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<p>Bored of constantly having gibberish inserted because Wordpress doesn't like older Chrome versions. Any fix coming?</p>
It has become apparent why updates to this forum are so slow, this is only the devs part-time work that they fit in whilst actually working for TSB.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/apr/24/tsb-customers-online-banking-chaos-accounts
Still got the mad overlaid adverts when scrolling upwards.
Submitting and editing is just....unbelievably bad. I can only assume that whoever develops this never actually submits any posts with pictures. Or doesn't care.
Fix those two things and I will be a lot more likely to renew my subscription.
"botched IT upgrade over the weekend."
I think you'll find that is a very different scenario, TurnerGuy 😆
I'm getting this error message..
"The website is using a lot of energy, closing it may improve the performance of your Mac"
Is this due to the migration to the Cloud???
MacOS HS 10.13.4
The absence of more interesting threads to post on instead is at least in part why I suspect several of us continue to pass remarks on this one.
You could always start one? It'll pick up again - new people, old people returning....... there's no decent alternative.
Drac people are objecting to what you are saying* not that you are a mod.
* It does happen that you and cougar get targeted/provoked but this is not what is happening here if anything you are provoking him and its not helping.
Funny though, isn't it?
The crap they've put up with would be classed as bullying on many other threads - I can certainly think of several posters who would have seen their arse if subjected to the same. *
And people are upset because they're subject to a little of the sarcasm they've dished out over the last few months?
Ah well.
* Not you. 🙂
Good grief!!!!!!!!!
Does this useless website still just silently discard your post if you don't put in a topic?
Is it really so very hard to get this kind of elementary UI thing right? It's shambolic.
It kind of feels like STW actually would prefer us not to submit posts, and are making it as hard as possible to try and get us to go elsewhere.
Well, I think I'm slowly getting the message.
I can only assume that whoever develops this never actually submits any posts with pictures
I just wish they'd sort out the quoting, *the only thing I wasn't happy about with the old forum.
And smileys. Smiley buttons would be good, or at least a list of smileys perhaps in an informative sticky about how to use this abortion.
I get far fewer mod warnings since making the effort to litter my posts with various smileys so this is of great importance to me. See the Pistonheads forum for a good selection. Whilst there take note of every other aspect of the forum as it is better than this one in almost every way, other than being populated by Brexiteers.
*It wasn't the only thing but they now pale into insignificance.
And stop adding spaces between lines of text. If I want your advice on when to start a new paragraph I will ****ing well ask, but seeing as you're currently filed under "P" for "Piss up in a brewery-Cannot" the chances are I ****ing well won't.
<insert smileys here>
at least a list of smileys
Most if not all of the ones in the table here work:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Smilies
But why do I have to bookmark another website and navigate away from here to refer to them?
Why not have a button, or list on this website, the one I'm using them on?
🙁
Press Alt-Shift+D...
To get strike-through.
RM.
sbob, I really do get the impression that you're just looking for things to complain about now. If you can't remember a couple of keystrokes for a smiley (colon-dash-bracket has been around since 1982 FFS) and are getting bent out of shape over a bloody paragraph break then you probably shouldn't be allowed out of the house unaccompanied.
🙄 😆
sbob, I really do get the impression that you’re just looking for things to complain about now.
You know int he time it's taken you and Drac to post hundreds of times about why it's not important to update the help or reference page you could have written several volumes on the subject 😉
(colon-dash-bracket has been around since 1982 FFS)
if memory serves the old forum used to use 🙂 didn't it?
wait a minute... 🙂
🙄
The editor (TinyMCE) wasn't written by the elves at STW but is a full grown product. Goodness knows why as it's pants.
Whitespace between paragraphs is ace - far better than having to type an extra carriage return.
So this paste magic that isn't working...
Is power paste turned on?
Just as it cleans up rogue formatting from sources like Word, it does the same for internet content. Need to grab a quote from a website for your blog post? PowerPaste removes classes, minimizing the chance of unwanted CSS overriding your stylesheets.
You know int he time it’s taken you and Drac to post hundreds of times about why it’s not important to update the help or reference page you could have written several volumes on the subject 😉
Just not at the weekend, as I hear the boss isn’t a shit like that.
This post is in response to Cougar:
Not at all, as I posted above pictures (and videos) are now a piece of piss* and the other things I mentioned, for balance, are minor irritations.
Much like the dripping tap in my mother's kitchen that I have just fixed. No one was going to be harmed or injured by it but now that it doesn't drip, isn't it better? What is wrong with wanting better?
I assure you I am not getting unduly upset by the paragraph breaks, perhaps if I had used smileys the tongue-in-cheek nature of the post would have been more apparent.
It is not a case of not being able to remember the keystrokes for smileys, it is simply the case that never before in my life having used a plethora of forums over the years have I ever ****ing well had to. 🙄
😉
*Well, it's easy when you know how... 💡
😀
The old forum you could preview to see if your smiley was what you expected, and click a button.
This one you have to memorize the list, and you only find out if you remembered correctly once you've submitted.
Let's see if I've remembered the happy smile face correctly.
🙁
Yup. That looks about right,
Let’s see if I’ve remembered the happy smile face correctly.
🙁
Yup. That looks about right,
😆
int he time it’s taken you and Drac to post hundreds of times about why it’s not important to update the help or reference page
I don't recall ever saying it wasn't important.
Important enough to do now....
This post is in response to Cougar:
Let me explain where I'm coming from.
The devs have been at work since 4am today migrating the site to the new host. Once the dust has settled, this should hopefully put an end to the intermittent glacial slowdowns that many users have - quite justifiably - complained vociferously about previously. I check in here to see how people are finding it and whether anyone's commented, and the first thing I see is a complaint that when you press enter it leaves a bit of white space.
Then you complain that there isn't a list of smileys anywhere. I give you a link to a list, do I get "oh, thanks, that's really useful"? No, I get further moaning that the list in the wrong place. And yes, it should be on the menu bar, I totally agree. But it isn't yet and there's nothing we can do about that. The devs almost certainly have higher priorities than coming in at 4am to add emoticons to the tool bar.
Ether way though, you can consider the point that you're not happy with things well and truly made. Once you've driven in a nail you can stop hitting it with the hammer or you'll just split the wood.
Bit moany there Cougs.
You're such a buzzkill. 😉
Is power paste turned on?
Nice spot. That looks ideal, but it appears to be a premium plug-in and it's priced per-user. Assuming my maths is correct, it comes out in the region of about twelve grand a year.
Can't log on using Firefox + W10. Try to and it returns to previous forum page.
(posted using chrome)
Nice spot.
Yeah I opened the editor homepage and it was on the front page...
But with the smiley link stuff and known work around stuff just bang them in a locked sticky at the top of the forum and it will stop you having to post them everytime, add to it and delete stuff as we go and it's a live rolling help page that will save you loads of time and hassle
Can’t log on using Firefox + W10. Try to and it returns to previous forum page.
Try deleting all the STW cookies then try again. See my posts from earlier today, I had the same problem but it was Chrome that wouldn't let me log in.
Cheers whitestone, much obliged.
My suspicion is that the timezone or daylight savings time aren't set correctly so the cloud server sees an incorrect time passed back by the cookie. I was logged in then the two week session ended and I couldn't log back in until I deleted the cookies.
😥
:rol:
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In sbob’s defence he didn’t say the emoticon list needing fixing now, nor that it was higher priority than the cloud migration. But it’s also not a new issue. There’s been y’know 4006 posts on those issues. The first I knew of the cloud migration was at 7 this morning when I got the maintanence mode page. Maybe comms would be good, with a list of priorities, instil some confidence? Mebbe...
Personally still get a very slow page load time. But hopefully it’ll stabilise...
Couldn't get on at all for the first hour this morning. Site was toast.
First hour!? Couldn’t get on last night 11:30pm
slow this morning too
My impression (Firefox on Windows mostly) is that the site is a little quicker generally, but only something like 10% - and still too slow to give a good 'experience' - so still a big problem.
Why not have a button, or list on this website, the one I’m using them on?
<span class="bbp-reply-post-date">Posted 20 hours ago</span>
The list would be too big to fit on your screen, mate. The smiley's are huge, the biggest smileys, the best, TRUMP SMILEYS!!!!
ps: absolutely not complaining. I kind of like the mad acid poster vibe when you paste a smiley. Please don't change 🙂
Yup - problems last night with 504 gateway time-out errors from nginx. Doesn't look like all the bits of the site were talking to each other...
Also unable to login from chrome this morning until I deleted all stw cookies...
Bloody rapid for me! Not sure what to do with the extra time i've been gifted..
ps: absolutely not complaining. I kind of like the mad acid poster vibe when you paste a smiley. Please don’t change
Absolutely this. Gigantic smileys must stay!
🙂