Fixes and Features Hitlist
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What bugs are the biggest annoyance?
What features would make things better?
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Lack of moderating powers.
Not that the forum's suffering too much actually but there have been a couple of troll posts or requests for particular posts to be deleted on the grounds of sensitive information.
I think barring maybe still doesn't work even if it was possible to run, unless you barred C0C0 after his big trolly post yesterday?
Aside from that:
- Threads don't seem to break often and at least they do snap back, but it would be nice if they never did.
- Posts sometimes just don't show up and CTRL+F5 seems to do nothing until after another post has been made. This is annoying.
- Logging in still has a few bugbears. I think it's something to do with conflicting cookies as a reboot of the browser generally fixes it.
Banning's working (and much quicker than before)
The posts not showing up thing - is this after you post, or after somebody else does?
The logging in thing is *always* a tricky one. Lots and lots of tricks to keep the site fast, but there's always niggles with different browsers. Getting to the bottom of lots of it though,
Okay, I'll keep you up to date on the banning next time a troll pops up needing a bannination.
Cheers.
What about deleting? So far as I know that's still not working, unless you fixed it today?
Other things that aren't bugs but are annoying:
- When you log in you go to a session page. This is irritating as you lose your current place.
++++ Related ++++
- Why can't we just have the AJAX stuff back like it used to be where you post and then it appears in the thread or where you log in and you're logged in, rather than having the site reload the page each time. Surely this will cut server load.
Okay, so people could miss replies but I think that system was preferable to reload-a-rama we have now.
(And while I'm here...
...the mobile version still doesn't redirect when you post a reply and doesn't let you post a new topic but it's not really important. Stick it on the to-do list for 2011. :D)
The posts are still AJAX
But with a redirect afterwards. I could fix up the Javascript to insert the post in the right place, but it's a bit of hassle.
Well this is what it used to do.
My feeling is that if you're going to use AJAX then use it a lot. Otherwise you may as well have the reply link redirect to a page that shows the post you're replying to and has a reply box, much like with notes.
AJAX should mean you can login midway through posting a thread and also that you don't need to leave the page you're on. The posting thing would be cool too.
Do you use the mobile one?
Is it good / useful apart from the reply thang?
Um well
I only use it at work to hide that I'm on the site when I shouldn't be...
I think it worked on my phone from what I remember. The main issues with it is the threads make no sense. They say @xxxx but those aren't links on that page so you can't tell which reply they're at and have to drop to normal view to see that.
What might be best (given the links wouldn't likely work well in a phone) is maybe a number against each post and then the @xxx with (post n) after it?
That's really the main downside as after posting I just click back 2 (and refresh for the same thread) or 3 times for the forum.
Oh and one other thing: can you include the post you're replying to in the reply page?
That will help on mobile devices too.
^this is a massive pain in the arse!
This seems to be a Firefox thing, I think...
I'll blitz it tonight.
Just checking on Safari...
If you click 'abandon reply' when you want to enter the second post,
Then 'reply' again, it should be clear for entry.
Not ideal, but saves going out of the thread and then returning.
you can click abandon and then reply again
still annoying, but a bit quicker
god, i'm slow on the uptake
:D
testing...
amazing!
Testing without a title...
no title fo' sho'
delete in box and sent notes please.
Hate to whine
but the news scroll a the top of the forum pages has REALLY slowed everything down.
It's not so bad on my desktop (I use Camino on Intel Mac), but on my iPhone it is actually getting to the point where I'm thinking about not coming here (which is a real shame because DiS and metacritic are the only sites I tend to go to during my commute): the page is incredibly sluggish and unresponsive when it comes to clicking links or scrolling up/down/sideways on the page. Also, pages take FOREVER to load (on iPhone) -- because of a snail-like ad server perhaps?
iPhone is never gunna be any good on animation like that
I'll see if I can take it off for iPhones...
that would be greatly appreciated
makes cd playback stutter if i have multiple tabs of dis open
at the same time as listening. on a not too old pc.
i'm using a pretty good pc
if i have more than ~10 tabs of DiS open (in any browser) it uses about 50% of my CPU. and that's with flash off.
not sure if this has been suggested already
but something like an icon that lights up when someone has replied directly to one of your posts would be cool. and then clicking it would take you to the reply. kinda like how reddit does it. yeah.
Replies don't seem to be going in the right place.
Lots of people seem to be replying to the thread but it coming up under the last poster's.
Also, the phantom reply has reappeared.
Someone posts, you see there name as the last post, you click last post and it goes to nothing.
Are we posting complaints in here now? At least it's easy to find.
I got lost three times on the way here.
Replies aren't showing up for ages, the board keeps freezing and not showing new replies for me (it lasts about ten minutes unless I close my browser and re-open it) threads keep smashing up again all the time.
unless there's www. before every single DiS related URL
the site goes mental with 400 - bad request.
Please would someone kindly unsticky the Dis Band of last week
and sticky the thread for this week
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4185784
Thanks
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All my sent notes are marked up as unread...
even when they've been replied to.
My one seems weird.
When I log in at work...
I can log in, I can ^ posts, I can abandon posts, but when I press the 'Post reply' button it is completely inert and doesn't work.
Server response time is very slow
I just posted a comment on the music board and after pressing Post Reply I had to wait over two minutes for the refresh to commence and a further minute and a half for it to finish.
Why do so many replies not go where people tell them to ?
It's rather bloody irritating.
Reviewed Album Block
Where's it gone!? In days of old that was a key feature to my DiS experience.
Small thing in the side margin with Album covers, in a rectangle of recent reviews, ordered by review rating.
These are the kind of things that please me on a website such as this, everything i want to read about, neatly together in an accessible area.
I hoped and longed for it to return, and yet, no luck.
Has it been relocated? Definitely not dead weight on the side of an album review, more an opportunity for further reading. Bring it back? Or guide me to an alternative... Pretty please.
With a cherry on top?
Firefox: no thread tags, no lists?
Not sure if this is a Firefox issue or what, but that's what I'm using, v. 16.0.2 - I'm unable to edit or add tags to a thread. I can search and see the pulldown list of suggestions but I can't actually use them.
Also, I know Lists is still in beta but I can't do a thing with it, where I see other users have nice collections already done. It just breaks when I try to search for something to add.