Subtle changes, bugs and feedback

I understand the point of giving some prominence to new stuff, but I think it's also worth remembering that there is a reason why the great big old threads are so popular. I wonder if it would be worth having, similar to how lots of online stores do, a 'top threads' and a 'trending threads', where the score for the former is not affected by age, but is for the latter?

Anyway congrats on the new forum, for me it doesn't work quite as well as the old one yet, but it's clear that you're working really hard to fix problems and there are already a few promising signs of things the new forum will do better than the old. I'm sure it'll be awesome soon.

Though this is all mute

moot

I see this error from quite a few people, not sure why as the pronunciation is different (at least in unaccented proper English) and the meanings could hardly be further apart.

You want the loosing thread which I choose to ignore >>>>>>>>>>>>>

Where's the Ignore function? :)

The emails I get don't jump to the relevant comment..
"A new reply has been made to your comment on Your Garmin help, please."
which contains the link: http://www.lfgss.com/conversations/185085/#comment11755523
just takes me to the first post in a thread.

Seems to be missing the page offset.

//turns email notifications back on

Has the issue/request of all links opening in a new tab been discussed? If not....

I might have an elegant solution to that.

@Dan_W I've fixed it for you.

Hooray / #rep

Still want to be able to highlight-quote. Please let me highlight-quote.

Otherwise I'm doing a "forum features displease me" flounce a la tester's threat.

Tester threatened that? I must have missed that altogether.

Using my work PC for the first time and threads aren't jumping to new posts (just the top of the relevant thread). Not techy enough to understand the bits above about it. On XP with IE10.

This is happening to me today on Android/Firefox, iOS/Safari and MacOSX/Safari. I've logged out and in again to Persona.

Also, on Android/Firefox you can either (logged out) see the first page of a thread, then step through it using the "next" button, or (logged in) see the last page - but you can't go backward through the thread, or enter a page number to go to said page as you can't move the cursor to the right of the existing number in order to delete it.

I assume he means this

I haven't flounced (yet), but I have tidied up the appalling mess which is the 'updates' page by unfollowing a bunch of time-wasting stuff.

Clicking on links such as #ftfy seems to consistently log me out. Normal browsing doesn't have this problem.

This has finally stopped. Quoting for replies still isn't working as it should for any of the browsers I use, otoh (firefox, iceweasel, android browser).

Quoting works for me if I highlight the text then press "reply", however that's very difficult on a mobile, so I don't reply.

This has finally stopped.

I figured this out. If you used https and someone else has used http, then you jumped protocol. You are only signed in to one of them... whatever you use. So it would appear that you were signed out (when in fact you had never been signed in to the other protocol).

Solution: All internal links, on either protocol, are changed to absolute links which keep you on your current protocol.

Additionally, I've changed the HTML for every comment already in the database to make sure that is the case, so even the historical comments get it right.

Any ideas on the missing anchors in Opera12/Win8.1 and IE9/WP7.8 (and other combinations mentioned above) yet? Next to the lack of proper quoting, that's currently the most irritating thing about the new forum.

Well we know why it happens; browsers chose to interpret a vague paragraph of an old RFC in a way that meant that they abandoned the #anchor during redirects. There was even a draft RFC to explicitly say "keep the #fragment", but it seems that Safari and some other browsers (some Opera, some older IE) haven't done this.

Chrome did implement it correctly, and latter versions of Firefox did too.

We do think we have a solution, but wiring it up is going to take a little time and will have a broader impact than most of these fixes. So it's going to require a lot more testing and for us to have access to more devices that suffer from the issue.

The solution is to detect whether we are going to ask you to redirect, and to copy the #fragment value into the querystring before hand. Then, in the web page we'd use JavaScript to read the querystring and fragment... if it had both, we'd do nothing... but if it had a fragment= querystring without the #fragment bit, then we'd tell your browser to jump to the right part of the page.

Therein lies another problem with this... jumping to part of a page may not be consistently support (using jQuery), and if we chose to stick the #fragment back on the URL and reload the page it will cause additional page loads and fill your browser history with noise.

Hence... it will be tested before it gets rolled out, and as we'd need to modify all redirects that could have fragments it will take time to do.

It would've been great if this had come up in testing. Months of urging people to do so, but only a small subset of people did. Of those, most were using Chrome and Firefox (which together make up something like 70% of all traffic to LFGSS... IE is less than 6% in total, Opera doesn't register (fewer than 100 people out of hundreds of thousands of visitors per month), the big gap is made up by Safari on various platforms and the Android browsers... and 1 person uses a Blackberry).

There's alot to read in here lately, so forgive me if this has been answered already but, when will be able to sort search results by date?

Add sort:date to the search box.

Could you make a tread that is locked to responses that is just a list of these things?
so things like email you if user name is wrong, search functions etc then people can just be pointed to one place which has all the answers without trawling through pages of replies. Or if this exists, where is it?

and 1 person uses a Blackberry).

Name and shame?

Cheers