Zing problems

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Oh it just worked. Either it fixed itself or it was an issue specifically trying to post a link to a tweet

Recent update made things break on iPhone SE :(
The preview text is spilling all over the titles and everything's just crammed together on top of everything else

Uh on the boards page that is. Not a big deal I guess!

Ah, actually it's like that for the bookmarks too, which is a much bigger deal :(

What version of iOS are you running? I dev and test on an SE w/ 11.3

Oh hold on, I see it on 5s running 10.3. Is there a reason you want to stay on 10? I'll see what I can do.

Ah I see, I didn't think of the ios version.

i figured out the solution for my problem upthread: if i delete the s=21 from the end of twitter links, they post fine. if i don't i still get the error message

Where do you get those links from? The mobile site gives me plain ones.

from the app

this should be fixed, sorry it took so long

— ILX System (@ilxor) July 11, 2018

I dont seem to see ILM, and when i go to ILX Boards header to select faves, its not there (though quite a few are there twice?).

yeah, that happened to me recently but with ile - i had to delete the app and reinstall to get it to come back

if you swipe on a board to delete it then it can be very hard to get it back, sorry. delete + reinstall sorts

Thx, will do.

I’m getting a corrupt-messages-in-this-thread message in Zing for the Romania thread. Browser is fine though.

bookmarks weren’t loading in Zing so i logged out but now it doesn’t recognise my uname/pswd

ah n/m just used my old email address and it worked! still no bookmarks tho

i can't remember if i've asked this or not, but is there a way to change my login email address? i can change the email address in preferences, but that doesn't affect my login email

Not really, sorry!

I’m getting a corrupt-messages-in-this-thread message in Zing for the Romania thread. Browser is fine though.

I came to mention the “DJs...” thread, too.

Unrelated, but I’ve noticed in the latest version that if I click a URL in a post, when I use the “Back” at screen top left I always get a blank screen with a hazard triangle, and have to press back again.

^yep, a very small inconvenience, but it’s been there since the latest update.

Yup

Got it - fixed in the next version.

Thanks as always S

I’m getting a corrupt-messages-in-this-thread message in Zing for the Romania thread. Browser is fine though.

Same thing in the Kelela - Cut 4 Me thread. Someone posted a Soundcloud link just now, but I seem to remember there being a problem with this thread before.

this isn’t a problem but would it be possible to specify which browser users can open if they want to launch links outside the app?

I can haz dark mode triggered by iOS “night mode” activation(?)

Not till I upgrade :)

|:-D

Can you add the newish board Je Déteste Tout to zing? It doesn't show up as in "show all boards" and its threads only appear on zing if I have them bookmarked.

Ah sorry that’s a bug. Delete and reinstall it will show up

ok thanks that works!

stet, just fyi — something else funky in iOS 13: the “header” at top of forum view sometimes extends too far down, chopping off most of search bar:

https://i.imgur.com/LDBu6y7_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

good spot, will take a look thanks

NP, thx... one other thing I’ve noticed is text occasionally being cut off at the end of a thread title:

https://i.imgur.com/lQQlnTe_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

Zing has given up on French as of Sund4r’s post of an hour ago - « Nous voilà enfin débarrassés de tous ces amateurs » can only be opened in Safari now.

the font size is different in posts and reading threads, but is fine on post subjects and board listings etc. Should I reinstall?

Nm I’m an idiot

Nice update! :)

It looks like attempting to vote in a poll makes the app crash, fyi. Could just be my phone but that's the first time I've had the app turf out and it did each time I tried.

Sometimes I type something and then highlight it (to apply italics or a link), and all the text disappears?

^ what Old Lunch said. This prevented Eric Clapton from getting any votes in that recent dumb guitar poll

Can also confirm app crashes upon clicking a poll option. Thx!

Ditto on poll voting = app crashing

Fix is coming, sorry voters

no need to rush if it means people are prevented for voting from eric clapton in the meantime tbh

Awesome, thank you stet!

OK this is double-fixed in the new version - links open in a proper browser view inside Zing (so no cover-up of cookies settings), and there's a preference setting to always open them in your system browser. In testing now, should be released soon

Thank you!

Whoa – new app icon! (and functionality…)

Updates look great, thanks again! Hero

When you’re typing a post, how do you access the quick formatting options for bold, quote, etc.?

Think upthread it was noted that it went away but will be back at some future point, hopefully soon

Is there still a way to refresh a thread when you are within it?

Info - refresh

👍

When you’re typing a post, how do you access the quick formatting options for bold, quote, etc.?

You can still get to the full composer by going into an individual post and hitting the reply button. (If you clear the quoted text it’s literally the old composer). But yes, better option coming soon.

Better must come

If you search (within a board), click into a thread found in the search results, and then back out of that thread, I think it used to take you back to the search results(?) Now it takes you to the New Answers page of the board, so you have to run the search again to try another thread…

For some reason I can’t respond to a specific post (I.e. quoting it and providing as response below). It’s probably just as well.

For some reason I can’t respond to a specific post

Sounds like a user error.

If you search (within a board), click into a thread found in the search results, and then back out of that thread, I think it used to take you back to the search results(?) Now it takes you to the New Answers page of the board, so you have to run the search again to try another thread…

I have been having the same problem as Boring MD

having the same problem as Boring

You sound like a user error

PEBCAK

More often spelled PEBKAC iirc

UK politics thread not loading on Zing for me

Probably for the best

So the new US economy thread that ends with % won’t load anymore for me, and when I search for threads or answers with % as the only character I get zero results. Interesting.

I have solved this problem with the engine by turning up the radio (changing the thread title)

Thank you stet!

hi thread, I broke Zing somehow? running an older iphone but with updated current OS.

when I download it from the app store and open it, nothing happens.

any ideas?

When you say nothing happens, what do you mean? Do you see the little hat, get the account login screen, or does it just go straight back to the icons screen?

straight back, the 3rd thing - it's like nothing happened and the phone returns to normal

Can you tell me which iPhone model and OS?

iPhone 7, version 15.8.4

still not working, any thoughts or ideas?

what's almost certainly happened is I've done something in the last release that uses something from iOS 16 or later. I'll try and track down exactly what, but Apple doesn't make it easy to support phones that old, I'm sorry

no prob, thanks!

I think I've found the issue, the next update should hopefully sort this

<3