ResetEra Tech Thread (Report Bugs Here)

GrrImAFridge · May 17, 2020

This is an oversight as opposed to a bug, but staff posts that are posted as thread replies, at least for regular users, appear at the very bottom of thread pages and have no corresponding threadmark or staff post tag, making them very easy to miss, especially in volatile topics.

I like the idea of page-independent staff posts, but I'd recommend that you move the thread reply div to the top of the thread page template, and, since only mods/admins can post thread replies, have such posts tagged as staff posts by default, if possible.

vegtro · May 26, 2020

Not sure if it's a bug, but if I have HDR turned on (Win10), whenever I hover over the main page categories, black boxes appear where the images appear on the categories (Gaming Forum, Gaming Hangout, etc...). The black boxes appear by order, for example, Hover Gaming forum -> Black boxes appear on all categories, Hover EtcetEra From -> Anything After Black Boxes appear and anything before, no issue.

Happens using Chrome/Edge. Firefox seems fine. If I turned off HDR, it doesn't happen.

I KILL PXLS · May 31, 2020

Forgive me if this isn't the right place to ask this, but I wasn't sure where else I should. Whenever I try to play an embedded tweet with video I get this:

This seems to only be an issue in Chrome since I tried it in Edge and I'm not having any trouble there. Anyone know what's up? Is it something on my end?

Fuzzy · May 31, 2020

For a while I was getting that a lot on Firefox and then it "fixed" itself for the most part. I'll sometimes get that in one thread and then later it works fine in another. It's weird.

Prax · Jun 4, 2020

Yeah, not only with the message box scroll jumping and playback/content loading issues with twitter or instagram, but I've been getting a lot of login problems with firefox on mobile, having myself logged out or saying my cookies need to be enabled etc. when they already are.

Also recently got this:

screenshot_20200604_184127_firefox_by_meibatsu_ddyqhwl-pre.jpg

What's going on?

Chick3n · Jun 5, 2020

Noodle said:
On Chrome tweet embeds are being cutoff with the vertical size restricted to that of a text-only tweet. Works on Edge. Tried viewing tweets in other forums on Chrome and they displayed ok. Not sure if styling issue or Chrome bug.

https://i.postimg.cc/hjX0cx39/Untitled.jpg

Posting to say that I have the same issue: https://i.imgur.com/nA5AlG5.png

Refreshing would normally load them properly but that doesn't seem to be working anymore.

ody · Jun 8, 2020

whats going on with twitch embeds?

I KILL PXLS said:
Forgive me if this isn't the right place to ask this, but I wasn't sure where else I should. Whenever I try to play an embedded tweet with video I get this:

This seems to only be an issue in Chrome since I tried it in Edge and I'm not having any trouble there. Anyone know what's up? Is it something on my end?

still happens in firefox

LoveAndBeer · Jun 8, 2020

Something that has been happening regularly for a few days now (since last week maybe?): I'm getting logged out of the forum. Usually happens when I come back to an open tab but as soon as I click to to go back to the thread list I'll be logged out (goes from dark to light theme so boy do I notice!). I've noticed it across platforms, iOS/iPad and Mac for sure, and I seem to recall it happening on my Windows PC as well.

If this is just a one time per device thing I'm running into across each platform as I use it no problem but I thought I'd ask.

(note: signing in works fine, not issues or announcements about failed logins or anything like that).

Megasoum · Jun 8, 2020

Two issues I've been having for a long time... Not sure if they are by design or actual bugs... On Windows using the latest version of Firefox.

1-Whenever I insert an image in a post, the image will always automatically go to the very top of the message no matter where my cursor was when I clicked on the "Insert Image" button. I then always have to drag the image down to where I actually want it in the message.

2-If I highlight some text and then click on the Hyperlink button to make it a link. When I click on the Insert button after putting in the URL, instead of transforming the selected text into a link to that URL, it will actually create a new copy of that selected text on the following line as a link. So I then have to manually hit backspace a bunch of time to erase the text I had previously select to replace it with the newly created link.

Number45 · Jun 9, 2020

Megasoum said:
Two issues I've been having for a long time... Not sure if they are by design or actual bugs... On Windows using the latest version of Firefox.

1-Whenever I insert an image in a post, the image will always automatically go to the very top of the message no matter where my cursor was when I clicked on the "Insert Image" button. I then always have to drag the image down to where I actually want it in the message.

2-If I highlight some text and then click on the Hyperlink button to make it a link. When I click on the Insert button after putting in the URL, instead of transforming the selected text into a link to that URL, it will actually create a new copy of that selected text on the following line as a link. So I then have to manually hit backspace a bunch of time to erase the text I had previously select to replace it with the newly created link.

FYI I'm using FF on Windows and I don't have either of these issues.

SunBroDave · Jun 9, 2020

Question: Would it be possible to add an option to hide (i.e. temporarily ignore) threads (or even posts) based on whether they contain certain text strings? Over the past few weeks I've just been manually ignoring every thread popping up about The Last of Us 2, but not only have these been increasing in number lately (as expected) but there have also been a few instances of certain details being written write in the thread title itself, and I would have rather not known about them. It'd be great if there was an option in the user control panel where you could add any number of strings that can be used when querying threads to suppress any threads (or even posts, if possible) about topics that the user doesn't want to see.

And apologies if this has already been requested/denied, I haven't read through this thread yet. Or if there's another place I should be asking this, please let me know and I'll edit my post here. Thanks

GJ · Jun 9, 2020

Chick3n said:
Posting to say that I have the same issue: https://i.imgur.com/nA5AlG5.png

Refreshing would normally load them properly but that doesn't seem to be working anymore.

I have the same issue, but in Firefox. Already tried disabling some addons but it didn't change anything.

Screenshot:

Fuzzy · Jun 10, 2020

SunBroDave said:
Question: Would it be possible to add an option to hide (i.e. temporarily ignore) threads (or even posts) based on whether they contain certain text strings? Over the past few weeks I've just been manually ignoring every thread popping up about The Last of Us 2, but not only have these been increasing in number lately (as expected) but there have also been a few instances of certain details being written write in the thread title itself, and I would have rather not known about them. It'd be great if there was an option in the user control panel where you could add any number of strings that can be used when querying threads to suppress any threads (or even posts, if possible) about topics that the user doesn't want to see.

And apologies if this has already been requested/denied, I haven't read through this thread yet. Or if there's another place I should be asking this, please let me know and I'll edit my post here. Thanks

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Crossing Eden · Jun 11, 2020

This happening for anyone else?

Symphony · Jun 13, 2020

As of a few days ago I've noticed that any Youtube videos embedded don't show the name of the video as they used to. Using Firefox, even with all extensions disabled it's still the same. Not sure if it's a problem with the way they are embedded, something YT has changed, a Firefox update or something else.

Nerdkiller · Jun 13, 2020

I keep getting the "We value your privacy" nonsense each time I click on something on the site now. Won't go away whenever I click on "continue to site".

ody · Jun 13, 2020

Symphony said:
As of a few days ago I've noticed that any Youtube videos embedded don't show the name of the video as they used to. Using Firefox, even with all extensions disabled it's still the same. Not sure if it's a problem with the way they are embedded, something YT has changed, a Firefox update or something else.

Noticed this too
It's a problem with videos where the uploader has disabled embeds as you're no longer able to refresh the page and click the title to view on YouTube. Now, you have to right-click in the brief moment between clicking play and receiving the "Video Unavailable" message to grab the URL (better consistency than trying to click the title).

Very annoying.

Skyfireblaze · Jun 14, 2020

Symphony said:
As of a few days ago I've noticed that any Youtube videos embedded don't show the name of the video as they used to. Using Firefox, even with all extensions disabled it's still the same. Not sure if it's a problem with the way they are embedded, something YT has changed, a Firefox update or something else.

ody said:
Noticed this too
It's a problem with videos where the uploader has disabled embeds as you're no longer able to refresh the page and click the title to view on YouTube. Now, you have to right-click in the brief moment between clicking play and receiving the "Video Unavailable" message to grab the URL (better consistency than trying to click the title).

Very annoying.

It seems to be an Era problem as on other forums I still get the titles.

ody · Jun 14, 2020

Skyfireblaze said:
It seems to be an Era problem as on other forums I still get the titles.

Yeah, that's likely as there have been issues with Twitter and Twitch embeds as well. I have noticed at times the Youtube embeds will function properly when they're quoted

Fuzzy · Jun 14, 2020

DownUnderCoder if you're not busy it would be nice if we got an idea if some of the issues posted in the past month could be addressed. If you are then please ask someone else. Thanks.

Skyfireblaze · Jun 14, 2020

ody said:
Yeah, that's likely as there have been issues with Twitter and Twitch embeds as well. I have noticed at times the Youtube embeds will function properly when they're quoted

Yeah I get these sometimes too. Firefox 77.0.1 here.

DownUnderCoder · Jun 14, 2020

Nerdkiller said:
I keep getting the "We value your privacy" nonsense each time I click on something on the site now. Won't go away whenever I click on "continue to site".

You are likely blocking cookies, so it can't store that you've seen the EU cookie notice thing.

Symphony said:
As of a few days ago I've noticed that any Youtube videos embedded don't show the name of the video as they used to. Using Firefox, even with all extensions disabled it's still the same. Not sure if it's a problem with the way they are embedded, something YT has changed, a Firefox update or something else.

ody said:
Noticed this too
It's a problem with videos where the uploader has disabled embeds as you're no longer able to refresh the page and click the title to view on YouTube. Now, you have to right-click in the brief moment between clicking play and receiving the "Video Unavailable" message to grab the URL (better consistency than trying to click the title).

Very annoying.

We enabled a lightweight placeholder option which doesn't appear to show that information. Should be disabled now.

Crossing Eden said:
This happening for anyone else?

Clear browser cache, and do a full-restart of the browser. You may also have your ad-blocker blocking fonts, which will break formatting.

ody said:
whats going on with twitch embeds?

Twitch changed how embeds work, I recently pushed an update to the embeds framework we use. Is it better now?

JaseC said:
This is an oversight as opposed to a bug, but staff posts that are posted as thread replies, at least for regular users, appear at the very bottom of thread pages and have no corresponding threadmark or staff post tag, making them very easy to miss, especially in volatile topics.

I like the idea of page-independent staff posts, but I'd recommend that you move the thread reply div to the top of the thread page template, and, since only mods/admins can post thread replies, have such posts tagged as staff posts by default, if possible.

By design, the thread reply banner isn't a post. It is part of the toolkit for moderators to use, and that is more of a policy question than technical.

Fuzzy · Jun 14, 2020

Thank you. Nice to see YT embeds have the title again so we can easily open them in YT when needed.

GrrImAFridge · Jun 14, 2020

DownUnderCoder said:
By design, the thread reply banner isn't a post. It is part of the toolkit for moderators to use, and that is more of a policy question than technical.

Ah, fair enough. Thanks for the response. :)

ody · Jun 14, 2020

DownUnderCoder said:
We enabled a lightweight placeholder option which doesn't appear to show that information. Should be disabled now.

Clear browser cache, and do a full-restart of the browser. You may also have your ad-blocker blocking fonts, which will break formatting.

DownUnderCoder said:
Twitch changed how embeds work, I recently pushed an update to the embeds framework we use. Is it better now?

Both seem to be working fine now
Thanks!

ody · Jun 15, 2020

DownUnderCoder Would it be possible to pull threads from subsequent pages when using the ignore function so that you aren't left with just a handful of threads on the first page?

Nerdkiller · Jun 15, 2020

DownUnderCoder said:
You are likely blocking cookies, so it can't store that you've seen the EU cookie notice thing.

How do I correct that then?

MattB · Jun 16, 2020

I have no clue why but I can't scroll on tweets that are embedded into post. So when the screen is filled with them I have to find the small corner on the side to scroll. On a Samsung s20+ using chrome.

Wraith · Jun 18, 2020

Web console error on loading the page:

?cr=1&wp=540:22

Uncaught (in promise) Error: Requiring unknown module "17825792".
at u (?cr=1&wp=540:22)
at c (?cr=1&wp=540:22)
at i (?cr=1&wp=540:22)
at r (?cr=1&wp=540:22)
at 7f84b8faffdc.js:123

And when trying to embed a tweet:

Oops! We ran into some problems.
Oops! We ran into some problems. Please try again later. More error details may be in the browser console.

VM1042:1

POST https://www.resetera.com/index.php?editor/media 500

core-compiled.js?_v=b1fb2673:1

PHP: <html>
<head><title>500 Internal Server Error</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>500 Internal Server Error</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>

DownUnderCoder · Jun 18, 2020

Wraith said:
Web console error on loading the page:

And when trying to embed a tweet:

You caught the media bb-code stuff being updated which threw some errors briefly. Please try again.

Fuzzy said:
Thank you. Nice to see YT embeds have the title again so we can easily open them in YT when needed.

Can you check again? I've recently deployed an update which should add a clickable title when the placeholder behaviour is enabled.

ody said:
DownUnderCoder Would it be possible to pull threads from subsequent pages when using the ignore function so that you aren't left with just a handful of threads on the first page?

No, the platform doesn't support that. The ignore feature is applied after the results are fetched.

Wraith · Jun 18, 2020

DownUnderCoder said:
You caught the media bb-code stuff being updated which threw some errors briefly. Please try again.

Can you check again? I've recently deployed an update which should add a clickable title when the placeholder behaviour is enabled.

No, the platform doesn't support that. The ignore feature is applied after the results are fetched.

The error "requiring unknown module" still shows on page load (this could just be a Brave browser thing), but the twitter embed popup seems to work.

DownUnderCoder · Jun 18, 2020

Wraith said:
The error "requiring unknown module" still shows on page load (this could just be a Brave browser thing), but the twitter embed popup seems to work.

I believe that is the instagram complaining if there is any sort of blocking happening.

ABIC · Jun 18, 2020

Beginning yesterday but primarily today, I'm getting a very large amount of 520, 525 and even a 524 error for ResetEra.

Any idea why? It basically happens half or more of the time when I navigate. I refresh once in a while and every 3 refreshes it'll reach the site and load.

ABIC · Jun 18, 2020

Double post because connection is weirding out on me

I tried using my T-mobile LTE on my phone and the errors are still appearing, so it's separate from my network connection

leder · Jun 18, 2020

ABIC said:
Beginning yesterday but primarily today, I'm getting a very large amount of 520, 525 and even a 524 error for ResetEra.

Any idea why? It basically happens half or more of the time when I navigate. I refresh once in a while and every 3 refreshes it'll reach the site and load.

Same here, site has been very slow for me since yesterday as well

DownUnderCoder · Jun 18, 2020

ABIC said:
Beginning yesterday but primarily today, I'm getting a very large amount of 520, 525 and even a 524 error for ResetEra.

Any idea why? It basically happens half or more of the time when I navigate. I refresh once in a while and every 3 refreshes it'll reach the site and load.

There has been unexpected degraded performance of a server Resetera uses, I thought we had migrated it enough but apparently not :(

:edit: It looks like a new configuration option was causing very unexpected performance issues.

Megasoum · Jun 20, 2020

Is there a way to disable the "There's been new messages since last time your refreshed" banner? Especially on mobile... I'm having a really difficult time typing messages at times on my phone because the page keeps scrolling non stop moving me out of the text box...

DanteSparda504 · Jun 20, 2020

Maybe this is known, but does anyone else always have issues with typing on ios on the forum? I'm always having issues like my letters randomly capitalizing, or randomly forced double spaces, and trying to separate in paragraphs can be a nightmare.

It did not use to be this way. And maybe this is known. I haven't read the thread. Hell, maybe I'm not even allowed to post here? I have no clue.

Deleted member 55966 · Jun 21, 2020

DownUnderCoder I don't know if it's just you running the show or someone on the team, but my thanks for changing the two factor authentication input to the number pad from the full keyboard on mobile. It may be small, but it affected me a lot so I appreciate it.

Number45 · Jun 21, 2020

DanteSparda504 said:
Maybe this is known, but does anyone else always have issues with typing on ios on the forum? I'm always having issues like my letters randomly capitalizing, or randomly forced double spaces, and trying to separate in paragraphs can be a nightmare.

It did not use to be this way. And maybe this is known. I haven't read the thread. Hell, maybe I'm not even allowed to post here? I have no clue.

Yeah I have this too, been like it for a while now but wasn't always that way.

DownUnderCoder · Jun 23, 2020

Disk failures make me sad :(

No data appears to have been lost

BlackGoku03 · Jun 23, 2020

DownUnderCoder said:
Disk failures make me sad :(

No data appears to have been lost

Hope you have a good backup system.

Glad nothing was lost.

Tunichtgut · Jun 25, 2020

I can't remove the right side bar anymore. Is it not possible anymore, or is it something with my browser?

Seafoam Gaming · Jun 25, 2020

Yeah chiming in to say that I can't remove it anymore either. Thankfully it still takes into accountability my ignored boards/threads so it's not anxiety inducing or anything, but I'd still like to clear up some clutter

HighFive · Jun 25, 2020

Tunichtgut said:
I can't remove the right side bar anymore. Is it not possible anymore, or is it something with my browser?

Was coming here to post this. On IOS Safari, main page, the right side bar where they show visitor, last threads cannot be hidden, or cannot find the way to do it.

Fuzzy · Jun 25, 2020

HF2014 said:
Was coming here to post this. On IOS Safari, main page, the right side bar where they show visitor, last threads cannot be hidden, or cannot find the way to do it.

I just tried on my phone with Safari and tapping the 3 dots opens it and tapping to the left of it closes it without problem. Same with the left menu tapping the three lines.

HighFive · Jun 25, 2020

Fuzzy said:
I just tried on my phone with Safari and tapping the 3 dots opens it and tapping to the left of it closes it without problem. Same with the left menu tapping the three lines.

Forgot to specify im on Ipad. Not getting this problem with iphone. Ipad it stay there and there is no 3 dots.

b-dubs · Jun 26, 2020

HF2014 said:
Forgot to specify im on Ipad. Not getting this problem with iphone. Ipad it stay there and there is no 3 dots.

On screens that are wide enough to support the sidebar, the toggle has been removed to ensure latest threads and other stats are easily prompted by default. This should only affect the homepage on appropriate displays, and yeah we made sure it'll respect all ignored threads/forums.

Mammoth Jones · Jun 26, 2020

B-Dubs said:
On screens that are wide enough to support the sidebar, the toggle has been removed to ensure latest threads and other stats are easily prompted by default. This should only affect the homepage on appropriate displays, and yeah we made sure it'll respect all ignored threads/forums.

Um why remove the choice to auto-hide it? It just doesn't look clean and it's not how I parse the forums anyways so I always liked the fact that I could collapse this.

Perhaps allow a compromise by placing the toggle in preferences? Something...

Tunichtgut · Jun 26, 2020

Hmm, that's annoying, to be honest, cause the front page looks just weird now.

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