Pretty good updates overall. I'd would personally have no use for an edit function, but agree with others that anythingn much longer than a 5 minute window is going to allow for revisionist editing.
Also, not sure why your mods bear ill will towards Kate Grace (I wished her the best and my post was quickly deleted), but it's your website, holmes.
I have had trouble reproducing the wrapping issue in Firefox. I've tried macOS, windows 7 and 10, and an old release, the current release, and a new-but-not updated release. In any event, I've put a no-wrap CSS tag on it.
If you see this issue, please let me know, namely the browser, OS, and screen resolution you are using.
I've increased the minimum padding between votes and text a little, as well.
i have also been experiencing the wrapping issue on FF, it looks like this:
Happens on both Firefox 96.0.3 on Debian Linux at 1366x768 resolution, and Firefox for Android. The `whitespace-no-wrap` class didn't fix it but if I manually add the `white-space: nowrap` CSS property to the div it gets fixed.
Thanks. I was now able to reproduce it on Firefox on pages from the live server, but the same issue does not show up in the test environment. Strange quirk I'd need to investigate more to figure out why that disparity exists. Might be something with the difference in environment (namely, ads).
It's fixed now everywhere. The utility class is whitespace-nowrap hence my initial patch not working. D'oh.
Erik, please bring back the feature that takes users back to the page we were previously on in threads. As it is now, when I click on a thread I've visited previously, the software takes me back to page 1 every time. Sorta like the film Groundhog Day. This makes following and keeping up with long multi-page threads much more difficult than need be, especially when there are lots of recent additions.
Also, it's no longer possible to select long multi-line blocks of text (with or without paragraph breaks) and then click on the bold, italicize, strike-through, etc symbols to apply one of those features to all the selected text at once. If the text selected is over a certain length (or has some other feature I can't see), the symbols for the various options except the paragraph one all disappear from the options list. Which means that to use features like italics, bold or strike-through now, you have to do it piecemeal by selecting only a couple of lines, or sometimes a half line, then repeating the process for the next bit of text. It's a real pain.
Erik, please bring back the feature that takes users back to the page we were previously on in threads. As it is now, when I click on a thread I've visited previously, the software takes me back to page 1 every time. Sorta like the film Groundhog Day. This makes following and keeping up with long multi-page threads much more difficult than need be, especially when there are lots of recent additions.
Also, it's no longer possible to select long multi-line blocks of text (with or without paragraph breaks) and then click on the bold, italicize, strike-through, etc symbols to apply one of those features to all the selected text at once. If the text selected is over a certain length (or has some other feature I can't see), the symbols for the various options except the paragraph one all disappear from the options list. Which means that to use features like italics, bold or strike-through now, you have to do it piecemeal by selecting only a couple of lines, or sometimes a half line, then repeating the process for the next bit of text. It's a real pain.
I just tested the feature to go back to threads both logged in and incognito and it worked for both. In both cases I clicked to a page past 1, went back to the index, and clicked again on the thread title and was correctly redirected to the last page.
Could you describe the process you are using if it differs from the above?
I’ll take a look at the other issue. My instinct is that it’s rare for people to be bolding across paragraphs. We use a third party editor and there may be a feature to enable this that I can test.
I didn't know I wanted it, but I like the up/down votes. I have accidentally pressed the wrong button and found that you can't change a vote, so it would be great if you could alert the CTO about that. But otherwise it's a big improvement. The quote handling fixes a serious problem.
It would be nice if there was a sub forum where it was safe to post running related questions. For example, yesterday in the runners over 50 Group on Facebook, a woman asked how she should train for the mile and what weightlifting she should do. Her current mile time is already good enough to compete at State senior games.
I would have liked to refer her to this forum, but I can't because it's filled with such juvenile trolls.
We should have a sub forum that can only be accessed by people who give their real names and want to discuss real running issues. This forum should not be able to be viewed by anyone who doesn't meet the above criteria.
There is an over 50 training and racing thread? Does it get attacked by trolls?
I think most training threads stay on topic pretty well. Or maybe we let people start so many threads they can self moderate? That would be more down the road. Like a private thread.
The forum still sucks and is a cesspool. There are still too many racist and derogatory thread here. I'm still in favor of the forum requiring registration with no anonymous posting and long or permanent bans being enforced for racist and inflammatory rhetoric.
I guess i just disagree on this. We could have Erik count up how many posts are deleted a week that are reported as racist.
But maybe I'm just used to it. This morning at 5am some idiot started a bunch of racists threads. The auto delete system got them in about 20 minutes which I was pleased to see.
The forum still sucks and is a cesspool. There are still too many racist and derogatory thread here. I'm still in favor of the forum requiring registration with no anonymous posting and long or permanent bans being enforced for racist and inflammatory rhetoric.
I guess i just disagree on this. We could have Erik count up how many posts are deleted a week that are reported as racist.
But maybe I'm just used to it. This morning at 5am some idiot started a bunch of racists threads. The auto delete system got them in about 20 minutes which I was pleased to see.
You disagree because it's in your financial interest to do so. The message boards are easily 90% of your traffic and therefore 90% of your display ad inventory. Meanwhile you'd have to be blind not to notice the extreme uptick in blatant anti-semitic posts, one of which took a whole 19 hours to get removed.
What you characterize as either "not noticing" or falling back your laissez-faire approach to content moderation is disingenuous at best (for reasons above) or in tacit agreement at worst; either way you are pretty clearly risking becoming radioactive to the ad networks and I don't see a particularly logical reason why you wouldn't implement the suggestions made above.
Erik, please bring back the feature that takes users back to the page we were previously on in threads. As it is now, when I click on a thread I've visited previously, the software takes me back to page 1 every time. Sorta like the film Groundhog Day. This makes following and keeping up with long multi-page threads much more difficult than need be, especially when there are lots of recent additions.
Also, it's no longer possible to select long multi-line blocks of text (with or without paragraph breaks) and then click on the bold, italicize, strike-through, etc symbols to apply one of those features to all the selected text at once. If the text selected is over a certain length (or has some other feature I can't see), the symbols for the various options except the paragraph one all disappear from the options list. Which means that to use features like italics, bold or strike-through now, you have to do it piecemeal by selecting only a couple of lines, or sometimes a half line, then repeating the process for the next bit of text. It's a real pain.
I just tested the feature to go back to threads both logged in and incognito and it worked for both. In both cases I clicked to a page past 1, went back to the index, and clicked again on the thread title and was correctly redirected to the last page.
Could you describe the process you are using if it differs from the above?
I’ll take a look at the other issue. My instinct is that it’s rare for people to be bolding across paragraphs. We use a third party editor and there may be a feature to enable this that I can test.
thank you
I have tried clarifying my issues over the past day or two, but each time I go to post, I get booted off LRC with the usual "Oh Snap! something went wrong" notice on the blank screen. So I will address each of the two issues I raised in separate posts later on. I'll put your name at the top in bold so you can easily see them.
I just tested the feature to go back to threads both logged in and incognito and it worked for both. In both cases I clicked to a page past 1, went back to the index, and clicked again on the thread title and was correctly redirected to the last page.
Could you describe the process you are using if it differs from the above?
I’ll take a look at the other issue. My instinct is that it’s rare for people to be bolding across paragraphs. We use a third party editor and there may be a feature to enable this that I can test.
thank you
I have tried clarifying my issues over the past day or two, but each time I go to post, I get booted off LRC with the usual "Oh Snap! something went wrong" notice on the blank screen. So I will address each of the two issues I raised in separate posts later on. I'll put your name at the top in bold so you can easily see them.
Erik:
I know how to find the last page in a thread, duh. The former feature I would like restored is the one that would take me to the last page I personally was previously on in any particular thread the last time I looked at it.
For example, there's a thread I was on for a while that now has more than 40 pages accumulated over a number of weeks. Used to be, when I'd go to revisit it, the LRC software would take me to the last page I looked at each and every time. Which might have been page 24 or 27 or 31 or 34. But now when I click on that thread, I am always taken to page 1 - and i have no easy way of finding where the hell I last was.
Suggesting that I go to what is now the final page in the thread (and every other long-running thread with many, many pages that I am interested in) and backtrack from there in hopes of finding where I was the last time I engaged really isn't a solution, in my view.
Erik, please bring back the feature that takes users back to the page we were previously on in threads. As it is now, when I click on a thread I've visited previously, the software takes me back to page 1 every time. Sorta like the film Groundhog Day. This makes following and keeping up with long multi-page threads much more difficult than need be, especially when there are lots of recent additions.
Also, it's no longer possible to select long multi-line blocks of text (with or without paragraph breaks) and then click on the bold, italicize, strike-through, etc symbols to apply one of those features to all the selected text at once. If the text selected is over a certain length (or has some other feature I can't see), the symbols for the various options except the paragraph one all disappear from the options list. Which means that to use features like italics, bold or strike-through now, you have to do it piecemeal by selecting only a couple of lines, or sometimes a half line, then repeating the process for the next bit of text. It's a real pain.
I just tested the feature to go back to threads both logged in and incognito and it worked for both. In both cases I clicked to a page past 1, went back to the index, and clicked again on the thread title and was correctly redirected to the last page.
Could you describe the process you are using if it differs from the above?
I’ll take a look at the other issue. My instinct is that it’s rare for people to be bolding across paragraphs. We use a third party editor and there may be a feature to enable this that I can test.
thank you
Erik:
I know it's rare for people to be bolding across paragraphs. But I frequently share multi-paragraph passages from articles, research reports and press releases containing info that might of of interest and use to others. When doing so, I like to italicize the words/works I am quoting to distinguish them from my own comments. Used to be, I could do this easily. Now I can't.
I find it simultaneously amusing and irritating that the ability to select largish chunks of text tor italics, bold, quote marks, etc is seen as an unusual exotic feature rather than standard fare in 2022. In my view, it really shouldn't be regarded as a big ask.
As for the third party editor you mentioned, I wonder who that is - the team behind Windows '98 perhaps?
You disagree because it's in your financial interest to do so. The message boards are easily 90% of your traffic and therefore 90% of your display ad inventory. Meanwhile you'd have to be blind not to notice the extreme uptick in blatant anti-semitic posts, one of which took a whole 19 hours to get removed.
What you characterize as either "not noticing" or falling back your laissez-faire approach to content moderation is disingenuous at best (for reasons above) or in tacit agreement at worst; either way you are pretty clearly risking becoming radioactive to the ad networks and I don't see a particularly logical reason why you wouldn't implement the suggestions made above.
Do you think we want anti semetic posts on our site?
racist posts?
they are terrible for a lot of reasons but they lead to less people coming to the site and yes advertisers don’t want to advertise around them. Fortunately partners like google help flag pages that might have problematic content.
I think we do a pretty decent job moderating and we’re getting better
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