Welcome to our new platform

m0dcm

dtuxcomp Cheers that helped a lot, will give this info to @daweski1981 so she doesn't see half the rubbish I like 😀 ah photos of the curtains etc soon to in a project thread and I'll tag you also 😀

Dave

dtuxcomp

m0dcm photos of the curtains etc soon to in a project thread and I'll tag you also

Brilliant mate, look forward to seeing them, still trying to catch up with all the pics of my daft projects but getting nowhere fast 🙂

7whales

Tuesday evening Sept. 10, I started a lengthy thread about 9/11/2001 and how it changed the world and affected me, while asking how, if at all, it affected others.
Compared it to Pearl Harbor too, on Dec. 7, 1941.

When done, and I hit the "Post Reply" button, all I got was the dreaded red, "What happened......", and told to refresh the page to have it post. That didn't work after several tries, and I couldn't copy and past since all that attempt brought up was the last two sentences and nothing more.

Won't bother to post any long posts as it seems to be a waste of time for me and my time is shortening every day.

Therefore I've given up on trying to post much on GG. Will stop by to read sometimes, and wonder at the amazing posts of numerals.

BTW, start backcounting from -3.

Waste of time.

7whales.

dtuxcomp

7whales Hi mate, sorry you lost a long post 🙁 I generally ignore those red box error messages, they are gradually being hunted down anyway. It's a bit belated but if you are planning to write a long -ish post I'd suggest either posting the first few lines then using edit to expand it once it's posted safe or occasionally highlight all the post and copy it to the clipboard in case it vanishes, on my system I can do that with

[Ctrl]a [Ctrl]c

That selects all and then copies it to the clipboard.

If you mean the notifications can show as negative numbers it's been reported, my personal best is -4 but I've been beaten by @jesi23 with -5 🙁 I think it was Jesi anyway 😉 🙂

I hope you are both doing ok, if you need to chat anytime give me a shout mate.

harrrrrry

7whales

If you have firefox, there's a useful extension Textarea Cache which automatically saves everything you write in a textarea (including flarum's compose area):

It works on most sites, not just giffgaff, and you can retrieve any recent text from the list and repost it, but I'm not sure if it works in mobile firefox.

frenchielove

7whales very sad to hear this, we can only hope it gets better and better, hope you are both well 🤗

jesi23

@7whales dtuxcomp If you mean the notifications can show as negative numbers it's been reported, my personal best is -4 but I've been beaten by @jesi23 with -5 🙁 I think it was Jesi anyway 😉 🙂

Yes, I had a -5 notifications (validated with screenshot!)

I think they might have solved that bug?

I hope you continue to post. The number of times I lost posts which didn’t save in Lithium when I was partially logged out was very frustrating. If anything, this platform is more stable than Lithium was after the so called ‘mobile responsive’ site was foisted on us just before Greg_b left us as Head of Community.

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7whales

dtuxcomp

Morning@dtuxcomp, I hadn't needed to copy and paste too often on the former website, although I did so sometimes so as not to have to try re-writing a longish reply.

This new website is leaving me wondering why the need for so many extra clicks and steps, jut to reply to a comment, either directly to a person or in general. Easier previously, at least to me, imo.

7whales.

dtuxcomp

harrrrrry If you have firefox, there's a useful extension Textarea Cache which automatically saves everything you write in a textarea (including flarum's compose area):

Wow, nice find, I'll give that a try as I use Firefox exclusively, is it in the normal FF add-ons ?

EDIT:- Found it, yep it's there in the main add-ons menu.

2nd EDIT:- After a couple of browser restarts while I was doing other stuff it must have kicked in as it's now keeping a copy of each post 🙂 Well worth installing on Firefox, or seeking out an alternate for the other main browsers, although I could see anyone on a multi user set up might want to look into how secure it is and whether each user has their own cache.

janetihill

Sorry to hear about this

dtuxcomp

jesi23 I had a -5 notifications (validated with screenshot!)

Thank you, I knew someone had beaten my score but wasn't certain who it was, I do remember seeing the screen short you posted so can confirm your high score 😉 🙂

jesi23 The number of times I lost posts which didn’t save in Lithium

Snap, it got so bad sometimes, I'd either draft a long post in a text editor or keep using the save trick I mentioned above.

7whales

jesi23

Hi Jesi,

In all actuality, my post with the -3 in it had no real reference to a particular (what sounds like) rating system on here. Just a backhanded comment on the large number of posts on GD telling us to count up to, or down to, or sideways too, which is not of much interest to those seeking anything better to comment on, on GG. Guess it might be a way of trying to get Kudo's for posts on here, but to me it seems like a waste of good space meant for more interesting postings. Word is "Post Padding" I think.

7whales.

richybhoy36

arlettak Hi I think that the new platform is brilliant , it took a small bit of getting used to but now I'm luving it !

andy69

andy69 Here's another tweak to improve whitespace and fontsize for firefox:

/* ==UserStyle==
@name           minimal giffgaff - 01/09/2019, 16:11:11
@namespace      github.com/openstyles/stylus
@version        1.0.0
@description    A new userstyle
@author         andy69
==/UserStyle== */
@-moz-document domain("community.giffgaff.com") {
    /* Insert code here... */
    .App:not(.hasPane) .DiscussionListItem {
        padding-top: 0;
        padding-bottom: 0;
        margin-bottom: 0;
    }
    .DiscussionPage .DiscussionPage-stream .PostStream .PostStream-item {
        margin-top: 0px;
        padding: 2px;
        margin-bottom: 4px;
    }
    .DiscussionPage .PostStream .PostStream-item .Post .item-replies {
        line-height: 1.4;
        margin: 0.4em 0;
    }
    .Post-body p {
        line-height: 1.4;
        font-size: 0.8em;
    }
    .Post-body p,
    .Post-body ul,
    .Post-body ol,
    .Post-body blockquote {
        margin-bottom: 0.4em;
    }
    .Post-header {
        margin-bottom: 0.4em;
    }
}

z201205

andy69 thanks. Makes using Firefox on Windows desktop a lot better: more thread titles are visible and more posts in a thread are visible. Would like something similar for mobile.

tangai

Slowly winning ... I have now managed to get the new platform working on my mobile ...

m0dcm

tangai The more I use it now the better it's getting for me, and that's from blind persons perspective! If I could help with the fee coding I would, but sadly, I'm only fluent in C/C++ and Visual Basic!! Ah and I don't use Microsoft products anymore... Confused or what 😀

Dave

dtuxcomp

m0dcm Ah and I don't use Microsoft products anymore... Confused or what

I'm not mate 😉 🙂

dtuxcomp

During the preview stage I'd asked if there was a way to get the ap without using the Google Play Store as I use a de-googled version of Android ( /e/ ) as it turns out I didn't need to worry, the new version of the ap has been sat waiting to be downloaded and installed from the Aurora Store which is a kind of wrapper for downloading apks from the Google Store without having to install that or use a google account, so I've now got v 5.4 of the ap on my phone which has replaced the previous 5.1 I think it was. Dimwit here didn't think to check whether the Aurora Store needed okaying to download and install stuff, so it'd been patiently waiting for me to check 😉 🙂

m0dcm

@dtuxcomp I am tempted to learn a new language (programming that is 😉) but not sure how the local college would cope with a severely sight impaired person entering the class. I know I can use C/C++ in Linux, but if the giffgaff boffs need any testers etc, I'll gladly do it!!!

Dave

dtuxcomp

m0dcm I am tempted to learn a new language (programming that is 😉) but not sure how the local college would cope with a severely sight impaired person entering the class. I know I can use C/C++ in Linux, but if the giffgaff boffs need any testers etc, I'll gladly do it!!!

Dave

If the college had any sense they'd take that as a bonus, free in-house accessibility tester 😂 I know when I did my CS course back in the dark ages the most valuable person in the year was that one guy who could break anything you wrote, he just had a knack for it, you could write code you thought would be safe and he'd find some random key combination or something that you'd never think to test for and bring your programme to it's knees 🙂 I try to carry on the tradition by offering to break new things for GG 🙂

Have you thought of any language in particular you like to try ?

jesi23

7whales
The problem to which @dtuxcomp and I were referring was that of negative notification numbers, where the number of unread notifications actually decreases below zero instead of just cancelling each notification in turn as read. Currently more likely scenario is reading all the notifications and still the number shows more unread!

I hadn’t thought about the pointless competitiveness in Games Forum, normally avoided by myself as well!

Of which I have recently been guilty, in “Girls vs Boys” where start at 500, male reduce by -2, female increase by +2, until 400 or 600 reached and reset to 500. When I personally got to 600, I stopped ‘following’ although I have been guilty of the occasional post. Not so much ‘post padding’ on my part as trying to encourage some who were trying out new platform in what I saw as a ‘less threatening environment’ than the ‘cut and thrust’ of dynamic opinionating.

As Flarum doesn’t support Groups the ‘Games Forum’ is now a tag or ’sub tag’ of the General Discussion Tag. As such, it can be hidden from your view. I’ve not yet done that but you might like to do it. Personally, if I were to want to hide threads I’d hide all Brexit arguments, anti-Trump threads, and pointless jokes and memes as well! But as I generally look out for H&S orphans and ‘flag’ them for support, hiding anything might be counterproductive.

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dtuxcomp

7whales Morning@dtuxcomp, I hadn't needed to copy and paste too often on the former website, although I did so sometimes so as not to have to try re-writing a longish reply.

I've now installed the Firefox add-on and it's brilliant, gutted I'd not heard of it before, anything you type into a text box is saved as you go, great idea 🙂

7whales This new website is leaving me wondering why the need for so many extra clicks and steps, jut to reply to a comment, either directly to a person or in general. Easier previously, at least to me, imo.

I'm not finding that for the most part, only with PD's but apparently a fix is brewing for that anyway. I just either hit the reply button to answer a whole post without any quoting, or highlight text from someone's post if I want to quote something and either one opens up the reply box with the post / membername already linked at the top.

I'm curious now, can you lay out one of the multiple click flows you are talking about ? I'm wondering if I'm doing it automatically so not realized how many clicks it's taken or if you're talking about a different process.

Take care,

dtuxcomp

jesi23 and pointless jokes and memes as well!

Not my ones surely 😉 🙂 😂

I did get involved in the Girls vs Boys game on the preview, as you say it was a great way of letting people use the new format without realizing they were actually learning as well, I've always found children and indeed grown ups learn better when it's a side effect of doing something interesting, or maybe it's just me who learns that way 😂 🤣

As for the "B" word, it's banned in all my long running threads 🙂 I've had to send a few to the naughty step for using it so the message spreads 😉 🙂