The ads are gett...
Sorry, I had to break off to close one that appeared over the text I was typing.
As I was saying, the ads are getting to the point where the forum is very difficult to use.
And the 'Add Reply' button seems to only come to life at random moments, so I'm left hitting it and hoping it changes colour and starts with the whirring working thing in the top right.
It is no wonder there are so many double posts on here(!)
I don't want to alarm anyone but the sudocreme cat thread is missing all its replies!!! 😮😮😮😮
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/off-topic/my-daughter-has-coated-cat-with-sudocrem-what-to-do/
I don't want to alarm anyone but the sudocreme cat thread is missing all its replies!!!
NOOOOOO!!!!!!! 😱😱😱
I don't want to alarm anyone but the sudocreme cat thread is missing all its replies!!! 😮😮😮😮
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/off-topic/my-daughter-has-coated-cat-with-sudocrem-what-to-do/
Lots of older threads are like that & some have gone totally including the very personal one about my wife's funeral 5 1/2 years ago 😪
I've been having the ads/member issue on Chrome on my PC. Clearing the cache seems to have improved it. However, I still have a massive blank space where the ad used to be. Is that what other full members are experiencing as well? I want to know if the issue is with my browser settings or the forum. I'd post a picture, but it's just a big space with "Remove ads" in it.
Edit, maybe I'm not a full member anymore? Have STW towers stopped taking autorenewals?
Edit again. I had to reactivate my membership. The big blank spaces have gone. Yay.
I'm getting these massive Icons on the bottom of the Donald Trump thread, that completely fill the screen
I'm still getting the weird formatting where the text is too wide for the screen. happens on the not a normal flight thread now.
is it connected to the sponsors banner at the top? that's also far too wide for the screen.
Random wide screen is back again here as well.
Having trouble uploading photos direct from my phone now.
Had been working fine up until now.
Just randomly won't upload some photos but will others.
All attempts to post in the same way, all well under the limit size wise.
Any idea why?
Only way I can get the rejected pics to post is to send them to myself on WhatsApp, save them, then up load them instead of the original.
Have we had a response as to why the new forum loads pages as slow as the old forum?
Only way I can get the rejected pics to post is to send them to myself on WhatsApp, save them, then up load them instead of the original.
That'll reduce the file size which suggests the problem with your originals is that the files are to big to upload.
I seem to be getting the problem with forum pages resizing on my Chrome/Android phone at the moment, but not on every page.
It appears to be related to the formatting of the Saracen banner - on the pages that fit the phone correctly the banner fits perfectly but on the pages that overflow the banner is too wide.
This is a bit weird as I'd expect the CSS to keep the banner at the same size for all forum pages.
Have we had a response as to why the new forum loads pages as slow as the old forum?
It's rapid for me, like 2 seconds for a page load. Posting takes a little longer. What are you doing differently?
[EDIT] posting this reply took 9 seconds.
suggests the problem with your originals is that the files are to big to upload.
That's the thing though they're not.
A couple that wouldn't post were actually smaller than the pics that posted but they were all around 7mb.
And now the same picture that wouldn't post does.
Have we mentioned "Your subscription to this topic cold not be confirmed"?
Also, why do we need to have a subscription confirmation email?
It's rapid for me, like 2 seconds for a page load. Posting takes a little longer. What are you doing differently?
I tried loading a few pages with firefox's network analyzer tab open. I get quite a bit more than 2s.
- "Latest": 4.8s for the initial GET mostly loaded by ~5.5s.
- "Skills area local to Shropshire" - 3 posts, takes 1.5s for the initial GET, then mostly finished, but there's a /admin-ajax.php that takes a second to complete.
- Sudocream: 2s for the initial GET and then quite a few quite long fetches around 0.5s each, some in parallel, some not.
- The Pope thread - around 2.81s for the initial GET and then various other requests.
Seems odd that it's always about 2s (or more) regardless of how many posts there are.
I happened to notice something funny with the links in the dropdown menu on the profile button (when logged in), specifically the "profile" and "messages" links.
Usually these point to the correct url, eg:
https://singletrackworld.com/user/ossify/
However, if I'm viewing another profile (to pick a completely random example, this one) then the url will point to that user's profile instead of my own.
This morning a thread I was viewing went very wide with minuscule type.
hmm. Maybe someone posted a very wide image.
I had to zoom in and scroll across every line. Even turning the phone left the font illegible.
iPhone 14 Plus.
I’ll try post pics. I don’t expect to succeed - but I have seen a successful banner so, fingers crossed
Ok pics failing. Hmpf
heres a link, have a look
The top ad banner is massive too
Maybe someone posted a very wide image.
Yup, I am now assuming that might be the problem
Many many years ago the formatting on stw threads used to get distorted due pictures beyond a certain size, I can't remember what exactly happened but it was always obvious which particular picture had caused the problem, the poster was expected to edit their post to correct the problem.
Maybe someone posted a very wide image.
Yup, I am now assuming that might be the problem
Many many years ago the formatting on stw threads used to get distorted due pictures beyond a certain size, I can't remember what exactly happened but it was always obvious which particular picture had caused the problem, the poster was expected to edit their post to correct the problem.
All other forums i use the image is auto-scaled to fit the page correctly no matter how big it is... It just shows as your browser size.
I can't post on the Pope thread, probably a good thing. 🙂
I can't post on the Pope thread, probably a good thing.
You could sign up for a full account and pay via Papal?
Removed as it wasn't as funny online as it sounded in my head!
The Pope posts appeared some time later. Posting has been more or less instant on other threads but not on the Pope, no doubt devine intervention. They're there now for better or worse - all good.
Am I the last person on the planet not to have a Paypal account? 😉
Posting has been more or less instant on other threads but not on the Pope, no doubt devine intervention.
Maybe it's slow because it's pontificating?
Still having trouble posting occasional pictures direct from my phone.
It's not saying they're too large(which they're not at around 7mb)
It just goes straight to a red triangle with a ! in.
Again if I send them to myself on WhatsApp then post them they work.
Android phone if that matters?
Yeah I had that but only with about 3 or 4 specific photos, makes no sense.
What format are your photos? Might be an 'odd' setting that is making them incorrect...photos set to raw format perhaps?
No, just a bog standard iPhone 16 photo. It’s literally about 3 photos.
No odd settings here either.
Just random pictures that won't post then do sometimes post at a later date.
Very odd.
I'm a subscriber. Can I please, please, please not have this stuff at the bottom of the page?
Mmmm. This photos not loading direct from my phone seems to be getting worse now.
It's now seemingly more than won't up load than will.
Again all well undersize and getting the red triangle symbol.
Any solutions to sort this out either my end or STWs end please?
The forum is behaving pretty well for me lately. I'm not getting the ad issues and no noticeable posting delay. Keep it up! 🙂
Formatting on some threads all over the place
Is the discount club down for anyone else? Got the pin but after entering it I just get a spinny thing
The forum is back to delaying new replies. It's showing that there is a reply from a named user, but it hadn't appeared after 16 mins.
At 31 mins, when I next looked, it had appeared.
Quite a few "thinking about it" delays in various contexts before it leaps into action
Some sluggishness was probably apparent yesterday. This was Andy re-importing the missing posts from before the 7 year ago mark. In the original forum migration in February it seems the process stopped around the 7 year ago mark. Currently Andy has us fully updated back to about 9 years ago now. You can see the progress in the total posts count at the bottom of the forum. It will take maybe a week to get everything back but Andy is doing the import in batches. When he does a new batch the site will slow for a while. Soon we'll have the full archive including sudocrem cat and other classic threads.
I'm a subscriber. Can I please, please, please not have this stuff at the bottom of the page?
That's Singletrack content. That's not part of the ad display system.
I didn't suggest it was an ad. I was asking not to have it displayed by default. No autoplay video should ever be allowed without user approval.
Audio is off. Auto play in that mode is pretty standard practice across the internet. It would cost us money if we turned it off and we'd have to look at subs prices again to make that up. I'm currently happy with the balance we offer subscribers so I've no plans to change it.
I didn't suggest it was an ad. I was asking not to have it displayed by default. No autoplay video should ever be allowed without user approval.
I genuinely don't understand why it might be a problem. In what way does it affect your enjoyment of the forum? Its existence barely registered with me.
It's got me thinking about a 'stealth mode' subscription tier. Strip back everything so all there is the forum - no ads. no rh column, no classifieds. No sponsors graphics, no video embeds. Just the forum in its simplest and purest form. Editorial still there if you want but no internal links to any of it. No links to the shop - maybe even strip down the menu so all it shows is the forum menu and nothing else.£100/year sound ok for that? Without explicit links and promotion of editorial it would need VAT adding as it would be a pure digital service to access a forum and not a publication - so it could end being more like £120.
Waaay too pricy IMO. Personally I don’t mind the peripheral stuff (except when it covers other stuff and needs clicking to get rid) , I just wish the formatting and performance was better.
Is the discount club down for anyone else? Got the pin but after entering it I just get a spinny thing
Yup. Just tried, entered the email code and get the "loading" spinny thing that's still there 15 minutes later. It does see like this key member benefit is borked atm.
I think you missed the satire
Oh! 😂
