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Too fast on my phone, just whizzes past.
Cancelled my auto renew (via email) a couple of weeks ago. If things have improved when its due I may resubscribe but at the moment I'm not too happy paying for this
Well the thread on the pop ups and redirects gained a lot of conversation, and hit/views, so obviously it’s a successful view grabber. Repaper the same ethos into the site but this time use pop ups to promote the mag and generate the same conversation streams to gain more views and consternation.. and gain more views and posts and keep the traffic flowing into the site.
Amazing that this has gotten past 2007.
Annoying viewers/posters is the new model.
It's gone!
Put something irritating live, watch for complaints. Over 100, remove it, move on to next .. 🙂
no its back and is really bloody annoying.
nah! it's still there
still curious about the browser hijack ads though. I rarely see them, not seen one for months (like 6+ months), even on Android phone which has none of the browser add-ons that improve the use of the internet. I get more from viewing the BBC news webby from outside UK.
I tried ignoring the pop up ad but not it's really starting to grate in addition to it being so goddarn slow.
Moreover is this an issue for anyone else - staying logged in once you enter your username and password and click remember me? I find myself having to log in several times if using my iphone.
Still struggling to figure how to attach pics.. I've tried using the insert/edit image icon but it does not work.
Pics? Just read the help/how to pages - oh wait...
You still basically need the file hosted elsewhere and a link/address then ends in .jpeg .bmp or .png
If you have that paste the link in the box here or in the first box of post image
eg
https:// ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/624/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/ images/2018/4/13/f24152cb-ffe5-4766-861f-281bfd49b698.jpg Without the spaces obviously
and its sooooooooo slow this morning
glacial
You can just right-click, Copy image, paste it (on a pc anyway)
heap of shit, utter heap of shit
Put something irritating live, watch for complaints. Over 100, remove it, move on to next
"Move fast and break things" is the motto isn't it?
Half way there....
if the forum gets any slower i will be able to subscribe and get it posted to me without any loss of functionality
STW are very generous in allowing criticism of themselves
mike/dez b - I've tried both methods (after reading the help section several times). I tried it from flickr and imgur.I must be be doing something wrong. thanks though,.
Do you get a link like the one at the end of my post?
Edit past the link your trying to use and the page it's coming from
Thanks mike got it now for some reason on the flickr I cannot get any .jpeg .bmp or .png extension and on imgur I manged to find the direct link address which works.
if the forum gets any slower i will be able to subscribe and get it posted to me without any loss of functionality
Given your relative proximity to Todmorden I'd had thought that it was already quicker to get the forum posted out to you. Much slower and hand delivered to Australia will be a distinct rival to the more conventional means of distributing online fora
@tuskloosa - if you use the insert image dialog I've found that you also need to click in the "Image description " field, this forces the code to work out the image size - you'll see the two boxes below being populated automagically. Without doing this it sets the image size to be be zero by zero pixels, which isn't useful!
Its fantastic that the IT guys are celebrating in this weeks FGF
Well done lads..... Well done.....
🙁
I dont want to slag off two people [ i assume its a very tall order for them to do this] but i am amazed anyone is so pleased with the forum they have decided to reward them.....possibly hoping they get better at fixing things if they are pissed 😉
At least one of them has the common sense to hide his face.
Mostly, I'm just surprised that they're old enough to drink beer.
I guess the IT fellas have been putting a lot of work in to add new "features". Bless em. Hopefully the beers will serve as a bribe to get back the missing useful stuff. 🙂
I hope the beer doesn't come up as frequently as the buy the mag pop up
I got logged out the other morning on my phone.
Holy cheese and sprinkles i can see why people who arnt premier are complaining so much. Its almost unusable once you get a thread with pictures.
Personally I think the IT bods have earned a rest. Although, I assumed they were off this week.
Personally I think the IT bods have earned a rest. Although, I assumed they were off this week.
Nah, the jerky floaty pop up is a school holiday project
My contribution for the day....
Using https://singletrackmag.com/forum /"> https://web.archive.org/web/20170615000000*/https://singletrackmag.com/forum/
I looked at the post count from this time last year - from 28th March 2017 to 28th April 2017 we collectively averaged 748 daily posts on the bike forum and 974 daily posts on the chat forum. It will be interesting to see what we collectively post in the coming days on average. Sadly you can't tell too easily on the chat forum because the post count seems to be broken at the moment (currently reading 175992, give or take the same as the topic count) and to be fair Trump and Brexit was keeping everyone very excited so the post count in chat was high. But the current bike forum tally is at 37352219. By 1400 on 20th April 2018 it should be around 3,740,500 if the current forum 'improvements' have not had a negative effect. Good weather ahead so lots of folk should be thinking about riding and have lots to say so plenty of chance user involvement being up on last year......
When are you/the IT nods going to get rid of that chuffing annoying scrolling POC that clutters the screen?
If they’re having a beer on STW then clearly the directive comes from the Editors in Cheif that it’s an acceptable POS.
That I don’t what the plan is.
Did you read the article? Someone bought them a beer not STW.
#Fakebrews
Hahaha!
OK so I have been stupid enough to sign up as a life member but this is turning into a farce its slower than Brian Snail and with all the functionality of a toddlers brain!
if the forum gets any slower i will be able to subscribe and get it posted to me without any loss of functionality
Sums it up for me
Oh BTW that took over a minute from the time I hit submit till it appeared
I'm going to time how long submitting this takes....
... 12 seconds.
ok me too- 8 seconds looks like the IT guys being pissed has helped 😉
the edit took 17 seconds
This took....13 seconds
and the edit.... 13 again
Ok first test with iPad Pro and Safari. - 7 Seconds
Now on Chrome and iPad Pro - 8 Seconds.
its friday night and this is how we spend it .....
Just to see...
Vivaldi on Linux. 8 seconds.
Edit was 10 seconds.
Have we reached Peak Ads on STW now? I know they need to make money an' all, but the in-line ads, rolling banners and pop-ups inviting me to subscribe are getting totally out of control - definitely reduces my interest in coming to the forum (which may of course be another motivation).
Too slow to bother with much today.
Cougar, did you get the message I sent you?
35mins, 11 secs @ 50.7948° N, 0.9760° W
Password reset isn't working, just sticks you in a loop of enter your email if you have forgotten your password, sends you am email which take you back to the enter email if you have forgotten page
35mins, 11 secs @ 50.7948° N, 0.9760° W
Nice van.
Cougar, did you get the message I sent you?
I did. I assumed it was a glitch which was quickly rectified. Has it done it since?
Well almost 48 hours now since I seen the subscription slide. Anyone else noticed it seems to have disappeared!
No reoccurancies.
yes its gone
1400 Friday to 1400 Saturday - 432 posts on the bike forum in comparison to a daily average in April last year of 748. Let's see how the next few days even out the average.
nope it's still there. still loading wsdi.js. still loading <div id="wsdi-slide_in>. still re-shows if you scroll right to the end (which is what you have to do to get the X button to shut it up.
edit: and I just made it create a wdsi-on_hide cookie (time to hack it - ah expiry now set to 3 days by default - /me tries using devtools to set expiry year to 2038 😉 )
</div>
still re-shows if you scroll right to the end
On firefox on Linux, if you try to scroll right to the end it jumps back up to the beginning.
Kind of annoying if there are too many posts on the page as you can't post a message except with lots of messing around (or perhaps wait until the topic starts a new page?).
It's just a variant on the usual pasting formatted stuff bug, but slightly different to usual and I thought kind of interesting:
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/raspberry-pi-do-i-need-one/#post-9942693
Usually when you edit a post you can delete the spurious <span> crap, but in that case it all looks just fine in the edit box. As mentioned in the post I C&P via another editor to fix it.
edit: and let's just add another bug report while we're at it - I tried to give a direct link to the post, but it seems the forum in its wisdom removes the #post-9942693 at the end of the URL (which is still visible in the edit box 😡) the link should be
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/raspberry-pi-do-i-need-one/#post-9942693
(relying on the forum ignoring URLs which aren't at the start of the line)
I mean honestly these are really simple things to fix, I'm thinking they probably could have been done in the time spent posing for photos with beers, let alone the time spent adding a pop up nobody wants.
Video url only appears to work when you hit return before you hit submit, doesn’t seem a necessary step.
I presume favourites is still unsolved. Is there a plan to reinstate the favourites that users have saved? If not this is a real pity as I know I save lots of useful threads that I wanted to revisit.
Is there a bug count that is being worked on daily? Just out of interest any figures on this you would share to users?
Is there a bug count that is being worked on daily? Just out of interest any figures on this you would share to users?
Looking on the bright side the forum is quicker now there are much fewer people posting lol
Apparently it's time for me to buy another copy of the mag. I'm going to keep the subscription one nice and unused and just read the other 17 I seem to have unwittingly bought. Off to buy another copy now, for some reason. No idea why, I just feel the urge again this morning.
Contempt: that thing STW has for its customers and unpaid content providers.
More than the technical issues, it's that contempt that will drive folk away .
The ''Buy Issue 118" banner is back and I can't get rid of it.
I have issue 118. I'll probably read everything in it, then read some bits again when they're on here.
What more do you want?
What more do you want?
I'd like a monster truck, preferably Grave Digger.
I'll swap you for a power kite?
Can anyone else use their middle mouse button to open a link in a new tab? This continues to work on other sites and used to work here but no longer does...
Yep middle click works here Win 10 Chrome
More than the technical issues, it’s that contempt that will drive folk away .
This pretty much sums it up.
Thanks Scotroutes
Edited to take all the span shite out.
Although, the technical issues are a problem. Ffs!
How do I embed a video these days? Do I have to write forumy code or whatever it is?
edit: clearly not then... maybe the forum help section needs updating. Or I do.
Just paste the link
I mean honestly these are really simple things to fix, I’m thinking they probably could have been done in the time spent posing for photos with beers, let alone the time spent adding a pop up nobody wants.
round and round and round we go. I wonder how many times we can post the same things before we get fed up and just put up with how crap it all is... (seems to be the project plan)
I'd dearly love to see a count of how many people have used the "Friends" function or the Block function in the messaging system.
edit: clearly not then… maybe the forum help section needs updating. Or I do.
Lol on the list...
Just paste the link
That's not what the forum help page says, it didn't say it when I tried posting a video 6 weeks ago. Which took four attempts. It'd take no more than two minutes to update the forum help so that it says what you're supposed to do - please could someone fix that today?
Thanks Drac. How come there's something intuitive about the updated forum? 😉 Except that it's not really obvious, given that you need to use the menu to embed an image. Hiding in plain sight.
Sorry, I'm not trying to be snarky, but it's not very obvious and there doesn't seem to be a clear way of finding out.
Has anyone considered putting together a quick start guide to the forum and stickying it for reference as an interim step. You could link it to the existing 'forum help' link as well.
I’d dearly love to see a count of how many people have used the “Friends” function or the Block function in the messaging system.
Oh, did something change there? I'm sure the first thing I did when the "new" forum came online was to block everyone from sending me PMs. Glad I double checked. Now re-blocked.
Just like on that South Park ep... you have 0 friends
No problem Badlywired.
When did Mark last respond on the forum?
[i]munrobiker wrote:[/i]
It’d take no more than two minutes to update the forum help so that it says what you’re supposed to do – please could someone fix that today?
🤣
you clearly don't understand the way things work around here - they're too busy adding new features we hadn't realised we wanted to be wasting time on that sort of thing
[i]andytherocketeer wrote:[/i]
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">Oh, did something change there? I’m sure the first thing I did when the “new” forum came online was to block everyone from sending me PMs. Glad I double checked. Now re-blocked.</span>
Just like on that South Park ep… you have 0 friends
OK, so I'm curious why you're so bothered about people sending you messages? People occasionally message me on here and it's kind of useful - if you have no friends you probably won't get any messages.
More than the technical issues, it’s that contempt that will drive folk away .
Bit harsh.
They've obviously hit the go switch on something that's turned out to be an absolute bag'o'shyte and now are bogged down without knowing how to extricate the situation.
I feel kind of sorry for the STW team, TBH...
OK, so I’m curious why you’re so bothered about people sending you messages?
Just several cases (on many forums, this being one of them) where I post something to a thread, but then people (that presumably don't understand the concept of forums?) reply to me by direct message. Reply to the forum. That what it's there for. That way more people might respond.
if you have no friends you probably won’t get any messages.
I definitely won't get any now cos I just changed the settings 😉
Can't see any way to turn off the friend function though.
so I’m curious why you’re so bothered about people sending you messages?
OH, he's replied now 🙂
[i]Mr Woppit wrote:[/i]
They’ve obviously hit the go switch on something that’s turned out to be an absolute bag’o’shyte and now are bogged down without knowing how to extricate the situation.
I think you'll find it's all going exactly as planned.
I feel kind of sorry for the STW team, TBH…
They have beer.