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23 Jul 08:21

Why do we have this ajaxy in place loading of content?

It means that I can't put firefox in reading mode (which is a lazy persons alternative for custom CSS that doesn't look quite so yellow at work) also I have to press the back key twice to go backwards.

27 Jul 21:29

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27 Jul 21:36

ForteanTimes wrote:

Hi Vickmeist has lost her login details and email address has changed, are you able to reset using prisels23@gmail.com as she doesn't want to start a new account. or contact via @vickikatz on twitter, ta Rob

Should have a password reset email waiting in her inbox now.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

27 Jul 21:38

Ryan wrote:

Why do we have this ajaxy in place loading of content?

It means that I can't put firefox in reading mode (which is a lazy persons alternative for custom CSS that doesn't look quite so yellow at work) also I have to press the back key twice to go backwards.

We use Turbolinks to make everything faster. Have a read:

http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/rails-4-a-look-at-tu...


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

27 Jul 23:41

So I wonder why it stops the read mode of firefox from working and also has issues with the back button, if you load the URL in place it should download the page in place in the traditional way courtesy of the browser push state and address bar being updated.

28 Jul 08:22

so, no way of setting-up notifications?

28 Jul 10:04

Masty wrote:

so, no way of setting-up notifications?

Sorry, forgot to reply. I'm working on a notification system at the moment. It's a pretty complex thing to implement though so I can't give an ETA sorry.

Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

02 Aug 02:14

Has there been some sort of site-wide update in the last week or so? I use the browser on my phone to access the forums at work and such and it's just recently started taking ages and ages to load the site, or even to do things like scroll or respond when I click on links. My phone is fine with opening other desktop sites, and this site is fine from my pc browser.

I should probably just get the app, right?

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.

02 Aug 04:52

I have recently changed all my various passwords on the Web. A bit surprised I didn't have to sign back into the App with my new password. I realise the app is fairly low risk in the scheme of things.

02 Aug 05:52

sthn.jeff wrote:

I have recently changed all my various passwords on the Web. A bit surprised I didn't have to sign back into the App with my new password. I realise the app is fairly low risk in the scheme of things.

Speaking of such things - your email address is showing as your twitter handle under your avatar

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.

02 Aug 06:33

sthn.jeff wrote:

I have recently changed all my various passwords on the Web. A bit surprised I didn't have to sign back into the App with my new password. I realise the app is fairly low risk in the scheme of things.

Speaking of such things - your email address is showing as your twitter handle under your avatar

cheers. Fixed that.  old age  !!!
02 Aug 12:27

Has there been some sort of site-wide update in the last week or so? I use the browser on my phone to access the forums at work and such and it's just recently started taking ages and ages to load the site, or even to do things like scroll or respond when I click on links. My phone is fine with opening other desktop sites, and this site is fine from my pc browser.

I should probably just get the app, right?

Nothing that would cause slowdowns like the ones your getting. I'll look into it but there's nothing in the performance logging tool we use that gives me a hint as to what it could be :/

Highly recommend the app. So much better than the website when using your phone. The person who made it must be awesome.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

02 Aug 12:34

sthn.jeff wrote:

I have recently changed all my various passwords on the Web. A bit surprised I didn't have to sign back into the App with my new password. I realise the app is fairly low risk in the scheme of things.

Basically, when you sign in to the app, the app securely sends your password to the server, which checks it against your account and then sends back a session key (a bunch of random letters, numbers and symbols) that gets stored on your phone. That session key in then attached to all future requests you make to the site, and we don't store your password on your phone at all.

The solution to what you were surprised at would be to invalidate the session key when you change your password, but I suspect this would confuse some people, especially since the red flags with the number of unread posts would disappear until the user logs back in.

FWIW, we also don't store your actual password in the database at all either. It gets converted to a long string of random characters too when you push save, and we apply that same process to the password you type in your password to log in and then check that they match. There's no way to get your original password back from the set of characters we store, unlike all of the plaintext password leaks that have happened over the past few years.

Basically, we follow all best practice and even though you didn't need to log in again, we do a lot to keep your account and credentials secure.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

02 Aug 18:59

patrick478 wrote:

Has there been some sort of site-wide update in the last week or so? I use the browser on my phone to access the forums at work and such and it's just recently started taking ages and ages to load the site, or even to do things like scroll or respond when I click on links. My phone is fine with opening other desktop sites, and this site is fine from my pc browser.

I should probably just get the app, right?

Nothing that would cause slowdowns like the ones your getting. I'll look into it but there's nothing in the performance logging tool we use that gives me a hint as to what it could be :/

Highly recommend the app. So much better than the website when using your phone. The person who made it must be awesome.

And humble!

Sweet, I'll get the app then :)

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.

02 Aug 22:05

patrick478 wrote:

sthn.jeff wrote:

I have recently changed all my various passwords on the Web. A bit surprised I didn't have to sign back into the App with my new password. I realise the app is fairly low risk in the scheme of things.

Basically, when you sign in to the app, the app securely sends your password to the server, which checks it against your account and then sends back a session key (a bunch of random letters, numbers and symbols) that gets stored on your phone. That session key in then attached to all future requests you make to the site, and we don't store your password on your phone at all.

The solution to what you were surprised at would be to invalidate the session key when you change your password, but I suspect this would confuse some people, especially since the red flags with the number of unread posts would disappear until the user logs back in.

FWIW, we also don't store your actual password in the database at all either. It gets converted to a long string of random characters too when you push save, and we apply that same process to the password you type in your password to log in and then check that they match. There's no way to get your original password back from the set of characters we store, unlike all of the plaintext password leaks that have happened over the past few years.

Basically, we follow all best practice and even though you didn't need to log in again, we do a lot to keep your account and credentials secure.

You lost me at the first "Basically" Patrick... lol. 

I think I get the Gist of it and had a feeling  there would be Pixie Dust involved.

Cheers

04 Aug 21:10

We now have a kit option?

Kinda cool.

Grumpy old bastard alert

05 Aug 23:28

Sir tech gods, big and small.

I humbly request if possible unto thee if a "Mark all read" button be added to thine holy forums.  Makes it easier for occasional posters, and regular lurkers like myself to keep up to date with the chatting and the what nots.

12 Aug 05:57

What does the "jsonnull" error message mean?

I have an amazing ability to find my way out of mazes. I'm pathological. 
12 Aug 06:41

kwlap wrote:

What does the "jsonnull" error message mean?

I saw that today too, I have no idea why it's happening. I'll look into it. #sackpatrick

Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

12 Aug 23:23

The this and quote buttons aren't showing up in the app for me

You know we belong together...

16 Aug 08:50

Oska wrote:

The this and quote buttons aren't showing up in the app for me

You logged in?


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

16 Aug 19:59

Yes

You know we belong together...

17 Aug 22:22

Getting an error message when scrolling down the Active threads page in the Android app. It lets me get to around the Getting rid of Sky being the top thread before erroring.

Problem  only started yesterday and I haven't updated any apps in the last few days

Android 5.1.1 on Xperia Z3



18 Aug 05:38

On further investigation it seems to consistently be after 15 threads it shows the error. Seemingly unrelated to any  thread in particular



18 Aug 05:52

Yeah I'm getting this too. It's bizarre.

I'll try and hunt down the error tonight.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

18 Aug 06:31

patrick478 wrote:

Yeah I'm getting this too. It's bizarre.

I'll try and hunt down the error tonight.

Me too
18 Aug 06:43

sthn.jeff wrote:

patrick478 wrote:

Yeah I'm getting this too. It's bizarre.

I'll try and hunt down the error tonight.

Me too

 

On my way. 


Allegedly

20 Aug 00:02

I'm also having issues on android will just say it's stopped and close. Works for some forums and then nit others then changes. I couldn't get into nix forum the other day now I can but I can't get into nzers overseas.

17 Sep 00:38

Is there a way to use spoiler tags in these forums?

17 Sep 00:47

Drunk_Monk wrote:

Is there a way to use spoiler tags in these forums?

Be cool to have these like you use on Reddit, where it is blacked out and you hover your mouse over or something to reveil it.

I'm an optimistic pessimist. 
I'm positive things will go wrong.
17 Sep 02:23

Yakcall wrote:

Drunk_Monk wrote:

Is there a way to use spoiler tags in these forums?

Be cool to have these like you use on Reddit, where it is blacked out and you hover your mouse over or something to reveil it.

Or like on NZgamer\GPforums where a button appears saying spoiler, and you tap\click the button to reveal the spoiler.

20 Sep 15:09

I was wondering, have you mods ever thought about having alerts/notifications like XenForo forums do?
Or have you purposely stayed away from that side of things?
Might be ego-boosting to see people like your posts withOUT having to search a thread.

Speaking of searching a thread, could we also have a "go to first unread post" feature, or make the forum do that automatically when clicking on threads?
Makes things easier for people to keep up with things. You have the feature on the app, now it's the Desktop site's turn.

Adelaide's resident Nix supporter
20 Sep 20:04

I was wondering, have you mods ever thought about having alerts/notifications like XenForo forums do?
Or have you purposely stayed away from that side of things?
Might be ego-boosting to see people like your posts withOUT having to search a thread.

Speaking of searching a thread, could we also have a "go to first unread post" feature, or make the forum do that automatically when clicking on threads?
Makes things easier for people to keep up with things. You have the feature on the app, now it's the Desktop site's turn.

It does that on the mobile phone, if you click "View xx more" beside the forum on the browser it takes you to your last read page (mostly, I believe messages that have been hidden throw off the page count.).

20 Sep 22:07

I was wondering, have you mods ever thought about having alerts/notifications like XenForo forums do?
Or have you purposely stayed away from that side of things?
Might be ego-boosting to see people like your posts withOUT having to search a thread.

Speaking of searching a thread, could we also have a "go to first unread post" feature, or make the forum do that automatically when clicking on threads?
Makes things easier for people to keep up with things. You have the feature on the app, now it's the Desktop site's turn.

Click on the "View 18 more" button instead of the thread title.

In terms of notifications - it's a big job to implement it so we've pushed it down the pile in favour of other things. It'll happen some day. 


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

24 Sep 03:04

Ryan wrote:

If you click "View xx more" beside the forum on the browser it takes you to your last read page (mostly, I believe messages that have been hidden throw off the page count.).

I'll try that one out. Thanks.

Adelaide's resident Nix supporter
25 Sep 01:04

patrick478 wrote:

Click on the "View 18 more" button instead of the thread title.

In terms of notifications - it's a big job to implement it so we've pushed it down the pile in favour of other things. It'll happen some day. 

I find that when I click that most of the time it takes me to an empty page with no posts so I then need to click back a page to see the last page.

25 Sep 03:19

Drunk_Monk wrote:

patrick478 wrote:

Click on the "View 18 more" button instead of the thread title.

In terms of notifications - it's a big job to implement it so we've pushed it down the pile in favour of other things. It'll happen some day. 

I find that when I click that most of the time it takes me to an empty page with no posts so I then need to click back a page to see the last page.

I think that the site isn't taking into account messages that have been hidden or removed by moderators when figuring out what page you should be on with that function. So with longer threads with plenty of removed comments it pushes you to a page that is beyond the actual pages available.

25 Sep 04:54

Ryan wrote:

Drunk_Monk wrote:

patrick478 wrote:

Click on the "View 18 more" button instead of the thread title.

In terms of notifications - it's a big job to implement it so we've pushed it down the pile in favour of other things. It'll happen some day. 

I find that when I click that most of the time it takes me to an empty page with no posts so I then need to click back a page to see the last page.

I think that the site isn't taking into account messages that have been hidden or removed by moderators when figuring out what page you should be on with that function. So with longer threads with plenty of removed comments it pushes you to a page that is beyond the actual pages available.

That may explain it.  That's why you're paid the big bucks.

27 Sep 08:09

Hi Patrick

For the last couple of days on the app I keep getting a "JsonNull" message whenever I click on the News link and nothing loads. All other tabs seem to be working.

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27 Sep 08:31

the ant wrote:

Hi Patrick

For the last couple of days on the app I keep getting a "JsonNull" message whenever I click on the News link and nothing loads. All other tabs seem to be working.

Fixed!

I forgot to add a picture to one of the news items.


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