Feedback Technical Grievances

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Maybe a thread you were watching got merged with one you were not watching, happened a few times to me.

Nope. When I look at watched threads, nothing new is there and the thread with the bugged notification is nowhere to be seen.

 

[JustSomeDong]

I, too, have had seemingly random notifications happen sporadically.

 

[ClipBitch]

If you leave the front page open for awhile the snow slowly accumulates until your computer is shitting itself with lag. Probably not an issue worth addressing since the answer is to just not do that, but telling ya anyway on the off chance that it matters for some reason.

 

[Personal Jesus]

Nope. When I look at watched threads, nothing new is there and the thread with the bugged notification is nowhere to be seen.

What happens in my case is, I follow a thread then a new post is made but by the time I check the notification the thread was merged with another one and the notification will point to the new thread instead, which you'll not be following for some reason.

If you leave the front page open for awhile the snow slowly accumulates until your computer is shitting itself with lag. Probably not an issue worth addressing since the answer is to just not do that, but telling ya anyway on the off chance that it matters for some reason.

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I tested to check and my PC was about to crap itself. Depending on how long the snow effect is supposed to last it would be a good idea to try and fix it.

 

[Lichen Bark]

It's just a minor grievance, but when you go to a page with multiple embedded videos why does every single one need to start loading? Usually the one I want to watch loads very slowly in tandem with 6 other videos I am not watching. Or sometimes a seemingly random video preloads completely while I am waiting on the one I clicked 'play' on. I just want the video I am watching to get all the bandwidth, not the other ones I may/may not watch. Wouldn't this save the site some bandwidth? Or at least it would put the limited bandwidth into the content I am viewing at the moment. Have a profile settings option to disable pre loading of videos?

 

[Hijaboholic]

I found a bug with the private tag that lets people see what it is regardless if they are signed in or not.
For example this was a post I made in thread where I used the private tag while I am logged out:

However if I view that sepcific post in a search result or my post history it looks like this:

The information I put in the private tag is visible, however this only seams to be applicaple to posts where the private tag is part of the post preview.

 

[Troonologist PhD]

Why is every image and video I save on this site a WEBP or WEBM?

 

[Least Concern]

It's just a minor grievance, but when you go to a page with multiple embedded videos why does every single one need to start loading? Usually the one I want to watch loads very slowly in tandem with 6 other videos I am not watching. Or sometimes a seemingly random video preloads completely while I am waiting on the one I clicked 'play' on. I just want the video I am watching to get all the bandwidth, not the other ones I may/may not watch. Wouldn't this save the site some bandwidth?

Unless your browser is being fucky, it's only loading a single "poster" frame for each embedded video and isn't actually loading the playable video data until you try to play the video; that's the intended behavior, anyway. If you really think your browser is fully-preloading videos, check your browser settings.

Why is every image and video I save on this site a WEBP or WEBM?

Cloudflare has a feature where it will automatically convert images to WebPs to reduce their download size, and while it works, I don't like it because it recompresses already-compressed images and makes it difficult to download the originals as you've found (and also promotes the use of what is basically a Google-proprietary image format). Josh might have enabled that anti-feature. I don't Cloudflare is converting videos to WebM, though; the originals were WebM in those cases.

 

[Aleph Bet]

Feature request: Reply Option in Jawshchat

Description: reply option in the the moderator tool drop of Jawshchat and for replys to be implemented in similar to how replies look on discord
Example:

Reason: Quality of Life when it comes to the use of Jawshchat makes it so that conversations are easier to follow and the person know wheat message they're replying to

 

[AnOminous]

I'm suddenly seeing all the ratings in A&N, but can't use them. As you can see, it also includes both the "Respectfully Disagree" and the "Disagree" button. You can apparently only use the "authorized" A&N ratings despite it displaying all of them plus the A&N-only "Respectfully Disagree."

 

[King Fructose]

Not sure if it’s already been posted but viewing on mobile Safari has been showing bullet points for a while now.

 

[Chuck McGill]

How do I use ratings other than Like? I know some of the spicier ones are donator-only, but I didn't think it was all of them. Does a certain post count/threshold need to be met before these unlock?

 

[Kosher Salt]

How do I use ratings other than Like? I know some of the spicier ones are donator-only, but I didn't think it was all of them. Does a certain post count/threshold need to be met before these unlock?

Ratings other than like can be given by hovering your cursor over the "Like" reaction, and selecting a rating from the tooltip that appears. (On mobile, touch and hold the "Like" reaction to make the tooltip appear.)

Be forewarned that right now (as noted by AnOminous several posts up), all of the ratings are showing up in the tooltip, even the ones that you won't be able to use. It happens every time Null updates the board and it's usually a while before it gets fixed. edit: seems to be fixed.

 

[Least Concern]

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Not sure if it’s already been posted but viewing on mobile Safari has been showing bullet points for a while now.

Please use the thumbnail feature when posting high-resolution or large images.

These dots came back a couple months ago. The solid dots correspond to threads which have unread posts, whereas the hollow ones denote threads with no unread posts. Graphical issues aside, these dots are the only way to tell which threads have unread posts on mobile, so it's better that they're there than they get hidden again. Jersh clearly doesn't mobilefriend so he didn't notice the initial issue and doesn't seem to mind the current graphical ones too much.

 

[phattie]

There is an issue I've noticed and I'm not exactly sure what causes it. Occasionally, when you use the mobile version and open a spoiler and/or zoom in, the page would scroll up or down on its own. It's not critical, but having to scroll back is a bit annoying.

THIS. And also the "scroll to top" icon went away and I miss that. It was on mobile but I am not sure about desktop.

 

[RollingRock]

Appeared in chat and then went away

 

[Bender]

If you leave the front page open for awhile the snow slowly accumulates until your computer is shitting itself with lag. Probably not an issue worth addressing since the answer is to just not do that, but telling ya anyway on the off chance that it matters for some reason.

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I love how every time @Null adds a new feature someone always casually comes by and fucks it up, lol.

 

[Kosher Salt]

There's not enough confetti.

window.requestAnimationFrame(() => {
  var colors = ['#26ccff', '#a25afd', '#ff5e7e', '#88ff5a', '#fcff42', '#ffa62d', '#ff36ff'];
  var confetti = () => {
    var origin = {x: Math.random() * .6 + .2, y: Math.random() * .6 + .2}, scalar = Math.random() * .4 + .8;
    window.confetti({
      angle: Math.atan2(origin.y - .5, origin.x - .5) * 180 / Math.PI, origin,
      spread: 70, particleCount: 1, startVelocity: Math.random() * 40 + 20,
      colors: [colors[Math.random() * colors.length >>> 0]],
      scalar, gravity: scalar
    });
  }, moreconfetti = () => {
    var i = setInterval(confetti, 5);
    setTimeout(() => clearInterval(i), 1000);
  };
  setInterval(confetti, 10);
  document.body.addEventListener('mousedown', moreconfetti);
  document.body.addEventListener('keydown', moreconfetti);
  document.body.addEventListener('mousemove', confetti);
  document.body.addEventListener('mousemove', e => {
    window.confetti({angle: 90, spread: 180, startVelocity: Math.random() * 5,
                     particleCount: 1, scalar: Math.random() * .4 + .8, gravity: .5,
                     origin: {x: e.clientX / window.innerWidth, y: e.clientY / window.innerHeight},
                     colors: [colors[Math.random() * colors.length >>> 0]]});
  });
});

There, now that's better.

 

[Least Concern]

The moai sticker seems to have disappeared… just when I was about to use it for the first time.

EDIT: Ah, actually I can still see it in some threads. I guess it's only available on some forums?

 

[Red Lobster]

Ah, actually I can still see it in some threads. I guess it's only available on some forums?

Yeah, it cannot be given out in Off-Topic, Autistic Thunderdome (since there only the chosen six reactions can be given), here in Interior nor on profile posts.