong place.
Xenforo has customer support, they could be implementing this.
Or reddit could stop tracking individual shares by ID.
qed
Senior Member
@Mick West At the highest level,
- Which threads are visible to Google?
- Which threads are only visible to members?
Scaramanga
Senior Member
Perhaps it exists already and I've missed it....but a tool for seeing when a particular post has been quoted would be useful. That way I don't have to look through 23 pages to see if anyone ever responded to a particular post.
Every quote already contains a link back to the original post....so what I'm asking for is essentially the reverse of this...does any post link back to a specific post I am on. I do not know if this would be overly complex or that data for it already exists in the system.
This would avoid the 'nobody ever responded to this post' issue that can arise especially on very long threads.
Every quote already contains a link back to the original post....so what I'm asking for is essentially the reverse of this...does any post link back to a specific post I am on. I do not know if this would be overly complex or that data for it already exists in the system.
This would avoid the 'nobody ever responded to this post' issue that can arise especially on very long threads.
There does not seem to be an add-on for that.
There's lots of add-ons. If people see one they thing might be useful, then I'll consider adding it.
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/categories/add-ons-2-x.44/
Giddierone
Senior Member.
Not sure if this has been mentioned before but XenForo seems to have some limited plugins to allow for star ranking posts. Might this be more useful than reaction emoji, especially in the very long and unreadable threads, such as those for the Calvine photo, where useful posts with links / quotes etc, get drowned out by squabbling. It would be nice to have a choice about how posts are viewed, either as they were posted chronologically, or by "quality".
Where?
Giddierone
Senior Member.
There's this, "Trending Content" metrics settings which appears to allow admins to sort posts into two buckets, "Hot" or "Top", but allows them to set some parameters. https://xenforo.com/community/threads/trending-content.220649/
Not exactly what I was thinking of but anything that would allow at least a basic method of quality filtering posts would be useful IMO.
Trending content has been on the forum list sidebar for a while. It just shows threads (not posts) based on activity. So the angry political threads bubble to the top. I've added it to the home page as well, under "Latest Posts"
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deirdre
Senior Member.
if youre talking about a reddit type system, that wont work on MB either as it is
1. too one sided.
2. the impolite posts get alot of positive reactions, so those would bubble to the top.
I've modified the metric so it's entirely based on recent positive reactions now.
Ann K
Senior Member.
Oh, I think you're going to have to define that according to your own criteria, Deirdre. We at Metabunk tend to be "one-sided" with a bias toward facts and evidence, and our mods do their best to keep us that way. I don't think it's possible to be TOO much biased toward facts.
Giddierone
Senior Member.
Don't impolite posts get snipped by the moderators?
deirdre
Senior Member.
well "hiding" posts from pro-ufo believers or even 911 proponents or hoaxers isnt a good look.
deirdre
Senior Member.
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JMartJr
Senior Member.
Be interesting to see how this works out. I might feel obliged to give good reactions to posts with which I disagree but which seem well reasoned or well expressed even so. Which might make me read such posts more carefully, which would be a good thing. On the other hand, I might find myself doing the very human thing, and up-voting stuff I agree with even if it is not well supported, which won't help me or the site.
Will be watching with interest and hoping for the better outcome.
Giddierone
Senior Member.
Failing the public quality rating of posts I wonder if there's a way for each user to see which posts they have tagged with the subjective "informative", or "agree" labels? If there is, I see this might function a bit like bookmarks on Twitter? It would be great to have a way to make sense of the things you're following and to tease them out from the noise—not necessarily a public statement of "agree", "disagree" etc, but a kind of record keeping "locker" that will be different for everyone.
You could use the bookmark system (top right of each post)
Giddierone
Senior Member.
Well I never! [but can't seem to find my bookmarks...i'll keep looking...ooh, found them!]
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deirdre
Senior Member.
its not moving posts like Reddit. it just puts it in the "trending" box, which i didnt even know existed til today.
Besides we have a few members who show up once two three weeks and read sometimes old threads from OP and "like" a ton of posts...so whatever threads they happen to read that day will be put it in "trending" likely. which is ok its nice to see "blasts from the past"
Scaramanga
Senior Member
It might be better to allow users to turn their posts arguing about a specific issue into a sub-thread linking to where the argument began..or with a side menu similar to the 'Latest Posts' one. This saves the overall thread itself becoming too laboriously threaded, whilst allowing the 'main' thread to exist and have sub-threads alongside it.
Ann K
Senior Member.
Are posts being "hidden"?
Are they being hidden because of their opinions? Or are they hidden because they make claims that are false, i.e., because they are not based on facts? Giving falsehoods the same emphasis as factual statements is "not a good look" for a site that wants to discuss facts.
Mauro
Senior Member.
It's not a good look for any site
deirdre
Senior Member.
no. because metabunk isn't currently using the reddit system.
joel_yancey
Member
Feature request - option to change/overwrite or remove "Article:" text when using 'article' tags. It looks clunky if you stack text on top of "Article:" but sometimes a few words are needed to set up the quote.
Giddierone
Senior Member.
What metric determines which threads appear on the homepage tiles? Can it be changed? These seem kind of stale. For instance shouldn't Aguadilla be right there given recent events?
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nmarsollier
Member
Hello i think yoy know this, but on android mobile, chrome. The me has too much empty space in home.
Probably it is easy to fix
Probably it is easy to fix
Hey Mick! I'm not sure if this is actually a bug or not, but @FatPhil can't see most of the text that I wrote in this post. Phil provided a screenshot of what he sees in post 591 on that thread. The text that disappeared started with the text that I copied from @Mendel in their post 563. Mendel's text appears as normal text to me. Phil and I are both using the "Blackend" style for the site (not sure about Mendel). My confusion is what is causing the text to not appear to Phil. I just posted on that thread asking if anyone else is not seeing the text so perhaps we'll get some further info.
I didn't see it either. I think it has to do with background settings. Mine is set to dark.
JMartJr
Senior Member.
FWIW. I switched over to blackened style, and am seeing this:
If I "select" that section as if to copy it or soemthing, I can see it:
Hope that is helpful...
Hmmm weird. Mine is set to dark (blackend) as well. Maybe Mendel is using light mode so when I copied the text of the file path, it copied it as black font and just kept going from there. @Landru or @Mick West, since it's too late for me to edit my post 584, can you go in and edit the text so it's all the same color? Whatever color I used for the text
should work for all of the text that isn't showing up.
Thanks @JMartJr ! Based on your test, we can at least confirm that it's related to the interplay between dark theme and the font color. Though I'm not sure why the text appears all the same on my end!
