Alicornutopia

So I marked a thread as unread after accidentally clicking a deep link (this one https://glowfic.com/posts/709) and it is indeed not in my opened threads list but the daily report shows the little green arrow on it for some reason

This is due (I think) to how you can now ignore a post while leaving it unread, which was added a week and a half ago. I've figured out how to fix it which should just be waiting on a review, now. Thanks!

(Technical reasons: previously, post views would always contain a 'read_at' timestamp if you'd opened the post, and if you hid a post it would accordingly have a post view and so be marked read, but when you marked it unread it deleted the whole thing; to fix this, I allowed post views to have nil 'read_at' timestamps, indicating you've read it but still have it ignored or whatever, but some places in the code still expect 'has a post view' to indicate 'has not marked / left the post unread' – this was one of them. It'll be adjusted to expect 'has a post view that has a non-nil read_at' to indicate that.)

The character editor does a weird overlap-y thing with the icons that sometimes makes it hard to select things.

http://i.imgur.com/fvykZEy.png

Well, technically it only does that if your gallery names are reeeeally long xD (<33333) but I'll poke at the CSS to try to make it behave better

Well if there were some kind of tagging system for galleries my names wouldn't have to include all the metadata in them ...... :P (<3333333)

(if this is in fact just affecting me don't worry about it, it doesn't bother me that much, there are better uses of your time. like having a nice bubble bath. I feel like you're owed a nice relaxing bath around now.)

For some reason whenever I try to expand any of my galleries it just.. doesn't?

Hm. It can't load the galleries/index.js file for some reason. The other javascripts aren't missing. Could be a Rails 4 thing I guess? Poking at it now.

Yup, Rails 4 was forbidding Javascript files named index.js for some reason. Renamed it to expander.js and now it works. Confused shrugs go here, enjoy the newly re-functional galleries. Also fixed the +/- to be up/down for Alicorn, since having two +s with different meanings basically on top of each other was weird. If they're invisible on your layout, lmk and I can poke at coloring.

Great, good job!

Some comments on what has happened here for the several weeks I wasn’t checking forums:

I like the forum daily report for the ability to see new threads since <date>. New threads since I last checked is ideal, unless it failsbtobread my mind about when I last checked, which I expect it would. In particular, if I accidentally go to the page and then don’t open the threads that interest me, I don’t know how it could know I haven’t actually checked for new threads.

Relatedly, I agree with Adelene and Unbitwise re: refreshing unread links. Sometimes a refresh can happen without the user explicitly requesting one. These can include the browser crashing, rebooting a computer without checking all open URLs, or a mobile browser unloading the page. There’s even a bug in Chrome I’ve run across a few times where it refreshes for no reason I can determine. Ideally GET requests aren’t supposed to change anything on the server side. In practice, “unread position” is an obvious exception, but they should still be refresh-safe.

I would be fine with this being a user setting. I agree the default for existing users, by principle of least surprise, should be that hitting refrsh advances to the next page. But by that same principle I would advocate the default for new users being a redirect to the appropriate page