PF5 Problems & Errors: Report & Discuss

[Greg Bernhardt]

Please use this thread to report errors and functional problems. Please don't post about preferences, likes, dislikes etc. Please keep in mind I am still working on a lot of things. Thanks!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Known issues with messaging in conversations.

 

[symbolipoint]

Alerts do not seem to be present the way they were before. There were a few counts of something on top of a bell icon but when I opened that, there were many many posts listed, while the number over the bell icon showed "4".
Quick recheck: Bell icon has a red square with a white-text "5". Not the right count of not sure how many of what that is supposed to count.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

There were a few counts of something on top of a bell icon but when I opened that, there were many many posts listed, while the number over the bell icon showed "4".

The count is unread just like before

 

[symbolipoint]

I now see how that icon works. Just left-clicking it will show a list of threads (or posts?) and the count number seems to correspond to the latest items in the list. The bell icon is the list of Alerts.

 

[fresh_42]

Not a priority, just a reminder:
the Newsletter still lists all under "General Physics" which creates the impression we have no other forums.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

the Newsletter still lists all under "General Physics" which creates the impression we have no other forums.

Did it just get sent now?

 

[fresh_42]

Did it just get sent now?

No, the last one, last Tuesday. I just thought this thread here would turn into a list for you, so I thought I add it.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Did you start ads for members as well? I can see some ads even when logged in.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Did you start ads for members as well? I can see some ads even when logged in.

For mobile I need to configure, should be gone in the next few days.

 

[andrewkirk]

I am having trouble with MathJax in the new version.
When I edit a post with latex code in it, and then save, it now gets the same error we used to get when we quoted part of a post with latex code in rather than the whole post - which is that the encoding delimiters disappear and everything gets duplicated.

It took me several attempts to get my post correct in this thread, and I can see that at least one other seems to be having MathJax troubles as well.

I am using Firefox on Linux Mint.

 

[cnh1995]

I saw that the previous "Like count" has now become "reaction score". Does this mean there will be other reactions available as well?
PS: PF5 is very cool!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I saw that the previous "Like count" has now become "reaction score". Does this mean there will be other reactions available as well?
PS: PF5 is very cool!

Hover over the "Like" link in a post.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Hover over the "Like" link in a post.

How do you do that from mobile?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

How do you do that from mobile?

What happens when you press and hold?

 

[Wrichik Basu]

What happens when you press and hold?

Done. Thanks.

 

[The Bill]

On a 1536×2048 portrait oriented tablet screen, when viewing the desktop version of the site the main page is crunched to one side like this:

Spoiler

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

On a 1536×2048 portrait oriented tablet screen, when viewing the desktop version of the site the main page is crunched to one side like this:

Spoiler

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This was worked on, can you check if better now?

 

[The Bill]

This was worked on, can you check if better now?

Yes, the layout in desktop mode looks proportional now. Thanks.

What follows is preference-adjacent, but it is the reason I was trying the desktop view in the first place.

Is there a user option to get the mobile view of the main page to be in two columns like that, and how it used to be? The single column view is a chore to scroll through, and doesn't allow glancing over the top posts quickly. Switching back and forth to desktop view every time I visit the front page will probably make me want to visit the site less often.

Not to mention that the single column view just looks out of place on a 1536 pixel wide 8" display. It makes me have to move my fingers way too much, to the point that I can imagine it being an accessibility issue for some tablet users.

Now that I consider it, this isn't preference at all, since it causes a pronounced waste of time in viewing the front page whether I try to work around it or not. If it were just a preference, it wouldn't be capable of wasting my time, so this is a usability issue instead.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Not to mention that the single column view just looks out of place on a 1536 pixel wide 8" display. It makes me have to move my fingers way too much, to the point that I can imagine it being an accessibility issue for some tablet users.

weird, it should not collapse to single column until 900px. what tablet are you using?

 

[BvU]

Homework template missing in Intro Phys HW. Oversight or intention ?

 

[The Bill]

weird, it should not collapse to single column until 900px. what tablet are you using?

Asus P01M. I'm using Chrome version 73.0.3683.75 on Android 5.0.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Homework template missing in Intro Phys HW. Oversight or intention ?

whoops! that was a big oversight! :D

 

[Ygggdrasil]

A minor issue (I noticed this pre-dating the upgrade, but since you're fixing things now, it also might as well get fixed): The PhysicsForums twitter account often tweets about posts on the forum without actually including a link to the post discussed (see example below):

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

The PhysicsForums twitter account often tweets about posts on the forum without actually including a link to the post discussed

hmmm that is a wordpress plugin I use to do that automatically. It should link, I'll have to investigate.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Some thumbnails for videos in the media gallery are not visible. One is on the home page itself.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Some thumbnails for videos in the media gallery are not visible. One is on the home page itself.

I'm rebuilding the thumbnails now, hopefully that helps.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

I am facing one odd problem: drop down menu options in the header are moving away when I zoom in. This is from Chrome, Android, text scaling set to 100%. Have a look at this video (quality is a bit low, but you'll be able to understand what I want to say, change to 360p)

 

[BvU]

whoops! that was a big oversight! :D

Still unsatisfactory: Currently one cannot get a complete preview: title, problem statement and relevant equations are missing. Unpractical if they contain lots of $\LaTeX$

 

[BvU]

A feature that begins to irritate: 'alerts' was replaced by an alarm bell that has to be clicked to see the list.
Click and the counter is gone altogether.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Still unsatisfactory: Currently one cannot get a complete preview: title, problem statement and relevant equations are missing. Unpractical if they contain lots of $\LaTeX$

Are you referring to the quick thread within the thread list?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

A feature that begins to irritate: 'alerts' was replaced by an alarm bell that has to be clicked to see the list.

I'm not sure I understand your issue. That the label was replaced by an icon or that hover has been replaced by a click?

Click and the counter is gone altogether.

That is by design. It's a counter for how many alerts are unread. Once you click, are you not reading the alerts? This is not an unread thread counter.

 

[BvU]

Are you referring to the quick thread within the thread list?

No. To the intro phys HW forum. When I click on 'post thread'

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

No. To the intro phys HW forum. When I click on 'post thread'

Confirmed

 

[BvU]

I'm not sure I understand your issue. That the label was replaced by an icon or that hover has been replaced by a click?

the latter but I think I once complained about ALL entries reacting to a passing mouse pointer

That is by design. It's a counter for how many alerts are unread. Once you click, are you not reading the alerts?

When I wake up and I have ten or more of them, a) the clicking and waiting for a response to see them begins to annoy, b) it's very hard to keep track of which ones I looked at and which ones will have to wait until I'm at work -- or back home

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

the latter but I think I once complained about ALL entries reacting to a passing mouse pointer

In PF4 some members had pitchforks out because of the hover.

When I wake up and I have ten or more of them, a) the clicking and waiting for a response to see them begins to annoy, b) it's very hard to keep track of which ones I looked at and which ones will have to wait until I'm at work -- or back home

Alerts are just that, an alert, you can always go to your watched threads page to see what you have left to see and act on.
https://www.physicsforums.com/watched/threads

 

[Wrichik Basu]

One obvious thing is missing, though I have faith that it'll be back soon: unanswered threads.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

One obvious thing is missing, though I have faith that it'll be back soon: unanswered threads.

It’s an option in the forums nav drop down. I am planning to make it a sidebar widget in the near future.

 

[fresh_42]

Am I the only one who is missing the counter for Threads with no replies

 

[Wrichik Basu]

It’s an option in the forums nav drop down. I am planning to make it a sidebar widget in the near future.

The link in your signature has to be edited. I just fell in a black hole.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

One thing @Greg Bernhardt: Are you paying EmojiOne for the smilies?

Here is a travel forum running on XF software. They are saying that their smilies are provided free by EmojiOne (scroll to the bottom of the page). If you too get them for free, you might want to consider adding some more smilies to PF. The linked site has a number of more smilies than PF. Maybe all are not required, but adding some would be a good choice.

 

[BvU]

New item: I'm missing the post count, so I don't know if someone is a newcomer or not.
?

 

[Bystander]

post count,

Upper right, in the post header.

 

[BvU]

Thanks. I suppose I should learn to look a little better (dutch expression: further than the length of my own nose)

next -- category nice to have -- : a 'close preview' button
a) so I can find the 'post reply' that often goes off-screen downwards
b) so I can fix mistakes and/or continue editing in the edit window, which often goes off-screen upwards when inspecting the preview

 

[Tom.G]

On the log-in page, PLEASE, PLEASE remove the default checkmark in the Keep Logged In box! Presently, it requires those that do Not want to Keep Logged In to take an action every time, vs. a one-time action for those that do. Pretty please with a Cherry on top?

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Faced serious problems while adding media. Embedded 40 videos, and when I clicked on "Save", it asked me to enter 70 characters or lower. But where?

In addition, the number of characters allowed for titles seems to have been reduced.

An option "Set all titles, descriptions and tags..." existed in PF4, can you bring that back?

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Interesting: banned members have found a place too:

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Faced serious problems while adding media. Embedded 40 videos, and when I clicked on "Save", it asked me to enter 70 characters or lower. But where?

That is a limit for the titles.

In addition, the number of characters allowed for titles seems to have been reduced.

I'll increase it for videos since they aren't indexed by search engines anyway.

An option "Set all titles, descriptions and tags..." existed in PF4, can you bring that back?

hmmmm... not familiar but will look around

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

On the log-in page, PLEASE, PLEASE remove the default checkmark in the Keep Logged In box! Presently, it requires those that do Not want to Keep Logged In to take an action every time, vs. a one-time action for those that do. Pretty please with a Cherry on top?

ok done

 

[dlgoff]

Is ther a way to change the font size without messing with these small pics?
i.e. firefox 37.0.2>tools>options>content>font size
see circled items

Thanks @Greg Bernhardt