Another thing I’ve noticed a few times. I seem to have seen it on older threads, but that may just be coincidence.

The first post of a thread sometimes comes out in the wrong place: either mid-thread or at the end. (I have a vague feeling that I once found a thread where the first post was missing completely, but that may just be my memory playing tricks so don’t rely on it.) I’ve not checked whether there are any secondary effects (eg replies going missing or ending up out of order).

Here’s an example, where the original post is displayed as the 11th.

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-car-do-i-want-clue-its-not-the-one-i-thought-it-was/

Regarding the button bar …

 Cheers Nixie I’ll pass this on to Tech.

Yes thanks for spending your time and pointing this out Nixie. We have a fix for this in place. It seems that this affected our long time users and was due to a user setting introduced into WordPress a while ago which prevented the wysiwyg editor from appearing for you.

If you don’t see the button bar – please try logging on again but that should be not be neccessery.

I have buttons now!

Yay!

Cheers to Aracer too for the initial steer in the right direction.

Cheers to Aracer too for the initial steer in the right direction.

Yep, me too. Any chance of a button to turn it off? At least ’till the tinkering with it is finished?

Oh aye and you Kelvin.

Yay…. <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>BUTTONS !!!</span>

oh crap 🙁

Are RSS feeds ever going to return, or is it considered old?
I used to use it to get a feed of every post on my ‘Favourited’ threads.

e.g. I used to get posts coming through to this:
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/rss/profile/alexsimon

Not been on STW for a while but WTF has happened to this forum – it looks terrible and is very un-user friendly.

Frankly it’s all been downhill since the good old days of the browny/reddy/greeny forum:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070429120631/http://www.singletrackworld.co.uk:80/forum/list.php?f=2&menu=14&PHPSESSID=8fb27c3fb9d3233e32b98f0d23a7dcc1

See, lovely and clear – all topics lumped in together.  Love(d) it.

Yay buttons :). Thank you.

Buttons back here too 🙂

And preview works!

No emoticons though.

No emoticons though.

🤷🏻‍♂️

Blimey – preview does work!
(well kinda, BBCode seems to break it, but it’s progress)

Emoticons would be the final nail in the coffin. What are you, 12 years old?!

Emotioncons were on here for years.

🤦🏼‍♂️

UnusableUonoandandr

Starting a new thread in wrong forum (classified wanted) and then editing it to appear in chat results in it appearing with  a chat icon, but still in the classified forum.

Yay! Buttons.

Yay! Buttons.

Yay! Buttons.

<span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Yay! Buttons.</span>

However. Whilst I can in theory quote, in practice once I’m in the text box it’s impossible to select text outside to to copy in and quote. Also, the usual double space = new sentence seems to have stopped. Both very annoying and worse than no buttons time. Both iPhone with latest iOS.

…and underline now gives me the joys of all that markup crap. So, two steps forward, maybe two back. Sorry guys, but if the aim is usability then there is still considerable work to do.

Oddly in this post the double space thing works. Perhaps because I’ve not tried any formatting?

BUTTONS! #welcomeback

The quote function is a bit tricky to get to grips with, I’m not sure how you’re supposed to use it; I’ve had to make a number of amendments to get it right, and I’m still not certain what I did.

Bold, italic, and underscore seem ok, I just highlight the word/s, and tap the appropriate button, not sure if that’s how it’s supposed to be done, but it works, but strike through seems to be missing, which is a bit of a pain.

Overall, though, it’s looking much better, guys! 😄

Anyone else unable to access from iPad. Same for past week now.

Get basic front page with empty blue bar, some photos and links to sections (look like hyperlinks) that don’t work. So cannot access forum at all

It’s not all bad news, then. (-:

Are RSS feeds ever going to return, or is it considered old?

RSS was removed because it was broken on the new software.  As far as I’m aware it’ll be returned at some point.

UnusableUonoandandr

Swiftkey is broken.  Try a different keyboard.

Starting a new thread in wrong forum (classified wanted) and then editing it to appear in chat results in it appearing with a chat icon, but still in the classified forum.

Oooh nice catch, I hadn’t spotted that.

Oh, and,

Can we not have a brazillian posts going “ooh, buttons” please?  The issue was isolated and should now be resolved for everyone.  If you haven’t got buttons, that’s worth reporting.

Cheers.

Anyone else unable to access from iPad. Same for past week now.

All good here it’s my main access to the forum.

We’ve had previous reports of spurious iDevice problems like this being down to outdated versions of iOS.  Check for updates?

@zokes – what platform?

Hello!

Will the favourites be fixed at some point? When ever I go to favourites all I see is the current forum posts. Even if I mark a new post as a favourite it won’t show up. Thanks!

The close button on the image pop up is wider than the page when in portrait  on Android. Needed to Trott to landscape in order to close the box.

Will the favourites be fixed at some point?

I can’t answer your question beyond “I assume so” but we’re aware there’s an issue.  Thanks.

iPad my favoured device and been fine all through the development phase…

@cougar

iPhone 6, iOS 11.2.5

Ive not been able to replicate the strange double space / new sentence bug, but selecting text to copy still a pain as soon as I’ve started writing a post.

That ‘latest stories’ bit thats floating at the side of the screen – Tell me I can get rid/turn it off?? Hate it. Makes everything stutter whilst scrolling.

Can we not have a brazillian posts going “ooh, buttons” please?

Indulge me given:

Cheers to Aracer too for the initial steer in the right direction.

Ooh, buttons!

Not sure I helped all that much 😳 but despite the impression some might have I am genuinely interested in helping if I can. I’m also kind of curious exactly what the problem was if it’s possible to give a little more tech info (particularly since I seem to have just picked up a job working with WordPress – any tips? 😆 )

BTW should we have a smiley button? I still don’t have that and inserting them by remembering the text codes.

p.s. not that it’s probably of interest to many but I first noticed because the Chrome extension quote function no longer works – I’ll have to see if that’s possible to fix, but then I assumed the “Reply” buttons would do something similar when TinyMCE was working and it seems they just direct you to the reply box – is there an intention that they should quote the text of the post you click “reply” on (and if not, why not?)

Thx cougs. Very helpful

Maybe I’m blind and useless – probably

but I cannae see in my account/ profile the button that says dont see adverts after logging in

The reply button “should” (if we’re going by every other forum out there) take you straight to the reply box with a flashing cursor. (However this is STW and as we’ve already seen Mark seems to want something completely different to the rest for the world and customers be damned…)

same woth quoting – they all have a “reply”, “quote”, and “reply with quote” button on the bottom of each post.

Seriously – it’s not that hard to do when all the forum softwares out there have multiple capabilities way beyond what this place is giving “or more likely being allowed to give)

also – capitalisation on a new line is STILL borked.

The primary dev focus currently is on the site’s performance and hosting, therefore there I don’t expect to see any visible changes to the codebase for the next few days. Please continue to report anything new you find, be that issues or feature requests, on the Forum Update sticky. If you have an issue then please remember to specify the platform you’re using (Firefox on Windows, Chrome on Android, Lynx on the ZX Spectrum, etc) as this is a big help.