PF5 Problems & Errors: Report & Discuss

[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

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Is ther a way to change the font size without messing with these small pics?

I would use the zoom feature rather than mess with specific font sizes.

 

[dlgoff]

Thanks Greg. I'll play with zoom.

Edit: That worked @Greg Bernhardt. Thanks again.

 

[dlgoff]

@Greg Bernhardt
When viewing a member's profile page, that member's replies to "Profile Posts" are not visible. Is this by design? I was wondering what information I received from a member while looking back at some old "Profile Posts". Not really that big of a deal for me though.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Is this by design?

Nope, looks like an issue

 

[dlgoff]

I just noticed something else.
When editing a post, inserted links get lost. Sorry Greg.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I just noticed something else.
When editing a post, inserted links get lost. Sorry Greg.

hmmm I can't reproduce. Anything unique about what you're doing?

 

[Wrichik Basu]

What does it mean to make a conversation sticky? Prevent it from deletion?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

What does it mean to make a conversation sticky? Prevent it from deletion?

Keeps it at the top of the list. I don't know about deletion.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Problem in alerts: a reply to a watched thread comes up as "...created a ...". See the first alert in the screenshot:

This is the thread: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/second-try-in-journal-article-submissions.968138/

 

[fresh_42]

Problem in alerts: a reply to a watched thread comes up as "...created a ...". See the first alert in the screenshot: ...

This is due to the fact that I moved the thread to Academic Guidance. The subforum recognizes it as new and sets an alert if you checked this forum for alerts. So it is not really an error.

 

[Nik_2213]

Probably due 'Work in Progress', but clicking on a topic under Partners now goes to PhysOrg front page, rather than a discussion in PF...

(Win'10, Norton's & Chrome browser... )

 

[Vanadium 50]

How does one tell if a thread is locked without reading it?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

How does one tell if a thread is locked without reading it?

There is a lock icon in thread list to the left of replies/views.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

A minor problem: when I click on the drop-down beside media in the header, there is an option to add a. But media categories shown under that option don't include Physics and Maths:

There is no option to scroll.

 

[Vanadium 50]

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

If I enter user name/password and then check the box, it works. If I check the box and then enter my username/password, it unchecks the box.

 

[fresh_42]

If I enter user name/password and then check the box, it works. If I check the box and then enter my username/password, it unchecks the box.

I guess this is a consequence of the requested change to "default: unchecked". If you check it first and then type the username, then it is a new user from the standpoint of the system, ergo default has to be applied.

Whatever you do, you can't win. Poor Greg.

Every other solution in AJAX would require an analysis for several possible cases and a detection routine what is entered first, all in dependence of whether the site is called, still in the cache somewhere, etc. To solve it by programming will make things worse in my experience, since every solution will cause two more exceptions for users which previously did ... .

 

[Vanadium 50]

There is no way to fill in the entire form before taking an action? That seems the simplest case to program and the one least likely to surprise people.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

If I enter user name/password and then check the box, it works. If I check the box and then enter my username/password, it unchecks the box.

At the moment I can't reproduce this in IE or Opera. What are you using and at what point does it uncheck?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

A minor problem: when I click on the drop-down beside media in the header, there is an option to add a. But media categories shown under that option don't include Physics and Maths:

There is no option to scroll.

Can you try now?

 

[Vanadium 50]

FF 66.01; I checked, entered my name and pw and noticed it unchecked.