Its really difficult to use the forum now. Its certainly worse for me now than before the revamp
one thing I had noticed was when using quotes the member's name appears rather than their STW username?
though not in this case!! ^^^
Barefoot pop up now
Click the cross - you won't see it again.
That's a notice for members letting you know that there's a new perk available to you in the members area.
The "who's reading this thread" list seems to have vanished. I always rather liked that.
The Tactical Dryrobe thread has now broken the formatting on my Android/Chrome phone.
Still can’t upload pictures from my iOS photo library. Media is below the 11MB too.
@Mark are you aware of the issue whereby visiting the forum after an indeterminate time, (some?) subscribers are hit with ads until they go into their profile (top right icon) and then back to the forum?
It looks like some sort of caching issue and might actually be some sort of browser thing rather than the forum software (or some interaction of both). FWIW I'm on Chrome/Android and don't have any plugins running. It's not currently a major issue given the workaround.
@scotroutes I only have a hypothesis for you at the moment and I could be wrong. It's hard to know without being able to inspect the browser code on an affected device, but...
If you are logged in as a full member our site will simply not add the ad code to the header of the page. In more detail, when you are logged in as a full member your wordpress user role is set at 'subscriber'. The ad code checks the user role on every page load and if it's 'subscriber' the ad code is not inserted. We can verify that at our end.
However, if your browser doesn't recognise that you are logged in to the site then the ad code will be inserted. It sounds like as soon as you refresh the page your browser is 'remembering' it is logged in and recognising your user role.
That's a theory. As for a solution that could be trickier. It's tough sometimes for us as what we are running is almost an app like website in it's functionality for subscribers. An app would be perfect as that's a closed system and the rules are the same for everyone. A website is trickier as it's not the same for everyone - different devices, different browsers, different browser versions, different OS different settings within the OS. All these things have to be accounted for in order to give an experience that is the same for every user. It's not impossible but it's hard - we keep working on it every day.
I'd love an app version of the site just for subscribers - but that's a fairy tale dream that requires more staff and a lot more money. Just paying the bills right now keeps me awake at night.
@Mark are you aware of the issue whereby visiting the forum after an indeterminate time, (some?) subscribers are hit with ads until they go into their profile (top right icon) and then back to the forum?
I am not aware that I have experienced this issue.
However, if your browser doesn't recognise that you are logged in to the site then the ad code will be inserted. It sounds like as soon as you refresh the page your browser is 'remembering' it is logged in and recognising your user role.
That's a theory.
Yeah. I was thinking it might be a browser thing. I'll have a look at any settings I can adjust at my end and let you know if things change.
Is it specific to iOS?
Barefoot pop up now
guessing they'll claim this is "members' deal" not an "advert" (which it clearly is 🤔 )
guessing they'll claim this is "members' deal" not an "advert" (which it clearly is 🤔 )
you don't need to guess! You can just read the explanation about 5 posts further up
Thanks for (very quickly)implementing the forum quick links at the top and bottom- very handy, much appreciated. 👍
The members notice has a close button click it and it goes away until I publish another one.
Still can’t upload pictures from my iOS photo library. Media is below the 11MB too.
A theory.
Apple save the images ¿Sometimes?all the times¿ In their own proprietary .heic format, there's a chance the forum can't handle it, I've seen file uploaders on websites stump people(my wife) because they only understand .jpg or .PNG
I think I've clocked what might be one of the issues generating the off a cliff reduction in posts and general forum interaction......
With the old forum the little icon that identified the thread was on to multiple pages only showed when the thread was on to multiple pages. There is a similar icon now but it's there all the time. Consciously or subconsciously it used to act as a flag of a active thread with lots of contributions worth clicking on.
Now,.....it's all very passive and beyond some very small font number of posts (which I guess does the same thing if your eyes are good enough to read it) , busy threads just don't standout. Not that there are many busy threads anymore.
Interaction bring more interaction and something needs to happen to generate traffic. I don't know if it's been posted and I've missed it but number of posts a day does seem to have dropped right off. I don't know if it was just a consequence of a very unusable forum towards the end of the old one and the start of the new or it's a larger change in usage (people avoiding political news and debate at one end, falling out of love with social media and maybe caring less about bikes and biking) but it's lost enough of it's buzz that I check in less and less frequently and I can't be alone.
Black/Blue on dark red - come on guys - this is "never do" first day at art school stuff!...
I was notified about replies on a thread I'd subscribed to yesterday but when I went into the thread they weren't there. Only later in the day did they appear. I understand from the updates on here a while ago that this was a known issue - is it still a known issue?
Black/Blue on dark red - come on guys - this is "never do" first day at art school stuff!...
Thanks for changing to white! 👍
Im still getting the formatting issue with some threads replies being much wider than rhe screen and/ or having a tiny font.
Tactical dryrobe thread does this
Why is still taking ages for pages to load or post comments?, the pages can hang for anything between 5 seconds to 20 seconds
It’s only this website btw, using iMac/safari & iPad Pro, iPhone. All up to date software wise
(edit - 8 seconds to post above)
Im still getting the formatting issue with some threads replies being much wider than rhe screen and/ or having a tiny font.
Tactical dryrobe thread does this
I get that, but if I zoom out it snaps to the correct size.
I've started to see ads at the top and bottom of the forum.
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
