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

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

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

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

can't believe i let it go that far tbh

i just discovered the "block poster" button :D

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

- supports twitter embeds

awesome, thx stet

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

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 Yes, my OS is out of date but that is not going to change today because I am going out of town tomorrow.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?!?!?! :)

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

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.

i have red hat zing

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

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

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"

ok
did that
it doesn't look any different but maybe that's because i have no active bookmarks atm

77 still not there

yeah it still won't let me post

Can you screenshot yr account setting screen and send it to me pls? Stet at ilxor

Red hat zing for me too

Crashing happening on iPhone 5 not on iPad it seems

yes!

I had the same problem as la lechera. Went away when I installed the new version. Thanks for all the work stet

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.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38685923/uialertcontroller-keeps-re-appearing-after-closing-it

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.

Oh okay. But why the spamming of alerts when I don't have a network connection?

Same story, different notification (a "network down" notification they all respond to rather than an "failed to post why because xpost" one)

aha

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).

Did you type underscore or hyphen? It looks like underscore, which won't work. With hyphens:

• I hope it
• works.

• well
• dammit

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.

I see this issue on my iPhone 7 as well.

There’s an update with apple right now which addresses the bottom bounce; don’t know about the other issue.

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

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.

ILX Zing: You = too slow
Keyboard: "I... I'm... Yeah"

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.

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.

O wait I see you mean a zing update.

Omg I’ve finally fixed the xpost bug

!!!!!

that's great! :)

http://www.nataliedee.com/012506/maracas.jpg

huge if true

What was it?

you = too slow

you = too slow
you = too slow
you = too slow
you = too slow
you = too slow
you = too slow
you = too slow

you = too slow

*looks at new replies*
*posts*

you = too slow