Haven’t had any issues before this point, so I’m not sure if related, but I’m suddenly having issues with the text block in the reply area overlapping the buttons below, to the point that it’s difficult to hit the “Reply” button to close out a post. I don’t use the ignore component at all (have never hit the point where I’d want to ignore someone who wasn’t so egregious about causing problems that they would be moderated), so I’m not sure if it’s a data point or if it’s just expected from the troubleshooting that’s been done.
Yep, that’s what I’m seeing on Firefox. There’s a narrow spot where I can hit the reply button when it’s doing that, but it’s sometimes tough to find… it seems like it’s only the area directly over the arrow that can activate the button, not anywhere else over the button, and if the text is overlapping then you have to hunt for a spot that’s over the arrow but outside the edge of the text.
Hmm… I happened to click-drag the handle of the bar at the top of the reply area (pictured below) while writing a reply for another post, and it immediately snapped to a point where the text area isn’t overlapping the reply button any more. It seems to be persisting for me also, and the entire reply button is now accessible when I mouse over it rather than just the arrow.
I’ve seen some weirdness since then with the size of the reply area being gigantic sometimes, but otherwise I haven’t seen the text area overlapping the buttons since then. Very strange. Aside from the immediate snap that one time, the handle on that blue bar seems completely nonfunctional for me… it switches to an icon which seems to indicate that it can move, but click-drag does absolutely nothing.
Since I got that change while dragging the reply area, I’ve seen that any paste into the reply area expands the reply area upwards, and there’s no scroll available for the relpy area. This might be the same as the earlier reports of issues; if I paste something that is too large, the reply button is entirely off screen and I have to hit tab and pray to submit. I think I just haven’t ever hit something that triggers this, but it showed up in #DammitKansas - #65 by Nonentity
… well how about, if you’re not going to get rid of this redundant, buggy “mute” button, is there some way we can individually turn it off, so I won’t have to worry about accidentally clicking it again
The custom Ignore/Mute User component has been disabled site-wide. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. Please use the built-in discourse Ignore feature instead going forward.
Hmm… I’m now able to resize the reply area with the handle, so that’s definitely a plus.
I have seen some oddly inconsistent minor issues still happening, though they can mostly be worked around by resizing the area:
I’ve seen one case of the reply area expanding upward when adding lines underneath a pasted-in URL, until it hit the top and then the bottom of the area expanded downwards (taking the reply and close buttons with it). Although I haven’t been able to reproduce it since then so I’m not sure what the trigger was.
The text area still appears to extend over the reply/close buttons, but resizing the reply area to be larger gets around that.
I did have to clear my cache for the site to get the mute button to stop showing up.
Shorter version: still some bugs, but much less annoying
Do you have any accessibility settings or systemwide increased font size or anything like that set?
I just ask because us web developers are really bad at figuring out all possible combinations of those things and testing them all properly. And it’s really hard to diagnose and solve things when they don’t happen for us so we can’t see whether or not a change affects it.
I tried a few settings tweaks (like 150% font size) but wasn’t able to find one that caused the reply/close buttons to be hidden in my experience. I don’t doubt that you’re seeing it though.
The expanding upward is I think expected normal behavior when you paste in an image or link that fills some space. So you can preview it. But covering up the bottom row of buttons is not expected, and that shouldn’t happen.
Nope. And I made sure to shut off any ad blocking or other mods that might impact things.
Not quite what I meant. What I saw was: I pasted a link (which created the boxed summary in the preview), and then started typing lines below that… every carriage return after that point, even though there was still plenty of space in the reply area, caused the blue handle to shift upwards. Until it ran out of space, and then everything started expanding downwards past the bottom of the window.
Here’s what I’m seeing:
It stops at that level at the default size of the reply area, and if I drag the handle up a little bit then the bottom of the text area moves up with it until it’s inside the space it’s supposed to be in.
If I’m ever able to trigger that expansion thing again I’ll try to document it better - naturally, it’s refused to happen again now that I’m on the lookout for it. I think the only issue I’m still reliably seeing is the positioning of the bottom of the text area, and that’s also a bit fiddly - sometimes that bottom point is a bit higher when I start a reply, sometimes a bit lower, and I haven’t seen any indication of what might be determining that.
I do not have any accessibility or system-wide settings that are new or different than normal and I haven’t changed anything at all. But now I see it too!
I don’t know how or why. Even if I scroll all the way down, the final line of text is halfway outside the area:
Now if I can just make it happen consistently, maybe I can find something. Although I’m not really familiar with Discourse, so, maybe I wouldn’t.
Edit: I was attempting to post in another thread, changed my mind, deleted the text, and the reply box was refusing to let me Close or Post. It might have been my tablet, since a reboot seems to have fixed the issue.
2nd edit: issue persists in the original thread (BoingBoing move to Substack.) No idea why. I cleared out the Drafts, but the reply box pops up when returning to the topic.
Weird. Nothing has changed recently on this end of things. I was just replying to another topic and saw a message about Drafts Offline or something similar, but it disappeared before I was ready to reply. It’s possible that we’re seeing a bit of reduced performance as traffic increases.
More of an inconsistency than a bug, but the “Reply” button on the thread itself and the “Reply” button on the comment have different hit boxes. For the thread, it’s the whole button, for the comment in the edit box, it’s just the arrow even though both boxes look identical. My first comment I thought I was blocked from replying for some reason because the button wouldn’t click :-/.
Same for me when i just created a new topic, very small hit box on the button and i couldn’t click the close button at all. This reply box seems fine though.
I looked around but couldn’t see anything referencing this.
I use Firefox, with the system theme in dark mode. I have this site pinned (where TOS used to live). Pinned tabs don’t show the site title, just the favicon.
This is what it looks like:
If it isn’t selected, this is what it looks like:
So, this is a weird thing with youtube videos happening for me. For me, some videos don’t have the title at the top prior to clicking on it… Here is what I see with some videos:
Note that instead of the name of the band and the song title, it just says a generic - youtube? But it’s not universal:
Those were posted by others, and this was posted by me:
Just curious if anyone else is seeing this or if it’s just me… not a huge deal, but a bit of an annoyance.
