Forum maintenance 18/02/2021

[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.

[Stargazer]

Woaaahhhh, do you KNOW how stressful this is?

[Duluth]

@stargazer

just had to restart something.. it causes a timeout

[gt12]

Test test

@Duluth

Thanks!! Working now.

[Duluth]

If anyone is having trouble posting try a hard refresh or clear your browsers cache.

A couple of people have had issues with their phone loading out of date stuff