[Closed] Forum Update

Pages are bit of a dog loading at the moment and when you hit the submit button, you're never sure if its been sent or not and lifetime later the page loads.

<edit> took 11sec from submit to page loading

Nobody's listening, nobody cares except 2 bewildered mods with no power to do anything

I dont want drift from this site, but I have a growing feeling of disinterst or desire to return.

Just getting a bit meh!

Was a very useful site, both for a laugh and getting very useful knowledge on any subject, even bikes :).

Stepping out for a while, mayby sometime........mayby 😉

And...

I totally sympathise with Drac and Cougar. Dont why you bother any more guys.

Is this article about HTTPS of any relevence here. Its about google tagging sites who dont use it as being unsecure and this was blathered about earlier

https://gizmodo.com/google-will-soon-start-shaming-all-sites-that-don-t-use-1822842705

Fire the IT guys.

"A ‘known issues’ and ‘known workarounds’ thread would be really useful. Sticky and locked to non STW staff/moderators."

good idea.
sorry if this is a repeat but there are alot of pages to read through...
Is there a way to make the freshness section tell me who posted?Is that borked forever?
& it would be handy if "topic started" info to return?
I used my forum history to track threads/topics , now I just see a list of my posts.
Is that the new normal?

Not going to bother with pics....etc
🙂

it would be handy if “topic started” info to return?

I wasn't aware that it'd gone away?  What do you mean?

I used my forum history to track threads/topics , now I just see a list of my posts.

The '#' link will take you to the relevant thread.

The ‘#’ link will take you to the relevant thread.

Wouldn't it be a great idea to replace the hash with some meaningful text for the link, perhaps something that briefly described the functionality?

Especially in light of the lack of documentation and ergonomic failures of the interface.

I get the feeling that the new forum has been put together by somebody who can kind of code, but has no experience of any of the other aspects of a software project - it's a bedroom job, like a return to the early 2000's when everyone was a web developer, and no-one was a designer.

It's a bit worrying that, two weeks after the forum 'update', both functionality and appearance are still significantly worse than they were on the previous platform, and across all devices (mine at least) - phone, ipad, laptop. Visitor numbers and time spent on the site must have fallen off a cliff, and the advertising revenue with it.

This^^^^^^

Why is “take me to this post” disguised as a # symbol? Surely that is a very quick fix and one that doesn’t obfuscate basic functionality?

Like I said up there yesterday.

in true STW fashion no one reads the thread, not even the MODS.

It's sooooo sloooow! Takes (a good, scratch that) at least 20 secs to load after a post, or editing a post now. And seems to be getting slower.

I just tried to post a normal reply in a normal thread and got the coffee cup. It's like.. why bother.

That was this thread -  http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/the-law-of-attraction-the-secret-and-positive-visualisation - has it been deleted for some reason??

46 seconds after hitting submit on that. Pretty much unusable.

I'm sure they're aware, but I've passed on your comments.  Thanks.

in true STW fashion no one reads the thread, not even the MODS.

Demonstrably.

Cheers Whitestone that’s helpful.

Just stumbled across this thread never knew it was here.

Which is this thread? 😆

Ok.

It’ll be a slow today and over the weekend as there’s some magic going on at STW towers.

Another one -  http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/formula-brake-clearout-2/   mtbmarkymark's sale thread in the classifieds. Coffee cup.. (just noticed it shows pink in my threads list)

I don't know what's been changed over the last day but the view on my mobile is now awful.  You have to scroll past two big ads before getting to the forum header then another one to get to the threads!  Takes three full screens worth to get down to something readable.  The add float over he told of the Single-track banner at the top too.  Al on the latest version of chrome.  Typing s really laggy too.

Also it's sucking huge amounts of data again.

thought the IT guys dont work weekends 🤔

They don’t no but the internet does.

It’ll be a slow today and over the weekend as there’s some magic going on at STW towers.

We'll like that... not a lot, but we'll like it.

"some magic going on at STW towers" someone clearly has no shame.

STW web wizard at work

There's a definite bug regarding formatting of pasted text. Start a post, copy and paste some text from elsewhere into the post, apply some formatting (bold or italic will do), click "submit". The copied text does not appear as you intended but has HTML tags wrapping it. This happens even if you are copying from a plain text editor (such as used for programming) so there's no weird codes in there.

Similarly you used to be able to use the "Copy links" functionality in Imgur which gave you the whole link wrapped in BB codes. This doesn't work anymore - you have to use the dialog box to insert the BB codes.

It has to be the code behind the text entry field doing something like translation between BB & HTML codes on the fly whereas before it was only done when you pressed the submit button.

Rincewind there fixing stuff.

Two things:

RSS feeds?

Fix for SwiftKey balls up?

Ta.

Another one –  http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/formula-brake-clearout-2/   mtbmarkymark’s sale thread in the classifieds. Coffee cup.. (just noticed it shows pink in my threads list)

Ok, that's odd.  I know what was causing that originally, it was a hare-brained anti-spam measure which was blocking threads with multiple links in it.  As far as I was aware this was disabled.  I'll flag it up.

I don’t know what’s been changed over the last day but the view on my mobile is now awful.

Likewise, I'll report that.

RSS feeds?

This was pulled intentionally, it's mentioned on the first page of this thread.

Fix for SwiftKey balls up?

Swype? (-:

Indexing?

Thanks cougar ,I’ll try the hash!key.
Topic started info- I used to be able to see who started the topic and when. As in ,”how old is this thread I am about to reply to...” ( in days ,hours etc). Now I don’t .
Sorry to be a fusspot.:-)
Maybe we’ll all wake up on Monday and it will have been a bad dream, like Bobby Ewing’s death in Dallas.

Dude, spoilers.

Yeah, good point. I was waiting with anticipation to see what the forum would be like on Monday, now senor has spoiled it for me.

How do I search the forum for a post I haven’t responded to?

Really irritating on the ipad - when you select text to quote or italicise - the ipad's edit bar covers the code bar on the post window.

[b]FunkyDunc[/b] wrote:

How do I search the forum for a post I haven’t responded to?

https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=002353871167780190211:ffna6g0opko

<p style="padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.2em; color: #444444; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 1rem 0px !important;">Really irritating on the ipad – when you select text to quote or italicise – the ipad’s edit bar covers the code bar on the post window.</p>

You press quote then paste the text, don’t forget click the little blackboard wiper

FFS! Yeah it seems to be getting worse.

Given what appear to be the pitiful number of posts on the forum over the past few days, I think that either the UK is experiencing some barmy cycling weather, or that this place is dying at quite a pace.

<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: #eeeeee;">or that this place is dying at quite a pace.</span>

Ive barely bothered coming here in the last couple of weeks.

I’m sure there are plenty of others that are the same. Hardly worth bothering with it the way it is at the moment. 😔

edit. Yup, quote works great 🙄

This is just a test.

Mods.

Report button, does it work?

Ive made a spelling mistake in a thread and I want it changed, couldn’t do that after the “time out” so I thought I’d report my own post to get the nasty word changed.. but when you hit “report” ya don’t get the old “why, what’s wrong with the post? Why you reporting it?” Box

Ta.

Ive barely bothered coming here in the last couple of weeks.

I’m sure there are plenty of others that are the same. Hardly worth bothering with it the way it is at the moment.

edit. Yup, quote works great

Yeah the forum does seem to be dying a death. But hey, at least there aren't avatars. Avatars really ruin a forum.

When are STW going to admit defeat and revert the forum to one that actually works properly?

This is dreadful and you can see simply from the rapidity of posts that people are giving up and probably going elsewhere.

Presumably the nerdy types can get some stats together for post volume and frequency and see that folks are just getting pissed off and giving up(?)

Or can they?

Italicised emojis.

Sweet upgrade.

<p style="padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.2em; color: #444444; margin: 1rem 0px !important;">Italicised emojis.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.2em; color: #444444; margin: 1rem 0px !important;">Sweet upgrade.</p>

🤣