Bugs and Suggestions for Metabunk.org

[Mick West]

When clicking on a BOLDED post in the list of latest posts on "What's New," it normally takes me to the oldest of the posts I have not yet seen in that thread. From time to time, it takes me to the first post in the thread. This is a minor annoyance, requiring scrolling through the first page of a thread to get to the page list at the bottom, then clicking on the link to the last page, and then trying to spot the earliest post that I don't recall reading.

This is a MINOR annoyance, I would not call it a high-priority thing to worry about, mentioned for what it is worth.

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.

 

[Mendel]

I believe this happens on older threads. Perhaps some information got lost when the forum was upgraded. Or perhaps it's a feature.

 

[Ann K]

When clicking on a BOLDED post in the list of latest posts on "What's New," it normally takes me to the oldest of the posts I have not yet seen in that thread. From time to time, it takes me to the first post in the thread. This is a minor annoyance, requiring scrolling through the first page of a thread to get to the page list at the bottom, then clicking on the link to the last page, and then trying to spot the earliest post that I don't recall reading.

This is a MINOR annoyance, I would not call it a high-priority thing to worry about, mentioned for what it is worth.

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]

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.

 

[Mendel]

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.

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]

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.

 

[flarkey]

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

 

[Mendel]

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...

This is the wrong place.

Xenforo has customer support, they could be implementing this.

Or reddit could stop tracking individual shares by ID.