Genuinely Useful Bug Reports


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    @DoctorJones said:

    REPRO: Expand PJH's comment quoted in this post http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/some-proposed-discourse-improvements-for-tdwtf/365/19?u=doctorjones

    SYSTEM: Windows 7, Chrome 34.

    Reproducible also under FF32.0a Linux and Chrome 34 Linux.



  • PRAISE: I love how I can filter a thread to just my own posts.



  • Bug: can't paste anything into editor that wasn't copied from the editor (Ctrl+V, Shift+Ins, right-click>Paste don't work)

    System: Opera 12.17, Windows 8.1



  • @dhromed said:

    PRAISE: I love how I can filter a thread to just my own posts.

    Narcissist.

    I haven't used filtering enough yet. Hopefully it can adress some of my desires for smarter ways to do things.


  • ♿ (Parody)

    @moderator said:

    I haven't used filtering enough yet. Hopefully it can adress some of my desires for smarter ways to do things.

    I'm still kind of shocked that this sort of thing isn't in the FAQ, or some kind of help page for easy reference. I guess that sort of thing has the danger of getting out of sync with the actual code, like all software, but still...the current FAQ is pretty useless. In fact, none of the headings are actually questions!

    • This is a Civilized Place for Public Discussion
    • Improve the Discussion
    • Be Agreeable, Even When You Disagree
    • Your Participation Counts
    • If You See a Problem, Flag It
    • Always Be Civil
    • Keep It Tidy
    • Post Only Your Own Stuff
    • Terms of Service

    Many of these are actually antithetical to TDWTF. WTF.


    Filed Under: False Advertising, flabdablet vindicated



  • @boomzilla said:

    Many of these are actually antithetical to TDWTF. WTF.

    Closed: Duplicate of: Is the FAQ a joke?



  • Not sure if it's already been reported (since Find isn't behaving very well):

    Bug: Dismissing the forum's Search box with ESC interferes with subsequent use of Firefox's own search feature.
    Expected: Things work normally.
    Actual: If you press "/", then ESC, then Ctrl+F, Firefox fails to transfer focus to its own Search box, causing all keystrokes to be silently eaten. Pressing Home/End seems to be enough to bring focus back to the page itself, at which point keyboard navigation starts working again and Ctrl+F shifts focus to the browser's search box.

    Observed in Firefox 28.0 on Windows 7 x64; does not happen in IE 11.


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    @Lorne_Kates said:

    Highlight a thread's title. Copy it. Paste it. A hyperlink appears instead

    Cannot repro on FF32.0a Linux or Chrome 34.0 Linux...



  • Since this is a beta (I guess?), let’s do some Genuinely Useful Bug Reports

    ^^^ Copied from post title


  • Trolleybus Mechanic

    Since this is a beta (I guess?), let’s do some Genuinely Useful Bug Reports

    Since this is a beta (I guess?), let’s do some Genuinely Useful Bug Reports

    Oh boy, another unreproducible sometimes bug. Love them. Love all of them I've encountered so far. LOVE THEM!


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    Bug: @too_many_usernames doesn't seem to get automagically linked (and I assume he won't get notified of any posts mentioning him). Something to do with the limit change from 15 to 20 characters? @ChaosTheEternal (15 characters) works fine.



  • Bug: Pressing the END key in this topic causes the green navigation control to show out of range numbers.
    Expected: It should show "⇧ 260 of 260 ⇩"
    Actual: It shows "⇧ 262 of 260 ⇩"

    Observed in Firefox 28 and IE11 on Windows 7 x64. Doesn't seem to happen in other topics - "Frist! And Welcome" only goes to "329 of 328".


  • Trolleybus Mechanic

    Again reposting, 10%, blah blah
    Bug: Email notifications contain "Previous Replies" below the existing reply
    Expectation: Email reply should only contain the reply itself, no other information. This makes it impossible to read an email thread in gmail, since it goes [reply x + all previous replies] new email WAY THE FUCK FURTHER DOWN UNKNOWN LENGTH [reply x+1 plus all previous replies including x] REPEAT.... I just want the one reply so I can read it, and if there are more replies, I will use the functionality of the email inbox to do so. At least I'm not on mobile where this would be massively increasing data usage. But if I was, it would be massively increasing data usage.
    Solution: By default, email notifications should only be the reply body of that one post. If I want a digest of all replies, I'd pick the "digest" option.



  • BUG: The little blue/grey badges that indicate new or unread posts don't seem to work properly if you use multiple tabs. I'm also not sure the purpose of the "There are new posts, click to show them" button (as opposed to simply just updating the little badges). Related: I can read a post, then go to the "home page" (in this case, what.thedailywtf.com) and it shows the post I just read with the grey badge.


  • 🚽 Regular

    Bug: Timestamp doesn't act like a real link to the post

    Expected: A post's timestamp to be just a link to the post. It should behave like links do:

    • Hover: see URL to post;
    • Left-click: open post, possibly in new tab;
    • Ctrl+left-click: open post in new tab;
    • Middle-click: open post in new tab;
    • Right-click: open context menu that, among other things, allows me to copy link or open it in new tab.

    Actual:

    • Left-click: a popup for sharing the link appears. This I find tolerable, although unexpected. At least it doesn't clobber the clipboard;
    • Ctrl+left click: same popup appears. I happen to frequently use a laptop's trackpad, not a mouse, so this breaks my most used method of opening a post in a new tab;
    • Hover, middle-click and right-click: the behaviour is as expected, with one important difference: the URL which is operated upon is the URL to the first post in view, and not necessarily the one I'm pointing too. At least once have I opened a tab where the post I cared about was close, but out of view.


  • @Lorne_Kates said:

    Solution: By default, email notifications should only be the reply body of that one post. If I want a digest of all replies, I'd pick the "digest" option.

    Somewhat disagree. If I'm getting an email because I've been away for a while (which I don't really want, but I'm too lazy to go figure out which profile setting to change), having the context is nice. If you're getting emails for every post, agree, the previous replies are unwanted.



  • @too_many_usernames said:

    I'm also not sure the purpose of the "There are new posts, click to show them" button (as opposed to simply just updating the little badges).

    I believe there is no purpose; it's just another UX WTF.



  • Bug: Expand button does not work properly
    Expected: Expand button on quote should make it longer, not shorter
    Actual: Expand button shrinks quote size
    Repro: http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/poll-infinite-scrolling/364/20



  • On top of that, the "collapsed" quote ignores some formatting - you still see bold/italic, but unordered lists show up with "-" instead of bulletpoints, and you see "<hr>" instead of an actual horizontal line. Furthermore, expanding the quote makes the stuff below the HR (specifically, the fake tags) disappear entirely.



  • @Quietust said:

    On top of that, the "collapsed" quote ignores some formatting - you still see bold/italic, but unordered lists show up with "-" instead of bulletpoints, and you see "<hr>" instead of an actual horizontal line. Furthermore, expanding the quote makes the stuff below the HR (specifically, the fake tags) disappear entirely.
    Oh, so the <hr> is the problem. Three or more dashes --- is how you're supposed to do those in markdown (make sure you put a newline before the HR or markdown will just change the font size of the previous line). See the raw comment for reference: http://what.thedailywtf.com/raw/296/276


    Filed Under Markdown is TRWTF


  • Trolleybus Mechanic

    Bug: New and Unread blue circle things-- the count on the main page don't match the count on "Suggested topics" at the bottom of each post
    Expectation If there's 1 unread message in the thread titled "Discourse Blows Goats", then (1) should show beside the topic on the home page AND on the suggested topics.
    How to fucking fix it: Fucking fix it somehow. How hard is it to get a post count? Forums can do it.



  • @Lorne_Kates said:

    Hey look, Discourse doesn't quote numbered lists! I think someone already filed that on @codinghorror TOIGNORE list (aka our bug reports)

    Actually, if you click the down-arrow and Expand the quoted section, then the numbers magically appear. Also, some other strange stuff happens (including, in one case, some text disappearing because it was below a "<hr>").

    Not that I'm justifying the behavior, though - it should still be showing up whether the quote is expanded or collapsed.


  • kills Dumbledore

    Bug the quote window can be broken by clicking it too fast

    Edit It seems the bug is triggered by clicking the username in the quote while it's already expanding or collapsing.


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    Environment: Chrome 34.0.1847.131, OSX 10.8.5, High DPI display.
    Bug: Rendering wrong (looks like CSS fail):

    Expectation: Text from quotation not layered over text below it.



  • That's a screenshot illustrating @jaloopa's bug report about breaking the quote window...


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    @Quietust said:

    That's a screenshot illustrating @jaloopa's bug report about breaking the quote window...

    Maybe, but do you think I'm going to try to figure out where in an infinite scrolling system that bug report is? I don't even know for sure any of the words in it (except for ones with far too many hits like “Bug”), so searching is hard.
    Better to report a bug twice than not at all.



  • Bug: HTML diff shows changes that did not happen:
    Repro: View this topic and look at the 26th revision of the OP:
    http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/write-your-faq/370


  • Banned

    Filed under: @too_many_usernames


  • Banned

    FYI,

    I fixed up keyboard shortcuts a bit. You can now j and k to highlight a post, if you find it entertaining enough you can hit l to like it (as was previously mis-advertised) same goes for the rest of the per post shortcuts. (hit ?)


  • BINNED

    @HardwareGeek said:

    I believe there is no purpose; it's just another UX WTF.

    Well, there kinda is. I guess the idea is to have latest updated topic be on top of the list by default. Also, since Discourse seems to be polling for changes all the time, it "knows" someone just posted something while you were on the start page and wants to put it on top. In that case, it's better to have something you have to click than reordering the list without your interaction and confusing the hell out of you.

    @jaloopa said:

    Bug the quote window can be broken by clicking it too fast

    **Quick fix: ** Disable the onclick handlers that expand quotes for the duration of the animation, and rebind them in the animation function callback.



  • Bug report: when I try to send a private message to someone and replace their name with gibberish, I get the weird error message:

    Archetype Sorry, you cannot send a private message to that user.

    wtf is that Archetype doing there?


  • Banned

    Stop sending PMs to Archetype!


  • Discourse touched me in a no-no place

    Suggested bug fix: Be more likeable.



  • Alternative bug fix: Automatically add at least two likes to any topic @Keith starts.



  • @Keith said:

    Mini bug.

    When hovering on the number of likes:

    <img src="/uploads/default/339/7b0849ee0a5946b6.png" width="528" height="153">

    When hovering on the heart icon:

    <img src="/uploads/default/340/bfff1f7fe07aa905.png" width="544" height="151">

    I'm using the mobile view if that is significant.

    You don't know about Jeff and pluralization bugs, do you?


    Filed under: giant S


  • Banned

    When I enter the topic, I am at 4 of 6, the progress bar indicates the bottom of the viewport.

    However, in your case that looks like post #2. How exactly did you enter the topic, e.g. click by click?



  • From what.thedailywtf.com, I clicked the thread title.

    And that isn't post #2. That's the "helpful" thread summary widgets (who's posted, how many posts, estimated reading time, etc.) that show up just below the first post.

    Edit: Nevermind. I see post 2 just barely making an appearance.



  • @abarker said:

    And that isn't post #2. That's the "helpful"

    That's the first time anyone has ever called Nagesh helpful.



  • @ben_lubar said:

    That's the first time anyone has ever called Nagesh helpful.

    Read the whole post. I know it says Edit, but that was done about 2 hours before you made your comment.



  • This post is deleted!


  • Well now I'm confused as to how this long name business thing works.



  • Bug: When creating a new topic, if the title field loses focus, clicking on it does not give it focus. The field must be tabbed into.
    Bonus Bug: (found when testing behavior) If the title field has focus, clicking on it clears the focus.
    Expected Behavior: Clicking on the field should give it the focus, or at least maintain the focus.
    Environment: Chrome 35 on Windows 7



  • It's working fine for me on Chrome 35 on Windows 7.



  • I saw the same as @abarker , clicking on the topic dropped focus and you couldn't click into it again, though I'm using custom styles, which appear to interfere with it. In my case, the culprit was:
    [code]#reply-control { box-shadow: 0px -5px -5px rgba(128,128,128,0.6); }[/code]
    Got rid of that, and it showed up and worked as intended. Oddity, I put it back and it still works, and now I don't have the issue.

    Without the above custom style, everything seems to work fine, though testing IE reminded me of this bug, still not fixed:
    @Quietust said:

    Loading what.thedailywtf.com in a single tab in Internet Explorer pushes the browser window to the background.


  • BINNED

    Bug: clicking on the forum logo when there are new unread posts available reloads the list of topics, putting updated topics on the top, but the "x new posts" notification still remains. Clicking the notification will reload the topic list again.
    Expected: "x new posts" notification disappears when the list is updated, no matter what the user clicks to accomplish it.
    Actual:

    After clicking on the forum logo:



  • @Maciejasjmj said:

    It doens't happen outside Discourse. It doesn't even happen outside of posts - the thread links work differently.

    Yes, it is taking me to a website of adult nature. Note Safe For Work


  • Banned

    Yeah the nested quotes thing is really hideous. I need to revert that commit, sorry @ben_lubar, this is an atrocity:

    (also expansion totally does not work on any of those, so it's double-plus-broken)

    OK, so it looks like you can only do this manually. I guess that's not so bad, but.. yuck.


  • Considered Harmful

    @codinghorror said:

    Yeah the nested quotes thing is really hideous. I need to revert that commit

    We need our own fork, I think.

    @codinghorror said:

    double-plus-broken

    Newspeak does not hyphenate. doubleplusungood



  • Bug: Discourse is drunk
    Expected: on Firefox Mobile for Android, page should stay fixed when not scrolling.
    Actual: page jumps all over the place constantly re-rendering making it impossible to read site.
    Repro: currently happened to me in Hydrogen Fuel topic and Bug Report topic.


  • Considered Harmful

    @rad131304 said:

    Bug: Discourse is drunk

    Proposed workaround: Discourse should go home.


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