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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 16:06 
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So it auto-replaces if you drop a link in? I thought about that, but then you can't not have it turn into a video.


I presumed he meant that you still need to put it in [youtube] tags but you can just paste the whole URL in. So you've still got the same embed/don't embed options as you have now but when you do want to embed the process is a hair less fiddly. Unless I'm misinterpreting something here?


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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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No, I meant you can just paste a YouTube URL and it'll do the rest.


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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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No, I meant you can just paste a YouTube URL and it'll do the rest.


Fair enough, I stand corrected. :)


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I could do that.

Can anyone think of a good reason not to?

NSFW videos, I guess.

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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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They don't autoplay do they?


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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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No, but the default image might be NSFW

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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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The thumb isnt resized on mobile ie9. I don't mind though.


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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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The thumb isnt resized on mobile ie9. I don't mind though.


I just came here to mention this but I do mind.


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A quick Google revealed two ways to fix that. Pick your favorite:

http://bit.ly/1lN2Fdd
http://bit.ly/1wHaTX3

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Grim... wrote:
A quick Google revealed two ways to fix that. Pick your favorite:

http://bit.ly/1lN2Fdd
http://bit.ly/1wHaTX3


Buy an iPhone? But it doesn't resize on Safari neither.


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A quick Google revealed two ways to fix that. Pick your favorite:

http://bit.ly/1lN2Fdd
http://bit.ly/1wHaTX3

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Saturnalian wrote:
Grim... wrote:
A quick Google revealed two ways to fix that. Pick your favorite:

http://bit.ly/1lN2Fdd
http://bit.ly/1wHaTX3


Buy an iPhone? But it doesn't resize on Safari neither.

Nuts. Best choose the first one, then :)

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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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Given that you can't zoom the mobile site, any page with a video on is now pretty much unreadable, unfortunately :(

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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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Yeah, they are making pages difficult to read.


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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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That should solve that. They might look oddly high on the mobile site, but that's not such a hardship.

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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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Given that you can't zoom the mobile site, any page with a video on is now pretty much unreadable, unfortunately :(

Just cuts the video in half on mobile chrome. Text is the same size


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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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Cras wrote:
Given that you can't zoom the mobile site, any page with a video on is now pretty much unreadable, unfortunately :(

Just cuts the video in half on mobile chrome. Text is the same size

Except that I fixed that.

Slam on your (hidden) refresh button.

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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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Grim... wrote:
That should solve that. They might look oddly high on the mobile site, but that's not such a hardship.


Boom, nice one!

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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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DavPaz wrote:
Cras wrote:
Given that you can't zoom the mobile site, any page with a video on is now pretty much unreadable, unfortunately :(

Just cuts the video in half on mobile chrome. Text is the same size

Except that I fixed that.

Slam on your (hidden) refresh button.

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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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Grim... wrote:
That should solve that. They might look oddly high on the mobile site, but that's not such a hardship.


Boom, nice one!


Awesome work!


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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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Fucking Remembrance Day thing didn't fire again.

At least it isn't going to go off at midday this time, though.

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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
PostPosted: Tue Nov 11, 2014 12:59 
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What's supposed to happen?


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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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You'll have to wait for next year ;)

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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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What's supposed to happen?

"SOLDIERS DIDN'T DIE SO YOU COULD FUCK ABOUT ON THE INTERNET WHILE YOU'RE MEANT TO BE REMEMBERING THEM"

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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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Has iOS9 broke the mobile forum a tiny bit?

When you make a post and tap on the bit where you write text the screen is zooming into the text box which it never did before. I don't like it. I don't like change.


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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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Saturnalian wrote:
Has iOS9 broke the mobile forum a tiny bit?
Pretty sure that's not going to be the forum's fault.


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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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Send me a device running iOS9 and I'll fix it.

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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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It does zoom in, yes. A long way from broken, but definitely different. And a little annoying.

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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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I made a small change. Did that help?

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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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Yup, back to normal

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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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You are the God of Internet things. Awesome work.


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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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And why, when you double press the button on your iPhone, do your open apps appear on the left now instead of the right. It's like apple are fiddling around for the fucking sake of it now.

(Not forum related. Natch.)


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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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And why, when you double press the button on your iPhone, do your open apps appear on the left now instead of the right
It's probably for the new 3d touch enabled app switching on the iPhone 6s.


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Yup, back to normal

Skillz.

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Saturnalian wrote:
And why, when you double press the button on your iPhone, do your open apps appear on the left now instead of the right
It's probably for the new 3d touch enabled app switching on the iPhone 6s.


Out of curiosity, why does that mean switching the side of the screen the apps appear on? I haven't got access to any new enough Apple hardware to play with the 3D touch stuff so I don't really know what impact it has.


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Skillz.


10 PRINT "HELLO GRIM...";
20 GOTO 10


It's that classy trailing semi-colon that does it for me. :D

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 Post subject: Re: Forum changes!
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But you don't have one on the GOTO command. Stupid BASIC.

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Grim... wrote:
But you don't have one on the GOTO command. Stupid BASIC.

The semicolon serves to modify the behaviour of print so it doesn't do a newline.


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Out of curiosity, why does that mean switching the side of the screen the apps appear on? I haven't got access to any new enough Apple hardware to play with the 3D touch stuff so I don't really know what impact it has.

Pure supposition, but:

The iPhone 6s uses aa new gesture for task switching. You force touch (ie. push a bit harder than usual) on the edge of the phone and then swipe. I'm guessing that something about this felt more natural for the apps to be stacked oldest-to-newest left-to-right, rather than the other away around. I'm not sure what though. Perhaps because older on the left feels right for the idea of going back through apps.


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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Bamba wrote:
Out of curiosity, why does that mean switching the side of the screen the apps appear on? I haven't got access to any new enough Apple hardware to play with the 3D touch stuff so I don't really know what impact it has.

Pure supposition, but:

The iPhone 6s uses aa new gesture for task switching. You force touch (ie. push a bit harder than usual) on the edge of the phone and then swipe. I'm guessing that something about this felt more natural for the apps to be stacked oldest-to-newest left-to-right, rather than the other away around. I'm not sure what though. Perhaps because older on the left feels right for the idea of going back through apps.

If I've learnt anything about coding it's that if you're not sure which way to put something make it work both ways and offer a user setting.

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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Bamba wrote:
Out of curiosity, why does that mean switching the side of the screen the apps appear on? I haven't got access to any new enough Apple hardware to play with the 3D touch stuff so I don't really know what impact it has.

Pure supposition, but:

The iPhone 6s uses aa new gesture for task switching. You force touch (ie. push a bit harder than usual) on the edge of the phone and then swipe. I'm guessing that something about this felt more natural for the apps to be stacked oldest-to-newest left-to-right, rather than the other away around. I'm not sure what though. Perhaps because older on the left feels right for the idea of going back through apps.

If I've learnt anything about coding it's that if you're not sure which way to put something make it work both ways and offer a user setting.


Any other company; probably. Apple? Not so much.


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If I've learnt anything about coding it's that if you're not sure which way to put something make it work both ways and offer a user setting.

Settings aren't free. They have a cost. Superfluous ones get in the way when the user is looking for something else. Add too many settings, and users are immediately put off using any of them. Worst case, they're so overwhelmed they stop using the software altogether.

And that's only the UX. Worse, every setting you add is another test scenario. When the user clicks Go, does the browser load the page? What if the language is set to Japanese? What if the theme is set to dark mode because it's night? What if the phone is rotated through 90 degrees? What if it's rotated and in Japanese but the dark theme is switched off?

Each setting increase the surface area of an app by the product of all the other settings. Settings aren't free. You have to use them sparingly.


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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
And that's only the UX. Worse, every setting you add is another test scenario. When the user clicks Go, does the browser load the page? What if the language is set to Japanese? What if the theme is set to dark mode because it's night? What if the phone is rotated through 90 degrees? What if it's rotated and in Japanese but the dark theme is switched off?

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I'm going to try and make the forum display .gifv files. You can ignore this thread for a bit while I fiddle.

http://i.imgur.com/cKcx3Lf.gifv

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I'm going to try and make the forum display .gifv files. You can ignore this thread for a bit while I fiddle.

http://i.imgur.com/cKcx3Lf.gifv


Once you've done it, can you go and teach Google how? Chrome's support of that format is fucking woeful.


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Although it occurs to me now that I'm not using it on my phone or my tablet because it's shit so, actually, don't bother.


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Grim... wrote:
I'm going to try and make the forum display .gifv files. You can ignore this thread for a bit while I fiddle.

http://i.imgur.com/cKcx3Lf.gifv


Once you've done it, can you go and teach Google how? Chrome's support of that format is fucking woeful.

That's because it's not a format, it's a link to a web page (you can view the source of the page above, for example). gifv is just a made-up filename that tries to play a .webm video, then a .mp4, and falls back to a normal gif if it can't play either.

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So this (in theory) works for any kind of video, not just a gifv. You can throw an mp4 at it and off it'll go.

Mobile site updates will be along soon.

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