Just wondering if we can up the max image size from 4.9MB? (did you type in 5000000 bytes?) I haven't got a fancy phone (pixel 7a) but most images I take are ~6-7MB JPGs and so I can't upload anything without re-encoding/resizing
Sounds more and more likely that is is a Free Member issue. I will bring this up with the tech team.
Thanks. I'm also occasionally getting the whole forum jumping several inches to the right and losing the right hand part of the screen. It's about the same width as the right hand column so could again be ad related (although nothing displays on the left hand side).
And it's back working again. 😀
Given nothing changed here and unlikely Flickr changed anything, I wonder what the error could have been.
Monday am update:
Just Anthony and myself today.
I think the brief issue with free members screens freezing was ad related. It seem sto be the sticky ad at the bottom of the page that could be the issue. I've removed it for now until I can work out where the bad ad code was coming from.
Anthony is currently working adding more useful information to the forum index pages. So making sure you can see the number of posts, last post by and when rather than the default stuff about the OP and how old the post is.
Also looking at better menu and navigation links on the forum pages. Still alos looking for a solution to the sticky posts appearing on the latest posts index. That page is a tricky one that we didn't expect to be as awkward as it is. There's still a few million old forum database entries to get rid of. Andy is doing that overnight rather than during the day as it has a performance cost. That job is expected to be done by Wednesday.
I have a question about 'subscribed' threads.
Before someone (probably cougar) says "this was covered 15 pages ago"; I have searched to see if this has been covered already, but the search did not return anything. And there is no way I am searching back over 24 pages of posts.
I have a number of subscribed posts, from before the update. They disappeared for a while but are now back. Great - this is very helpful. Thanks.
Previously, I did not get e-mail updates every time someone responded to these 'subscribed' threads. Now I do.
I (perhaps incorrectly) used the subscribe button so I could create my own list of useful threads that I could refer to in the future. I don't need to receive an e-mail every time someone replies.
I have looked in various 'account' locations, but cannot see if it is possible to turn these e-mails off. I suspect the functionality of the 'subscribed' threads has now changed.
I notice there is a 'bookmark' button/symbol/tag, but these are against specific replies in a thread & I am not sure how you find these in the future. I can't find a 'bookmarked posts' section.
Basically, is it possible to keep my 'subscribed' list, but not receive e-mails?
If I have to unsubscribe to them & do something else to achieve that, that is perfectly fine. Thanks.
It's a good question and worthy of clarification.
For BBpress (Old forum) Subscribed meant it was logged in your account like a bookmark. You weren't emailed.
For WpForo (New forum) Subscribed means you get an email when there's an update.
Same term, different meaning and when you also throw in the fact you can subscribe to Singletrack and pay money, this perhaps explains why I'm keen to get the vocab right across the site. It's one of the reasons I made the move towards using the word 'Membership' a long time ago. But it can all be solved with time and thought and useful navigation and labels.
Words like 'Follow', 'Bookmark', 'Subscribe', 'Membership' etc. All have a useful part to play. Just need to get them in the right places 🙂
So making sure you can see the number of posts, last post by and when rather than the default stuff about the OP and how old the post is.
thatll be very well received, thanks.
Words like 'Follow', 'Bookmark', 'Subscribe', 'Membership' etc. All have a useful part to play. Just need to get them in the right places
yeah that used to confuse me too, the fact that i was subscribed to some threads, and also had others in my 'favourites'. what i really wanted was a list of useful threads that i could refer back to at any time, so 'favourites' i guess.
not sure why someone would 'subscribe' to a thread if there were 'favourites' as an option.
good work, getting better all the time. thanks
Tried twice to post on the
"LeJog, any advice?"
thread and despite the site giving a green banner saying the reply was succesful, nowt has appeared after the best part of an hour 🤷♂️
It does say I was the last poster but .. no post!
Wonder if this post will work 🤔
@nickingsley - 2 posts from you are showing now on that thread.
I think they currently can take a while to show up.
@mark - thanks for the reply. I appreciate it, given that you must have a lot on at the moment.
Does this mean then, at the moment the 'email replies' button to subscribe to a thread is the only way to 'favourite' it? And so currently e-mail notification of further posts are inevitable?
If so, I can perhaps just create a filter rule in my e-mail & have them all go into a folder where I can delete them easily.
Or have I missed how you would 'favourite' a thread without subscribing (and getting e-mail updates)?
I assumed that clicking the little "Tag" icon would add the thread to favourites but I can't see any way of retrieving those.
Just wondering if we can up the max image size from 4.9MB? (did you type in 5000000 bytes?) I haven't got a fancy phone (pixel 7a) but most images I take are ~6-7MB JPGs and so I can't upload anything without re-encoding/resizing
The solution there really is for the forum to resize oversized images at point of upload.
Or use an external host I suppose.
Oh, if we're on to wishlists, is there an option for an Ignore User button?
The solution there really is for the forum to resize oversized images at point of upload.
TBH I shoot 99.9% of my photos in 12MP mode on my Pixel 8 Pro. It's only certain landscape shots that benefit from 50MP. As a result, my photos are generally in the 2-3MB range so upload no problem.
Given nothing changed here and unlikely Flickr changed anything, I wonder what the error could have been
Yeah me too.
Pictures linked for me on Friday and Sunday morning.
Then the direct link pics disappeared to be replaced with the distorted/stretch images, then came back again today.
Just tried posting another four direct linked pics from Flickr.
Two of them showed up as direct link pics, the other two just as clicky text.
One other thing I have noticed relating to e-mail notifications.
In my Account Settings, I have de-selected:
Notifications>Select what email notifications you want to receive>when I get mentioned on a forum post
so when someone puts @myusername I shouldn't receive an e-mail, as this is not ticked.
But, earlier on when @mark referred to me in his reply, I got an e-mail notification so it seems this isn't quite working correctly.
Just wondering if we can up the max image size from 4.9MB? (did you type in 5000000 bytes?) I haven't got a fancy phone (pixel 7a) but most images I take are ~6-7MB JPGs and so I can't upload anything without re-encoding/resizing
I have the same phone. And an app called "resize me! Pro"
I assume it was free and looked reasonably unproblematic. I tend to be quite wary of apps that aren't from a known quantity and will check reviews and screenshots. I would rather pay than get some shitty ad strewn app. Anyway, I've had this a while, maybe even from previous phone. And my phone hasn't burned down, my bank account hasn't been drained and I haven't been extorted for some crypto to unlock my devices.
Unsubscribe (from thread) issue:
I'm getting a few emails about updates, so I thought I'd look into how to some unsubscribe from threads - I can see my 153 subscribed threads under my profile / forums / subscribed. Tons of them are no longer open to replies, so I guess that’s OK - but I just thought I'd mention a strange behaviour. .
I can unsubscribe within that "subscribed" list - great - but when I click 'unsubscribe' for a thread, I get a spinner for a few seconds then I am dumped back to the forum main page https://singletrackworld.com/forum/
Now I have to go thorough all the above 4 clicks, with an inevitable delay in loading, to get back to my subscribed list - to click to unsubscribe the next one.
So what would ideally be one click once in the subscribed list is five clicks with delays. Can it possibly be set to keep the list up after an unsubscribe click? Not a priority but it might smooth forum use a touch
As the option to subscribe is (was?) at the bottom, I was going to write: It would be a useful feature to see "you are subscribed the this thread" when reading with a checkbox to undo that. BLIMEY, there it is at the top left. I'll give it a shot - yep it works
No, it was a test to see if it took awhile to updated any change.
So what would ideally be one click once in the subscribed list is five clicks with delays.
Press "back" on your browser?
Aside,
There's a noticeable uptick in speed. Posting takes a beat but page load is a couple of seconds.
And direct linked Flickr pics are broken again.
So we've had .
They can't work because flickr, despite being on the table of sites that are supposed to work that Mark posted.
They worked .
They didn't work.
They worked.
They don't work.
Same here. Logged in on mobile (Chrome, Android), all the ads. Including one ironically asking if I was ready for a beautiful smile.
Just dropped into this thread to say the same. Adverts 🙁
Getting adverts too!!
Ads here too 🙁
yep, can we lose the ads please for subs?
Yes, came back on just now and annoying little pop ups at the bottom of my phone screen
Yep, ads...
Looks like ads now turned off for everyone... while they sort out the niggle. Fast work!
Pop-up ads for a sub here.
No ads, but do have invisible posts (and posting a link doesn’t always seem to work) eg Code Piston thread I can see the last 2 or 3 posts that I believe are there
Not refreshing again....
Why is it taking hours for me to see my post?
I'm surprised no-one's mentioned it, but the forum is considerably faster now (for me at least). Posting is still on the sluggish side at 10-15 seconds but thread refreshes are about 3.
Still not refreshing
There seems to be a difference between refreshing a page, and closing and reopening it. I may be imagining this.
Not refreshing here either, last post showing on Chat is from an hour ago...if I go to Latest I can see all the newer stuff........
