GWJ bugs, feature requests, and updates

garion333 wrote:

You'd think, but I can't find consistency there because other threads pull up by thread title.

Yeah old threads.

Try for threads created this year. Or the last 3-4 months. That's what the NBA and Metroid threads had in common.

Could probably narrow it down more with NFL threads that are created every week

Is it just me or is GWJ running slowly today?

I'm having an issue where my Recent Content flag is red even though none of my threads have new posts. In the past I've alleviated this by marking the whole forum as read, but that option isn't working today.

There was a filthy spammer that ran through the site this morning, posting in a bunch of threads. After the spammer was deleted and the posts purged, the threads all showed up as red, but with no new posts. Maybe that's what you're seeing?

merphle wrote:

There was a filthy spammer that ran through the site this morning, posting in a bunch of threads. After the spammer was deleted and the posts purged, the threads all showed up as red, but with no new posts. Maybe that's what you're seeing?

That might just have been it. I opened all the threads from today and it cleared it, finally. Thank you.

Just curious: Why does a post title sometimes display with bold text but there have been no new posts?

I'm guessing it is because the OP has been updated but much of the time no updates are obvious.

It can happen if there was a spammer on the thread that got deleted.

PaladinTom wrote:

Just curious: Why does a post title sometimes display with bold text but there have been no new posts?

I'm guessing it is because the OP has been updated but much of the time no updates are obvious.

It can also happen if someone edits an older post.

Just noticed the Greatest Forum Threads link from the user guide seems to be broken.

Also, it’s past time Amoebic had an entry under the Podcast Crew section.

FeralMonkey wrote:

Just noticed the Greatest Forum Threads link from the user guide seems to be broken.

Also, it’s past time Amoebic had an entry under the Podcast Crew section.

My goodness is that page ever dusty. I gotta re-do the whole thing.

Certis wrote:
FeralMonkey wrote:

Just noticed the Greatest Forum Threads link from the user guide seems to be broken.

Also, it’s past time Amoebic had an entry under the Podcast Crew section.

My goodness is that page ever dusty. I gotta re-do the whole thing.

I have notes for an update, but no time to finish them.

I had a message in my inbox for 7 days and never noticed the little envelope was the wrong color. I would really really really appreciate if the site had a better way of letting us know.

Do you have email notification turned on?

Yes but it is set to go to a secondary email account I don't check too often any more.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Yes but it is set to go to a secondary email account I don't check too often any more.

Yeah, FYI, I can see all those spicy PMs that get sent to [email protected].

Does the Penguin send you dick pics too?

Cloaca pics. He's committed to the bit.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

I had a message in my inbox for 7 days and never noticed the little envelope was the wrong color. I would really really really appreciate if the site had a better way of letting us know.

Having a number beside it might be nice to let us know how many PMs there are. No number if zero but changed color and an unread count number for new PMs maybe.

Rykin wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

I had a message in my inbox for 7 days and never noticed the little envelope was the wrong color. I would really really really appreciate if the site had a better way of letting us know.

Having a number beside it might be nice to let us know how many PMs there are. No number if zero but changed color and an unread count number for new PMs maybe.

I can't even get the PM notificaiton e-mails since my mail provider is MS and they block GWJ mail, so I wouldn't mind a big banner at the top of every page that appears if I have a PM, something like this:

IMAGE(https://css-tricks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/notificationbar.png)

Sure it seems pretty intrusive at first glance, but when would you ever get a PM and not want to know immediately?

Best solution would be.... Blink tag

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/wOeAV2C.gif)

Serengeti wrote:

Sure it seems pretty intrusive at first glance, but when would you ever get a PM and not want to know immediately?

When it's an all-users Certis spam message in September, letting everyone know that the donation drive is starting up. Patreon already has my info, guys; we're good.

That snarky response aside - something similar to your posted image would be great.

One email a year?! Lousy spammers! Account deleted.

This may not be a forum issue, though I don't recall ever seeing it happen anywhere else, so... Sometimes images don't load for me, for example:

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/aB1dRnm.jpg)

You can see the top image is fine, but the bottom image just shows as text. Weirdly, if I right-click the 'text', the context menu that pops up is for an image. Wha?

Are you at work? Or somewhere else that may be blocking certain urls?

I have seen this too, at home on Comcast using Chrome. AFAIK I don't have any extensions that would do that. It only happens rarely for me. Copying the image URL and opening it in a new tab always works.

garion333 wrote:

Are you at work? Or somewhere else that may be blocking certain urls?

At home, no blockers, using Firefox. If I right click and select "view image" it opens fine in a new tab.

Weird, I have never seen that.

Serengeti wrote:
garion333 wrote:

Are you at work? Or somewhere else that may be blocking certain urls?

At home, no blockers, using Firefox. If I right click and select "view image" it opens fine in a new tab.

I've seen it too at various times in Firefox. I've never seen it when I'm viewing the site on my phone.

I have also seen this (Firefox 57, Win10), and it's almost exclusively with images copied from Twitter (the twimg.com host).

Can't seem to reproduce it though.