[gorgonzola]

Many of you have noticed that a lot of weird things have been going on over the last week. This is due to a temporary new hire, thewebdrives, who's been fixing the bugs that were left over after we deployed our new forum theme several months ago. I'm sorry for the inconvenience with the weird behavior, but it's almost done. (As I'm writing this, the major outstanding issues are the messed up quick reply box and the new image resizer.)

To consolidate things moving forward, I'm making this new thread. Other than the two bugs above that I mentioned, all the bugs with the new theme have been fixed (to the best of our knowledge). If this is not the case, please use this thread to post any bugs that you see. Also, if you see some slightly weird behavior, wait to see if it lasts more than an hour or two, as it may be a very temporary side effect of some other changes being made.

If there are no more bugs, we will begin addressing some issues with the design itself that were brought up in the last round of feedback. As far as I can remember, the major issue there was that the thread icons don't differ enough from each other, and they're not easily distinguishable for the colorblind. We'll likely address this by changing a few of the icons so that threads you've posted in get an icon that's a different shape from the others.

If there are any other bugs or design issues you'd like addressed, please post them here now.

[Kevin]

If you want to subscribe to a forum it clicks you through two pages. One for the subscribe and one for a "you sure" or something of the like.

When you go here

http://forums.macnn.com/usercp.php

Theh "Unsubscribe from this forum" link will take you to a page that tells you that you've unsubscribed from it without confirming as the subscribing link.

I've on man occasion accidentally hit this link and had to go back and subscribe again (It's a PITA)

I suggest either get rid of the link (You can unsubscribe within the forum itself) or add a "You Sure" option.

That way no forum is unsubscribed on accident.

Makes GUI sense.

[besson3c]

Just wanted to report, in case you missed this, that you appear to have several badly formed Javascript functions...

on page load:

Error: catflap_resize_image is not defined
Source File: http://forums.macnn.com/61/feedback/...t/#post3432722
Line: 1

(I would imagine this might be contributing to the dynamic image resize problems you are trying to fix?)

Your mouseovers in the upper right hand corner nav bar:

Error: buttonOn is not defined
Source File: http://forums.macnn.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=61
Line: 1

on page load:

Error: invalid assignment left-hand side
Source File: http://forums.macnn.com/_gb_scripts/_gb_global.js
Line: 76, Column: 45
Source Code: imageref.previousSibling.style.text-align = 'center';

[Simon]

Here's another bug that's been around since the theme change:

In the user CP the threads listed in "New Subscribed Threads" still link to the first post in the thread rather than to the first new post in that thread. This is strange because in the "Subscribed Forum List" the "Last Post" URLs have the "/new-post/" suffix so you are directed to the first new post. All that needs to be done is to add the "new-post" suffix to the URL in the links in the "New Subscribed Threads" list.

[Peter]

when i post something containing BBCode:

Code:
Warning: main(/var/www/macnn/macnn/forums/includes/class_bbcode.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /includes/class_bbcode_alt.php on line 18

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '/var/www/macnn/macnn/forums/includes/class_bbcode.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/macnn/macnn/forums/includes/class_bbcode_alt.php on line 18

[Peter]

Obviously the bug is now fixed, but just thought I'd make it aware

[Dakarʒ]

I'm curious if anyone else has had seemingly random threads remain looking unread after being viewed. This seems to have started since the changes got underway.

[MacosNerd]

I noticed a problem (well I wouldn't call it a problem) with people's sigs. They're all turning into boobs. Like I said its not really a problem, in fact can we make sure it spreads so that more sigs have that

[Rumor]

It may be only me, but linked pictures are not showing up at all. Not even the little white box with a red x, they just aren't there.

[Rumor]

It appears that the img tags are fubar.

[Dakarʒ]

People keep saying this, but I haven't seen any problems all day.

[Cold Warrior]

RSS doesn't work.

[besson3c]

Error: window.event has no properties
Source File: http://forums.macnn.com/_gb_scripts/_gb_global.js
Line: 144

[CharlesS]

There's still no way to jump straight to a post you found using the "Search by Posts" feature. You can only get the first post in that thread, and if the thread is 10 pages long, it will be quite difficult to find the post that your search turned up.

Code:
Also, the last time I checked, the [code] tag still didn't have those nifty horizontal scrollers that it used to have before the forum redesign. Let's see if that's been fixed yet.

edit: nope, it hasn't!

edit 2: and let's see if the code tag is smart enough to ignore smilies. :) ;) :D :p

edit 3: it seems we have a negative on that one too.

[Kevin]

So who is the first that is gonna stick a fork in and take a bite?

I kiiid.... I kid.

[Peter]

the image tags in my sig are broke, no idea why - they were working a minute ago.
Heres the BBCode for my sig:

Code:
[ img]http://omgponi.es/sig.cgi[/img]
[ URL=http://omgponi.es]omgponi.es[/url]

Edit: Grr the code tag != Quote tag, really infuriating.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Peter 

the image tags in my sig are broke, no idea why - they were working a minute ago.

I have issues with my sigs, too. Some of my sig pics are shown bigger than they actually are.

(e.g. pic of snapping turtle). The rotate script and images haven't changed n months, so it's gotta be the hampstor...



-t

[Peter]

yeah it is.
For now your sig violates the sig rules btw, might wanna make it static for now...

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Peter 

yeah it is.
For now your sig violates the sig rules btw, might wanna make it static for now...

No, I don't violate the rules, the image is 200 x 40.

The forum software is violating the rules.

-t

[Peter]