Subtle changes, bugs and feedback

Yeah, to be fair I don't use the touchscreen, just got it because the screen is a lots better.

Least I don't have to get @Velocio a Surface Book he craved for.

It'd still be nice if you did though.

I mentioned it before, but since we're talking buttons: could the button event handlers trigger on click? They seem to be triggered on mouse down which is a pain because I keep triggering them every time I scroll past to get to the 'following' link at the base of the page. It steals focus, scrolls the text area in to view and pops up the keyboard. It's a bit jarring.

That is exactly my issue too.

I'd love to get this fixed.

Subforum testing is looking good... will definitely arrive within a couple of weeks.

cool, will be interesting to see how the change pans out.

I'm still interested in a workshop / hackathon for Microcosm open sourcing, so that you could show us around the codebase, maybe work on getting a dev environment easier to stand up, etc. It would be great to be able to take a stab at some of these smaller bugs ourselves.

How easy/hard would it be to implement a different colour of the 'new' sign on threads if you had never seen the thread before rather than seeing it and it being updated?

Not so subtle this one.

I accidentally migrated a new version of the forum... the API code and the database migrations.

This broke the site for about 30 minutes last night, and I fixed it by rolling back the API to the older version.

However... the database changes resulted in the permissions breaking and as I was logged in as admin I did not notice this and went to bed.

Woke up this morning to several messages informing me that parts of the forum were visible when they should not be.

I've restored the permissions from a backup, and am presently removing any leaked URLs from search engines.

My sincere apologies that it happened. I have already changed my deployment processes to ensure this cannot happen again. Essentially, it asks me if I'm really really really sure I want to deploy stuff to production and then verifies that again. The slip occurred when I was deploying to the dev environment but my ENV variable was still pointing at production. The system now detects that and will prompt several times before continuing.

Another not-so-subtle.

I've just done a major upgrade.

A big new addition... we now have subforums.

Lots of small additions that are subtle, like if you ignore someone and they're in a huddle with you and others and they post a new message, their message won't increment your unread huddle count.

Tons of small things.

Let me know of any problems.

Nice one! I'll see if I can spot any subtleties.

(I probably won't.)

oooh, exciting...

I've moved things around already.

Polo forums below Bike Polo.
Classifieds forums below Classifieds.

All permissions work properly, and if a new forum is created it will inherit the permission of the parent.

If you're in a subforum, the breadcrumb at the top of the page will show you this.

If you search for stuff, the breadcrumb on each item will show you where it lives.

This... took 6 weeks of evenings and weekends. Next week, I may be able to go to a gallery with my wife :)

David, could the donate page have a front end something more like the have I been pwned one? https://haveibeenpwned.com/Donate for reference. not sure if it would be more effective or not, but maybe something to mull over.

Yeah, it could.

And I need to do something about donations, every month we now have as many cancellations as actual donations received... it's halving each month.

I think it's just natural cancellations, cards expiring on PayPal, etc.

Forum usage remains as high as ever and reached a new peak in the summer, so it's not that... it's just far less visible with far less nag attached to it.

The pot has hovered between 2 months funds and empty since early in the year when it almost crunched. It's fine though, we're not in the negative at all, so I'm fairly copacetic about things.

But yes, adding a page would be good. In fact, adding "pages" as a feature would be the easiest way to achieve the above.

Not sure if this is anything to do with the latest update but it says new next to my messages button (near the search bar) and yet I've gone through an checked that I have no unread ones...

Ah, found it... yes, my bug.

You have no unread huddles, and that confused my new piece of code.

Shall fix it soon.

Fixed it

Though it may take another private message to reflect the changes as the number is cached quite aggressively.

yay! I helped. I can give you confirmation that it is gone now, coolio.

Right now there is a bug, the "Mark everything read" button, at the top level (home page), is doing the opposite of what you expect. It is marking everything unread.

Within a forum, it does work as expected. But it is also not yet working for child forums.

I like the changes, good one.

One remark on the way subforums are displayed, to me they look too much like regular threads at first glance. I imagine newcomers will miss them too, there are already misplaced for sale threads in the classifieds section for instance.

Maybe subforums can get a different graphic treatment so they're easier to tell part within the forum layout?

Not a bad idea at all. Was thinking the same.

But I'm not sure what that should look like. The best I've thought of so far is to give the row a different background colour as the icon isn't visible on the mobile layout.

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It is marking everything unread.

'Scoble safe' :)