Forum Bug List

[thomas]

We have finally upgraded to vB4 and introduced some new technical features as well.

In case you encounter any errors, glitches and bugs, please post them to this thread with as many details as possible (OS, browser, page, etc.).

Thanks in advance!

 

[Grandpa Frank]

The section at the bottom that showed all the members that had logged in for the last 24 hours seems to be missing? I used that to check all the new members out. I already mentioned the member's profile area was missing the quick link to the admin section where I check out new member's IP's. There are ways to get around both of those things , but it would be quicker and easier with them?

Uncle Frank

% % @ @ # # $ $ ^ ^ & & * * ( ( ) ) + + = = % % % %

 

[thomas]

Thanks Frank, I'll check tonight whether there's a corresponding mod available.

To-do list

• Members online today mod

 

[Mike Cash]

Is there some reason "percent" symbols sometimes don't render correctly?

 

[thomas]

Mike, has this been happening after the upgrade, too?

 

[Mike Cash]

Mike, has this been happening after the upgrade, too?

Yes, it has.

I made a post with the symbol, and it didn't render. Then I edited the post, including a sentence inside parentheses, and the symbol rendered correctly. Then I again edited the post, removing what I had added, and again the symbol didn't render properly.

 

[thomas]

Mike, thanks for confirming this. I will look into the issue!

To-do list

• Members online today mod
• Garbled "percent" symbol in uneditted posts
• Enlarge "Post" button and change to a more prominent colour

 

[Davey]

I'm glad the Beer smiley is working! Enlarge the smileys is another thing on the to do list.
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[thomas]

I'm glad the Beer smiley is working! Enlarge the smileys is another thing on the to do list.

Well, that seems a bit complicated. I managed to align them in one column, but your best bet is to click the "More Smilies" link for a pop-up page of all available smilies and icons.

 

[Davey]

Bookmarks section.
Use only the icons, or make two columns

 

[thomas]

Bookmarks section.
Use only the icons, or make two columns

I have spent an hour figuring out how to do that. I think I need to go into the source files in order to change the bookmark display.

Update: done! Was just a question of editting the style sheet.

To-do list

• Members online today mod
  Implemented.
• Garbled "percent" symbol in uneditted posts
• Enlarge "Post" button and change to a more prominent colour
• Bookmarks section: use only the icons, or make two columns
  Implemented.

 

[Mike Cash]

Currently viewing via iPhone. The floating "Tweets" button is a nuisance.

 

[thomas]

The floating "Tweets" button is a nuisance.

I noticed that you have already discovered Tapatalk, Mike. I use Tapatalk on the iPhone and Safari on the iPad.

The Tweets button is tiny in fact. See the iPhone screen shots (vertical and landscape) below.



We are still testing whether we need the button or not. Thanks for the feedback!

 

[Grandpa Frank]

Finally figured out how to get from a member's profile to the user manager section. You click on the edit button(pencil) right to the left of the "VISITOR MESSAGE" button. It's a lot easier than clicking on the "MOD" button at the bottom and having to type in the member's name.

Uncle Frank

 

[Grandpa Frank]

Hummm?? Just noticed member's old posts can't be accessed?? It let's you see recent posts if any , but real old posts won't show? For instance....I clicked on "stereophotos" profile and it shows 15 old posts; I see no way to access & read them??

 

[thomas]

Finally figured out how to get from a member's profile to the user manager section. You click on the edit button(pencil) right to the left of the "VISITOR MESSAGE" button. It's a lot easier than clicking on the "MOD" button at the bottom and having to type in the member's name.

Glad you figured it out, Frank. I'm not yet familiar with most new features either.

---------- Post added at 09:16 ---------- Previous post was at 09:15 ----------

Hummm?? Just noticed member's old posts can't be accessed?? It let's you see recent posts if any , but real old posts won't show? For instance....I clicked on "stereophotos" profile and it shows 15 old posts; I see no way to access & read them??

I clicked a veteran member's profile and it brought up the last 500 posts, all clickable. Will look into it.

 

[Grandpa Frank]

Maybe I just picked a bad member? I could not view any of "stereophotos" old posts?? When I click on other members , their last 500 posts show , even the old ones. I guess I just had the bad luck to try stereophotos as a test subject and his old posts did not show?? So other than his old posts , guess there is no problem.

 

[Toritoribe]

Mojibake again...

As Mike-san already reported, I can't link the thread below due to mojibake of "percent" right after the "/". ("percent" --> %)
The URLs of the threads in this forum are changed after the update...

forum/learning-japanese-64/%82%CD-%82%AA-%82%F0-whats-difference-between-following-sentences-46448/

 

[thomas]

Test

Mojibake again...
As Mike-san already reported, I can't link the thread below due to mojibake of "percent" right after the "/". ("percent" --> %)
The URLs of the threads in this forum are changed after the update...
forum/learning-japanese-64/%82%CD-%82%AA-%82%F0-whats-difference-between-following-sentences-46448/

Test 1

は, が and を what's the difference between the following sentences?

Test 2 (editted)

な

Test 3 (isolated percent symbol; uneditted, editted)

%

Test 4 (isolated percent symbol after slash; uneditted, editted)

/%


Appears to work flawlessly in URLs as well as isolated characters. I shall try to reproduce that glitch tomorrow.

We are now using vBSEO, a module that optimises the forum for search engines and renders links more user-friendly. Two-byte characters are parsed into what seems to be mojibake. It isn't. Still, the issue of the percent symbol in posts persists (and has persisted in the old version of vB). I found out that that topic has already been raised on vBulletin:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2094354

Special Character % (Percentage) does not appear in posts. Gets converted into: #37 - vBulletin Community Forum

https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/356345-Percent-sign-showing-up-as-amp-37

I see if I can find a workaround. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention!

 

[Toritoribe]

A new bug.

貰ったからです。

In this my post, somehow "since" is displaied twice...

 

[thomas]

In this my post, somehow "since" is displaied twice...

Thanks for reporting this.

Have you editted your post? Since I can only spot one "since"...

 

[Toritoribe]

Sorry, apparently the problem is in my environment. I'm using a bit special (and old) browser. IE displays correctly.

 

[thomas]

I'm on Firefox and Opera here and it displays fine. Glad it's not a bug.

 

[undrentide]

Hello thomas,

I wonder if you could do something with the buttons for pages...
Please take a look of this particular thread (Need a Kanji Translated? Just ask!)
https://jref.com/forum/search.php?searchid=19418

The last page is No.28 - oops, it's 29 but I really cannot see it! - but the button is so small and more than half of it is hidden behind another button for the attachment.
I had hard time to go to the last page.

I do not think there are many people who want to see the latest attachments rather than the last page itself, and wonder if it is possible to remove the button for the attachment or make the page button larger.

 

[thomas]

Thanks for reporting this, that's a confirmed glitch!

Update: this only seems to affect the search results page, not the forum display

=> Learning Japanese

Also, you can reach the last post by clicking the arrow icon in the "Last Post By" column.

To-do list

• Garbled "percent" symbol in uneditted posts
• Enlarge "Post" button and change to a more prominent colour
• Search results page: attachment icons bleed into pagination in large threads
• Members online today mod
  Implemented.
• Bookmarks section: use only the icons, or make two columns
  Implemented.
• Tapatalk encoding
  Implemented.