So I have a question. Don't know if it's a site issue or my windows 8. But this only happens on this website... Still wouldn't put it past my windows 8/my lack of knowledge of computers. When I click on the "Alert" and go to a thread to read the alert. It doesn't allow me to scroll through the thread. I have to either reload the site via the address bar, or hit the back button. Does this happen to anyone else? or is it just me. I'm not very computer savvy so I don't know if I explained it well enough.
It should take you to the post the alert was originating from, but allow access to the rest of the thread to peruse at your leisure. I don't know if you have a setting that's not ticked or what, but it should be universal across the member base to allow free reign of a thread after clicking on an alert.
Unfortunately it doesn't : / When I saw the alert from your quote. I moved my mouse over the alert then clicked directly on "Strenuus has quoted your post in x thread". It took me to your post, then I couldn't scroll with mouse wheel, nor manually moving the mouse to the scroll bar. It also didn't let me quote you to reply. I had to push the back button, then find the thread to reply. I bet it's my windows 8/lack of knowledge about computer stuffs as why it happens. Thank you though. It does only happen like 50% of the time. the other 50% I can scroll/quote/reply just fine. Thank you for replying.
Hmm... I'm using Windows 8 as well and never had a problem... I really don't think it's on "your end" in terms of you being unknowledgeable about the feature.... I'll poke around and see if I cant find anything.
In helping out Honki looking through the Alert Preferences I see you can "tag" people.... is that like twitter? Where you can @ someone? How does the tagging thing work? It might be good if we quote one person but want to get anothers attention so that they know to look at that specific post. (They would get an alert too.)
To reply to this thread I had to refresh browser on my phone. It seems to be happening frequently where I tap the box to reply but nothing happens. Sometimes I have to refresh 3-4 times before it says "write reply here" and I can tap it and my keyboard pops up. Ive actually rage quit a few times and not replied because of it. Glad you are working on it. Still not fixed for me it seems.
FYI It now may be that the problem is something happening in the software hourly at 10 past the hour. I'm looking at this. Like I said, I'm gathering the clues at the scene of the crime, so to speak.
I turned off the 2nd/redundant database server to see if it is the replication (process of assuring the data on both are identical) that is causing the issue.
I'm being fully open about the issue and how I'm working on it. I agree it's incredibly frustrating, but in the big picture, once it's resolved, it'll have been for a tiny fraction of the time we spend on the site.
im glad you're working on it and thank you for your time. we are an instant gratification generation so i could see a lot of people giving up over something so small, especially the new people you are trying to attract. FYI i use dolphin browser on my phone (it's fairly popular for non smart phone newbs) also a slight off topic thing, it gets annoying on the phone every time i navigate to s2 i get a full screen ad for tapatalk but the point of this software was supposed to be not needing tapatalk because it works so well on phone browsers. can you get rid of that?
We do have quite a few tapatalk users. We're in the tapatalk forum directory, which is another way for people to find the site. From what I can tell, XenForo does not support Dolphin browser well. https://xenforo.com/community/threads/dolphin-browser-raw-editor-only.55368/
interesting, thanks for the info. that's disappointing because dolphin is much better than chrome in a lot of ways but maybe ill go back to chrome if it's going to be unstable since pretty much all my browsing on phone is on forums.
