Bug Hunting

the formatting on page 3 of this thread is all over the place

http://www.lfgss.com/conversations/252521/?offset=50

Yeah, it's possible... through some combination of bizarre quoting and using lists... to create invalidly nested HTML.

In some threads, e.g bike porn just now, the thread panel starts scrolling left / right, (on an apple mousepad) revealing a large white space on the left, and refuses to up and down.

I seem to not be getting email notifications for new PMs, I've tried turning them off and on again, and will see if that works, but they are not going to spam, and I've received them previously - and still get emails for when people are replying to a comment I've made

is this a bug or a design feature? the vertical scroll bar disappears after a couple of seconds of inactivity, even if my cursor is still over it.

We do not do anything to the browser interface like the right click, scroll bars, etc. It should work normally. This is just a web site.

Is this not your browser and not specific to Microcosm?

Does my tits in on mobile when I'm trying to get to a specific place in a text box or something on android and the fucking scrollbar keeps disappearing, but it's the default browser behaviour

Edit: too late but I am glad I got that off my chest regardless

thanks. it has just so happened that this shift to microcosm has coincided with a shift from IE8 to IE11 at my work. still getting used to both.
the reason I asked is that I have only been frustrated by the scroll bar thing here.

edit: this appears to be a bug/feature with IE11 as described here . the second post on page 2 gets to the bottom of why it is some sites and not others. something to do with magic and/or magnets.

edit 2: test

Do some people still use scroll bars?

trackpad users, I guess. I forgot my mouse at work.

ooh, this trackpad supports gestures. whodathunkit. thanks roboto.

Welcome to the present day. 😊

They are good for fine control in some circumstances. My smartphone has the idea that if i'm typing something and want to go back up exactly three lines, then it'd be better if it just jumps to the top of the text box instead of going where I want it to. Using a scrollbar is sometimes the only way to make the browser go where I want it, assuming I can encourage the bastard thing to appear for me.

@Velocio http://www.lfgss.com/comments/11762874/ Link to website doesn't load but copying the link loads the site fine

@Velocio http://www.lfgss.com/comments/11762927/ not bold?

You put spaces between the text and the asterisks where there shouldn't be - check the formatting help again innit

It should bold past spaces for bolding sentences, had a space after second aswell

Link works, not sure why it didn't for whomever at whatever time.

Not sure what the issue is, but looks bold to me.

Can you prevent emoji in usernames? It doesn't render properly and looks shit.

It doesn't render properly because not all devices/machines have all the necessary fonts installed.

I agree it looks shit. But actually it was always possible.

Example: https://www.lfgss.com/profiles/49392/
Whose username is: @ぶらぶら
Which is Japanese for "hanging out": https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/%E3%81%B6%E3%82%89%E3%81%B6%E3%82%89

The restriction is that either all usernames are ASCII and Microcosm can never work with any of the extended or unicode characters... meaning we're only really good in the UK, US, Australia and NZ. Or we allow extended and unicode characters, and we don't discriminate against umlauts, Greek script, Russian, Japanese, etc.

The obvious answer is to do the right thing and allow unicode.

The issue is that the fad of emoji is unicode.

We can create a site policy rather than a technical solution: If you put an emoji in your username we reserve the right to ban you on a whim, but more likely we'll change your name to whatever we feel like and we'll never allow you to change it.

That's a bit harsh, but I guess it would work.

Yeah I was putting spaces in and apparently

Didn't for me or the other guy who first commented about it, and I've had a few links fail since including the one to the Japanese emoji profile, but worked after a second pass.
went to lfgss page saying link doesn't exist, not browser page saying page failed

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The issue seems to be if the link doesn't contain

http://

then the server assumes (at first) that it is an internal link, before it gets the redirect correct