GWJ bugs, feature requests, and updates

Hypatian wrote:
doogiemac wrote:

After the deployment I did last night, the cases where I was experiencing this are working properly again. Can anyone else confirm if you are still experiencing the issue?

I'm still having the issue, with this thread in D&D. It always seems to put me back a page or two from the actual newest post.

Also the Hidden Gems of Netflix's Watch Instantly thread.

I believe this was mentioned a few pages back, so apologies if this one's already out there, but I periodically have the thing where the Recent Content icon stays red despite having no threads left unread, clicking Mark all read, etc. Purely based on unscientific observation, the common (though inconsistent) trigger would seem to be new posts appearing in the Depression is ruining my life thread, as in I don't believe I ever experience the issue after reading all unread posts unless there was a new post in that thread. Just a minor annoyance really, but occasionally stressful (in a bad headspace) to get an indicator that you're missing something in a thread for folks struggling with what can be some pretty bleak stuff.

Hypatian wrote:
Hypatian wrote:
doogiemac wrote:

After the deployment I did last night, the cases where I was experiencing this are working properly again. Can anyone else confirm if you are still experiencing the issue?

I'm still having the issue, with this thread in D&D. It always seems to put me back a page or two from the actual newest post.

Also the Hidden Gems of Netflix's Watch Instantly thread.

And a Trump thread in D&D: https://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/...

Seeing it over here now, too.

It's not impossible to deal with, but it's pretty frustrating to always get thrown back to a page or two before the new stuff and have to hunt down where on the page the new thing is.

Note: It may be somewhat intermittent? Like, the Watch Instantly thread seemed to work at some point shortly after I mentioned it, and the Trump thread worked just now, but the How to Be an All-Inclusive Gender Thread is still going back a page.

I feel like this suggests some sort of weird caching bug.

Hi folks! Now that the major security release has been addressed, I hope to find some time to tackle annoying bugs like the wrong "new" page link issue. Thanks for your continued patience.

There seems to be a problem with adding the Amazon affiliate link in some cases.

For example, I tried to link to John Scalzi's Collapsing Empire with this link:

https://www.amazon.com/Collapsing-Empire-Interdependency-John-Scalzi-ebook/dp/B01F20E7CO

The auto-generated link was
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/Collapsing?tag=gamwitjob-20

But should have been:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01F20E7CO?tag=gamwitjob-20

(Another item that failed to link properly was this:
https://www.amazon.com/Provenance-Ann-Leckie-ebook/dp/B06XW6YTKV
)

New information on the "new goes to wrong page" thing:

Today I tried to shortcut this by clicking on the last listed page on the forum. It turns out, the last listed page on this thread was 460, but the actual last page was 461. Hmmm. (And the "New" link goes to... page 460.)

I have a question regarding the grey/red Recent Content button notification. Is there a way to "unsubscribe" from a thread once you have posted in it in order to remove notifications of new posts from your Recent Content section? I tried a search but didn't find a hit.

As much as I love the Netflix thread I've got a real desire to always reduce notifications to things, threads in this case, I'm actively involved in.

CPWilson wrote:

I have a question regarding the grey/red Recent Content button notification. Is there a way to "unsubscribe" from a thread once you have posted in it in order to remove notifications of new posts from your Recent Content section? I tried a search but didn't find a hit.

As much as I love the Netflix thread I've got a real desire to always reduce notifications to things, threads in this case, I'm actively involved in.

Just go to the top of any page in the thread and you should see the option to Remove from favorites next to the white star in the banner.

It would be really convenient if you could add .gifv as a valid extension for the IMG tag. More and more GIFs on imgur aren't working as animated links anymore. GIFvs are much smaller, and I think imgur refuses to animate large GIFs.

This is one you can use for reference:

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RedJen wrote:
CPWilson wrote:

I have a question regarding the grey/red Recent Content button notification. Is there a way to "unsubscribe" from a thread once you have posted in it in order to remove notifications of new posts from your Recent Content section? I tried a search but didn't find a hit.

As much as I love the Netflix thread I've got a real desire to always reduce notifications to things, threads in this case, I'm actively involved in.

Just go to the top of any page in the thread and you should see the option to Remove from favorites next to the white star in the banner.

I think they mean the speech-bubble icon stuff. So far as I know, there's no way to remove threads that populate to this list based on having commenting in them before. My "Recent Content" icon is always red.

Malor wrote:

It would be really convenient if you could add .gifv as a valid extension for the IMG tag. More and more GIFs on imgur aren't working as animated links anymore. GIFvs are much smaller, and I think imgur refuses to animate large GIFs.

This is one you can use for reference:

IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/xvTiUIl.gifv)

This should do the trick, or at least it's a good starting point: https://github.com/noahm/Userscripts...

That only works for people who install it. If it doesn't work for any viewer, then I can't really post GIFvs.

Not sure what I did.

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GOG now has public profiles (eg. https://www.gog.com/u/legion), and it would be great for it to get added to our profile icon choices.

Not sure if this will recreate the issue or not but I saw this issue on another post. With a video as the first thing in the post the little "new" tag thing was getting pushed up into the quote link making it so that quote couldn't be clicked. Saw it in the latest version of Chrome (66.0.3359.139 (Official Build) (64-bit)) on Mac.

Yarp.

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Related to the bug where a few pixels of a video in a spoiler tag appear inside the spoiler box before opening it?

It seems that the embedded video isn't getting the padding around it that text and stuff does.

Anybody have any idea what I can do to fix what's going on in those images I posted? The site is barely usable right now.

Purge Chrome from your computer, clean/delete every single Chrome-related folder and setting, reinstall?

EverythingsTentative wrote:

Anybody have any idea what I can do to fix what's going on in those images I posted? The site is barely usable right now.

Yeah, I wish I had something better for you but I haven't seen reports from anyone else so I have to assume it's a local browser issue. Have you tried a different browser? Cleared out cookies, cache, etc?

Not a bug, but a curiosity. Recently, the duration of embedded videos appeared on the thumbnail, allowing you to know how long the video is before clicking the play button. I just noticed that this has disappeared. This may be on Youtube's end, but if it's something that could be re-enabled here, it would be appreciated.

Would it be possible to have a Jewish Stan picture? A Stan in a yarmulke as a representative of the Jewish ethnic and/or religious group. There appears to be precedent for this kind of thing.

can not seem to create a new thread, just does not manifest when i try. no idea why, trying to avoid a mass x-post in the process :/ ublock maybe? but even with that disabled it just is not creating the thread?"This page isn’t working
www.gamerswithjobs.com is currently unable to handle this request."

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MeatMan wrote:

Not a bug, but a curiosity. Recently, the duration of embedded videos appeared on the thumbnail, allowing you to know how long the video is before clicking the play button. I just noticed that this has disappeared. This may be on Youtube's end, but if it's something that could be re-enabled here, it would be appreciated.

I'm guessing that's on YouTube's end. Nothing has changed on our side.

krev82 wrote:

can not seem to create a new thread, just does not manifest when i try. no idea why, trying to avoid a mass x-post in the process :/ ublock maybe? but even with that disabled it just is not creating the thread?"This page isn’t working
www.gamerswithjobs.com is currently unable to handle this request."

Can you reply back with the exact steps you followed to produce this error? I can't get it to happen through the various methods of creating a new post that I've tried.

I think the auto-generated links to PSN profiles in our signatures have been deprecated. They just go to a PSN landing page now.

Mixolyde wrote:

I think the auto-generated links to PSN profiles in our signatures have been deprecated. They just go to a PSN landing page now.

Yup, have for awhile. Should be: https://my.playstation.com/profile/B...

Hey gang,

I've been having an issue with the GWJ RPG (and on rare occasions GWJ CC) podcast playback.
It started some time during Orbital Decay and is still a thing with Heroes of the realm.
If I skip to a point in the podcast past the halfway point, it starts playing from the beginning.
It doesn't matter if I skip forward or backwards, or if I've already listened to the episode or not (typically it's the latter because I've fallen asleep listening to it and I'm trying to rewind to where I was up to).

It feels like an indexing issue with the audio file, or something?
I can get around it by skipping further back and then waiting until it catches up, but if I miss something and only want to back up 5 seconds it's a pain.

I uninstalled the app I use (Podcast Addict), rebooted, and re-installed it, but I'm still having the same problem.
I checked each of the other podcasts I listen to and they all skip through fine.
Any advice appreciated.

<3 Daf

Are the other podcasts of similar length? Does your player download or stream the episodes? I doubt it is a problem on the GWJ side unless you are streaming maybe. I recommend trying a different player and see if it still happens. I use Overcast.

Similar length or longer (1-2 hours). I always download the episodes before listening to them.
I'll try a different player and see how it goes.