Forum maintenance 18/02/2021

[voodoo]

No way I was googling it

[Hooroo]

@duluth said in Forum maintenance (mostly done - fixing the layout problems):

@hooroo said in Forum maintenance (mostly done - fixing the layout problems):

Also can't mark forums as read and no up/down arrows to go to first/last post.

Yes I have an ancient laptop with IE. I can see the same thing.

Sorry, there's zero chance I'm fixing anything today though. Too busy. Should have some time over the weekend

In the meantime you're stuck with your phone or you can nag your works IT department to get off IE

Incidentally 0.4% of TSF traffic comes from IE. It's just dropped behind the Seamonkey browser

All good. Just jumped on via phone as my posts were disappearing but it appears it is just that the page won’t load as I scroll down.

[delicatessen]

What's up with YouTube embeds on here - the fullscreen option is never enabled for some reason?

[Duluth]

@delicatessen said in Forum maintenance (mostly done - fixing the layout problems):

What's up with YouTube embeds on here - the fullscreen option is never enabled for some reason?

allowfullscreen is set but is getting ignored by the google side

Eventually I want to change the embeds to another method. That's a while away.

[booboo]

@delicatessen said in Forum maintenance (mostly done - fixing the layout problems):

What's up with YouTube embeds on here - the fullscreen option is never enabled for some reason?

Hasn't been for ages

[No Quarter]

People, for the love of God, stop using IE to browse the web. Your IT department should give you a modern browser to use even if some of their shitty custom apps still need IE. It's a waste of Duluth's time fixing stuff for old browsers.

[Yeetyaah]

I can't upvote some users posts. It says Error forbidden.

[Duluth]

@yeetyaah said in Forum maintenance (mostly done - fixing the layout problems):

I can't upvote some users posts. It says Error forbidden.

Looks like a bug on the latest release link

Apparently refreshing helps most of the time. I’ll install the fix when it’s available

[Yeetyaah]

@duluth yeah refreshing did fix it. I can't post or upvote when it's happening.

[voodoo]

@yeetyaah said in Forum maintenance (mostly done - fixing the layout problems):

I can't upvote some users posts. It says Error forbidden.

I had that yesterday, but its fixed itself now ‍️

[nzzp]

@yeetyaah said in Forum maintenance (mostly done - fixing the layout problems):

I can't upvote some users posts. It says Error forbidden.

damn, that would be funny if Mods only did that to some Ferners

[Bones]

@hooroo said in Forum maintenance (mostly done - fixing the layout problems):

page won’t load as I scroll down.

Yeah I was getting that one occasionally yesterday on my laptop. Just go into the URL bar and update the post number to the next one and it'll load.

[Nepia]

@duluth said in Forum maintenance (mostly done - fixing the layout problems):

I'll try to improve the look of that fixed header inside the threads and the scroll counter on desktops

Are these around for good?

[Kiwiwomble]

@no-quarter said in Forum maintenance (mostly done - fixing the layout problems):

People, for the love of God, stop using IE to browse the web. Your IT department should give you a modern browser to use even if some of their shitty custom apps still need IE. It's a waste of Duluth's time fixing stuff for old browsers.

I know im principle your right but my organistion using document filing system that will corrupt word doc if you use anything else but IE

[Duluth]

@nepia

Probably. Nothing to do with me.

They were moved in the latest release. All I do is change a few styles over the top.

Doing any more customisation is not worth the effort

[Nepia]

@duluth said in Forum maintenance (mostly done - fixing the layout problems):

@nepia

Probably. Nothing to do with me.

They were moved in the latest release. All I do is change a few styles over the top.

Doing any more customisation is not worth the effort

Cool cool, I hate it, but I guess I'll get used to it over time.

[Duluth]

@nepia

I disagree with it too. I am getting used to it

[Duluth]

Internet Explorer

The problems @Hooroo was getting was nothing to do with layout changes. It was actually code that is failing to run.

The app was attempting to load, got less than halfway through and then had an error. All the code after that point did not run.
So the missing lightbulb and lack of scrolling etc etc is because the app will not work on IE at all

I think Nodebb stopped supporting IE ~3 years ago. It's been luck that it has worked for this long. Forunately it is only 0.4% of our traffic over the last year and it's dropping fast (well now I guess it will be 0%)

This will happen more and more if your company forces you to be on IE. For instance in a few months Microsoft Internet Explorer will not support opening various Microsoft web apps

It's basically dead

Kill it with fire

Hopefully you can successfully nag your IT team?

[Smudge]

@yeetyaah said in Forum maintenance 18/02/2021:

I can't upvote some users posts. It says Error forbidden.

Please tell me that's a special setting for @MN5's posts.

[MN5]

@smudge said in Forum maintenance 18/02/2021:

@yeetyaah said in Forum maintenance 18/02/2021:

I can't upvote some users posts. It says Error forbidden.

Please tell me that's a special setting for @MN5's posts.

Stop being so negative and jealous. Some of my work is quite inspired. The upvotes I get can’t all be accidents.