Flagging is an ILX app for Android (in beta)

Have at it

Thrills! Spills! Bugs! Try it out and let me know if you have any issues. Requires entering your password, there just isn't a way around it. I don't do anything evil with it though.

If anyone can come up with a better icon - and really, anyone could come up with a better icon - let me know.

With help from diamonddave85, although he's not responsible for the bugs or the length of time it took.

wow, looks good and is very fast. nice!

doesn't seem to show one's post without explicitly refreshing though

Yeah, known issue, will fix.

been waiting a long time for this, thanks! tho is anyone else getting the weird bug where unclicked boards pop back up?

Needs a way to change background color, though.

And I wish it could be moved on to an SD card.

I haven't seen the issue with the boards. What phone / Android version?

I'll look into those other requests. The background color thing shouldn't be tough. Might do.something about the typeface as well although Android doesn't make it easy.

S7 Edge, Android 6.0.1. It doesn't seem to save the chosen boards correctly, keeps a few but adds a random bunch more.

Yeah I have something similar with the boards. In my case I only have ILM and ILE saved but I'm seeing a bunch of threads from other boards under New Answers. Also S7 Edge, Android 6.0.1.

i am just another APPL stooge but I am very excited to see the fruition of all your

HTML Playground posts and etc

Great news!

awesome, thanks

Just updated to Android version 7 and all boards working fine now

Interesting. That shouldn't be ... will check out.

There are a few other known issues: sometimes will crash after coming back from a long sleep, and sometimes will get into a broken state when it fails to reach the server. Killing and restarting the app fixes.

Congrats lukas! Looks great

using this RN I like

a few posts of mine didn't go through, will try again (on computer right now)

also they were shitposts tbh so no great loss

Yeah posting was one of the last things to get added - I noticed today that for some reason Flagging can't post comments to the I Hate Apple thread. I'll look into but sorry if anyone loses deathless prose in the meantime :/

Dope

nice

yeah my posts weren't going through just now either

Just on the one thread?

submitted a test reply here a moment ago but it never arrived

app is pretty slick otherwise tho

Same question about phone and version of Android for you my friend

I post?

Ah success

I'm having trouble reproducing the phantom post thing, although I've seen it myself. Details helpful as mentioned above. I'll keep fiddling with it.

@lukas i use galaxy s6, android is version 6.0.1

oh hey that was posted via the app

Kind of a small annoyance but if I scroll halfway down the list of threads, open one, read it and then hit the Back button on my phone to return to the list, I'm returned to the top of the list rather than the point where I left off. If that could be fixed then great, if not no biggie.

Is there a minimum Android version for this? Doesn't seem to work properly on my phone, for instance "I only have ILM and ILE saved but I'm seeing a bunch of threads from other boards under New Answers" - there's no obvious way to select which boards appear on New Answers, they're all there. I think I'm on 4.4.

same on Android 7.1.2 , I can select and deselect boards with individual sliders and it remembers my choices but there's no effect on the post list (oh hey, I'm on 77? I don't remember if I knew that)

and I can reply to some posts but not others.

The board issue will be a quick fix. Still hoping to find a way to reproduce the posting issue.

u r my hero

bookmarking a post in Flagging on my phone does not seem to carry over to the board on my PC

Some people report this with Zing too; this might not be Flagging-specific. If you can figure out lukas I'd love to know

Are there maybe different server/instance values I should use?

Fixed a silly problem with posting replies to threads, guessing this is the bug people are seeing. Also fixed seeing threads from disabled boards. Won't be able to push this update until tonight tho.

thankig u

Wish I had an android just to try it!

superb, thanks dude. instant ilx HOF

hey I am posting this from Flagging works great!

(terrible joke about disabled boards flagged automatically by app)

trying this now!

is there an easy way to quote posts or put in links?

There will be in Flagging Pro, the non-free version :-)

those are on the list, kinder

When I get fired for spending too much work time on this I'll have plenty of time to add new features

!!! stoked to try this out, thx so much

sent it out with fixes, might take an hour or two to show up. you'll know you have the latest if the Settings page shows Flagging 1.1

can i see a screenshot

Follow the Google Play link at the top of the thread for screenshots.

Still struggling to get bookmarks to sync between flagging and browser version

yeah, like stet said, that's a known issue for Zing as well as Flagging. I'm going to add some logging to the app and see if I can track it down.

Board issue seems fine now, thanks for fixing that. I raised another minor issue upthread about scrolling, would be great if you could have a look at that sometime (low priority obv)

personalised updates! A+

I'd love to try this out, but I'm on Android 4.1.5 and I can't install it.

I'm not doing anything fancy, should be able to update the app to support that.

am i missing something obvious? is there a way to see updated bookmarked threads?

that's what 'bookmarks' is

revive this when you finally 'get' bookmarks

lol the order looked different than the web versh on first glance. it's not.

Arch I just uploaded a version that should work for you, available in a couple hours probably.

Awesome! Will try it out later today.

Posting this from Flagging...

Cool, it works! But I don't see my reply after I post.

OK, this is a great app. Works smoothly and does exactly what it needs to do. Excellent work, lukas!

I do have a few suggestions:

- Refresh the thread after posting a reply
- It would be nice if the grey area at the bottom of a thread had a textbox to reply immediately
- I'd love a separate bookmark button
- Swipe to the right to go back to the thread list

Some visual things, not neccessary but nice to have:

- Add a '.. months/years passed' separator between such posts
- Maybe add a poll icon in front of thread titles, instead of - poll behind it

The app is great, I especially like the way hidden images are treated. Definitely needs a better icon though, maybe even the standard ILX logo.

There is a standard ILX logo?

uh.jpg

I think he means the favicon, which is "ilx" in pink and yellow vag rounded.

http://www.ilxor.com/favicon.ico

I'll see if I can whip up an icon today.

As for bookmarks, I can't really figure out what's happening with them. It looks like there's a lag between a post and the updated bookmark, but it's hard to tell.

ok it looks like the bookmarks i've set on the app are now different than those on web? is that a db thing or an app thing

Not sure. Happens with Zing Touch too sometimes.

I don't know if you want to keep the flag in the icon, but I would love something like this on my phone:

http://i.imgur.com/BiwD3Cf.png

Don't want to use the Zing icon?
http://is1.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple42/v4/b0/83/de/b083ded3-41c4-d596-b4a9-5632db2f4a3b/source/175x175bb.jpg

I think both are great but I prefer the text

post

Zing is its own thing (that I cribbed from relentlessly)

I have very negative associations with that shade of blue, AC. But we do need a better icon ...

*xpost, lol

If you let me know the color you would like I'll make a set of png icons for you tomorrow.

you can change your own icons on android. maybe not on stock jelly bean though...

A couple more:

http://i.imgur.com/UmKy3ih.png

http://i.imgur.com/zElBsiQ.png

http://i.imgur.com/K3yBSKk.png

http://i.imgur.com/v9fHBqT.png

vote sweden

aye

AC, thanks - can you email to flagging at theporouscity dot com?

Oh nvm, didn't realize that's a png already.

Do you need more sizes?

ilx is battenberg colours fuiud

Yeah actually: 48 × 48 (mdpi) 72 × 72 (hdpi) 96 × 96 (xhdpi) 144 × 144 (xxhdpi) 192 × 192 (xxxhdpi) 512 × 512 (Google Play store)

ok later tonight

http://i.imgur.com/X0WDg0L.png

this thing has told me it's posted a couple times, then didn't actually. this was after a crash. i hit ok w/o sending a report. i'm a bad beta participant.

When you go to the settings page, what version do you see at the bottom? There are a couple people running the original broken version.

1.4

WRONG ANSWER

What device / Android version?

galaxy s6, android 6.0.1

looks like i'm behind the times too (galaxy a3, 6.0.1)

i'm also on 1.4 - s7, 6.0.1

1.4 on 7.1.1

Nexus 5x

Sometimes crashing on startup.

Constantly getting the 'Flagging has stopped' / 'Flagging keeps stopping' if I haven't used it for more than about half an hour and open it again.

Galaxy 5x / 7.1.1

I think I have that one figured out. Update coming hopefully tomorrow.

can I just say thanks! Has made ILX usable on my phone finally.

um, this is interesting. Navigation needs work, but hey..

yeah don't let my whining sway you, this is awesome, could change the way i interact with the site.

feature request: text search/find in page across all screens

Request: little dot or bar down the side that moves so you can see how far you've scrolled

Just pushed an update that should fix some bugs (don't worry, not all of them.) You might experience some weirdness the first time you connect to a server, if so is because app moved to https.

Mark, tell me your navigation ideas.

Cool, thanks Lukas! Nice new icon too :)

maybe after bookmarking a message the app should send you back to bookmarks?

Yeah, that's a good one.

feature request: if you're already on the New Answers page and scrolled down, tapping the New Answers tab insta-scrolls you up to the top - unless i missed it there's currently no quick way to scroll up to the top / refresh if you're scrolled way down the list.

+1 for adding that to every android app ever
biggest thing i miss from ios

I've had some issues with posts not appearing so let's see if this works.

Things are going to be quiet for a while, but if anyone has a serious problem - like say if you can reliably reproduce an issue with posting - give a shout and I'll try to fix.

Bump in browser so I can see thread in app

test on first public beta of android O, seems ok

setting and using bookmarks too

i had to stop using this because if you try to post and someone post before you lose everything you just wrote .

Yeah, the same thing happens to me every time.

It's sad, I'd be willing to pay money for this app if it, 1) didn't lose your posts every time you start writing one and someone else posts before you (I don't think this was problem before, so maybe the recent ILX code change has caused it?), 2) the search function was included, and 3) there was a way to remove bookmarks. Other than that, it works perfectly.

Oh, sorry, I just realised there is a way to remove bookmarks! Scratch that from the list then.

In retrospect, having someone who generally lurks write this app was going to lead to some oversights. I'll post here when the crosspost problem is fixed.

I would like search too but unfortunately it's not coming in the next couple months.

i like it a lot! i use it a lot too. i hadn't noticed the xpost problem i guess

is there a way to sort out the bookmark variance between the app and web? and/or view full list of bookmarks, not just those that are updated?

how do you remove bookmarks in the app?

long click on the one you want to remove, popup appears

lukas, thanks so much for making this! It is clean, simple and FAST: the ILX spirit in a nutshell.

If you are still looking for feedback, I would second most of the notes already made, and add only that being able to view my full Bookmarks page (in tandem with having some kind of Control-F analogue) would be excellent (I had to switch to browser to find this thread and post this), that some stylesheet customizability would be great (mainly though I just want quoted text to show up in a shaded box - it's a little too easy to miss the thin vertical line next to the text), and that something like the 'three years pass...' dividers for dormant threads would be good so you have to use less of your brain to catch where the current revive begins. But imho this is a really solid base, and probably more than 80 percent of the way to completely providing the ilx experience in the palm of my hand! Bravo.

I still want to use it but can't figure out how to get it sync with my browser sessions

cosign casino's post, it's a great app

hi, new version up that detects crossposts and saves drafts.

more to come, slowly.

Thanks, Lukas!

Moodles, what's happening? When you first logged into the app, did you see all your bookmarks, it's just that updates don't sync? Or did you not see your bookmarks?

If I open the app, i see my bookmarks come up correctly, but then if I update them, nothing carries over to my browser

test

^

I was able to successfully post, maybe I need to play with it more

woo!

another minor thought: maybe a little dot on the right hand side, or horizontal 'progress bar' tucked into the thread title bar, to indicate how close you are to the bottom of the thread?

I can confirm the bookmarks-not-carrying-over issue - if it helps, it seems to only be an issue for switching to browser on this same device. On my desktop, all bookmarks are correctly updated. So maybe it's actually an issue with how Android or the Chrome app are handling the browser cache?

also a feature for opening ilxor thread links in-app instead of launching browser?

More misc ideas/notes (emphatically not demands - I am using the shit out of this app so in general count me as satisfied!):

* some shortcut function that loads the whole thread and puts you at the top would be real handy. I'm using this a lot on the subway when I kinda just want to load up a meaty thread for a 'longform' read, so scrolling up and whacking the load-more button repeatedly feels a bit kludgey.

* crosspost warning doesn't seem to work quite right - dumps you back to the thread, without the new post you're crossing, so you can't really adjust your reply or anything. then if you go to your reply and try to post it again, it still thinks you've got an xpost even though it's the same "new" post that's blocking you up... have to go back out to threads/bookmarks and back in for it to shake out of this.

* in general if my connection comes and goes or if I switch from data to wifi, the threads/bookmarks get hung up in a spinning refresh icon. have to force close the app and restart. that's pretty easy on my phone but I wonder if there is an easy fix?

* shortcut buttons to add bbbcode to replies (maybe another icon above the pink pencil?) would be great. ideally one could select txt and click to have it be bold, quotes, whatever, but I dunno how hard that would be.

* when writing a long post like this one, the pink pencil covers up what you're writing.

still groovin!

thanks again for making this. i'm using it more and more (it's mostly muscle memory to go to my phone's browser)

through no fault of my own, Flagging started showing errors on top of threads. just pushed 1.9 to fix that.

1.10 should be available soon. Two new, undiscoverable features: tap thread title to scroll to top of thread, long press on "load earlier messages" to load the entire thread. Few other minor things.

mwah

Does the "Bookmarks" tab show the board list for anyone else?

oh NM, I hadn't updated the app, all good now.

Thanks v much for this app, it's great and all, but I echo other's requests for a progress bar/scroll bar so I know how far down the page I am. Doesn't need to be on the right hand side necessarily - actually, a progress bar at the bottom would be dope.

there are a few threads that for some reason I can't load in the app, here's an example:
The Blue Nile: C or D?

Cool additions! Thank you!

Another suggestion (sorry!): at least for me, having the Bookmarks tab disappear from the home screen when all your bookmarks are up to date isn't really functional, because when one of my bookmarked threads does update, the tab doesn't come back, or weird "stuck on the loading icon" stuff happens similar to when I move between wifi and cell data, and I have to close the app and restart it to get a proper refresh. So I end up leaving a token thread not bookmarked at the bottom, which is a bit silly. I'd prefer the tab just always be there, even if it's empty... but maybe that's just me! Not higher priority than getting access to Search, Preferences, Flag Post, etc... just something I've noticed in the course of my (pretty heavy!) daily use of this app.

NotEnough, can you check in settings which version you have? Version 1.10 should have a scroll bar on the right side when reading a thread (small, only appears when scrolling.)

just my two cents, but I'd prefer clicking bookmark on a thread did not automatically send me back to the list of bookmarks - it's something my thumb does while my eyes are still reading the bottom couple of posts. maybe it could be made optional?

The app shouldn't break after changing networks any more, so hopefully needing to restart it is a thing of the past. Fixed all bugs with threads not loading that I know about, let me know if I missed any.

I've been unable to post from Flagging this afternoon. Not sure when the last time I successfully posted the app was though. Every time I clicked on the little icon to make a post, it would close the app, including after I saw your post above.

What's the current version? I'm on 1.12...

Just rolled out 1.14 which should fix your problem, HL. Might take a couple hours to be available.

fixed the posting bug for me!

Same here. Thanks!

just my two cents, but I'd prefer clicking bookmark on a thread did not automatically send me back to the list of bookmarks - it's something my thumb does while my eyes are still reading the bottom couple of posts. maybe it could be made optional?

Just updated(!) and yeah would love it if this could be optional as I'm experiencing the same...

I adore the fact that you click on a bookmark and it takes you back to the list of bookmarks. Making it optional so I can keep this behaviour would be cool.

haha i'm now actually kind of used to it so yeah i stand behind the idea of making it optional :D

but i stand behind adding search, full list of one's bookmarks, some kind of Control-F, and Flag Post as the most critical features missing, versus desktop ILX. still a hell of an app, gets that low-impact ILX vibe totally.

not supporting flag post yet is kinda hilarious

Hmm - any way this could be jiggered to include sticky top-level announcements, like the current one for the annual hosting fundraiser?

i imagine the testing of that will be difficult, given how rare they are.

(best take some screenshots and grab the html source now!)

(for reference it's a 'sitemessage' div between the 'menubar' div and the 'bookmarks' div)

Thanks both, seems manageable.

lukas, any possibility of putting the code on Github? I've been trying to teach myself Android development.

oh god you don't want to learn it from me

but maybe

bug report: currently-running polls don't display the identity of the OP (tho concluded ones do), making it look like the first responder is the OP finishing a thought under the poll options. really threw me just now on a horrible thread where it seemed totally out of character...

actually looks like it doesn't display the text of the OP either

i have some that fixes this and a couple other things, please stand by

thing that

While you are updating: would it be possible to remove the title of the last visited bookmark when there are no more unread bookmarks?

deleted threads persist in board lists/sna as well as bookmark. can't remove them from the latter by the long-press method (get "server error" pop-up message).

yeah same here.

opened flagging for the first time in a week and bookmarks appeared for every single bookmarked thread that had been updated since then. these bookmarks now exist in other browsers as well and have to be cleared/updated one by one

Isn't that the way bookmarks work?

you dan't do this in Flagging, but in a browser go to Bookmarks. You can mass-delete bookmarks from there.

mookie's wording is a little confusing but I THINK what's being referred to is the bug discussed upthread, where on browsers on the same device, the top of SNA is piled high with pages and pages of "updated" bookmarks for threads you've long since caught up on in flagging or on your desktop. it's really weird tbh.

yeah, this

I have this issue on both flagging and regular ILX on my work computer. Don't have this on my phone or home computer.

for me, flagging is always up to date, but since I started using it, using ilx in-browser on my phone (really only necessary due to lack of search function, bookmark-browsing, and control-F) has been suffering this problem. super weird.

Same, I just choose to use my chrome browser instead. Don't know what keeps it from syncing across devices. This was a problem before flagging.

Strangely, that doesn't happen with me at all- bookmarks sync perfectly across flagging/phone chrome/desktop chrome.

Yeah, same here.

a new wrinkle: flagging isn't picking up that i changed my display name over in browser land. or perhaps ilx isn't telling itself that the DN is different anywhere besides this phone's browser. but... why would that be?

^^^ that's me in browser, this is me in flagging

oh no i've said too much

AHA now I know what the bookmark problem is

lol mookie

haha
choosing my display name

Just wondering: why doesn't Flagging use the bookmark function to load threads? Very long threads (for example, 'pitchfork is dumb') take a long time to load in Flagging, while it's instantaneous in a browser.

Hi. I released a thing with some tweaks. If anyone is encountering bugs with posting, I'm eager to hear about it.

AC, are you loading the pitchfork thread from SNA or bookmarks?

Thanks for all the work you're putting into this!

- where do I click to go to the top of a thread? (new feature?)

- sometimes, threads just don't load - today, I haven't been able to open "Talking Heads - Classic or Dud?" at all. Spinning wheel & there it hangs forever.
Cleaning cache, restarting phone, uninstalling the app & reinstalling, wifi at work, mobile data everywhere, wifi at home: nothing. And tomorrow (or next time I try, it'll probably just open as if nothing
happened. Okay, it's Android 8.1.0 now, but even when I wasn't in the beta program I had this sometimes.

For tap to top, scroll up a bit until the thread title appears, then tap it. You can also tap on tabs for SNA / Bookmarks / Boards to go to the top of those lists.

Every thread failing to load (so far) has been the server spitting out XML a little differently than I expected. Will take a look at that one.

Hmm I see the issue now with threads loaded from bookmarks loading the whole world :( will take a look at that too.

thanks for your work on this, i use it all the time

^^^

Okay, I have a comment - when I have my tablet in landscape, I can't bookmark a post - the Send, Browser, Bookmark links are not visible. In portrait mode, they are.
Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8, Android 7.1.1.
The add new post + sign is visible in landscape mode.

Thanks again! that Talking Heads thread loads now

Thanks for looking into the slow loading from bookmarks, lukas!

There is something in the Ant & Dec s/d thread that makes the Flagging app crash on my android - don't need to fix that for me though, just letting you know in case it's useful

it happens when I scroll up past that black and white photo

Just happened to me when I tried it as well.

fittingly it crashed for me, too

ironic

*peeks head over parapet* anything badly broken? *ducks*

not that i've experienced! still invaluable.

(ok i still would love search, FP, browsing your own bookmarks, and find-in-page. but i really ain't complaining, this app is great!)

thanks for making the app! it's great

search is the most obvious thing that would be nice...but...I bet that might be, to use a technical term, a whole nother can of worms so no worries

Yeah, I love this app too, and if search is too hard to include in it, that's okay. Thanks for your work on it!

App is still great obv, but long threads still take a long time to load from bookmarks.

Just pushed an update that should fix that.

The Pitchfork thread (the longest thread in my bookmarks) loads almost instantly, so thanks for the update!

Something in the Shocking plagiarism thread crashes Flagging (as pointed out in that thread), right around this post: Shocking plagiarism

I'm not gonna have computers for a couple months but I'll look into that (and any other issues that pop up) when i get back

Any idea why the Mark Hollis thread is the only thread currently not loading for me on Flagging?

The Russian Doll thread doesn't load for me

the hollis thread loads fine for me but i had it bookmarked so idk. could maybe have something to do with the thread title change

I dunno if this is fixable, but if I've bookmarked a post in a thread with hundreds of posts, and the bookmarked post is not among the most recent posts, rather than among the posts the app automatically hides, when I click on the bookmark the app doesn't jump to the bookmarked post. Instead it just shows the most recent posts, and I have to keep on clicking the "load 100 earlier messages" until I find the bookmarked spot.

Yeah i've had that too, when threads are really going nuts.

hmmmmm

Somehow I only just found this app. (Serves me right for rarely straying from ILM.) Looks good. Please excuse this one boring test post...

This is the ILX APIs fault: it only serves up the most recent 100 posts for a bookmark unless you tell it to page. I’m looking into fixing it

It's not working for me atm

Not working in what way? If you just get an endless spinner, try closing and reopening the app.

I had several "server not responding" messages from theporouscity yesterday (both AM and PM) but I figured patches or upgrades were being done and it worked again a bit later every time

Yeah that but it's ok now

A few times now I've written a post on a thread and hit the submit button and the app says "Reply posted" but the post (so lovingly composed) is nowhere to be found.

Sorry :(

When I next have a vacation day I'll roll out a quick fix that leaves the post in draft, so you can recover it if posting fails. Then there's some work to hopefully fix the problem by better aligning posting with how Zing does it.

Cool, thanks. My workaround of preemptively copying my genius quips into my clipboard before posting works fine too.

Flagging only shows the first frame of animated gifs in the main thread view. On single messages the animation is shown.

It's probably a feature, but it's pretty annoying in the current 00s tracks results thread, which has an animation for every track.

Hmmm ... I'll look into that.

New version rolling out now that should be less likely to eat posts.

Just pushed another app update, fixes a long-standing bug with loading bookmarked threads when the bookmarked message is more than 100 messages in the past. In these cases it now loads the entire thread, let me know if anything breaks. I think this takes us out of beta.

oh sweet, i've been hoping for that one! appreciate it.

thank you!!!

Thanks, Lukas!

hmmmm

New answers not loading on the app for me right now ...

yeah ...

just hit publish on something to fix that, might take a bit to go live

fixed! thankig u

My bookmarks tab doesn't update, the circle just keeps circling

hmmmm i can't reproduce. have you tried killing the app and restarting?

Is it just me, or are Youtube embeds not working in Flagging anymore? I get this error message anytime I try to open one:

Web page not available
The web page at http://www.youtube.com/embed/bRMU787OEtY?html5=1&fs=1&controls=2&modestbranding=1 could not be loaded because:

net::ERR_CLEARTEXT_NOT_PERMITTED

They're working ok for me.

Hmm looks like it wants that embed to be https

In the meantime, it's not very slick, but the Browser link on the single post screen should work for this

This thread seems to crash Flagging

suicide is painless--classic or CLASSIC!!

Yep, it has a blank display name. 2002 was a freewheeling time for data validation. Fixed in the next release.

Ah, makes sense.

The youtube workaround has been fine 99% of the time btw, but "view in browser" sometimes strangely brings up a different thread.

What phone are you using?

Galaxy 7

On an s10 and that thread doesn't crash Flagging for me, but the thread won't open.

Would honestly contribute to a fundraiser to make Flag Post exist in Flagging.

I enjoy the irony of not being able to.

Also, search should be the priority.

... along with Hidden Text! (but no rush no presh, this app rules, thanks again)

Is there/ could there be a quick way of using the quote tags? on a phone i have to toggle between multiple keyboard views to type [/q ]

oh good call, same.

(in general maybe some kinda "formatting" button in the post-writing interface, to bring up shortcut buttons for all the tags? i'm assuming it would be a much bigger pain coding something where you select the text and just apply format, since Letterboxd, overall a very slick and elaborate app, "has" that feature but it's not at all reliable.)

you'll get nothing and like it!

(until this next version gets through app review)

1.24 is live: bare-bones search. thread titles only, and god help you if it's not in the first 35 results.

nice!!!!!!!!! thank you!

sweet!

amazing

oh brilliant thanks for this. i was able to bring up the Brian May thread.. that would've bugged me all day.

This is awesome, if I was on the move and wanted to search for something I'd always had to sign into chrome first and search via browser. But this is better!

all I need is android killfile and I'll stan forever

wahey! thanks!

Embedded YouTube videos don't seem to work. I get a "web page not available" error message. Is this a known issue?

yeah we've been talking about this, you can get around it by clicking "open in browser" on the post

Hmm. Does it never work for you, or does it just fail on specific posts?

When it fails, how does it fail? (loads a blank black player with no title / image, loads with title and image but says "video unavailable" when you try to play ...)

I get a little square, when I click on the post I get

Web page not available

The web page at http://www.youtube.com/embed/lIEpImVX2eU?html5=1&fs=1&controls=2&modestbranding=1 could not be loaded because:
net::ERR_CLEARTEXT_NOT_PERMITTED

yeah exactly. works fine when I switch to browser.

just noticed the new search box! ace, thankyou

hey, spoiler tags are in play now!!! this is awesome, thanks.

FYI, have had an issue intermittently this week, where after opening a thread, the posts display, but neither the title block at the top nor the plus-sign at the bottom will appear, with or without scrolling/poking. i had thought maybe it was a problem with big threads cause it was mostly happening to me in the US Politics thread, but i just checked that one again and the problem didn't happen. (for all i know, this is idiosyncratic and will go away if i reboot my phone - just posting in case others can report yay or nay on experiencing this.)

Oops, my bad - it's happening when I go from the *thread* to the *post*. And seems to be pretty consistently happening on the US politics thread.

hmmmm

would there be any easy way to add a "night mode" (light text on dark background) to this thing?

Yes. Yes. Yes.

+1 for dark mode, came here to post this

It's not screamingly likely unless we find an Android developer willing to deal with the code I wrote.

I put my (2 year old, android 11) phone in dark mode and Flagging works just fine like that

the 2022 sight & sound ballot thread seems to instantly crash flagging when opened

I have it with the Bruce Springsteen - Classic or Did? thread now. immediate crash.

Dud, even

yeah same

Also crashing for me when I open the "most racist city in America" thread.

I'm dusting off the stuff I need to work on this app but it's gonna be a bit, sorry.

No hurry!

Often I find that trying to post anything, in any thread, on my phone (Android) immediately crashes/freezes the app. I have to force quit and restart, and then it seems to work again.

Would it be possible to do something about YouTube embeds? Just a normal link would be fine.

I just submitted a release that should fix YouTube embeds, once it gets through Play Store review.

I'll probably bump this in a week to catch some of the people who have given up on YouTube embeds at this point.

Reminder for folks that missed it that Youtubes should work again

They do, but generally you have to click through to watch the vid or even see what it is, it looks like this

https://i.postimg.cc/J4GbFVYs/Screenshot-20230704-191327.jpg

generally I do this just to see what the vid is, and yt makes you watch an ad before it even reveals the title. is there a way to pull the thumbnail for these videos? suspect not, but thought it worth asking.

thanks as always for all your hard work on this great app

Yeah I'd have to bounce the YT request off a server in a different country, unfortunately.

Pulled from the Play Store because of.a screenshot that has been in the app listing for six years. Will fix soon, don't think anyone with the app should be affected.

roger that

reading and replying in the app rn

the Madonna: classic or dud thread consistently crashes the app on my android 14

On desktop, the elapsed time between the most recent and previous posts in the Beth Gibbons thread reads "twenty years pass". On Flagging, it reads "twemty years pass".

xpost Weird, it was doing it for me, too!

"twemty years pass"

feature not a bug imo

What's going on with Flagging? I can't use it any more, because I've been getting "unable to log in" errors for the last three days. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but now I can't log in at all.

strange, it's working fine for me.

Hmm. Working for me. Can you try uninstalling and reinstalling?

for the last 3 days its been down for me too. getting a message saying a certification cant be confirmed.

working for me

For those having problems, what version of Android are you using?

just tried uninstalling then reinstalling version 1.28 on a 7.0 android and now at the edit account page when i try to log in after i type in email and password and go to SAVE i get

java.security.cert. CertPathValidatorException : Trust anchor for certification path not found

That's what I'm getting.

Can't reproduce it, so I'm sort of shooting in the dark, but there are a couple things I can try.

I have also been getting expired certification errors on ILX on Android Chrome for the past few days, also.

those of you having problems, what version of Android are you using?

open Settings, tap About Phone (near the bottom), tap Software Information

6.0.1

On a Samsung Galaxy J7 Sky Pro.

7.0
No software information tab just a software channel retgb

Ironically, the 4'33" thread won't load for me in this app.

yeah I'm waiting for it to open and nothing happen