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.
I thought maybe it was from copying the link from the list when you do a search vs. clicking on the video and then copying the link in the URL, but that didn’t seem to make a difference… the first one I just clicked on copy link and the second I clicked on it and copies and pasted… you can see it’s the same:
It looks like it works. If that’s different than how you saw it when you posted, perhaps it’s a difference in how it renders when it has been added to the DOM dynamically vs. being rendered by the browser normally. Refreshing the page should resolve it, I would think.
The case of that, I was speculating that the problem was how I was copying the link for the video, and it turned out not to be the case. the first one, I copied it from the menu after a did a search (so, left click from the results that come up when I search). the second one, I clicked on the video and copied/pasted the actual url… It turned out not to the reason I was seeing the lack of title on the corner. So, there is something else going on with the posted video, especially since others are seeing it.
Good to know that they’re looking into it! Not a problem really, but sort of annoying.
