Annoucement Big update over the next few days

[sleepy]

We need to do some updates to the forum over the next few days. We still have a lot more features to roll out over the next few months, but coming soon:

- Picture uploading is now even easier - just drag and drop images into the post editor, or right click on any image anywhere on the web, click on copy, come back to the post edit box here, right click -> paste, thats it).

- A full editor with smileys on mobile devices

- Mobile app is updated and fixed some of the bugs hopefully

- Ability to watch an entrie forum (ie. get an alert whenever a new thread is posted in dd forum if that is what you are interested in)

- 'Bookmarking' posts / threads of particular interest to you

- Improvements to conversation manager (search conversations, delete conversations easier etc)

- Editing post titles in case you make a spelling mistake when you create a thread

- Post edit history & revisions

- Automatic saving of post replies

- Hopefully a return of the live updates of alerts

- And a million other small fixes.

It is all working well on the staging system, it will require an hour or so of downtime whilst everything is swapped over to production. We will probably do this late at night but I will update this thread once we have decided when

 

[jimmer]

you should have tab under address bar now

 

[stuart]

you should have tab under address bar now

yes got that

 

[jimmer]

all sorted then

 

[stuart]

all sorted then

thanks jimmer i think its sorted

 

[sleepy]

You can just drag the tab with TFF in it onto the bookmark toolbar

 

[Flossie]

This is a long standing problem, but while your in the mood for fixing things............

If I'm quoting someone, I get part way through my reply and the cursor jumps to the middle of the quote and sets off typing there (generally when I type an "I" or start a new sentence) Doesn't always do it, but it's still doing it after the upgrade and it's bloody annoying Hubby's sometimes does it too

 

[B&B Pig Man]

This is a long standing problem, but while your in the mood for fixing things............

If I'm quoting someone, I get part way through my reply and the cursor jumps to the middle of the quote and sets off typing there (generally when I type an "I" or start a new sentence) Doesn't always do it, but it's still doing it after the upgrade and it's bloody annoying Hubby's sometimes does it too

Is that always on the same laptop?

I had the same problem a whole ago, turned out to be a faulty touchpad!

 

[Chae1]

I can't paste anything into replys anymore. Used to copy and paste img link from photo bucket. Can't now

 

[sleepy]

I can't paste anything into replys anymore. Used to copy and paste img link from photo bucket. Can't now

You should still be able to do that, what happens when you try?

You can also just drag the image from your computer straight into the reply box, or right click on a picture, click copy, then right click in the reply editor and click paste.

 

[Great In Grass]

I have had problems typing on my android when using firefox, cursor jumps all over the place, chrome worked fine though.

 

[Flossie]

Is that always on the same laptop?

I had the same problem a whole ago, turned out to be a faulty touchpad!

Tis a 10 month Samsung Note and hubby on a 16 month Ipad

 

[B&B Pig Man]

Tis a 10 month Samsung Note and hubby on a 16 month Ipad

As @greatingrass says - what browser are you using?

 

[Chae1]

You should still be able to do that, what happens when you try?

You can also just drag the image from your computer straight into the reply box, or right click on a picture, click copy, then right click in the reply editor and click paste.

It just comes up blank when I click on paste. Nothing appears, its on an I pad.

 

[Great In Grass]

Actually I very seldom view the forum with the tablet because I get so many script errors.

 

[DrDunc]

This is a long standing problem, but while your in the mood for fixing things............

If I'm quoting someone, I get part way through my reply and the cursor jumps to the middle of the quote and sets off typing there (generally when I type an "I" or start a new sentence) Doesn't always do it, but it's still doing it after the upgrade and it's bloody annoying Hubby's sometimes does it too

I'm getting the same intermittent thing happening now I've switched to the mobile browser editor instead of the app since the update.now happening it's because backwards bt next read .Firefox I'm saved draft see toy sometimes .Firefox and chrome with ith Happens

Edit the last bit of gobbledygook is because it was happening in Firefox. It also happens with chrome. Sometimes a draft saved box appears. Xperia T Mobile

 

[Flossie]

As @greatingrass says - what browser are you using?

Safari (I think)

Using Linux on safari (@Philip Watkins signature told me)

 

[Philip Watkins]

@Flossie, pleased to be useful!

 

[DrDunc]

@admin Re: The glitch in the editor where the cursor jumps around. It definitely happens for me on mobile view web page when the draft saved box appears.

 

[Flossie]

Where's 'Help' gone? It used to tell me what the smilies meant. Now I just guess what I think they mean-if I've used the wrong one somewhere, sorry if I've offended!!

 

[Great In Grass]

You are lucky you can use them, I keep getting a JavaScript error and they don't appear!