Where is that little Zing link again?
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 June 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
It appears when Apple decides it should, which is a bit opaque
― stet, Monday, 10 June 2019 18:35 (five years ago) link
Oh right. Can see it in safari but not in chrome
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 June 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
https://ilxor.com/stet/search.png
― stet, Thursday, 28 November 2019 01:45 (four years ago) link
SEARCH.
It's rolling out now. It's not quite perfect, but it works: find threads, find posts, from the entire archive. Works if you have multiple sites added too.
It's surprising what a difference it makes — feels like an app full of 20 years of stuff now, rather than one that's just about bookmarks.
I said almost exactly ten years ago that I wanted to add it, and then y'know, things got busy, there was stuff to do, whatever, sorry. (Also: it was really surprisingly hard)
The big thing missing is sorting, I'll get on that for 2029.
― stet, Thursday, 28 November 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
(Zing is ten years old? Bloody hell)
S E A R C H
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 28 November 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
You rule, stet. Thank you so much.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 28 November 2019 02:12 (four years ago) link
stet!! you're the best.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 28 November 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
Whoop whoop
― calstars, Thursday, 28 November 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
Happy Birthday Zing!
Thanks Stet!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 28 November 2019 02:56 (four years ago) link
Had to raise the bar, eh? Couldn't leave well enough alone?
― lukas, Thursday, 28 November 2019 03:08 (four years ago) link
Awesome!
― DJI, Thursday, 28 November 2019 03:50 (four years ago) link
This is fantastic
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 28 November 2019 03:57 (four years ago) link
Wow thanks stet. Christmas came early for Zingers
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Thursday, 28 November 2019 05:11 (four years ago) link
oh yes. search! thanks stet!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 28 November 2019 06:23 (four years ago) link
It's surprising what a difference it makes — feels like an app full of 20 years of stuff now, rather than one that's just about bookmarks.Yes indeed it does. Thanks for all the hard work!!
― willem, Thursday, 28 November 2019 07:44 (four years ago) link
wow! thank you Stet
― alomar lines, Thursday, 28 November 2019 07:51 (four years ago) link
SEARCHHHH! Thanks Stet!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 28 November 2019 08:42 (four years ago) link
wow stet, this is what’s been missing from my life! merci beaucoup.one weird thing: in dark mode you don’t get to see what you’re typing in the search box, the results still show up tho.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 28 November 2019 11:04 (four years ago) link
Ah, are you on iOS 11? It works on iOS 13 but I can’t figure out how to make it work on the older phones.
― stet, Thursday, 28 November 2019 11:18 (four years ago) link
iOS 12 here, yes
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 28 November 2019 11:45 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqTbBCRxsME
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 November 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
― stet, Thursday, 28 November 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
So great. Thanks sir!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 November 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
i think bookmarking threads is faster now too. thank u STET
― alomar lines, Thursday, 28 November 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
oh my god
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 November 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
feels like a nice bit of fit and finish now too
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 November 2019 15:36 (four years ago) link
This new search feature is aces, have used it several times in the past few hours.
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 28 November 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
stet i love you
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 November 2019 00:14 (four years ago) link
Fucking hell. Well done, thanks a million. You could have made this a paying update. Would have gladly forked out
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 29 November 2019 09:53 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR2FvrU-NIM
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 November 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
Challops:I don’t like how the lines have disappeared between threads in dark mode. Bring back the lines or at least alternate background colors like answers do (in both modes). I don’t understand the HUGE type announcing the board / thread title (or the app) at the top of each screen? It doesn’t need to be so big. Also, when I hit filter threads, the field floats behind the huge type and it’s annoying.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 29 November 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
challops accepted. Some of this is work in progress -- filter threads will be replaced by thread search soon, and the huge type problem is an iOS 13 change that's half-finished (because I realised we have to keep iOS 12 support for the older phones).
Lines on threads is a good shout, I'll try and put those back. Confess I just got tired of slogging at Search code and felt it was good enough to get out.
― stet, Friday, 29 November 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
Couple more challops:1. The orientation bug where Zing jumps back a bunch of posts if you rotate it back and forth is still there.2. Some kind of memory leaks with YouTube and maybe Twitter. If you start a YouTube video and then click back, the video never gets shut down entirely and you continue to hear audio until you kill the app. Maybe embeds aren’t being killed correctly?
― DJI, Friday, 29 November 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
YESSSSSSSSSSSstet, you are the best. Seriously.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 29 November 2019 23:31 (four years ago) link
cosign with DJI - also if you tap a Twitter post on e.g. the image, any linked video won't link correctly, but if you tap on the date of the post, it loads correctly and you can tap through to the video or images linked.A small thing too - when shifting day-to-night and vice versa using standard type appearance, the big headlines stay in the colour of the old mode (i.e. they stay white, on a light background, or black on a dark background). If it was possible for Zing to switch to night mode when the phone does so, that would be awesome, but maybe break things for folks not on iOS 13.Offered only in the spirit of wanting to help, not complaint - it's a great app!
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Saturday, 30 November 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link
As others have said, I'd have been happy to pay for this upgrade.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 30 November 2019 00:44 (four years ago) link
this is a gift that keeps on giving
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
Challops version going to Apple, fixing:- Lines are back between messages- Orientation bug is fixed at last- Twitter videos now play inside the message view(!) - And stop playing when you leave the view
I can't fix the dark/light switch not changing the headlines without dropping iOS 12 support (as far as I can tell) and there are way too many people still not on iOS 13 yet.
― stet, Thursday, 5 December 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
(Thanks for being lovely, everyone)
― stet, Thursday, 5 December 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
Thank you stet!
― DJI, Thursday, 5 December 2019 00:59 (four years ago) link
Are pics supposed to autoload? I see little picture frames that I have to click on.
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 5 December 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
twitter videos playing within zing is a very exciting development
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 5 December 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link
right. won’t miss the workaround for that
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 December 2019 02:01 (four years ago) link
Yes @CowArt
― DJI, Thursday, 5 December 2019 02:27 (four years ago) link
stet if you wanna make a gofundme or a Patreon I'm there
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 5 December 2019 04:55 (four years ago) link
seconded
― dan selzer, Thursday, 5 December 2019 12:10 (four years ago) link
+
― chet san telmo (alomar lines), Saturday, 7 December 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
4.1 is rolling out now with all those fixes above, plus you can now sort search results and search within just one board.
(Challops: you can no longer filter just the threads on a New Answers, but that'll come back)
― stet, Monday, 9 December 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link