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hobbio

Has something happened to the formatting? It's looking a bit screwy at the moment.

djspecialist

Feature suggestion: have a way to close a thread as a duplicate.

The same questions naturally get asked many times - this feature would allow all the responses to be funnelled into a single thread, with closed duplicates being appended with a link to the original thread. 

That would make it easier for people to find answers within the site, and probably also improves the page ranking of coalesced threads by search engines like Google.

This seems to be quite effective on sites like stackoverflow.

Now waiting for somebody to tell me that this suggestion is itself a duplicate...

djspecialist

Bug: "@joebloggs commented on FLAG: <title>"

The following just happened:

1. I flagged a post

2. I got a popup in the bottom-left of my browser saying "@joebloggs just commented on FLAG: <title>" (and also an email notification with the same message)

3. When I click on the link (in the popup, or the email), I go to a page saying

Permission Problem

You don't have permission to do that.

4. I went to the thread I had flagged, and noticed that @joebloggs has just commented on it

That seems a bit broken.

As an aside: there doesn't seem to be any feedback on flagged threads - i.e. having flagged something, I don't know whether / when a modmin has seen and acted on the flag.  Having that feature might encourage more people to raise flags - at the moment one might get the impression (mistaken, I'm sure) that doing so has no effect.

dchwhite

"Query failed: connection to localhost:9312 failed (errno=111, msg=Connection refused)." is a message I get when clicking on a discussion title from 'recent discussions'. Just appears at the top of the page. I'm using the standard android browser if it matters. Doesn't seem to interfere with owt but thought @digitalscream might want to know.

TTony

@djspecialist

Combining threads (and/or splitting them) is a modmins function.

When you flag a post, a new thread is auto-created in a modmin section to prompt a discussion about the flagged post.  Being in a modmin section, you can't see the thread.  But the software defines you as being the starter of the thread, so you get alerts when we comment on it.

digitalscream

@dchwhite - should be OK now.

dchwhite

digitalscream said:

@dchwhite - should be OK now.

Smashing - no message now, thank you

Rox

Don't know if anyone else has this issue, but when I click on links on The Fretboard (let's say it's a post with a link pointing to another post on the forum), when I click the link, the new page opens, but with "Howdy Stranger" at the top as though I'm not logged in.

I've not been logged out, so why does the forum think I have when I click Fretboard links?

EricTheWeary

Rox;783536" said:

Don't know if anyone else has this issue, but when I click on links on

The Fretboard (let's say it's a post with a link pointing to another

post on the forum), when I click the link, the new page opens, but with

"Howdy Stranger" at the top as though I'm not logged in.



I've not been logged out, so why does the forum think I have when I click Fretboard links?

This not been answered? I get logged out if I use the back button on my browser when using the main site ( not an issue on mobile) although not if I click on a link, eg Recent Discussions, instead. Not a major problem but sounds similar to @Rox

markslade07

Same here.....seemed to start more after the recent ios9 update, but not sure it its related. Gets a bit annoying though

Jookyjr

Me too, but it tends to be that some links take you to 

http://thefretboard.co.uk 

where that happens, and others to 

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk

where it doesn't

Jookyjr

And then of course I just tried that and it didn't happen this time

EricTheWeary

How do I report a Discussion on the mobile site? I know I could PM a mod and hope for the best but there doesn't seem to be a flagging system? :-?

bingefeller

I've been having unresponsive page problems all day on TFB.    @digitalscream  All other sites are fine and it was OK yesterday.  

Moss

^ I've had a bit of this too

UnclePsychosis

EricTheWeary;805485" said:

How do I report a Discussion on the mobile site? I know I could PM a mod and hope for the best but there doesn't seem to be a flagging system? :-?

I've wondered this too.

EricTheWeary

UnclePsychosis said:

EricTheWeary;805485" said:

How do I report a Discussion on the mobile site? I know I could PM a mod and hope for the best but there doesn't seem to be a flagging system? :-?

I've wondered this too.

@TTony - not just me then! If the answer is PM a mod then should, somehow, there be a list of mods?  Actually, I was only looking on here as I have this thing now on iPad if I post a photo or YouTube clip it disappears when I save the comment, I then have to go into Edit, re post and it works then. This isn't ruining my world but it's an odd quirk that didn't used to happen. 

bingefeller

When I hide a sub-forum it doesn't actually hide it....

Any ideas?

digitalscream

@bingefeller - that's because you've got all categories selected on the left. If you select followed categories, it gets hidden.

All categories is there so you can unhide stuff as well

bingefeller

ahhhhhh  so that's why.  thanks.

SC gets hidden when I select followed categories, even though I don't have it set to hidden...