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Started by khawk Nov 24, 2019 at 9:27 AM 160 replies 239.8k views

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Nov 24, 2019 at 9:27 AM

You will need to verify your email when you login, but once in take a look around and let me know what you think.

There are a few bugs across the site, images aren't loading in some areas, but it's all being worked on - just came across a bug in the editor actually.

Curious why and what's new? Check it out at: https://www.gamedev.net/blogs/entry/2268283-a-new-gamedev-coming-soon/

Green_Baron

Nov 24, 2019 at 10:03 AM

Looks fresh. Smells like wet paint and drying concrete :-) Some cable ends not yet connected, some rotating doors still stuck, some counters not yet serviced ...

Seriously, nice transition, well done, and i think i will like it.

DerTroll

Nov 24, 2019 at 1:10 PM

Nice job! I switched to the dark scheme. I think I can get used to it. The feature list looks definitely good. Let's try one...

~~~ cpp

markdown = true

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Maybe I am blind, but I am missing a preview button...

Another thing that I came across: What are "pixels" in the home tab when you go to settings?

Greetings

DerTroll

Nov 24, 2019 at 1:12 PM

Well... and I can't edit my post :D ... Guess you will have some busy weeks coming up. ;)

NubDevice

Nov 24, 2019 at 1:25 PM

These guys are being kind. I especially like the disabled bit where you can not confirm subscription cancellation. Hard to believe you didn't do that on purpose. I don't think you're stupid, but I do believe you lie. Hell, I've found that over half of those here lie about what they are capable of doing. Just confirmed another recently on a side project. Sometimes it's so obvious, it's becomming a game of 'wack a fake'. I'll leave it at that. ~~Still lov' you guys and hope to continue to hang out, but~~ not one of your better roll outs. Honesty seemed fair here being a paid member. Still I always enjoy transition because of reveal. :) I can confirm I have not seen an ad yet for the very first time since enrollment. so that was nice. Look. You have to understand, the ads have been pushed on GDNet+ all the way up to this point. Something we were paying not to see. I let that slide, now I have to go through my personal material and fix the formatting again among project and blog entries. No, you do this every iteration. so, frustration forces to toss to the 'wack a fake' pile.

edit: Always seem to catch the hickup... Text editor does seem better. A bit more snappy was just felt. When the user images resolved I could see again :) Sometimes I wonder why I try to be nice to oblivious, I mean really, why bother... (text editor is still borked on multi-edit (stacked editor header currently 7 headers deep on top of actual))

I havn't had this much fun in a while. pfft.. boo.

edit2: came back to check you after the settling in. Still garbage. We're done. Thanks for the good time and no that's not a piece of chocolate on your pillow.

I know there is no going back, but truthfully, I liked the option of down voting all the way to Hades and my bubble was popped when we only got to -8. Seriously, no one caught the stuff on that two page rollout fix log during testing. oh, the problems occurred during intergration? whatever. don't care.

Look, here's the bottom line. I was a paying customer. I was using this service and linking outside. You broke the service, I'm complaining. Get over it. Now, come day after tomorrow, that changes. My subscription expires, at which point I'll shut the f up and move on.

DerTroll

Nov 24, 2019 at 1:26 PM

Don't want to spam, but since some features are not working yet:

Should we create a thread to collect all problems we are encountering so far?

Also there is some problem that I'd rather send you via personal message since it shouldn't be posted officially, but I can't send a message :(

Greetings

jbadams

Nov 24, 2019 at 1:47 PM

DerTroll said:
Well... and I can't edit my post :D ... Guess you will have some busy weeks coming up. ;)

That option should be available if you click the three dots in the upper right of a post?

Preview should be live within the editor as you type.

khawk

Nov 24, 2019 at 1:49 PM

MarkK. said:
These guys are being kind. I especially like the disabled bit where you can not confirm cancellation. I'll leave it at that. Still lov' you guys and hope to continue to hang out, but not one of your better roll outs. Honesty seemed fair here being a paid member.

@MarkK. I'm not sure what you mean for confirm cancellation? Is something disabled? Let me know so I can take a look.

Green_Baron

Nov 24, 2019 at 1:59 PM

So, i just liked the opening post. Before it showed a counter of -8 and after being liked -7.

Might it be that "cancel" and "save" buttons are still missing while editing a post ?

Oh, and i can like my own post (which i just did). That's probably not as intended :-) ?

khawk

Nov 24, 2019 at 2:19 PM

Green_Baron said:
So, i just liked the opening post. Before it showed a counter of -8 and after being liked -7.
Might it be that "cancel" and "save" buttons are still missing while editing a post ?
Oh, and i can like my own post (which i just did). That's probably not as intended :-) ?

Yeah fixing that with voting now. :)

Cancel and save buttons are below the editing form (or should be). If they're not, that's a bug!

Lactose

Nov 24, 2019 at 3:58 PM

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Name tags don't seem to be styled to Dark -- they are incredibly hard to see. (Unsure if there are 2 setups for your own name vs other people, so I included myself!)

Report window/textfield/modal should be a lot larger.

Pressing DEL on a blank line doesn't erase the line. (Press ENTER twice, go to the middle line and press DEL).

Sometimes need to press BACKSPACE twice to clear an empty line. Assuming both of these are related to markdown paragraph, or potentially LR/CR stuff. I'm on Windows/Chrome.

Forums --> Categories: Lists things which is probably safe to remove/archive at this point. Workshops from 13 years ago and such.

Editing a post which has name tags breaks the name tags. They just say "undefinedundefined" instead of the name. Leaving the top ones broken and inserting new ones here instead. @khawk @Lactose

Lactose

Nov 24, 2019 at 6:58 PM

The "Popular" sidebar shown on gamedev.net/forums doesn't display the & (ampersand) character correctly. It displays it as &

Interestingly, the "Popular" sidebar in this thread shows it correctly.

Green_Baron

Nov 24, 2019 at 7:15 PM

Ok, reporting a few more glitches, looks like this has become the thread for that.

When editing, i don't see cancel or save buttons. Since nobody has complained, this may be a rare or even personal problem ... (Linux, Firefox 68.2)
I can't deactivate messages/newsletter in my profile. After saving settings, they are on anew ...
Would it be a big deal not to show the location publicly in the profile profile ? Not everybody needs to now that i am that privileged to live here ;-)

Apart from that, i'm already getting used to it.

Lactose

Nov 24, 2019 at 7:22 PM

Trying to quote a specific part of someone's reply doesn't seem to work.

Deleting a quote then hitting CTRL+Z to undo creates a quote block with just the word "true" inside it.

I do have save & cancel buttons when editing on Windows/Chrome, just as a data point.

Rutin

Nov 24, 2019 at 9:23 PM

[PICTURES NOT SHOWING FOR SOME REASON... I attached some in this post as references]

Sadly I just typed a whole bunch of stuff but the comment editor continues to glitch out by deleting things at random and removing my links, pictures, and jumbling the format. I’ve typed this in Word for now and will just copy and paste when I’m done.

I noticed when I’m viewing my dashboard some of my Blog names have changed to “None”, and if I click any entry from there I cannot view or manage those entries.

If I manually view the blogs from the Blog section by going to Profile or Blogs I can view and edit them just fine.

I also noticed if I change my layout to Dark it doesn’t change, but will display on some tabs like Blog, News and Projects through the Dashboard, but not through the site.

I'm also not able to access or manage the Tutorials tab in my Dashboard.

Wyrframe

Nov 24, 2019 at 9:37 PM

I'm having a lot of trouble putting non-ASCII text into my signature; it pastes in fine, it says it saved, and when I reload I get just ? marks (and not even UNICODE "missing glyph" markers; actual ASCII question marks) in their place. The newline in the middle also seems to sometimes get stripped out, sometimes not.

(( This email has been quad-ROT13 encrypted. Reading it violates the DMCA. ))
(( 我说很少的汉语，还我的语法平庸, but at least I'm UNICODE-compliant. ))

The new WYSIWYG editor here in the forum has very bad undo and very unreliable consistency; using Undo just reverses text insert/deletes, it doesn't undo formatting changes, which is really stressful when just moving the cursor sometimes causes the paragraph you're on to suddenly change its paragraph style (such as the Quote paragraph above).

Lactose

Nov 24, 2019 at 10:16 PM

From gamedev.net/forums:

No way to see if post has unread posts. Also doesn't say who latest reply was from, so impossible to know if someone responded after you if you don't remember post date/reply count.

No way I found to jump to latest unread in a thread.

khawk

Nov 24, 2019 at 10:45 PM

Changes the last 2-3 hours:

Fixed password reset (it didn't work)
Fixed blog names - there was a conversion problem for some blogs (not all), so it defaults to your username instead of None. I haven't confirmed changing the name works, but that would be the next step.
Youtube/video embeds no longer cover the text below them
Google login/authentication works - however, if you used Google auth before, you may need to contact me for support (and reset your password) support@gamedev.net
Random inability to post or like not working might be fixed for the same reason affecting password reset and others
Fixed profile saving crash (making things not save)
Fixed account settings saving crash (making things not save)
Fixed crash from viewing some tags
Fixed hidden topics from showing
Fixed moderator tools in the forums
Fixed https with images
Fixed GDNet+ subscribing and cancelling
Fixed bug in likes and rate limited them
Fixed crash in Portfolios

The editor will take time to make great. It's young and naive but was chosen to make it easier than standard WYSIWYG, but if it continues to be a problem we can always go back to CKEditor (I personally would rather not) or some other option. In my research and experimentation there is no perfect editor that satisfies the needs of this community without a lot of custom work, so work will continue on this one for now.

Sounds like there may be an issue with image upload in the editor, and that's pretty critical. Going to look at that next.

Few responses for comments above:

Signatures are unformatted ASCII only and probably why the Unicode characters aren't working. This was done to prevent something like this in signatures:

HEY EVERYONE CHECK OUT MY PROJECT!

Unread posts were purposely slipped past launch date (there's about 70 items in the backlog that did not make launch, that's one of them)
Selecting text to quote missed launch as well. It's on the list. I tried to cram it in right before launch, but ran out of time.
Privacy settings are coming - for hiding profile as well as parts of the profile
I haven't seen some of these editor quirks listed above, but I'll see what I can replicate. There are some things that can get it in a bad state, so that might be what's happening and the bug is the getting into bad state to begin with.
The scrollwindow jumps when you click on toolbar things and do link embeds in the editor. Drives me nuts and can't wait to fix it.
Did you notice on longer posts (or blogs, tutorials, etc.) that the toolbar stays fixed? I hated that about the old one. Although you really don't need the toolbar for many things with this editor.

Back to it.. (looks like this post is formatted exactly how I intended!)