Zing Touch: ILX now ON IPHONE (and ipod tooches too)

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it looks ok, i just noticed it looked different

Mordy, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link

Just switched to dynamic font and loving it.

For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link

Spotify - anyone heard of it?
^won't load on Zing Touch since yesterday. Maybe to do with some faulty links that've been pasted in there?

willem, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 08:46 (seven years ago) link

thanks, got it

stet, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 10:48 (seven years ago) link

Same for me. I just switched to Apple Music so I don't have to read the thread anymore.

Jeff, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 10:49 (seven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Ping in case any of you glamorous iOS people feel like slumming ... Flagging is an ILX app for Android (in beta)

0 / 0 (lukas), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

New version of Zing in review now with support for https and the new Twitter embeds

stet, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 21:56 (six years ago) link

Nice! Thanks as always...

DJI, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 22:05 (six years ago) link

loving yr work

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 23:06 (six years ago) link

Is there a reason Zing doesn't show the poster's name? I know that takes up space but it's kind of an important part

Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 01:51 (six years ago) link

It does, above the post. Or do you mean something else?

stet, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 06:55 (six years ago) link

Oh, maybe this is a Zing vs Zing Lite thing? Using Zing Lite if I read a thread it shows the messages but not any post info like who posted it. You have to click each message to see that stuff.

Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 11:39 (six years ago) link

Ah, yeah Zing Lite is pretty old and busted, sorry. If you're on a newer iOS (which would cause the username to hide), proper Zing is a *lot* better.

stet, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 11:41 (six years ago) link

It is totally worth $2.99.

Madchen, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link

three weeks pass...

i just discovered the "block poster" button :D

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link

I'm now getting only one xpost pop up much more often. Server side fix?

El Tomboto, Friday, 26 May 2017 11:46 (six years ago) link

i had it 26 times in a row the other day

early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 26 May 2017 11:50 (six years ago) link

It drives me bloody nuts. I know what it is but it's hard to fix. I will have another attempt this weekend

stet, Friday, 26 May 2017 12:23 (six years ago) link

You can avoid it you killing Zing and restarting. It's related to how many times a thread has been reloaded

stet, Friday, 26 May 2017 12:24 (six years ago) link

forgot to mention that's how i stopped it at that point, thanks for mentioning it though

early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 26 May 2017 12:26 (six years ago) link

can't believe i let it go that far tbh

early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 26 May 2017 12:27 (six years ago) link

i just discovered the "block poster" button :D

Thanks for the reminder. Think I glossed over it before, definitely never used before just now, when I made quick work of Violet Jaxx

The Pickety 33⅓ Policeman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 May 2017 13:01 (six years ago) link

New version rolling out to App Store now. Not many changes, but:
- now uses https by default
- supports twitter embeds
- goes back to the right place in the thread after looking at a specific post.
- faster startup

Note: this version has to update saved accounts the first time it runs. I've tried to make this reliable but it might fuck up. If it does, delete your account and re-add it

stet, Friday, 2 June 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link

- supports twitter embeds

awesome, thx stet

heck i've even been an 'oyster pirate' (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 June 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link

Just downloaded and am retesting -- looks great, thanks!

Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 June 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link

Bookmarks and posting is disabled on zing for me for some reason, it just stopped working one day. i deleted and reinstalled, logged in again, and it's still not functioning. ideas? Yes, my OS is out of date but that is not going to change today because I am going out of town tomorrow. Just wondering if there is an easy fix for this VERY important problem. How will I keep up with ILX on the road?!?!?! :)

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link

It's crashing a lot for me lately, not sure I can identify any particular condition except maybe it's because of links?

droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link

Which Zing are you both on? Blue-hat Zing is unfortunately pretty much dead at this point (because of the switch to https) and will behave like you describe. I should really take it off the store.

stet, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link

i have red hat zing

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link

error messages when i try to post read "it is a mystery"

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link

also i think it kicked me off 77? Show all boards doesn't include 77 borad

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link

That means it's not logging in properly after thinking it has. Try:
1. Delete and reinstall from App Store
2. While setting up yr account, set the server to "ilxor.com"

stet, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link

ok
did that
it 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

droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link

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

three weeks pass...

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

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

one month passes...

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:

  • I hope it
  • works.
I've fixed the other bug, thanks! Will be in next release sometime after 11 ships.

stet, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:47 (six years ago) link

  • well
  • dammit

El Tomboto, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 01:50 (six years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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


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