GWJ bugs, feature requests, and updates

Can there be a "Go to desktop site" link. This mobile page isn't working for me. I hope this doesn't catch on where the size of your browser determines which site you are directed to. I have noticed other sites doing it too. It makes User Agent point less.

You have the option in your user profile, now. Uncheck "responsive design".

Thank you!

I have an enhancement request:
When getting email notifications of PMs, it would be nice to have the text contents of the PM sent along with the notification. Specifically, the notification email would include the sender, subject, and contents of the PM.
It bugs me when I'm not near a computer and I can't see what's in my inbox without loading up the site. It's for sure a minor annoyance, but something I think of every time I get a PM notification.
I'd be happy to mock something up in HTML if that would be helpful.

Phishposer wrote:

I have an enhancement request:
When getting email notifications of PMs, it would be nice to have the text contents of the PM sent along with the notification. Specifically, the notification email would include the sender, subject, and contents of the PM.
It bugs me when I'm not near a computer and I can't see what's in my inbox without loading up the site. It's for sure a minor annoyance, but something I think of every time I get a PM notification.
I'd be happy to mock something up in HTML if that would be helpful.

I actually was just going to make this same suggestion. Even just the sender/subject with no contents would be a huge help.

Haven't skimmed the pages. But here are two improvements I'd like to see.

'Recent Posts' shows two tabs. Maybe it is easier for navigation sakes to add a 'Favorites' tab there?
Call it 'Tracked Posts' instead of 'Recent Posts' or leave it as it is namewise.

The Youtube function is nice, but youtube won't let you copy just the part we use here.
Can script change to accept the full copy paste that youtube offers? (under the 'Share' option)

And I was lying. Have a third request. It would be nice to have your avatar also linked to either your Steam
profile or Xbox somethingsillywhateverthosefilthyconsoleusershave?

The YouTube tag does support the full URL.

trueheart78 wrote:

The YouTube tag does support the full URL.

I should try it again then. It failed me a while ago. So kept working around it.

Sparhawk wrote:
trueheart78 wrote:

The YouTube tag does support the full URL.

I should try it again then. It failed me a while ago. So kept working around it.

You can even embed with time codes to queue up a certain part of a vid now.

MannishBoy wrote:
Sparhawk wrote:
trueheart78 wrote:

The YouTube tag does support the full URL.

I should try it again then. It failed me a while ago. So kept working around it.

You can even embed with time codes to queue up a certain part of a vid now.

Yup, all the formats described in this post and the one it links to.

Thanks

Did the sidebar go away deliberately, or did I change some setting I shouldn't have?

Sans sidebar, there's no donation link!

edit: nevermind, figured it out.

Just to let you know, this evening for some reason I started getting the mobile version of the site on my desktop machine in my Firefox 15.0.1 browser (IE9 and Chrome are as they were). it's amazing how hard it is to find this thread that way.

Whatever you just dropped a bit ago fixed my issue with Firefox 15 getting the mobile version on my desktop. Thank you.

Skimming, so maybe this has already been asked, but I just got a Samsung Galaxy S III and have been having trouble navigating the site with it. After the August update, things were great with my old phone (Droid Incredible), but with the new phone I've found I can't zoom in or out and double tapping to resize the page to that perfect reading size no longer works. I've tried using both the stock browser and Chrome on it with the same results.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, as I'm finding it really hard to read the forums on my phone now.

Thurgrim wrote:

Skimming, so maybe this has already been asked, but I just got a Samsung Galaxy S III and have been having trouble navigating the site with it. After the August update, things were great with my old phone (Droid Incredible), but with the new phone I've found I can't zoom in or out and double tapping to resize the page to that perfect reading size no longer works. I've tried using both the stock browser and Chrome on it with the same results.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, as I'm finding it really hard to read the forums on my phone now.

I just got an S3 last week, as well, and it sucks on the default browser. Try Firefox, and it's much easier to read.

Thurgrim wrote:

Skimming, so maybe this has already been asked, but I just got a Samsung Galaxy S III and have been having trouble navigating the site with it. After the August update, things were great with my old phone (Droid Incredible), but with the new phone I've found I can't zoom in or out and double tapping to resize the page to that perfect reading size no longer works. I've tried using both the stock browser and Chrome on it with the same results.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, as I'm finding it really hard to read the forums on my phone now.

Yeah this was covered a few pages back.

Go into the options in Chrome. Then go to Accessibility options. And there's a checkbox for "Force Enable Zoom" that will fix you right up.

Ah, thanks. That did the trick with chrome. I've actually been trying out a few different browsers with the new phone and using GWJ as one of my test sites. So far it looks and works the best in Firefox by default, but I can't find a way to get the zoom feature to work in that one either.

Thurgrim wrote:

Ah, thanks. That did the trick with chrome. I've actually been trying out a few different browsers with the new phone and using GWJ as one of my test sites. So far it looks and works the best in Firefox by default, but I can't find a way to get the zoom feature to work in that one either.

If you're still testing browsers, I've had the best luck with Dolphin. Also, if you can find an APK for Asus's browser, it's awesome.

Maybe I'm the only person with this problem (and if I am I'll deal) but a lot of the time if I'm on my phone when I go to hit the "Mark all posts as Read" link if I don't tap it super accurately I ended up hitting the post new topic button.

I was looking at it and thought that link might work better moved to the left of the new topic button.

Again though, maybe just me.

Youtube now uses more non-alphanumeric characters to refer to a video, which breaks the tag, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...!

Seems to work fine if you have the full url. The one you linked doesn't appear to work, either, seemingly because of the "feature=" part. Unless that's just me, for some reason.

Works with the long URL, which I wrote to look for 11 characters, doesn't matter what kind.

And Tannhausered. That'll teach me to open 20 tabs.

Spoiler:

No it won't.

Does anyone else get three copies of FTL in their favorite topics?
IMAGE(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Qkq0WYl8bwM/UHH_nZ3reEI/AAAAAAAA5DQ/eRsSEw6YaaI/s1543/gwjftl.jpg)

It has been there for a couple weeks ever since I added it to my favorites.

I don't have FTL in my favorites but a few months ago I had 2 of the same thread in my favorites just like that.

I don't think I knew about this thread at the time, otherwise I would have posted it.

MonoCheli wrote:

Does anyone else get three copies of FTL in their favorite topics?
IMAGE(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Qkq0WYl8bwM/UHH_nZ3reEI/AAAAAAAA5DQ/eRsSEw6YaaI/s1543/gwjftl.jpg)

It has been there for a couple weeks ever since I added it to my favorites.

Remove it from your favorites, then check your favorites list to see if it shows up twice or not at all.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Remove it from your favorites, then check your favorites list to see if it shows up twice or not at all.

That fixed it, I removed it once and one went away and then repeated it and now only have one. Thanks!

You know, I bet you had the 'double post' bug, in a different place. You know how sometimes you hit Post once, but you get two or more copies of something, probably due to a database timeout and retry? The DB probably lagged out when you tried to favorite that thread, and the front end timed out and kept retrying, until all three favorites went through. When you removed and re-faved it, the code was smart enough to fix the problem.

When I use [quote] tags they always show up rather than make the nice boxes.

e.g.

Malor wrote:

You know, I bet you had the 'double post' bug, in a different place. You know how sometimes you hit Post once, but you get two or more copies of something, probably due to a database timeout and retry? The DB probably lagged out when you tried to favorite that thread, and the front end timed out and kept retrying, until all three favorites went through. When you removed and re-faved it, the code was smart enough to fix the problem.

Am I missing something, or does it only look like this to me?

Keep posting! Once you upgrade from coffee grinder you can start using tags. (doesn't take long)