Subtle changes, bugs and feedback

I'm aware things are running slowly... I may have issued an update to a table that has 8.5 million rows in it.

I typed in capitals, but the comment only shows lowercase letters.

When I add another word, it capitalizes 'HHSRB' properly.

That is not a bug.

There is code in place to prevent posts that look like this:

"
LOOK AT ME, I'M SHOUTING BECAUSE I'M VERY IMPORTANT AND YOU MUST READ MY POST BECAUSE THE ALL CAPS MEANS THAT IT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR POST.
"

There is code in place to prevent posts that look like this:

Neat. And when you add another (regular) word, the code recognizes the person is probably not shouting and reverts the capitalization? Luckily people who shout aren't so clever.

They are generally so angry on the internet that they explode in a fit when they realise they will need to work around the inconvenience of the anti-shout mechanism.

It's fairly simple code, and a fairly simple workaround, yet it's super effective.

When @psee replies to a post, his username appears after the 'in reply to [user]' rather than before. FF44.0.2/Win10 and Opera12.18/Win10 have the bug, Windows Phone 8.1 doesn't.

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Possibly related to non-printing character in his username, as @psee doesn't get parsed as an @ mention of psee

Data to add; I still couldn't press the Bold, Italics, Link, Images, etc. boxes in Chrome with the trackpad/mouse, except for the touchscreen in Chrome OS.

I'm aware it's Chrome's setting that cause this bug, but is there a way for Microcosm to enable both touchscreen and mouse at the same time?

No idea.

I don't know what the Chrome setting in question is, nor why a touch screen (which OS?) wouldn't send through a touch event as a click.

Chrome OS and Windows 8.1, latter work with alternative browser (firefox I recall), it's just the Chrome browser that messed Microcosm up.

Erm... Chrome OS is an OS and it doesn't run on Windows, it's built on Linux.

I'm confused.

Did you mean the Chrome Browser on Windows 8.1?

He means it happens both on Chrome OS and Chrome on Windows 8.1.

@velocio's inability to speak Scobelese amuses me.

My compiler is set to strict parsing only.

Chrome OS and Windows 8.1.

@Velocio this ^

No worries.

You may need to wait a year or so for me to get a touch-enabled laptop to test this on. But I'll look into it.

You can use a keyboard and mouse with Android AFAIK.

I don't know what that would be proving.

I already use everything but the touchscreen with Chrome and it works just fine.

Besides, I have no keyboard or mouse that could possibly work with a USB Type-C interface, so you'd need to wait a year or so until I purchased such things, just for me to test a situation different from the one you are experiencing.

Didn't @bothwell have a solution for this? Have a vague memory of some setting that could be changed in Chrome.

You could also just type everything... this is essentially what I do even on my mobile.

A * here and a ** there. It's all pretty simple.

Hell we even allow underscore formatting.

She did, but that would turn off the touch for the browser rather, fine for mouse/trackpads, but you can't pinch and zoom.

AH, OK.

I have a touchscreen Chromebook at home. I'll see whether that has the same issue. I don't remember it but maybe I've never needed to press the buttons.

You will, it's strictly an issues with Chrome, I wager because Microcosm is a new type of forum platform, the issues won't go away unless Google decided to make it work with Microcosm, least I think.

@Velocio would know way more about this than I do.

@Velocio I'm quite happy to lend you my touchscreen Windows 8.1 laptop to you if this would be any help?

No read ahead, no backtracking.

Sensible.