okdid thatit doesn't look any different but maybe that's because i have no active bookmarks atm
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
77 still not there
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
yeah it still won't let me post
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
Can you screenshot yr account setting screen and send it to me pls? Stet at ilxor
― stet, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
Red hat zing for me too
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
Crashing happening on iPhone 5 not on iPad it seems
yes!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
I had the same problem as la lechera. Went away when I installed the new version. Thanks for all the work stet
― wtev, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
I have a theory about the crosspost bug. Whenever I try to connect and I've lost the signal (i.e., on the metro) I also frequently get multiple notices. This suggests the bug is in the UIAlertView code or whatever? Just a thought.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 9 July 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38685923/uialertcontroller-keeps-re-appearing-after-closing-it
― El Tomboto, Friday, 14 July 2017 13:37 (six years ago) link
Think I've figured out where it is. The way posting an answer works is the Thread object talks to the networking bit to submit the post. It then checks the result, and if there's an xpost it fires off a notification to any interested parties to tell them.
What is meant to happen then is that the view controller for the thread is supposed to hear a notification, check if it's for a thread it cares about, and show an alert if so.
But it seems like old thread view controllers (eg from previous times you have viewed a thread) are hanging around when they should have been destroyed, and they're also hearing the notification and firing off alerts.
It seems like it should be easier than it is to make sure the old view controllers are destroyed, but for some reason I don't yet understand they're not going away properly. Ugh.
― stet, Friday, 14 July 2017 14:00 (six years ago) link
Oh okay. But why the spamming of alerts when I don't have a network connection?
― El Tomboto, Friday, 14 July 2017 14:08 (six years ago) link
Same story, different notification (a "network down" notification they all respond to rather than an "failed to post why because xpost" one)
― stet, Friday, 14 July 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
aha
― El Tomboto, Friday, 14 July 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
bulleted lists don't work so good on Zing. I tried to post one last night and it didn't format correctly: Thread for iOS games 2017-2023: shame, loathing and recommendations
Also, the previous post with bullets, made from desktop, doesn't quite render correctly on Zing, apparently the line breaks after a bulleted list disappear in the thread view (post view renders fine).
― El Tomboto, Friday, 1 September 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
Did you type underscore or hyphen? It looks like underscore, which won't work. With hyphens:
― stet, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:47 (six years ago) link
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 01:50 (six years ago) link
i updated to iOS 11 the other day, and unfortunately it created two big problems with Zing. First
First, at the bottom of a thread, part of the final message is now hidden behind the bottom bar. It's possible to view the rest of the final message in a thread, but you have to slide all the messages up, and then it disappears behind the bottom bar again as soon as you let go.https://i.imgur.com/5u3lNnD.png
Secondly, and more seriously, whenever I run into the dreaded You = Too Slow cycle, the button to make the notification go away is hidden behind the keyboard:
https://i.imgur.com/0JCzPgb.png
There's no way to move the keyboard, hit cancel and go back, or dismiss the notification, at least not that I can find, so restarting the app is the only way out of the cycle. This makes posting on heavily trafficked threads pretty much impossible.
i might be the only one with this issue because i'm one of the 34 people on earth who have an iPhone SE.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 2 October 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link
I see this issue on my iPhone 7 as well.
― DJI, Monday, 2 October 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
There’s an update with apple right now which addresses the bottom bounce; don’t know about the other issue.
― Madchen, Monday, 2 October 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
Yeah, the current fix only sorts two things — the covered-up bottom post and a missing status line. I’ll take a look at the others ASAP
― stet, Monday, 2 October 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
lol just this second ran into the xpost problem.
anyway, when writing a post in portrait mode, the text you're writing continues off the bottom of the screen with no way to see what you're writing. workaround is to switch to landscape mode. this is on an SE with gboard.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 2 October 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
ILX Zing: You = too slowKeyboard: "I... I'm... Yeah"
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 2 October 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
Oh crap I see that now -- didn't have gboard installed so wouldn't have seen this. Not sure why it's happening though. Will take a look.
F'real, iOS 11 seems super buggy. It has broken things built against the old frameworks even, which is the first I've seen that in a long time.
― stet, Monday, 2 October 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
Ive updated to 11.01 and I'm still seeing the clipped messages and it isnt just the bottom one - the very top one is clipped off too, so if its the "previous messages" bar it is really hard to click on.
Super annoyed that bcs I swapped phones last week, the simple act of backing up and transferring to newer phone put me on OS11 without me asking, grrr.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 2 October 2017 20:18 (six years ago) link
O wait I see you mean a zing update.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 2 October 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
Omg I’ve finally fixed the xpost bug
― stet, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 00:47 (six years ago) link
!!!!!
that's great! :)
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 00:49 (six years ago) link
http://www.nataliedee.com/012506/maracas.jpg
― XPOST BUG (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 01:00 (six years ago) link
huge if true
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 01:10 (six years ago) link
What was it?
― DJI, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 02:39 (six years ago) link
you = too slow
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 02:51 (six years ago) link
you = too slowyou = too slowyou = too slowyou = too slowyou = too slowyou = too slowyou = too slow
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 02:55 (six years ago) link
*looks at new replies**posts*
turn back
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 03:00 (six years ago) link
vietnam platoon commander: fall back! we're surrounded! dumb hero: novietnam platoon commander: i said fall back soldier, these mortars are going to rip us a-dumb hero: you = too slowvietnam platoon commander: i don't-dumb hero: you = too slowdumb hero: you = too slowdumb hero: you = too slowdumb hero: you = too slow
― you = too slow (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 03:06 (six years ago) link
Fix approved by Apple and is rolling out now
― stet, Thursday, 5 October 2017 07:33 (six years ago) link
omg
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 5 October 2017 09:43 (six years ago) link
super nice
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 5 October 2017 14:57 (six years ago) link
Thanks, as always!
― DJI, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
^^
― you = too slow (Karl Malone), Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
Hero.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 October 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link
omg stet ilu
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tntRTRkp2GY
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
Am I the only one for whom zing crashes after viewing a post?And thanks stet!
― brimstead, Thursday, 5 October 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
I get that crash too ... I can read threads, but if I click on an individual post, then try to go back to the thread, the app quits. This has been going on for a while and still occurs with the latest version of zing. I attributed the problem to the antiquity of my 4s, which can't run any iOS later than 9.3.5, but maybe it's more general?
Also: thanks, stet!
― Brad C., Thursday, 5 October 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
does not happen to me on SE
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 5 October 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link
Hmm, that’s weird. What phone do you have, brimstead? And what OS?
― stet, Thursday, 5 October 2017 19:07 (six years ago) link
(Thanks everybody!)