Subtle changes, bugs and feedback

Thanks

I've been away - saw the first day or so of the new site, didn't particularly like it, went on holiday. When I came back I thought it looked much better - I think many things have changed? - but I've (obviously) missed some of the ongoing discussion.

I often make gestures at the trackpad. Bloody thing interferes with my typing, and yes, I'm trying hard to stay in the last century - I think I understood more of it...

Just been pointed at an earlier observation of the same thing - apologies for my failure to UTFS adequately.

If I go on holiday for another month or so, will a 'scroll to top' button thingy appear? I appreciate that laptop users are probably now a minority and resistance to change is a feature of an even smaller (older generation) minority...

It will :)

And buttons that mimic the top navigation so you wouldn't even actually have to go to the top to go somewhere else.

Excellent - I'll book a holiday now.

@Velocio

I am trying to add @Multi_Grooves to a pre existing huddle/group private message, and when I go to add him/share the message with him, the box tells me that no such user exists... Any thoughts?

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oh I had that with someone too, but when I hit return it 'resolved' itself in the receipients list into a proper link even though it hadn't been able to find in the dropdown thing. does it not work?

nope nothing doing, will try a refresh of the cache and see what that does..

attachments/([0-9])+d[0-9]+-.$
attachments/([0-9]+)d[0-9]+-.$

Rather you than me, regex hurts my brain.

Now I just have to find all the posts where I inlined the attachments and remove the duplication, although I still preferred the old distinction between inline images (main point of a post) and thumbnailed attachments (supplementary images for people wanting extra detail). Rolling your own thumbnails is a PITA now because
[url =foo][img ]bar[/img][/url]

doesn't get parsed properly, and neither does "wysiwig" markdown, as @TinaKino discovered the other day, so making an image link to a url requires a bit of tiresome hacking.

To be honest - so far I could not have been bothered to actually figure out how to get the code through using the "image" and "link" buttons and copy / pasting stuff - I actually copied your example and pasted in my image / link URL, and keep on copying / modifying this.

For me (and anybody else), html works just fine for thumbs linking to full sized images:

<a href="http://jorj.co.uk/images/bung.jpg" title="Headset adjuster">
<img src="http://jorj.co.uk/images/thumbs/bung.jpg" alt="Headset adjuster"/></a>

And the BBCode seems to be fixed too:

[![](http://jorj.co.uk/images/thumbs/bung.jpg)](http://jorj.co.uk/images/bung.jpg)

Although the parser is rendering that BBCode chunk into markdown...grrrr...it's
[url =http://jorj.co.uk/images/bung.jpg][img ]http://jorj.co.uk/images/thumbs/bung.jpg[/img][/url] minus the spurious spaces

But inserting an image using the "Image" button on the message editor and then selecting all that markdown and clicking on the "Link" button is still borked


Indeed.

Writing full HTML didn't even cross my mind to be honest.

Thanks for the feedback.

Type without the @ in that box. We've yet to get full consistency there, the event creation and invite form also breaks on the @.

@Velocio
that works, but I just inadvertently added someone to the message as I thought the autofill was giving me one name and then I got another, but be something to think about in the future, how quickly the autofill populates, especially when you can't delete them from the conversation,if you make a mistake, they have to delete the message themselves...

I've done that myself on occasion.

It's reasonable to prevent others from removing someone else... but perhaps for the first 5 minutes, the person who added the other person could remove them. Precisely to correct accidents like that.

@Velocio if there was a 5min window that would be good as soon as I'd added them I knew I wanted to remove them, but I couldn't so sent them a message instead, hopefully they'll do the right thing.

@Velocio, you know I was having issues with the page moving across to the left in some threads when viewing in safari in my iphone4, this is the latest thread to do so..

http://www.lfgss.com/conversations/140777/?offset=110250#comment11800029

Still cannot work out why.

I've run it through the HTML validator, and whilst there are a few problems with some attributes not being recognised, by and large it's fine and there's nothing unbalanced or mis-matched at all.

That page has no reason to display differently from any other page.

Is it consistent?

As in... does it always display badly on that page?

content of notifications - the message bit - doesn't show up on mobile email, I know mine is a bit archaic but is this true for everyone? it's just particularly annoying for me as I can't just hit the link as I can't log in on my phone...

@Velocio I don't know if it always displays badly on that page, it was just the latest one to do it, I have to say that this bug hasn't happened recently or if it has, it's been right at the end of a page and so it's only shifted over to the left a little bit. I've gone to the next page and forgotten about it...

The email content?

Which type of notification is it?

Also... a general question... should emails auto-sign-in when you click those links? We could make that happen. And it would side-step Persona and you'll just be in.

Could you screen shot it the next time you see it.

I'm trying to imagine how it looks... it sounds, from your description, that it creeps over a little per comment until it's basically unusable?

Both private messages and replies within thread.
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No auto-sign just for me, I'm getting a new phone soon anyway... It would seem to be better security not to? I mean if someone else is looking at your emails they can see the content of whatever's in the notification, but that doesn't mean they should be able to access your whole LFGSS account.

should emails auto-sign-in when you click those links? We could make that happen. And it would side-step Persona and you'll just be in.

Wouldn't that punch a big hole in the alleged security benefit which was supposed to be the big selling point of the annoying Persona method?

The benefits we argued were:

1. Save time in development (launch Microcosm sooner)
   
2. Be mobile app and API friendly (an integrated HTML form is not)
   
3. Don't trust unknown third parties (which may be the application itself, it should never have access to your password, so the app must never have an integrated sign-in form)
   
4. Trust a single third party that has a track record of privacy and security
   
   

None of that is weakened by auto sign-in on email links.

And we already have the very strong notion that "email is your auth method"... if someone has access to your email, then by virtue of that they have access to any account on any service that would send a password reminder to your email.

So the big assumption behind email as an auth method is: You protect your email.

Given that... if we send an email to you alone, and it's personalised and it's only for you... then why not make the link in the email sign-in automatically.

If you're not protecting your email, the whole game is up anyway.

The only potential downside is if you lose control of your email account.

i.e. You used a work email to register/sign-in, and then you left that employment and lost control of the email account.

But even then, the same core presumption means that the control of the email dictates control of the account. A person should let us know to update the email address.

Once we've auth'd someone against Persona, then we know that the person owns a given email account. I can't see why this wouldn't then be used as the basis of trust to sign a person in, given that ownership of email is ownership of an account.