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New font is _much_ better, thanks.
Yeah, that’s annoying
Bastid!
So where are they?
If you are using an Apple device.. they are hidden in the Smilie Face button on the keyboard..
I don’t think Android has yet entered the 21st century so can’t help with them on that platform..
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I don’t think Android has yet entered the 21st century so can’t help with them on that platform..
I've never used an apple device 🤬
I don't get the smilies on my desktop.
Typing this on my iPad I notice that only the insert image formatting/editing button has an icon, the rest I have to guess at!
I'm on a laptop, no idea where they are.
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All lurking behind the smiley face button on a couple of my android keyboards
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If you are using an Apple device.. they are hidden in the Smilie Face button on the keyboard..
I don’t think Android has yet entered the 21st century so can’t help with them on that platform..
Depends entirely on the keyboard. Swype has them.
You can BBcode a lot of them too, I think. :roll: = 🙄
Bloody 'ell it's fast now!
I have to admit that the forum now looks nicer than it did 3 or 4 months ago, BUT when I look at ANY other forum i then realise just how badly this one runs.
I mean even a (not for profit) bloody lawn mower forum I visit (popular in the US) has more/better features and runs 5x faster.
Looking at the number of new topics being created compared to 12 months ago it seems that this place is heading in the wrong direction and I can see why.
If this is based on a wordpress back end then I'm really not sure it was a good idea - and I like WordPress!
Less than 6 seconds to open a page now. I haven't posted as much in a day since the change, a good or bad thing? Don't answer you might upset me.
Any idea when previous issues of the mag will be available to download?
Don’t answer you might upset me.
Shrugs.... (garlicaly)
Threads are taking less than a second for me. The odd fart where it reverts to silly-slow, but it's generally running lightening fast tonight.
Seems Aracer might have had something with his original 'ditching all the old content' suggestion? 🙂
Seems Aracer might have had something with his original ‘ditching all the old content’ suggestion?
Dunno, but stuff from 9 years ago (i.e. the dat after "the hack" was remedied) is still there: https://singletrackworld.com/forum/forum/off-topic/page/4382/
Yep, that post counter on the top of the forum page suggests that Bike and Chat forums have little more than one post per thread but that is obviously wrong.
The post counters are complete bollocks. Chat overtook Bike some time ago.
6-8 sec page load times this morning. Are some folk really thinking that's fast or has it slowed down again?
bearnecessities - I also suggested binning the archive. I guess all that freely-created content is a more important part of the STW business model than many would believe.
What's the deal with embedding pictures from Flikr? Tried to embed some on a F/S ad (now sold so not a stealth bump) and they wouldn't automatically display, you had to click the link to get to them. Just been back to put on it had sold and the pictures are embedded fine but the links are still there! Does this new forum self-mend/have a mind of it's own or something?
Bug report:
Extra cr lf are inserted when correcting txt in android among other oddities with autocomplete. If I go back to the beginning or mid way through some txt to edit and select a suggested word during typing odd behaviour. Sometimes the word is inserted with a extra newline , other times the word is inserted in addition to what I started typing, other times it inserts the word at the beginning of a line. Inconsistent behaviour.
It seems this changeover has opened up a whole Grand Canyon's-worth of worms.
Or a ginormous game of whack-a-mole.
Any bets on recovery by this time next year?
[i]bearnecessities wrote:[/i]
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">Seems Aracer might have had something with his original ‘ditching all the old content’ suggestion? </span>
Did I suggest that?
It shouldn't really make a difference if the software works properly - in any case I'm fairly sure the post counts are just another bug rather than an indication that stuff has been lost from the DB.
A bit faster now, but it's still way slower than other sites and slower than it used to be - faster than it was is hardly difficult!
My bad, must have got folks mixed up 🙂
It's still opening links in a second here today, just about.
No posts were deleted anyway.
Looks a lot better, but is variable in Safari
Redirects are back, like a bad virus. Plus yesterday it was impossible to post using SwiftKey, but oddly seems okay again.
Mark said give it time but the longer time goes on the seemingly worse it gets as a user experience. Redirects are the last straw.
I’ve raised this again.
I don't know why people get upset at the lack of emojis - you only need two, roll eyes & smiley.
Using more than two together is immature like stupid deliberate spelling mistakes - nearly as bad as using lol.
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[i]Trailseeker wrote:[/i]
I don’t know why people get upset at the lack of emojis – you only need two, roll eyes & smiley.
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Using more than two together is immature like stupid deliberate spelling mistakes – nearly as bad as using lol.
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I don't want to use 2 emojis together, I just want a selection to use for different circumstances.
essel - you just need to know the right folk to get access to emojis
Just had 42 pop-ups blocked message, then a few got through. One was a porn site with full volume sounds! Seeing as I’m sat in the middle of a services having a drink surrounded by kids and young families I’m mightily relieved I had my headphones in.
Unforgivable, really.
why do several of these "new"! emoji (like aracer's just up ^ there) have a daft-looking white line above the mouth, as though they're dipped their 'tache in their pint of Stella
rollyeyes, shrug, gareth hunt
Aren’t the Porn Site pop ups a feature of the site ?
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For some reason I now can't middle click on a link to open a page in a new tab. Every other site (that I've tried) works fine. STW used to work. Firefox on Windows, FWIW.
Unforgivable, really.
Especially given it’s allegedly a family site, with no ****ing swearing allowed.
Unforgivable, really
You off then?
Aren’t the Porn Site pop ups a feature of the site ?
I thought so, handy ✊
It's bad.
Don't want to sound like an apologist, because I'm not, but y u no P?
I've never had a problem with redirects on here but is now suddenly ridiculous
https://imgur.com/gallery/kPFp5
Thanks for the feedback on the redirects. There's a thread running.
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/popups-redirects/
Don’t want to sound like an apologist, because I’m not, but y u no P?
Because those with no P are already supporting the forum - and the magazine - by being both the market targetted by and paid for by the advertisers, and by freely providing content that is subsequently used to attract more readers.
Many of the no P's accept that they will see ads on the site but there really is no excuse for the shitty pop-ups.