Site Issues, Updates, Changes, and Feedback Thread

[Taz777]

The site appears to load faster on my iPad and desktop.

[zackthedog]

On 1/1/2019 at 10:26 PM, zackthedog said:

 

I switched to Firefox and the annoying message doesn't appear.  But it freezes Chrome.  I'm on a Galaxy Tab E with 7.1.1.

 

I was finally able to resolve this by setting Chrome to block all notifications.

[The Computer Audiophile]

Hi Guys - I just added post numbers to every comment to make it easier to specify a certain post when needed.

 

I believe @PeterSt has requested this feature a few times. 

[PeterSt]

44 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

I believe @PeterSt has requested this feature a few times. 

 

I am not aware of that, but it seems a good idea anyway. Previously it was a bit searching for where a link to a post could reside, although it was there all right. Now it's more "conform".

Thanks.

[The Computer Audiophile]

On 9/16/2018 at 11:59 AM, gmgraves said:

I believe that I have mentioned this before, but is there any way to re-instate numbering each post in a topic like there used to be?

Done and done.

[gmgraves]

3 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Done and done.

Thanks Chris. This makes it much easier to find a post that you are quoting in "chunks" as opposed to the entire  thing at once. With so much activity, it's easy to get lost. The numbers make it less likely.

[PeterSt]

I know the "share this" icon is hip, but now it is redundant. Chris, maybe if you can give the number the same tooltip "Share this post" it is extra OK (and maybe stick both the icon and the number right next to each other).

No big deal of course, but if you're working in that area anyway ...

[rando]

At least on my W10 x86 machine the ability to paste an image link is no longer working.  Nor is the option to load from a url functional with a large majority outside the AWS loop.  Direct links to album art from eclassical.com and 2L among them.

[The Computer Audiophile]

5 minutes ago, rando said:

At least on my W10 x86 machine the ability to paste an image link is no longer working.  Nor is the option to load from a url functional with a large majority outside the AWS loop.  Direct links to album art from eclassical.com and 2L among them.

 

http://ecstatic.textalk.se/shop/thumbnails/shop/17115/art15/h2922/5032922-origpic-5c2b46.png_0_0_100_100_1600_1600_0.png

 

 

Is this what you see when you try?

 

 

[mansr]

1 minute ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

http://ecstatic.textalk.se/shop/thumbnails/shop/17115/art15/h2922/5032922-origpic-5c2b46.png_0_0_100_100_1600_1600_0.png

 

Is this what you see when you try?

 

That red background was what I got when I tried to link to an image earlier today.

[rando]

Bingo.  Here is a link I tried dropping into a post by pasting and drag > drop that also failed to work. (which appears to be doing so now  😂)

 

[mansr]

Apparently plain http URLs are rejected. Sadly, there are still a few sites out there stupid enough to not support https, 2l.no being one of them.

[mansr]

There's a bit of a mobile formatting issue here:

[rickca]

I'm having performance problems on AS.  If I look at an item on the Activity Stream it takes way too long with a spinning circle in the Chrome tab.  Same thing returning to the Activity Stream using the browser back button.  Anyone else experiencing this?

 

Update ... looks like it may be my ad blocker uBlock Origin.  I disabled it for AS and performance seems better.

[PeterSt]

I can't say that I like the "huge" thumbnails that now come from injecting images in a post. Hence there are no thumbnails, only the normal pictures. Now its harder to construct a post in a more compact fashion.

 

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

6 minutes ago, PeterSt said:

I can't say that I like the "huge" thumbnails that now come from injecting images in a post. Hence there are no thumbnails, only the normal pictures. Now its harder to construct a post in a more compact fashion.

 

 

I forgot to change this setting back to 300px. Thanks for the reminder. 

[PeterSt]

1 minute ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

I forgot to change this setting back to 300px. Thanks for the reminder. 

 

Ah, OK. Maybe I can still edit my post (not that it is of huge importance).

Thank you, Chris.

[PeterSt]

20 minutes ago, PeterSt said:

Ah, OK. Maybe I can still edit my post

 

Hey, I just found out about the double clicking on the image and change its thumbnail size (there it defaults to 300px). OK, that works too. Better even. 

I suppose this has been in there forever ? if so, it's only a matter of making that feature more visible ?

I am not even sure how I found out, but at editing the post I saw some popup telling me that double click would bring me options (I don't talk about the tooltip which more vaguely tells the same (saw that long ago) and which does not tempt to go in there (if I now try it's not even about the same).

 

Maybe the double-click option isn't even known ? I really can't find any more where and how the edit-post told me ... but here:

 

 

 

haha

[PeterSt]

OK, sorry for stalking and probably known. But here I saw it:

 

 

That text appears for one second above the image, right after it has been inserted in the text. I probably always missed it.

[The Computer Audiophile]

Yes Peter, double clicking the image brings up resizing options. Very unknown feature here.

 

 

[mansr]

9 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

I forgot to change this setting back to 300px. Thanks for the reminder. 

Would it be possible to allow manually increasing the size a bit? It's not 1993 any more. Even phones have full HD displays.

[The Computer Audiophile]

36 minutes ago, mansr said:

Would it be possible to allow manually increasing the size a bit? It's not 1993 any more. Even phones have full HD displays.

I’d prefer to have them larger but people actually complained!

 

let’s try it again 🙂

[STC]

@The Computer Audiophile Is it possible to lock the post from further amendments or editing once a has been reply posted?  This is causing some replies to be out of context. 

 

And, could you also lock the reaction button once a reaction has been recorded?  

 

Thank you. 

 

@phosphorein I saw your disagreement to one of my post and I agree it appears to be out of context. However, it was a response to another post’s reaction which has seen been retracted by the member. My response was overtaken by another response which now rendered my post seemed to be addressing the preceeding one.  

[rando]

Per photo size. Smart forum software, such as that present on the site formerly known as CA, is a godsend.  By my approximation 300 pixels preserves page flow in a manner consistent with the rest of the site.  Separate tab, full sized photos are a great solution to the old problems. 

 

600 pixels is still reasonable, but disproportionate. Nowhere near the annoyance level of thumbnail sized embedded YouTube videos that require playing to determine what they even are. Just more scrolling and messier quotes. 

 

AOTE is the only place with multiple users changes like this have a quickly compounding effect. People put effort into creating a personal formatting template which is clear and informative. Yet compact enough those who don't share their interests can easily move past.

[The Computer Audiophile]

Hi Guys - I did some performance tuning this evening and I believe the site is a bit faster now. Let me know if you run into any issues.