Subtle changes, bugs and feedback

Anyone else suddenly had the lfgss notification links in their emails blocked by ublock origins?

Are you using Chrome? Could be this.

Firefox

Okay I went through every list and every setting and nothing worked.

Then I unchecked all of these, while updating lists and clearing list cache:

• Hide placeholders of blocked elements
  
• Show the number of blocked requests on the icon
  
• Make use of context menu where appropriate
  
  

I reenabled these and it works still
Hide placeholders of blocked elements
Show the number of blocked requests on the icon
Make use of context menu where appropriate

So, I can only assume it was fixed in a list or something about "Purge all caches" fixed it.

It's just started happening on my office Firefox. Weird as fck

Maybe someone is adding lfgss to the blacklists?

uBlock Purge all caches didn't fix it.

Update now (to update block lists didn't fix it)

Okay so I unchecked those three items again
Hide placeholders of blocked elements
Show the number of blocked requests on the icon
Make use of context menu where appropriate

then updated whitelists, then purged the cache and reloaded gmail and LFGSS links started working again. I think maybe it's the update of the block lists combined with a full refresh of gmail (maybe with the purge caches) that fixes it.

Ah fucksake. it worked for one link (SSMTB) but not Encrypt all the things link.

Fucking box of shit. I've whitelisted gmail and fucking lfgss and it seems to be working but why the fuck should I need to. Bastards

Safari in iOS 10, anyone have problems with threads reloading repeatedly and crashing when there are a lot of images attached? Usually get it in the classifieds when there are a lot of images attached in one post but seen it in current projects and decided to post about it here.

Osca Columbus Air thread, page 3 where his new images are: https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/309201/

Would link direct but I can't get to it!

Reloads about 4 times and bombs out completely. Only see this on LFGSS

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It’s your phone running out of memory - I used to get it on my 6+ (it’s ok on an 8+).
Not sure what can be done about it though...

Seriously? That's nuts.

I had this regularly on my 6 with iOS10 but changes in 11 (or something done under the bonnet of the forum around the same time) has meant I haven't seen it since.

Bah, seriously? It's a mostly empty iPhone 7. I guess I could upgrade to iOS 11 but it's otherwise really swift with iOS 10 :/

Attached photos are now opening fullsize for me, rather than being scaled to fit.

Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64-bit, Google Chrome 64.0.3282.186.

Example posts:
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14121272/
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14113271/

I’ve had this with older Apple hardware, see earlier in this thread. Was told that this is indeed a memory issue.

You could try switching to Chrome, as I think that it compresses the images? I haven’t had any issues on my iPhone since doing so.

I'm on the same Chrome but on Debian... and I am not seeing that behaviour.

Images inline are within the space of the page, not full size.
When I open the images in a new tab they are scaled to fit the window, not full size.

I'm on the same version of Mint, but on Firefox, and it all looks fine here, too.

Must be at my end then...

Thanks for checking though.

Some uploaded pics rotating 90deg, but not all?

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Some uploaded pics rotating 90deg

Are you looking at them on your phone (or some other device with a built-in accelerometer)? Pictures with orientation will be rotated on your phone when using the picture viewing app, because it knows which orientation they were taken and which orientation you're holding your phone. In a web browser the orientation is locked to the page, and they are displayed in the native orientation defined by the order of the pixels in the file.

Images are rotated by the server according to the EXIF information in the image, specifically the FlipDirection:

• TopLeftSide = 1
  
• TopRightSide = 2
  
• BottomRightSide = 3
  
• BottomLeftSide = 4
  
• LeftSideTop = 5
  
• RightSideTop = 6
  
• RightSideBottom = 7
  
• LeftSideBottom = 8
  
  

If the EXIF is absent we leave the image alone.

The EXIF may be absent, for example if the phone is not calibrated (the sensor that determines rotation, orientation, etc).

I did some data thing on this a while ago to see whether this code was still needed. Some 95% of images provide it.

If it is there... we rotate the image. If it is not, we leave it alone. Looking at the raw images that were uploaded it was not there.

Were these images processed by some other program first?

Think it makes sense, ta, more info in reply below.

Were these images processed by some other program first?

I've used a free app called Vignette on all my smartphones as I get lower res pics without needing to adjust good camera settings or reducing image afterwards.

The pics I shared were taken using that app. If I get same problem on main camera (test images attached) then it's the phone not site i guess?

Edit: the screen captures show how lfgss reoriented the 'potrait' pic from main camera app. Vignette pics missing this info then?

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more info in reply below

Yeah, given that the LFGSS server is reading the orientation and trying to display correctly, and that it's missing on the images you uploaded, what device are you viewing them on that displays them differently?

and that it's missing on the images you uploaded,

How do I check this? Could I add it manually? Everything here being done via Samsung Galaxy A5.

The only info I can get so far is here. Probably a question for another thread... When did phones start auto-putting categories against pictures?

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