NodeBB misfeatures (BIG PICTURE STUFF ONLY)

Weng

@accalia best part is that the koala itself has been on the board so long you can draw and erase decorations.

aliceif

@CatPlusPlus said:

No, selecting bit of text and then clicking 'quote' to add it to the post.

Click 'reply' instead. Like @ben_lubar said.

And that's totally logical ...

Zemm

@loopback0 said:

On mobile? Not so much.

Works for me!

fbmac

@Zemm for me it works, but frequently the android selection end arrow will be hovering over the reply button, making it hard to use

loopback0

@aliceif said:

And that's totally logical ...

I didn't claim it was. I was just saying.

loopback0

@Zemm doesn't work for me on Chrome on iOS

ChaosTheEternal

@loopback0
Doesn't work on Safari for iOS either.

ben_lubar

@loopback0 said:

Chrome on iOS

@ChaosTheEternal said:

Safari for iOS

Those are exactly the same thing but with a different bikeshed.

RaceProUK

No, they really aren't... and it's right fucking annoying too

ben_lubar

@RaceProUK did Apple start allowing custom rendering engines in the app store?

RaceProUK

@ben_lubar No idea. But I do know that just because two browsers share a rendering engine, doesn't mean they render pages the same.

ben_lubar

@RaceProUK I was under the impression that iOS "web browsers" were literally just bookmark managers for Safari.

RaceProUK

@ben_lubar I still wouldn't rely on them displaying the same

loopback0

It's only recently that Chrome started using the newer iOS rendering engine, so before then Chrome was stuck on an Apple rendering engine but an older one than Safari.

CatPlusPlus

Chrome for iOS doesn't seem to be very related to Chrome. caniuse at lists both iOS Safari and iOS Chrome as one entry, too.

HardwareGeek

@ben_lubar said:

the only complaint I've seen so far about chats is that you can't see more than the 50 most recent messages. Is there anything else that you've seen complaints about/want to change?

Maybe there's another way to access chats that doesn't have this problem, but the pop-up scrolls to the latest message every time a new one arrives. On a busy chat, this makes it impossible to refer to old posts, much less catch up with any part of the conversation you missed, because you simply cannot scroll back far enough to read those messages before you're bounced back to the present. Also, no way to quote previous posts.

Tsaukpaetra

@HardwareGeek said:

Maybe there's another way to access chats that doesn't have this problem

Nope. There's not. You will only read the latest information, and you will LIKE IT!

ben_lubar

@Tsaukpaetra said:

@HardwareGeek said:

Maybe there's another way to access chats that doesn't have this problem

Nope. There's not. You will only read the latest information, and you will LIKE IT!

Yes there is. You just need access to MongoDB.

sloosecannon

@ben_lubar said:

@Tsaukpaetra said:

@HardwareGeek said:

Maybe there's another way to access chats that doesn't have this problem

Nope. There's not. You will only read the latest information, and you will LIKE IT!

Yes there is. You just need access to MongoDB.

for

Zemm

@loopback0 and @ChaosTheEternal said:

iOS

Sorry, I can't help you with your poor life choices.

Seriously, I also have an iPad 2 and on it Chrome and Safari render pages pretty much the same, but as far as I can tell they have different JavaScript engines.

There's a web application we are building at work that is JavaScript heavy, using local storage for offline use etc. It officially supports retina iPad and above. For shits and giggles I thought I'd try it on my iPad. Chrome did not work at all (errors syncing); Safari had the same rendering issues but I could see the sync process working and I could use the app albeit with features missing due to overlapping divs etc.

I haven't yet tried wtdwtf.bb on it yet...

Mikael_Svahnberg

To get back to @cartman82 's original intent with this thread:

Follow vs Watch threads

At the moment I can watch a thread, which means I get notified of everything that happens in it. Confusingly this is called "follow" in your settings, as in "follow threads you've replied to". I miss the middle ground where I can have a couple of threads that I follow and easily ignore the rest (Essentially, the New and Unread tabs in ), instead of having to go in to the unread tab and manually re-select 50-odd threads to "mark selected as read" every day because I am not interested in them. They are scattered over different categories so I cannot just ignore a single category either.

Oh, and it took me some googling to figure out that in the "unread" tab (and nowhere else), selecting a thread is done by clicking the avatar of the OP to the left of the thread title.

cartman82

@Mikael_Svahnberg said:

Follow vs Watch threads

At the moment I can watch a thread, which means I get notified of everything that happens in it. Confusingly this is called "follow" in your settings, as in "follow threads you've replied to". I miss the middle ground where I can have a couple of threads that I follow and easily ignore the rest (Essentially, the New and Unread tabs in ), instead of having to go in to the unread tab and manually re-select 50-odd threads to "mark selected as read" every day because I am not interested in them. They are scattered over different categories so I cannot just ignore a single category either.

Oh, and it took me some googling to figure out that in the "unread" tab (and nowhere else), selecting a thread is done by clicking the avatar of the OP to the left of the thread title.

Definitely misses the mute function too. I can no longer ignore everything to do with the resurrected Likes thread.

Luhmann

and the composer is ... strange to put it mildly when not running your browser at full screen ...

It opens up showing only half of the normal height with the bottom cut off and no scroll bar. Re-sizing gets back to normal but then it takes up a huge space ...

Dammit there is enough screen to go around ...
A lot of white above the title where the resising arrow is , a huge title, lots of space above and below the icons and still some more space below the text box because there is this thing that thanks to @Lorne-Kates will forever look like a tit.

wft

I have a big one.

I want to jump to the first unread reply by default. Like in Dischorse.

The problem is, there's no setting for that that I can find in an obvious place.

The way it currently works, with toasters and whatnot, is a spammy UX. I'm reading, I don't watch a fucking TV, I don't want to be presented with pop-up clutter every damn time I open a topic.