These aren’t suggestions - but it is two issues I have noted and probably should have shared sooner.
First off, I was having it so the BBS pages would not show up in fire fox. The header was there, and you could even view the source, but for what ever reason it would not render. I tried it on IE and it worked fine, and I’ve just gone ahead and used IE for all my BB browsing.
Note - the actual BB pages never had a problem rendering.
Second - I have seen several times now when I edit a post, hit save, the post sometimes is messed up, like it is missing letters or whole words. I hit edit again thinking that I messed something up, but it looks correctly there. If you refresh the page it shows up correctly.
Oh it sometimes works for me just fine. At first I thought, gee they must be having issues with the BBS since it’s not coming up. Then when it lasted for more than a day I checked it out in IE.
It would work ok for me for awhile, and then it would go back to only displaying the top bar. Eventually I got tired of the erratic behavior and just used IE. Which I hate using.
Tried Chrome? Seems like that’s the primary target of Discourse.
I was a diehard Firefox user for years, and had a very customized setup, so was skeptical of Chrome but it quickly won me over. Especially now that there are tons of extensions and add-ons available, though I switched before that was actually the case because Firefox became utterly unusable on OS X and Safari doesn’t cut it (although it’s honestly not that bad).
I just do not like Google. They are voracious consumers of data and I just don’t trust them not tracking me. No one must learn of my My Little Pony addiction.
As for a target - web pages should be W3C compliant and the browsers should adhere to those standards.
You might be interested in SRWare Iron, which is Chrome (actually Chromium) without all the Google data collection and things like that.
But I agree, clearly the site should be designed to work in all major browsers (and the browsers should be designed to all render pages the same in the first place) – I’ve just noticed the devs clearly have a Chrome slant, which is something to keep in mind while Discourse is still in beta development.
And I have to say, Firefox tends to fail more spectacularly than any other browser – it’s easy to unintentionally majorly screw up your profile and break core functionality that you wouldn’t think has anything to do with that (like rendering pages correctly). The main solution to that sort of problem that’s offered if you search support forums is to create a new user profile – in many cases the problem can’t be reproduced because the user has no idea what got messed up somewhere along the way.
I use IE10 and IE11 all the time on my Surface Pro to browse BBS, no issues. IE9 will be… bad, because they did not implement pushState which means the URL will never change in the address bar. IE9 is our absolute minimum “sort of works” browser.
I have been using Firefox 24 / Windows for days now with no issue on BBS. I did notice that Firefox has some occasional graphical rendering glitches at times that seem to be related to problems with Firefox’s hardware accelerated rendering support. The glitches are all just cosmetic though, and at a much lower level than Discourse, in the browser executable itself.
BBS should work fine in Firefox 24. (I am using it right now in fact…) There are a few people currently reporting the need to click twice on Reply in Firefox which is definitely odd (and I desperately wish I could reproduce it), but nothing that I know of other than that.
I can confirm that one. Sometimes more than twice, but usually twice. Started happening very recently, and I think the pop-ups for user avatars started at the same time?
hey M, does your search bar still work, and do you still get a pop-up menu when you type “@”? Lag-y preview box? A few of us have been co-miserating in this thread, but from what I know of you, you’re far better with computers than any of us, and Jeff’s config can’t reproduce what’s happening.
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Started happening very recently, and I think the pop-ups for user avatars started at the same time?
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I think he’s right, come to think of it. I love that feature, but not as much as the search bar etc.
hey guys. happily browsing BBS again, much thanks to @eviltrout and @codinghorror. seems like y’all have got our community’s issues pretty well hammered out at this point, but I figured I’d fly an idea up the flagpole anyway. It’s not a huge thing, but I think a positive feature:
at @beschizza’s suggestion, I’ve been using YouTube Center add on, and it is awesome. (thanks, RB!) One of the cool things it does is a Lights Out feature. Like I’m sure many BBS users, I’m frequently–if not usually–on at night. When it gets to that wee hour when my screen is the only light in my room, even with my screen brightness all the way down and my Flux app running, the white background still screams into my eyeballs. So, could we get a way to turn on a grey layer? I don’t think it would even have to be as intense as the one you provide when using the link-insert tool in the compose window, but something like it. In my head, it would either go here:
or it could be enabled through the user preferences whereupon this box would appear:
but I’m putting the cart before the horse a bit. good idea? bad idea? personally I could really use it, but maybe I’m the only one who feels this way?
If nothing else, I hope this post gets people to turn their LCD monitors down from factory brightness level infinity to something a tad more gentle on the old Mark I Eyeball.
oh, yeah, I turn my screen down on my mac and my tv, too. drives my roomate nuts. on the mac, though, the intensity between “kill” and “one” is still too bright if there’s no other light.
searching through CSS scripts now. I don’t think I’m up to writing one. the last code I wrote started with 10 HOME 20 INPUT A$
I think we should have a “I like the cut of your jib” button. If you like, say, three of someone’s posts in a 24 hour period, you’d get a popup that asks you if you like the cut of their jib and if you say yes, they’d get a jaunty pirate hat on their profile for 3-4 days.
(Yes, I am laughing. I think it’s a good idea though I suspect it won’t happen. The “purpose,” if it needs one, is to say “more of this sort of thing please” without disrupting the flow of conversation with possibly off-topic flattery.)
