New Forum Bug Reports

[eek]

If adding a reason for update to a post - the reason for update isn't displayed.

[eek]

I will tag this in at the same time in case it helps or hinders.

Marking the welcome channel as read - it still showing that I have unread messages in it.

[NickFitz]

When changing device to view forum (tablet to phone) it’s not registering posts read on the other device, I am logged in on both devices.

'mark forums read' seems to do just that, but then clicking on new posts shows everything in bold again .

Sorry if I have missed an update NickFitz but "first new post" is still not working for me. Sometimes it's fine, others it seems to get 'stuck' on one post and always takes me there despite subsequent posts.

I need to dig in to the whole mechanism by which it decides what's been read, as clearly something isn't doing what it ought to

[d000hg]

Sorry if I have missed an update NickFitz but "first new post" is still not working for me. Sometimes it's fine, others it seems to get 'stuck' on one post and always takes me there despite subsequent posts.

[BR14]

'mark forums read' seems to do just that, but then clicking on new posts shows everything in bold again <unread>.

[Halo Jones]

When changing device to view forum (tablet to phone) it’s not registering posts read on the other device, I am logged in on both devices.

[NickFitz]

Multiquote isn't working.

The selected quotes disappear when you click reply.

Working again

It relies on a cookie, which I sensibly restricted to the path /forums/ so it didn't have anything to do with the main site. But the move to the forums.contractoruk subdomain means the path /forums/ no longer exists

[NickFitz]

I've noticed that if I search the forums with Google, e.g. "site:contractoruk.com/forums monday links", then I see a lot of 'reply' links that when clicked will open a 'reply to: this thread' page like the one I'm typing into right now.

Is this a bug in the forum site code?

OK, the reply page and new thread page should now be noindex, keeping them out of (well-behaved) search engines. Thanks for that one CS - good catch!

[NickFitz]

My IP was blocked, now resolved. I'm using an old Laptop occasionally so there must be some malware on it.

There were a number of problems while the DNS change related to the move back to forums.contractoruk.com was propagating, so it could have been something to do with that. (I had to put the new IP in my /etc/hosts file until Saturday afternoon when Virgin Media's DNS finally picked up the changes.) That should be sorted out now.

[NickFitz]

I've got some idiot on 'ignore' (I'm probably not the only one) but instead of hiding his posts, and giving me the option to view them, all of his posts and threads are hidden. I thought he must've been banned, but when I logged out there were loads of threads I've never seen. I could 'un-ignore' him, but being unable to click on his profile I can't see a way to do this.

They changed it to work like that; it's causing a lot of confusion in TPD because everybody's now seeing a different total post count. I've worked out how to include ignored posts and sorted out a UI like it used to be ("This post is hidden, click to reveal" and so on) which I'll deploy in a bit