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posted by paulej72 on Sunday March 19 2017, @12:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the kill-one-bug-find-another-must-be-cockroaches dept.

So the Dev Team has been hard at work fixing up issues with with the 17_02 release. We compiled all of your comments from the 17_02 Meta stories into a large bug and feature request list. We have been working on getting these issues fixed as soon as we can.

You may have noticed some changes over the last week that went out to fix some issues, and we just released some more fixes today.

Here is a list of the major fixes since the last story:

  1. Comment titles now act to trigger actions as well as the buttons.
  2. New icons for the buttons that are bigger and spaced out a bit more.
  3. Removed extra spacing for some of the modes when buttons are hidden. (Still needs some more work, but much better than before.)
  4. Changed how we set states for hidden threads so that the individual comments are not set hidden as well. This will lessen the number of clicks needed to open a comment in this case.
  5. Flat comment mode will now show a comment's children when look at comment (cid is set).
  6. Temp fix for Content Security Policy eating CSS when not on https://soylentnews.org.
  7. Domain Tags now show in comments.
  8. Fixed broken messages when looking at them from messages.pl.
  9. Fixed for @user: shortcut links that would eat a character after the ":".

And here are the latest updates:

  1. Editor fixes: added new lines to story editor and fixed topic tree popup issue.
  2. Fix for black on black text boxes in Grayscale theme
  3. Added SVG icons for buttons and CSS fixes to enhance look.
  4. Mod Points now back to UTC 00:10.
  5. Add # of children to collapsed thread title.
  6. Fix comment details to bring in the correct data which broke email and journal links.
  7. Add time to collapsed comment title.
  8. Fix select all button in messages.pl.
  9. Redirect returns to correct article.pl page after moderating.
  10. Updated CSP to fix issues. We still need to search for some inline JS that may need to be purged or rewritten to work correctly.

Continuation of:
Site Update 17_2
Comments Redux
Site Update: The Next Episode
Site Update - Taking a Breather
Outstanding Issues

So if you see any new bugs that you think are related to these changes, or just want to let us know about an ongoing issue, please feel free to comment below.

Here are the currently known bugs that we are working on:

  1. FIXED: When viewing the list of messages you have received, the "Select All" checkbox has stopped working because we removed Javascript.
  2. There are still features of the old "Nested" display mode that are not reproduced in the new "Threaded-TOS" / "Threaded-TNG" display modes.
  3. TESTING ON DEV: Issues with Expand/Collapse comment tree versus Hide/Show comment tree. New expand all in tree button.
  4. MOSTLY FIXED: We are aware of issues with our (stricter) Comment Security Policy (CSP) support; especially accessing the site from TOR/Onion and from the deprecated https://www.soylentnews.org/ URL — one should use: https://soylentnews.org/ instead, but we are still trying to handle that automatically.
  5. Pagination and Redirects; there are known issues with implementation of the "&page=" parameter in the URL, especially when "&cid=" is also specified. For example, I have my page size set to 20 comments, someone else has the default of 100 comments, and I refer to a comment on my page 4, which is still on page 1 for the other person.
  6. In URLs, we currently use "&noupdate=" to toggle when the "*NEW*" flag and comment dimming take effect. has knock-on side effects that were not anticipated. Are planning to change to the reverse sense: "&update=", instead.
  7. Lost functionality during upgrade: Sort order by comment score.
  8. FIXED: User Journal link missing in details bar
  9. Pick sane default for AC mode and for Threshold/Breakthrough
  10. Some people are still having issues with previously-seen comments' dimming. Not so much that they are dimmed, but in how they are dimmed. Maybe dim the only the title? Maybe change the color?
  11. Spoiler tag needs to be triggered by text.
  12. Buttons on phones might still be too small since mobile browsers like to resize the text larger making everything else too small
  13. SOMEWHAT FIXED: Bug chrome/android phone when previewing comment messes up text size in edit box -- actually, slashboxes on RHS disappear after submitting comment or performing comment moderation. Resulting display area is much wider, so displayed font size is reduced by approximately 40%.
  14. FIXED: Possibly add date and time to collapsed comment title.

And here are the feature requests:

  1. Create moderation feedback as a modal dialog box via CSS (med term project).
  2. <code> tag support and styling.
  3. Edit after post (with limits).
  4. Markdown support for comments. (long term project)
  5. Button to reset all comments to unread (should be a quickie).
  6. New tags should not display for the first time a story is shown (may be a complicated issue to resolve).
 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Tuesday March 14 2017, @05:09PM (6 children)

    by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday March 14 2017, @05:09PM (#478993) Journal
    The problem with the current icons seems to be that they've been antialiased for a low resolution display, so on a high-DPI screen they just look blurry.
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  • (Score: 2) by RedBear on Tuesday March 14 2017, @06:55PM (5 children)

    by RedBear (1734) on Tuesday March 14 2017, @06:55PM (#479063)

    The problem with the current icons seems to be that they've been antialiased for a low resolution display, so on a high-DPI screen they just look blurry.

    Yes, exactly. These icons seem to have been created the same way as the previous chevron icons, which were created by The Mighty Buzzard who readily admitted to having very little knowledge of how to use a graphics editor. If you zoom in on them you'll notice that even the sides of the boxes are sort of grayish and fuzzy looking instead of black. I suspect the method of creation was to make a tiny "rounded rectangle" shape, as this is usually what happens. The corners are horrible, the sides are horrible, the shapes inside are fuzzy. The whole icon is just totally lacking any sort of precision, as if it's been improperly anti-aliased. TMB is doing many great things for us with this website but graphic design is obviously not his forte.

    Surely there is someone around here who can whip up a nice set of icons that will look infinitely better than this and scale properly to different screen sizes and zoom levels. Don't pretty much all browsers support SVG icons by now?

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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 14 2017, @10:03PM (4 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 14 2017, @10:03PM (#479163) Journal

      What's wrong with SVG icons?

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      • (Score: 2) by paulej72 on Wednesday March 15 2017, @12:05AM (3 children)

        by paulej72 (58) on Wednesday March 15 2017, @12:05AM (#479212) Journal

        Contrary to what RedBear stated I created the current +/- icons and the chevrons and tweaked the ones in the JS version. I had not thought of doing SVG icons, but I will look into it. It would definitely help on high res screens.

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        • (Score: 2) by paulej72 on Wednesday March 15 2017, @01:12AM (1 child)

          by paulej72 (58) on Wednesday March 15 2017, @01:12AM (#479228) Journal

          Looks like SVG is mostly supported: http://svgtutorial.com/svg-browser-support/. [svgtutorial.com] I wonder how this would be for the older Android users?

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          • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 15 2017, @02:48PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 15 2017, @02:48PM (#479423)

            I wonder how this would be for the older Android users?

            I think the age of the user doesn't matter. :-)

        • (Score: 2) by RedBear on Monday March 20 2017, @01:14AM

          by RedBear (1734) on Monday March 20 2017, @01:14AM (#481309)

          paulej72:

          My mistake thinking TMB was responsible for the icons. The new ones are looking quite good. Both on the red bar and in the gray page background. Not as "crisp" as what I was imagining but these heavy outlines may actually be better, especially for smaller screens. Well done.

          I'll now test the character-eating bug: @12:34 AM (and... Preview) Hey, it works now. Nice.

          You're all doing great work. Take a break.

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