Ye Bug List
This topic was created by Andrew Orlowski .
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Thursday 19th January 2012 12:49 GMT TeeCee
That post has just triggered a gripe. Not a bug per se, more a "wouldn't it be better this way?".
Any chance we could make inline URL references like that lot open in new tab by default[1] with some jiggery pokery[2] behind the scenes?
I doubt it'll do El Reg's page view counts (as crowed about elsewhere) any good if you keep shoving your readers off permanently to A.N.Other site whenever some commentard's reference piques their interest. Already here you can see that the locals are like a fat kid given 50 quid and let loose in a sweetshop when it comes to the use of URL references and when this hits the main site......
[1] Yes, there almost certainly is a config option squirreled away in here somewhere to make clicked URLs open in a new tab, but most of the time I don't want to do this. However, I would like El Reg to stay around while I look at things referenced.
[2] No I don't do this web stuff. Why do you ask?
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Friday 20th January 2012 14:38 GMT Sir Runcible Spoon
Sir
Hmm, it worked this time.
The source for the previous post where the link didn't activate was
< p > < a >Dangers of Cake < / a >< / p > (without spaces obviously).
I definitely pasted the link into the original posting. I'm wondering if I misplaced a chevron somewhere and it got thrown out by the parser - but I would have thought it would just have pasted the text in, rather than an empty link.
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Thursday 19th January 2012 19:50 GMT BristolBachelor
I hadn't really thought about this, but what is the chance that the Reg's page impressions are from all the page loads/reloads when people vote? Please, pretty please can the voting be done on the same page? (At work only about 50% page requests get through the firewall sometimes, and even then may take a minute to load, so voting is really expensive for me. Bloomin VPNs and firewalls and low-capacity links :(
Oh, I don't mind a link opening in the same tab; I normally middle click links anyway to open in a new tab.
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Monday 26th March 2012 08:16 GMT Reginald Gerard
Re: page load upvote | downvote - Ergonomic tip/request
Hello Drewc, first off, I agree, let the voting work from the comments page, why load a new one? It works well in the New York Times comments. Another thing that has annoyed me with the voting, has been the fact that the "Return to Forum" link is at the bottom of the page. I have the mouse in my hand to locate and click 'Up Vote' / 'Down Vote' so letting go to click on backspace is one action too much. Scrolling down the page to get to the "Return to Forum" is also a pain in the butt, I've already read the entry, that is why I am voting, and I shouldn't have to go to the bottom of the page to return. Please move the RtF to the top of the page.
Thanks and regards,
Reg
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Monday 26th March 2012 11:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: page load upvote | downvote - Ergonomic tip/request
I have upvoted your comment to remind my self of positioning... Yep, makes sense, but only if we are retaining new-page load for voting - which we are not. See our Forum Wishlist - complete with roadmap.
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Monday 26th March 2012 14:08 GMT jake
Re: page load upvote | downvote - Ergonomic tip/request
I have downvoted your comment to remind yourself of my position ... Nope, makes no sense, because y'all are retaining new-page load for voting - which is senseless. I've reviewed the Forum Wishlist - complete with roadmap - but I still disagree.
Hint: People likely to vote aren't seeing advertising. Save yourself some bandwidth.
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Monday 23rd January 2012 11:41 GMT BristolBachelor
CR / LF
Someone else posted something about this somewhere else, but I can't find it right now. Anyway it seems to be a bug, so lives here.
Typing in a new post (no cut/paste) and pressing Preview leaves a blank line between all lines in the preview, and also changes the text in the edit box the same. (IE8 on XP) I don't know what is does when the text is then Submitted; let's find out without a preview.
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Tuesday 31st January 2012 14:34 GMT Vic
> a blank line between all lines
I believe this is down to the way the text is parsed (and possibly even stored).
Each line of text you write becomes surrounded with <p> and </p> tags. This creates the blank line.
For a little while after the code was changed, these tags were missing from posts (so it all ended up in one big jumble). Once that bug had been fixed, the jumbled posts were not sorted out. This leads me to suspect that the line-breaks are inserted during initial parsing, and stored like that too.
But I could be wrong on that :-)
Vic.
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Friday 3rd February 2012 08:35 GMT Ben Tasker
Thread, Newest, Oldest
Might just be me, but if I visit a thread that I previously sorted in "Newest" order when it loads the 'Newest' button will be grayed as though it has remembered my preference but the page is still in thread order.
Means I have to click 'thread', wait for that to load and then whack 'Newest' again. Yeah I know, two extra clicks *grumble grumble*
I await suggestion that I auto-fornicate and just put up with it :D
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Friday 3rd February 2012 15:56 GMT Sir Runcible Spoon
Sir
Just found a doozer :)
I looked through the features forum, sorted on new posts.
Chose a post I wanted to view the previous comments on, so clicked on the # (which took me to the post on it's own).
I then clicked on the little doohicky dash thing that usually takes me to the very same post but in the main flow of comments and got a loop going..
this is the url it gave me:
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/2/2012/01/23/BristolBachelor_New_forum_Wishlist/#c_1305135
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Thursday 16th February 2012 09:17 GMT jake
I'm probably missing something ...
In "http://forums.theregister.co.uk/my/forums/" I have two lists.
One is the forums I've created. The other is the forums I've commented in or stared.
Surely the forums I've created should be included in the Venn diagram of the forums I've commented in?
There is a reason that decent Usenet News software chose a tree format ...
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Friday 17th February 2012 12:54 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Re: I'm probably missing something ...
I noticed that as well. It seemed like an odd design decision.
The topics you've started are also listed under the topics you've posted in, so you also get the link underneath telling you how many posts have been made since your last one.
I guess it does make sense though. If you've started a topic, you're more likely to care about it, so you might want to see it at the top.
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Tuesday 21st February 2012 15:17 GMT I ain't Spartacus
New bug discovered in Topic Titles
I've found a bug with your new Topic titles. Whereas comment titles don't seem to accept html (I've tried), Thread titles don't strip it out the same way.
So if you go to the Reg Matters forum, you'll see this topic I created. From the forum the title looks like a clickable link, but you can't click on it, and don't get the 'hand' pointer when you hover over it.
So I appear to have broken it.
The url is: http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2012/02/21/I_aint_Spartacus_a_hrefhttpwwwbbccoukBBCa/
So it's taken the link tag I put into the title and stripped out the '<'s and '/'s, but still seems to be operating as some kind of botched link.
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Tuesday 21st February 2012 15:25 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Just to add
In my 'My Forums' page, the new topic title turns up as a black semi-link. It's no blue/red like all the other hyperlinks, and you don't get the pointer turning into a cursor, when you hover over it. Nor does the url appear at the bottom of the screen.
However when you mouse over it, the colour changes to grey and the underline appears, like a link.
Clicking on it doesn't work either.
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Tuesday 21st February 2012 15:32 GMT I ain't Spartacus
More to add
You can also use tags in the Topic titles, but not in the post titles, which I suspect is an error. See my topic here.
Note that I used: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ without the < a > href tags this time, and they don't seem to have had the same effect. The title is a working hyperlink in the forums, and shows up properly on the 'My Forums' page as well.
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Tuesday 21st February 2012 15:41 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Re: More to add
Created a new topic with just the title: www.bbc.co.uk
No problems. It displays as a proper link.
Also the title of the first post, which should be the same as the topic title in all 3 cases seems to be showing what I typed. It's just that post titles seem to ignore html, whereas topic titles don't.
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Wednesday 22nd February 2012 10:52 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Re: Re: More to add
Just created another test topic. I suspect it's irrelevant, if you're just going to disable html in topic titles, as you do in post titles.
The topic is here.
This one has no title at all on the forum front page. All it is was a link to the El Reg front page, where I hadn't filled in the link text element. You get this url for the page:
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2012/02/22/I_aint_Spartacus_a_hrefhttpwwwtheregistercouka/
The other interesting behaviour is that it doesn't show up at all on my list of topics started in the 'my forums' page. There's not even a blank line where it could go.
Also, when TeeCee posted in there, I got a message in the section underneath the topics I've started - in a line, on its own, that said: "1 post since you last posted". There was no link to click on with this, or even space at the start of the line for an invisible one.
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Tuesday 28th February 2012 10:25 GMT TeeCee
Consistancy, we've heard of it.....
I see that Bristol Bachelor has just created a topic in "Science" called "SPACE the final frontier."
In the User Sections page, it shows as "Latest Topic" with it's markup exposed in the title. Going into "Science" it shows as a topic with "SPACE" in bold. Going into the topic itself, the FP has the same title (of course) with its markup exposed as seen in the User Sections page.
Whichever route is eventually taken on the whole "markup in titles" thing, the presentation should at least be consistant......
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Tuesday 28th February 2012 10:29 GMT TeeCee
Here's another one.
Just found a nasty "feature" while composing that last reply.
My login just did the timeout thang without my noticing and the post preview stopped doing markup. I reckon that either interpretation of markup in preview should be governed purely by the user email, regardless of login state, or the password prompt needs to move to be required for preview if markup is detected.
I only figured out what was going on when I hit "Submit" and got the prompt. 'Til then it just seemed broken.
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Tuesday 28th February 2012 11:09 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Re: Here's another one.
You also can't sort topics by newest/thread, if you're not logged in, as the drop-down box at the top disappears. This is particularly odd when you go from your 'my forums' list to a comments thread from Reg Hardware, and you aren't logged in on that domain, so can't check out the latest post.
I vaguely recall that someone may have raised that bug already, but can't find it. So sorry if I'm repeating.
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