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This has to be the longest amount of time images have been left on.  Thank you for a fun week full of spontaneity, memes, and yoga pants.  
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cap'n grunge said:
It would be nice to keep youtube embedding available. Especially because i can do that from a smartphone and not images.
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It's been said its not happening.  There are plenty of other boards out there with this feature and this board has been working fine without images and video.  Instead we get features we did want like 25 posts per page, circle avatars, and the removal of the preview post button.

 
Doug B said:
As it stands, I can get by on my work computer either at work or at home. Some board features don't work, some buttons/links are invisible, get kicked out after signing in sometimes, etc. But I can get by. Heck, I even figured out the extra step I had to do to post pics.

But, yeah, a lot of things are locked down on this laptop's IE. Really curious about what, specifically, this new board is doing different in regards to its interplay with IE - for instance, what kind of data is it sending TO my laptop now as I browse? And why would certain buttons/links be unavailable in this version of the board software, but not a problem in the previous version? I ask rhetorically: buttons and links are buttons and links, right?
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There is a cert problem of the site, only partially secure and no identity supplied. Both of which could be causing issues with IE, meaning those portions that aren't encrypted won't display.

 
Look where it says 7 hours ago acerfc said. All the way to the right on that line is an arrow. If you click it, it brings you to that post. Back where you want to be

@Ignoramus

 
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Is there a way to see "my content" like before?

I'd like to be able to queue up just the threads that I've responded to...is that possible or is that another thing we've lost with this fingers in the booty @zz board upgrade?

 
tdoss said:
Is there a way to see "my content" like before?

I'd like to be able to queue up just the threads that I've responded to...is that possible or is that another thing we've lost with this fingers in the booty @zz board upgrade?
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Top tab.. Activity.. activity Stream.. :thumbup:

 
I can't find the 'Little Kids Getting Owned' thread... Custom sort of topics I've posted doesn't find it and only returns one page of results.

This is ridiculous.

 
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Anyone else getting this it sucks!

In Chrome on a macbook - Quote a post but then refresh page or back out without submitting. That quote or anything you have typed is then there whenever you try to quote or post later in the thread. If it is a quote you cannot get rid of it. It is there forever! Have to post with that quote to get a fresh box.

Doesn't happen in Safari.

 
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Credit where credit is due:

The new board software is working much better on the Blackberry now than it was Monday evening. Previous board software was leaner, cleaner, and smoother running on mobile ... but since it's not coming back, have to grade the current board software on a curve.

The only real issues left on locked-down IE 11 seem to be related to FBG's site certificate(s). Still a lot of details, buttons, and links that are invisible -- though if you know something is supposed to be there, the link still seems to work.

 
The General said:
Anyone else getting this it sucks!

In Chrome on a macbook - Quote a post but then refresh page or back out without submitting. That quote or anything you have typed is then there whenever you try to quote or post later in the thread. If it is a quote you cannot get rid of it. It is there forever! Have to post with that quote to get a fresh box.

Doesn't happen in Safari.
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Yes. Not sure what part of the software the programmers missed to allow it to happen but it is very annoying.

 
The General said:
Anyone else getting this it sucks!

In Chrome on a macbook - Quote a post but then refresh page or back out without submitting. That quote or anything you have typed is then there whenever you try to quote or post later in the thread. If it is a quote you cannot get rid of it. It is there forever! Have to post with that quote to get a fresh box.

Doesn't happen in Safari.
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Seems to happen in most browsers. Not sure if it is a bug or a feature.

Workaround is to simply post a jacked-up post with the incomplete message, then immediately delete the post :shrug:  This has brought up a bunch, but, as Otis said: "It doesn't matter". And he's right, if it's not a big enough issue for people to leave in droves.

:shrug:

 
The General said:
Anyone else getting this it sucks!

In Chrome on a macbook - Quote a post but then refresh page or back out without submitting. That quote or anything you have typed is then there whenever you try to quote or post later in the thread. If it is a quote you cannot get rid of it. It is there forever! Have to post with that quote to get a fresh box.

Doesn't happen in Safari.
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Chrome for Android has it built in, too.

Good feature that ensures you won't forget to post a reply if you happen to navigate away.

 
Insein said:
Yes. Not sure what part of the software the programmers missed to allow it to happen but it is very annoying.
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Makes me wonder "For what browser is the stock Invision forum software optimized?" Been on a lot of boards with a lot of board software upgrades ... this one has by far been the biggest break from the prior version. It is what it is, I guess.

 
Ignoramus said:
Chrome for Android has it built in, too.

Good feature that ensures you won't forget to post a reply if you happen to navigate away.
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If it's a quote though, I can't get rid of the quote. It won't let me delete it. Seems more like a bug than a feature unless there is some way to clear the area that I am being dumb and missing. 

 
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New one for me. It saves my post, but then never lets me submit. The saving icon never goes away. I have to copy what I wrote, refresh the page and then paste and post

 
The General said:
Anyone else getting this it sucks!

In Chrome on a macbook - Quote a post but then refresh page or back out without submitting. That quote or anything you have typed is then there whenever you try to quote or post later in the thread. If it is a quote you cannot get rid of it. It is there forever! Have to post with that quote to get a fresh box.

Doesn't happen in Safari.
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Hover over the content.  You'll get a prompt to hold down Command and right click for more options.  You can then remove the quote from those options.

 
The General said:
Anyone else getting this it sucks!

In Chrome on a macbook - Quote a post but then refresh page or back out without submitting. That quote or anything you have typed is then there whenever you try to quote or post later in the thread. If it is a quote you cannot get rid of it. It is there forever! Have to post with that quote to get a fresh box.

Doesn't happen in Safari.
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I use Chrome on my desktop and get this a lot. Very frustrating. What I do is type some content below the quote...move my mouse up to the top left corner of the quote...a little square pops up and then I drag that down below the content I typed. Then I can delete it. And start over.

 
The General said:
Anyone else getting this it sucks!

In Chrome on a macbook - Quote a post but then refresh page or back out without submitting. That quote or anything you have typed is then there whenever you try to quote or post later in the thread. If it is a quote you cannot get rid of it. It is there forever! Have to post with that quote to get a fresh box.

Doesn't happen in Safari.
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Reported day one.. Click at the top of the Quote, you should see a small symbol Icon.. click that, click delete .. Should be good. :)

 
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The board is getting to the point for me where it's unusable.  Same thing happened on another forum I used to visit.

  • Excessive whitespace requiring extreme amounts of scrolling to get past short posts
  • Minimal amount of posts per page and minimal amounts of threads per forum requiring excessive clicks
  • quote function is perhaps broken by design and is nearly unusable
  • Search is more broken than ever.
 
snogger said:
Reported day one.. Click at the top of the Quote, you should see a small symbol Icon.. click that, click delete .. Should be good. :)
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Whenever I click or right click that square icon...I don't see a delete option pulling up. Are you seeing it on a Chrome browser?

 
SIDA! said:
Whenever I click or right click that square icon...I don't see a delete option pulling up. Are you seeing it on a Chrome browser?
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No "Delete" Option.. Just click that Icon/Symbol and press delete/backspace on your keyboard.. Works for me on Firefox and Chrome. :shrug:

 
culdeus said:
The board is getting to the point for me where it's unusable.  Same thing happened on another forum I used to visit.

  • Excessive whitespace requiring extreme amounts of scrolling to get past short posts
  • Minimal amount of posts per page and minimal amounts of threads per forum requiring excessive clicks
  • quote function is perhaps broken by design and is nearly unusable
  • Search is more broken than ever.
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Since the upgrade, I have spent a lot less time here (which is a good thing in general). But I have also noticed that I open fewer threads and I think the number one reason for that is stuff falls off the first page so quickly that I don't even bother to go find it or look for it until it is back on the first page.

You used to be able to see all of the action for the day on the main first thread. You could scroll the 50 or so threads and see if anything caught your eye. And if nothing did you could go to page 2. I am not going to click on page 2 and then 3 or 4 every time I visit. 

Totally echo the white space issue...but I am pretty sure they are working on that and will tweak it over time. Search is supposed to get fixed. And I am sure they are committed to it. We will see though.

 
I don't have a right click option on my macbook - prolly some option that does this. What did work though is click the little "x" looking icon then hit delete button. Thanks fellas :hifive:  

 
The whitespace issue is improved since Monday evening on the enviroments I'm using (Blackberry - mobile; IE 11 - laptop). Again, not as good as the prior board software ... but someone out there likes it better, so it's the new normal.

The Quote stuff, I think just requires a substantial learning curve. Highly unintuitive ways to access Reply Box functions ... but, again, someone out there likes it better this way :shrug:  Guess we gotta adapt :kicksrock:

 
SIDA! said:
Since the upgrade, I have spent a lot less time here (which is a good thing in general). But I have also noticed that I open fewer threads and I think the number one reason for that is stuff falls off the first page so quickly that I don't even bother to go find it or look for it until it is back on the first page.

You used to be able to see all of the action for the day on the main first thread. You could scroll the 50 or so threads and see if anything caught your eye. And if nothing did you could go to page 2. I am not going to click on page 2 and then 3 or 4 every time I visit. 

Totally echo the white space issue...but I am pretty sure they are working on that and will tweak it over time. Search is supposed to get fixed. And I am sure they are committed to it. We will see though.
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Yup.  If I didn't log on for 3 days, I usually only had to go back 3 pages to see what I missed.  Now, things fall off the front page within 10 minutes.

 
Not a request, just an observation:

On some boards I belong to, the administrators will hack the forum software to get around "locked" defaults and such. For instance, if they wanted to get away from a default 25 posts showing up on pg 1 of the FFA ... they'd "get under the hood" of the software and make it so. Unless something is different with the Invision's latest software, it might not be necessary to accept all of its "unchangeable" features. But then, there's a cost-benefit factor to consider -- worth it for FBGs developers to spend X amount of time on what might be a minor issue for most users?

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