Major SOSH Upgrade, November 2015

Hambone

will post for drinks
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Jul 15, 2005
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AHHHH! I managed to make my avatar unblurry, but no idea how to resize.

Panic attack ensuing. Or maybe I'll go drink.
 

Average Reds

Member
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Sep 24, 2007
35,330
Southwestern CT
I can't seem to find the edit feature. This is a calamitous development for someone with dyslexia.

(You have no idea how hard that was to write out correctly the first time.)
 

SumnerH

Malt Liquor Picker
Dope
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Jul 18, 2005
31,885
Alexandria, VA
We are about to overhaul permissions in a major way. Moderated posts, inability to edit your own posts, and a bunch of other stuff falls under this rubric, so it's on the list.
 

tims4wins

PN23's replacement
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Jul 15, 2005
37,054
Hingham, MA
is there a way to quickly click something to mark a forum read, instead of using the thing at the top of the page?
 

BlackJack

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Oct 11, 2007
3,456
New avatar - can't figure out how to resize to get the text completely visible. Little help?
 

Orange Julia

kittens kitttens kittens kittens
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Dec 13, 2006
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NatsTown!
posts need to be mod approved? Oh and this is my super old avatar. Weird. I feel like we went back in time 20 years to Al Gore's internet.
 

soxhop411

news aggravator
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Dec 4, 2009
46,274
Tapatalk plugin is either missing or broken as posts won't load on the app
 

djhb20

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So, on mobile it is extremely hard to click the tiny circle and get taken to the first unread post. Previously, clicking on the topic title on mobile did it. Now, it works like desktop, which is fine, except that little circle is extremely small and hard to use.
 

mikeford

woolwich!
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Aug 6, 2006
29,517
St John's, NL
Ignoring someone now makes their post utterly disappear from a thread with the only option to see it at the very bottom of the thread page.

Dunno if thats intentional design but it seems... an odd choice for the purpose of trying to un-ignore to follow a line of conversation.
 

SumnerH

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Dope
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Jul 18, 2005
31,885
Alexandria, VA
HEY EVERYONE

Nip and I are going AWOL before too long. I know it's a bit of a shambles at the moment, we'll be working on stuff tomorrow. But if there's anything that's a total deal-breaker (can't post in game forums or something, not just inconvient UI crap), holler now and I'll try to address it before I take off.
 

Salem's Lot

Andy Moog! Andy God Damn Moog!
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Jul 15, 2005
14,461
Gallows Hill
I can't get into P & G and the other locked forums since the update. Did my membership lapse? It doesn't have me listed as a member anymore. Should I PM a dope? Or is the site still being worked on?
 

soxfan121

JAG
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HEY EVERYONE

Nip and I are going AWOL before too long. I know it's a bit of a shambles at the moment, we'll be working on stuff tomorrow. But if there's anything that's a total deal-breaker (can't post in game forums or something, not just inconvient UI crap), holler now and I'll try to address it before I take off.
 

santadevil

wears depends
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Aug 1, 2006
6,472
Saskatchestan
The "Mark Forums Read" button appears to work as intended.

I'm having an issue in mobile Firefox moving when typing up this post to move my line down to start this new paragraph. When you hit the enter key at the end of your paragraph it jumps you back up to the one you just finished right beside the period. You need to click where you want yo start a new paragraph after the period and then hit the enter key.

And I'm pooping.
 

Saints Rest

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tweet embedding also seems broke
Another feature, not bug.
Aargh! Fonzie emoticon (and all the other awesome GIF's are gone!). I don't know how I'll survive in the rest of my life if I can't delight my friends, employees and clients with Rexy throwing his headset, BB throwing a Challenge flag, or that creepy whipped cream dude eating his own head.
 

Koufax

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There is a message at the bottom of most threads saying that I have insufficient privileges to post. Not taking it personally, mind you, but others may be in the same boat.
 

santadevil

wears depends
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Aug 1, 2006
6,472
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Well, I got my new avatar to work, which most people have done.

Just need to learn everyone's avatars again.

edit 1: testing the edit button. looks like it work.

On the PC now, with FireFox, just noticed that longer user names (absintheofmalaise) end up wrapping. Maybe the left side column, where the usernames (and formerly post counts) should be expanded a bit.

edit 2: Doesn't appear to that the "post was edited" notification is on the bottom of an edited post like it used to be.

edit 3: I like the green notification in the corner of the avatar to let members know if certain people are online or not. However, is there an option to hide or turn that off? Another edit, yes there is, in your profile, privacy settings.

edit 4: missing the option to "Strike-Through" the font when typing.
 
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SumnerH

Malt Liquor Picker
Dope
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Jul 18, 2005
31,885
Alexandria, VA
The "Other Crap" forum (Including P&G/V&N) should now be unborked for paid members.

Unpaid folks can't even see those forums, and won't tonight. And there's no workaround since you can't pay currently. Sorry. Lots of irons in the fire.
 

Koufax

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Jul 15, 2005
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Privileges now seem to be back to normal.

Low priority but Search function not working well. For example, in P&G, a search for posts or threads using "death" or "pool" turn up nothing but a list of users having "death" in their user names.
 

Reverend

for king and country
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Jan 20, 2007
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This seems like a lot of work to restore my screen name, Nip, but thanks--I appreciate it.
 

SumnerH

Malt Liquor Picker
Dope
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Jul 18, 2005
31,885
Alexandria, VA
Privileges now seem to be back to normal.

Low priority but Search function not working well. For example, in P&G, a search for posts or threads using "death" or "pool" turn up nothing but a list of users having "death" in their user names.
I'm guessing that only new posts are being indexed (your post shows up now). I'll try to retroactively index the old posts this weekend.