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Keep getting logged out, Android and Edge. Plus above, try to log in but everything covered in ads, plus so slow you tap twice which doesn't help.
How do you log off in Android?
Steps in screenshot below, note that the icon under Members Area doesn't show till you tap on the empty space (I assume it's a white icon on a white background). Once that menu opens, logout is shown at the bottom.
Thanks Verses
I also found that you can click on your user name in a post and logout via "settings"
Someone mentioned "Hotel California" ^^ I understand why now 🙂
@mark please can you improve on Android's life jacket logout... reach under your seat, pull the lifejacket out, put it over your head, tie the straps in front...
Post delay back for me on my Home office chair recommendations thread 🙁
This has probably been covered somewhere else but.....
....when you click on a thread it takes you to the last post you've read, which is amazing, unless the thread has multiple pages, then it just opens the thread at the OP. If you click on the arrows it takes you to the last post, which is bloody pointless if you finished reading the thread on page 2 and it now has 4 pages....
Is this something that is going to be looked at or am I doing it wrong??
....when you click on a thread it takes you to the last post you've read, which is amazing, unless the thread has multiple pages, then it just opens the thread at the OP. If you click on the arrows it takes you to the last post, which is bloody pointless if you finished reading the thread on page 2 and it now has 4 pages....
I might be wrong, but I don't think it's as simple as being multiple page threads, I think it's threads from before the upgrade that take you to page 1 post 1. Anything created after the upgrade seems to know which was the last post you read.
This has probably been covered somewhere else but.....
....when you click on a thread it takes you to the last post you've read, which is amazing, unless the thread has multiple pages, then it just opens the thread at the OP. If you click on the arrows it takes you to the last post, which is bloody pointless if you finished reading the thread on page 2 and it now has 4 pages....
Is this something that is going to be looked at or am I doing it wrong??
...just click on the two arrows at the end of the thread title.
This takes you to the last post.
...just click on the two arrows at the end of the thread title.
This takes you to the last post.
As I said that takes me to the last post created, rather than the last post I read.
I might be wrong, but I don't think it's as simple as being multiple page threads, I think it's threads from before the upgrade that take you to page 1 post 1. Anything created after the upgrade seems to know which was the last post you read.
Yeah, not for me any way. If it has multiple pages I just get the OP regardless of when it was created. Only one page and it takes me to the last post I've read.
How do you log off in Android?
Out of interest, why would you want to? About the only thing I ever manually log out of is my bank account on a PC (and mostly then only because it whines when I return if I haven't). Everything is protected by OS-level security such as a PIN or hardware keys.
We've had some very dodgy characters on STW over the years but I can't imagine anyone taking me round the back of the skull with two pool balls in a sock and then going "quick, get onto his bicycle forum account!"
Login/logout options now moved to the top of the menu for mobile use.
I haven't moaned before, because I basically love you guys.
Is the font colour (in dark mode) on a to-do list to fix?
If so, that's fine, but if not then please consider changing. At the moment, whenever I open a forum page, I almost rub my eyes because it looks a bit like the page is behind a bathroom window. The contrast is terrible even in quite good light.
I think that all of the colours used could do with revision - at the moment it's a bit like "different shades of grubby that aren't very different from each other", and far from being stylish, just looks rubbish.
There's also way too much wasted space (I'm using Chrome on iOS, maybe it's different on desktop or on a huge phone screen?). For each post there are four or five lines of stuff that's almost irrelevant before getting to any content - the poster's name is one line, then some icons that are no use to me, then a line containing how many posts they've made (I don't see any value in that), then a line saying 'full member', then one with a report button plus some other bits, then finally we get to what they wanted to say.
If the answer is "just give us a few days" then that's fine, obviously, just wanted to check that this isn't how it's intended to look (and if it is then please be aware that it's really not good).
Font colour (light beige) looks perfect on an iPad/safari running dark mode btw,
Not a huge priority maybe, but as a logged in subscriber I'm still getting a pop-up advertising box. Only on the newsletter page though for some reason?
OOh - New skin! When did that arrive!
I Like:
- New thread layout, with better differentiation between posts, but consistent look/colours to each post
- "Hovering" menu bar across the top as you scroll up an down. Non-intrusive, doesnt take up a lot of screen size, moves right to the top once the Singletrack header goes off teh top of the screen. Nice.
- Return to Top of page hover buttin in teh bottom right hand corner of the screen! Yay! Almost superfluous with the hovering menu above, but woudl ratehr have it than not.
- Quoting a bit of ta post/reply works really well now. Brilliant!
- Would only take a minor tweak to alter to a "coffee and cream" colour-scheme, as a mordern interpretation of the pre-2008 hack version.... Go on, you know you want to! Special anniversary edition maybe?
All on Chrome on W11.
Really good work all. I know I've genreally been a critic of change around here, but this is looking great!
THanks,
Keith
Actually, the only thing that doesnt "work" is when I've viewing the screen at 100% (default) zoom level, the hoveing meny bar goes across 2 lines, with "members area" on the second row. At 90% it resizes to all being on one row. Could be my screen size (standard 14/15inch laptop), resolution or font setting at my end I guess. Not sure is you can/awnt to force that setting at your end, especially as I hate how Windos 11 doesnt let you double-height the task-bar, I can see that being a setting of user preference!
Oh and the notification hover button in the bottom right! Shows when yu have unread messages, and clear them when you have seen them! Awesome! Really excellent work on the User Interface guys.
Not a huge priority maybe, but as a logged in subscriber I'm still getting a pop-up advertising box. Only on the newsletter page though for some reason?
I'll investigate that before I crack open a friday night beer.
Thanks @keithb for the thumbs up. Glad you like it so far.
Should be fixed now @blokeuptheroad
It can definitely wait Mark. Enjoy your beer and step away from the keyboard!
Font colour (light beige) looks perfect on an iPad/safari running dark mode btw,
I struggle to read it, on mobile device its worse
Is the font colour (in dark mode) on a to-do list to fix?
If so, that's fine, but if not then please consider changing. At the moment, whenever I open a forum page, I almost rub my eyes because it looks a bit like the page is behind a bathroom window. The contrast is terrible even in quite good light.
What gray says ^
I can't find an obvious "Contact Us" link on the new site, nor an "About" type page or similar. It seems like an odd oversight.
Just to say - I did a well deserved swear on the Tftuned Robbed thread, knowing it would be asterisked out.. in my post history I can see the rude word in all it's glory
It seems like an odd oversight.
Running in dark mode I now see pages initially loading in normal mode with the white background then flicking back to dark mode. I'm pretty sure that they used to open straight into dark mode.
That was me. I was tweaking some javascript optimisation. I've switched it back now
Every time I change device (android, chromebook, chrome of windows laptop, edge of work laptop) I get logged out.
Don't think anything has changed my end and only started after recent STW changes. It would less frustrating if this site was not so slow and logging in leaves you on a different page and you have to navigate back to where you were.
yep,same here, wouldn’t be so bad, but for the ads, full screen, so you have to dismiss them to get to the login, or over the top of the keep me logged in box. It’s quite irritating.
The logging out is not great and having to play whack an advert to try to login is a bit shit.
Timescale for a fix?
Yeah, also having to log in every time I come on the site for the last couple of days. On phone and Chromebook. The adverts blocking the log in screen are a little tiresome after the 3rd or 4th log in!
It was asked above - why are folk intentionally logging out?
It was asked above - why are folk intentionally logging out?
I don't know if that was addressed to me, but in my case I'm not. It's the forum doing the logging out not me. Every time I close the browser and come back here. It started doing that yesterday. I've tried clearing cookies, got "remember me" ticked etc.
It was asked above - why are folk intentionally logging out?
I'm not its the forum/site logging me out. Only happens on mobile (Android) doesn't happen on Laptop (chrome)
I'm not its the forum/site logging me out. Only happens on mobile (Android) doesn't happen on Laptop (chrome)
Same for me - very annoying.
It was asked above - why are folk intentionally logging out?
I'm not its the forum/site logging me out. Only happens on mobile (Android) doesn't happen on Laptop (chrome)
It was happening on my Win10 work pc using Edge on Thursday as well, which was a little irritating when looking for a quick moment of slacking.
What is this "close the browser"? On PC or Android mine just sits there with 15-odd tabs open for weeks. Mind you, when I do reboot the machine, I am still logged in to STW when I restart everything.
Had a new weird thing today
Try and get in to the forum and you just can’t scroll down on to any thread. After what feels like an age it might start working, or I get bored and go do something else
It’s done it every single time I’ve come here today bar once
I thought closing chrome on my phone was prompting the forum to log me out. It's not, even if I leave the browser tab with STW open, just leaving it for 10 minutes or so and I find I've been logged out when I come back to it. Umpteen times already today. It is properly annoying.
Out of interest, why would you want to?
Two reasons: Habit from work and my Android browser tends to log me out anyway
When you use the quote feature, sometimes it says "posted by username" and sometimes it says "posted by real name". Why is that?
Long delay in posts appearing on the
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/bike-forum/ortlieb-quick-rack-curious/#post-13595897
thread when using the link in the subscribed to thread email. If use the latest forum button and then access the thread there, the new posts appear.
Not a big thing but caught me out at first.
Edit: Link corrected
When you use the quote feature, sometimes it says "posted by username" and sometimes it says "posted by real name". Why is that?
Every account has two names (and has had for as long as I've been here at least). There's probably official terms but let's call them account name and display name. The account name is fixed, it's what you use when you log in. The display name is changeable on your profile but no-one really noticed because a) few people actually changed it and b) it was (almost?) never used anyway.
On this incarnation of the forum software it is - presumably incorrectly - showing the display name instead of the account name in quotes.
The display name is changeable on your profile but no-one really noticed because a) few people actually changed it and b) it was (almost?) never used anyway.
So if I change my display name to something such as “insert novel name here” it will be displayed whenever I am quoted?, cool 😎
I know it's a bit sad and I should have been out riding a bike today, but for "reasons" I've spent a lot of time on the forum. I now get logged out if I leave my phone for more than 2 or 3 minutes. Every time. I must have logged back in again about 15 or 20 times today, it's driving me batty!
Not on a Sunday evening obvs, but I wonder if this could get moved up the "things to fix" list next week? It only seemed to start doing this on Friday. Initially it was on phone and laptop, but now it's only on my android phone using the Chrome browser. Thanks in anticipation! 🙏
Weirdly I was just coming on here to comment that it looked like the regular logouts had been fixed as every time I've come on here today I've not had to log in again once.
Very strange that 2 users can have exactly opposite experiences on the same forum at the same time.
If it helps, I've been using a Moto g82 with Android 13 and whatever the latest chrome version is for it.
I realise this is no help or comfort to those who are affected by the logging out, but I can hardly remember the last time I had to log in. (My memory isn't great but it's not *that* bad.)
So it's not a problem that's common to all, and might be tricky to track down. I'm using Chrome on an iPhone, in case relevant. I almost never come here on any other device.
I realise this is no help or comfort to those who are affected by the logging out, but I can hardly remember the last time I had to log in. (My memory isn't great but it's not *that* bad.)
So it's not a problem that's common to all, and might be tricky to track down.
My experience is the same. I really do sympathise with anyone on the tech side trying to diagnose and fix these problems.
I use Android/Chrome and Windows/Chrome and basically can't recall the last time I had to login, though IIRC it was immediately after a forum update.
I stay logged in on a Samsung A54 and an ancient iPad
Ive been logged out a couple of times with no apparent reason but not regularly
For me it's at least once a day on Edge/Android. Edge in Windows seems fine.
It's been with us a while now, and having got used to it, I feel I can comment. Well I don't come here nearly as often now. Navigating a thread is a headache - sometimes you jump in at the top of a page, others at the last post. And my fan still gets the usual workout that you never get elsewhere.
Not got any particular woe with being logged out - that used to happen and happens elsewhere too.
When you use the quote feature, sometimes it says "posted by username" and sometimes it says "posted by real name". Why is that?
hmm. changed my "nickname" but it still says posted by username. curiouser and curiouser.
......
The display name is changeable on your profile but no-one really noticed because a) few people actually changed it and b) it was (almost?) never used anyway.
So if I change my display name to something such as “insert novel name here” it will be displayed whenever I am quoted?, cool 😎
I'll try it...
EDIT : nope, I changed my display name on Saturday yet it still shows my user name when quoted.....
The display name is changeable on your profile but no-one really noticed because a) few people actually changed it and b) it was (almost?) never used anyway.
So if I change my display name to something such as “insert novel name here” it will be displayed whenever I am quoted?, cool 😎
I'll try it...
EDIT : nope, I changed my display name on Saturday yet it still shows my user name when quoted.....
test ??????
Just updated my account/profile as I may have forgotten to input my password to save updates so we'll see if my new display name appears......
Just updated my account/profile as I may have forgotten to input my password to save updates so we'll see if my new display name appears......
has it?....
edit....nope.......oh well.......I changed it to “just-another-nobody-posting-unintelligible-bollox”….thought it rather appropriate
As far as I'm aware you've never been able to change your display/username* without a request to STW tech directly - and even then you need a very good reason.
(*you could in the early days of STW and much hilarity ensued when you pretended to be another forum member and posted a load of crap under their name - hence why changing user name is now locked! 🤣).
Just a point of note:
www.singletracworld.com/forum now takes you to the list of forums, rather than teh "latests posts" view. Not sure if thats deliberate or not but for 20+ years that link ha taken you to a list of threads, most recently uset at the top. Now it doesnt so i have to figure out (drop down of forum>latest) how to get to the "traditional" allin one view, and figure out how to get there straight away.
I'd think that alively page with loads of threads/activity would be a more atractive landing page that a dull-lookgin list of sub-forums?
As far as I'm aware you've never been able to change your display/username* without a request to STW tech directly - and even then you need a very good reason.
You've never been able to change your account name, as you say. But (as I understand it) there is a second cosmetic name which is usually but not always the same. Perhaps as part of the migration it's copied existing 'soft' names but is no longer honouring subsequent changes? IDK, that's probably a question for Mark / Tech.
there is a second cosmetic name
Just to be sure we're talking about the same thing, the only name-like field I see when I edit my profile is "Nickname". I can change it, but it doesn't show up anywhere and isn't quoted in posts. Amusingly, the only compulsory field in the profile is "pronouns".
Has this been covered? Every time I come to the forum, I now have to log in (I always tick the 'stay logged in box' - does nowt) and then click forum/latest to see the posts since my last visit. Before, I used tge same link and was taken straight to latest posts and log in was persistent.
Why?
Has this been covered? Every time I come to the forum, I now have to log in
Some folk are experiencing this. Others (like me) are persistently logged in. It could be a factor of browser settings, security, plug-ins etc.
Understood. But it's typical IT witchcraft; nothing changed my end (afaik), but it suddenly starts misbehaving... It started a few days after tge new theme was applied - within the past week.
I used to get logged out a lot but it has been fine recently. Plenty of other glitches, but not that one 🙂
It does seem to forget which threads I have read so sometimes jumps to the last page, sometimes just opens the first. No real pattern, but I am logged in.
Understood. But it's typical IT witchcraft; nothing changed my end (afaik), but it suddenly starts misbehaving... It started a few days after tge new theme was applied - within the past week.
Still happening to me I've changed nothing. Very annoying to say the least.
Still happening to me I've changed nothing. Very annoying to say the least.
Yep. Every single visit to the site on my phone for the last 4 days or so. It's fine on PC and Chromebook. I've changed nothing and tried clearing cookies, cache etc. I use my phone to browse a lot. I understand it's a hard one to nail down, but it's frustrating enough to curtail my time on here significantly if there isn't a fix. On a train now and glad I brought a book! A book! With paper and ink and everything - who'd have thought! 😊
Woo, the dark theme modal boxes have been fixed!
... shame the embed plugin still thinks every Amazon link is a broken Kindle title though. It's just taken me four attempts to post an actual link (I embedded it in CODE tags in the end)
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He, something ironic about images not displaying properly when trying to show that adverts and other menus are overlapping all the links you need to access the forum.
(Win10, Chrome btw)
That ^^ is what I see if I open the Overview page . https://singletrackworld.com/forum/overview/.
I’m new here, well I say new but I was on here years ago when new forum and hats being eaten was the order of the day.
From my limited time on here the forum is dreadful, looks awful on an iPad and typing is very laggy, on my work laptop it’s pretty much unusable, usually doesn’t load properly and is very slow. I’m on a 900mb full fibre connection at home so it’s not my Wi-Fi.
I can’t complain about the ads as I’m not paying but there are some ladies in dresses that are not appropriate for work
in all honesty it’s just too much effort to use and it’s not a pleasant user experience
I’m on a 900mb full fibre connection at home so it’s not my Wi-Fi.
You're on a 900mb full fibre connection at home so it’s not your Internet connection but could very easily be your Wi-Fi.
@Mark - would it be possible (technically and financially) to have a "no Ads" day?
I'm thinking that it might show some of the Free Members what the forum actually looks like and might also give some folks an opportunity to see if their response time/lagging/display issues are solely related to Ads being shown.
Many other subscription systems offer a free trial period. I can see how that might be a bit more difficult though, not least in checking that some folk don't abuse it through the use of multiple "new" accounts.
Its not my wi-fi, I test it regularly, and every other website works fine, including other forums, or is it fori
@Mark - would it be possible (technically and financially) to have a "no Ads" day?
I'm thinking that it might show some of the Free Members what the forum actually looks like and might also give some folks an opportunity to see if their response time/lagging/display issues are solely related to Ads being shown.
Many other subscription systems offer a free trial period. I can see how that might be a bit more difficult though, not least in checking that some folk don't abuse it through the use of multiple "new" accounts.
TBH i'm not sure that would help 😀
PErformance is still as bad as anything i've seen in the last few years. refreshing/moving topics/threads is absolutely dire at the moment.... Like 10s + ... Posting is 25-30s.... It's really really slow.
I would just like to add to the list of people suffering from very very long loading times. Between pages / threads is better (like 10s) but to open the forum from switching on my browser its a good 30s which is quite a long time.