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Posted: 5/10/2015 4:05:52 PM EDT
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Democrat means,
fixing shit that was working well already. Boehner would cave to this. 
Was I complaining about the pics. Nooooo..... Did you fix the pics so I get a red X. Yehhhhhhhsy....... Whadda you mean I have to click on it to know wats inside? Much like Obamacare.
Yeh and I own this page on an edit, cause you couldn't have it if you tried. |
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Posted: 5/10/2015 4:32:26 PM EDT
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I did a test. I went to GD and grabbed the HTML for all the threads on the first page of GD. I extracted the links for user posted pictures.
Test 1 Yielded 128 links. I was able to successfully download 127 of the images using HTTP. I was only able to fetch 74 images using HTTPS. Thats only a 58% success rate. Test 2 87 image links found 75 images successful via HTTP 51 images via HTTPS 68% success rate The number one failure was the SSL cert not matching the domain for the image - mainly due to content distribution networks and virtual hosting providers. ETA - I want to browse the site securely. But if I have to access it via HTTP just so I can see the content what is the point of having SSL? At least when using SSL and mixed content you get some protection. |
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Posted: 5/10/2015 4:35:32 PM EDT
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Please make image sizes in threads a user setting..
If you really want to help my screen display things though... prohibit the mile long text strings (or urls) from expanding the browser window. Force them to wrap. |
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Posted: 5/10/2015 5:46:32 PM EDT
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I did a test. I went to GD and grabbed the HTML for all the threads on the first page of GD. I extracted the links for user posted pictures. Test 1 Yielded 128 links. I was able to successfully download 127 of the images using HTTP. I was only able to fetch 74 images using HTTPS. Thats only a 58% success rate. Test 2 87 image links found 75 images successful via HTTP 51 images via HTTPS 68% success rate The number one failure was the SSL cert not matching the domain for the image - mainly due to content distribution networks and virtual hosting providers. ETA - I want to browse the site securely. But if I have to access it via HTTP just so I can see the content what is the point of having SSL? At least when using SSL and mixed content you get some protection. Obviously this is part of using secure SSL. I will push a tweak so that any linked HTTPS content will show secure on either http/https, but I would like to make SSL secure and not open up security holes (like it has been) by allowing non-secure content in. I realize that some people will have some blocked images and content, but if you are using SSL, you want the security. IMHO, It's not that bad to have to open the unsecured content in a new tab and it keeps you safe. (All the login pages and sensitive pages should automatically go through https.) |
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Posted: 5/11/2015 5:05:21 PM EDT
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Thanks for fixing this! Those tiny images were terrible.
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Posted: 5/11/2015 8:41:18 PM EDT
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When I'm using the HTTPS site and hit reply to a post that links to HTTP images (that don't display in the thread) they display in the reply viewer.
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Posted: 5/16/2015 9:13:24 PM EDT
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This is the most ill-conceived "improvement" I've witnessed in a while, and that's saying something.
Why? What possible constructive purpose has any of this served. It's really screwed the way I use (or use to) my arfcom media files. |
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Posted: 5/16/2015 11:49:09 PM EDT
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This is the most ill-conceived "improvement" I've witnessed in a while, and that's saying something. Why? What possible constructive purpose has any of this served. It's really screwed the way I use (or use to) my arfcom media files. Specifics would be welcome. Feel free to email me your issues or post them here. |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 12:09:53 AM EDT
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GoatBoy the only thing I can say specifically it that all the threads heavy with pictures now load noticibly slower. Even more so the threads that are primarily video related. A specific current example is this one
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1749421_The_official_90s_alt_rock_music_thread.html The page loads but it is painfully slow for the video files to populate to the page. I can only presume the delay and slow page loads are due to how you have modified how those types of files are handled. I can not be any more specific than to say the site now behaves significantly slower in those circumstances. I verified my impressions on multiple machines. |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 12:25:53 AM EDT
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GoatBoy the only thing I can say specifically it that all the threads heavy with pictures now load noticibly slower. Even more so the threads that are primarily video related. A specific current example is this one http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1749421_The_official_90s_alt_rock_music_thread.html The page loads but it is painfully slow for the video files to populate to the page. I can only presume the delay and slow page loads are due to how you have modified how those types of files are handled. I can not be any more specific than to say the site now behaves significantly slower in those circumstances. I verified my impressions on multiple machines. This is due to the youtube embed code being updated to current standards versus the protocol change. I'll dig up a work around. I know google was doing a "snapshot" holder for videos and releasing code to everyone. With their embed code each video ads a LOT to the page download, which is why that page is fubar. Thanks for letting me know about that page though. I'll put this high on the list for a fix in the next few days. |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 1:04:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ... This is due to the youtube embed code being updated to current standards versus the protocol change. I'll dig up a work around. I know google was doing a "snapshot" holder for videos and releasing code to everyone. With their embed code each video ads a LOT to the page download, which is why that page is fubar. Thanks for letting me know about that page though. I'll put this high on the list for a fix in the next few days. Is it just me or do all videos now appear in a widescreen format? I presume this is related to the YouTube code update you mention but it seems unnecessary. Would it matter if they defaulted to the prior smaller size, and load faster? The song threads can be un-Godly slow to load as they are. Ideally, we could select from a couple of preset aspect ratios, depending on the video to be embedded (say 425x350 or 622x350), but still be able to plug in custom or larger sizes as desired. Adding text below a video seems to work much better now than it did in the past - that's a really good improvement. |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 1:30:25 AM EDT
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The WYSIWYG editor is really funky in Chrome. (and maybe others? I know I have experienced some of these in Firefox and IE, too)
For example.... If you click the quote box icon, you will get this:  But, if you place your cursor after the word "TEXT" and hit <Enter>, it breaks the quote box into two....  |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 1:32:15 AM EDT
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Here's another interesting one....
If you quote someone, like this, and you enter your own text right below the quote box, but you make a mistake, if you hit <BackSpace> on the first letter of your text, it deletes your first letter, and then takes you up to the line above, into the quote box, rather than leaving you on your own line, below the quote box. Int he example below, I start typing "Plus 1". If I were to start at the "1" and hit Back Space, until I erased the "P", I would lose my line break, and my cursor would be up inside the ext box.  ETA: this one proved so difficult to create, I gave up and created a screen shot, from within the editor... it allows me to create this in the editor, but it completely breaks after the first <Submit> |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 1:38:28 AM EDT
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When my quote tags get all crazy, the paintbrush icon (Clear All Formatting" doesn't seem to do what it should. It leaves starts or ends of Divs and Spans all over. Them if I try to quote something, it gets messy, because there are extra now tags.
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Posted: 5/17/2015 1:39:48 AM EDT
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Why doesn't the image set size work?
I can enter a width, but it has no effect.  |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 1:44:56 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/17/2015 8:46:03 PM EDT
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The WYSIWYG Editor is getting a massive overhaul soon. It's outdated and a lot of the functions in there were removed due to abuses.
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Posted: 5/17/2015 9:42:49 PM EDT
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Specifics would be welcome. Feel free to email me your issues or post them here. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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This is the most ill-conceived "improvement" I've witnessed in a while, and that's saying something. Why? What possible constructive purpose has any of this served. It's really screwed the way I use (or use to) my arfcom media files. Specifics would be welcome. Feel free to email me your issues or post them here. First of all, I need to apologize for the tone of my post. I'm not usually like this, I haven't been myself since my sister died three weeks ago. I have pages of downloaded smileys, animations, and symbols that I would work into my posts. Not just funny stuff but things like pointers, arrows, hearts, etc. Been doing this for years and went gold so that I could store them here instead of an outside host to have faster, easier access to them. Until recently I've been able integrate them seamlessly with my text and the site icons. Not anymore, now every one has a border around it, and some won't show the correct background color inside the box (even though they're transparent GIFs). I'll survive, I'll dump them and figure out a better way. "The good of the many" and all that . . . |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 10:04:11 PM EDT
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First of all, I need to apologize for the tone of my post. I'm not usually like this, I haven't been myself since my sister died three weeks ago. I have pages of downloaded smileys, animations, and symbols that I would work into my posts. Not just funny stuff but things like pointers, arrows, hearts, etc. Been doing this for years and went gold so that I could store them here instead of an outside host to have faster, easier access to them. Until recently I've been able integrate them seamlessly with my text and the site icons. Not anymore, now every one has a border around it, and some won't show the correct background color inside the box (even though they're transparent GIFs). I'll survive, I'll dump them and figure out a better way. "The good of the many" and all that . . . Quote HistoryQuoted:
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This is the most ill-conceived "improvement" I've witnessed in a while, and that's saying something. Why? What possible constructive purpose has any of this served. It's really screwed the way I use (or use to) my arfcom media files. Specifics would be welcome. Feel free to email me your issues or post them here. First of all, I need to apologize for the tone of my post. I'm not usually like this, I haven't been myself since my sister died three weeks ago. I have pages of downloaded smileys, animations, and symbols that I would work into my posts. Not just funny stuff but things like pointers, arrows, hearts, etc. Been doing this for years and went gold so that I could store them here instead of an outside host to have faster, easier access to them. Until recently I've been able integrate them seamlessly with my text and the site icons. Not anymore, now every one has a border around it, and some won't show the correct background color inside the box (even though they're transparent GIFs). I'll survive, I'll dump them and figure out a better way. "The good of the many" and all that . . . I've thought of removing the border on all locally hosted images, including media files. So your actions may be premature. I'm working on the video issue. I'll look at this after. |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 10:13:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: First of all, I need to apologize for the tone of my post. I'm not usually like this, I haven't been myself since my sister died three weeks ago. I have pages of downloaded smileys, animations, and symbols that I would work into my posts. Not just funny stuff but things like pointers, arrows, hearts, etc. Been doing this for years and went gold so that I could store them here instead of an outside host to have faster, easier access to them. Until recently I've been able integrate them seamlessly with my text and the site icons. Not anymore, now every one has a border around it, and some won't show the correct background color inside the box (even though they're transparent GIFs). I'll survive, I'll dump them and figure out a better way. "The good of the many" and all that . . . Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: This is the most ill-conceived "improvement" I've witnessed in a while, and that's saying something. Why? What possible constructive purpose has any of this served. It's really screwed the way I use (or use to) my arfcom media files. Specifics would be welcome. Feel free to email me your issues or post them here. First of all, I need to apologize for the tone of my post. I'm not usually like this, I haven't been myself since my sister died three weeks ago. I have pages of downloaded smileys, animations, and symbols that I would work into my posts. Not just funny stuff but things like pointers, arrows, hearts, etc. Been doing this for years and went gold so that I could store them here instead of an outside host to have faster, easier access to them. Until recently I've been able integrate them seamlessly with my text and the site icons. Not anymore, now every one has a border around it, and some won't show the correct background color inside the box (even though they're transparent GIFs). I'll survive, I'll dump them and figure out a better way. "The good of the many" and all that . . . Sorry to hear about your sister.  |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 10:20:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I've thought of removing the border on all locally hosted images, including media files. So your actions may be premature. I'm working on the video issue. I'll look at this after. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: This is the most ill-conceived "improvement" I've witnessed in a while, and that's saying something. Why? What possible constructive purpose has any of this served. It's really screwed the way I use (or use to) my arfcom media files. Specifics would be welcome. Feel free to email me your issues or post them here. First of all, I need to apologize for the tone of my post. I'm not usually like this, I haven't been myself since my sister died three weeks ago. I have pages of downloaded smileys, animations, and symbols that I would work into my posts. Not just funny stuff but things like pointers, arrows, hearts, etc. Been doing this for years and went gold so that I could store them here instead of an outside host to have faster, easier access to them. Until recently I've been able integrate them seamlessly with my text and the site icons. Not anymore, now every one has a border around it, and some won't show the correct background color inside the box (even though they're transparent GIFs). I'll survive, I'll dump them and figure out a better way. "The good of the many" and all that . . . I've thought of removing the border on all locally hosted images, including media files. So your actions may be premature. I'm working on the video issue. I'll look at this after. Consider making a working border checkbox on the image tool, that is checked by default, but can be unchecked for individual pics, if desired. On a lighter note, I just learned what WYSIWYG stands for from one of our developers this past week.  I just assumed it was a programming thing like php/html/java/javascript/etc.... |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 10:22:33 PM EDT
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FWIW, I just found out about the "highlight the OP's posts" setting in personal settings. I absolutely love it. I wonder if I am the only one?
You should consider turning it on by default for new members, or even as part of your new editor. Old guys might learn about it, and can shut it off if they choose. |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 10:28:45 PM EDT
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since you mention looking at youtube videos.... I seem to be running into an issue where people post youtube links, bu when I click on them, they give me a white page that never loads. The only way they work for me is to pull off the alphanumeric stuff after the "/" and to go to youtube and paste the alphanumeric end of the url into youtube search
Here is one, taken from this thread.... http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1749202_Friday_night_off_the_wall_music__or_anything_goes_.html&page=6#i53622847 If I remove v/IFLj1WFJmMA from the above entire url, and then go to https://www.youtube.com and copy and paste this end portion .... IFLj1WFJmMA into the search portion, I can find the video in the search results. No idea what's happening, but it is recent. |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 10:34:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The WYSIWYG Editor is getting a massive overhaul soon. It's outdated and a lot of the functions in there were removed due to abuses. Good. Tried using it several different times. Always go back to the classic editor. |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 11:14:19 PM EDT
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Please make image sizes in threads a user setting.. If you really want to help my screen display things though... prohibit the mile long text strings (or urls) from expanding the browser window. Force them to wrap. All this please |
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Posted: 5/18/2015 12:46:19 PM EDT
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The classic and wysiwyg editors are both being upgraded. No ETA though.
Ok I pushed a couple changes. 1) Media hosted images (arfcom hosted) shouldn't have the boxes around them. 2) Video files are no longer being embedded in their "normal" state. We are dynamically loading them when you click the play button. This should decrease load times on pages by a significant amount when there are videos present. This should alleviate the chaos from Google's embed process. 3) Few minor tweaks to how thread content is handled. (More behind the scenes stuff to speed it up.) Sorry pushed the code with the video controls disabled. They are back on. 
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Posted: 5/18/2015 12:59:46 PM EDT
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Wow! you aren't exaggerating at all! Try loading this music thread.....
Amazingly faster! Thanks! |
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Posted: 5/18/2015 2:01:11 PM EDT
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Alright Goatboy you have proved your "Wizard level" computer skills and the videos in fact load at impressive speed.
This now brings along the question will the fix you just put in place not allow for the "video title page" still image that was on each video before clicking to play? Not a complaint more of a question of capability as you often have to give up something to get something. |
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Posted: 5/18/2015 2:01:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The classic and wysiwyg editors are both being upgraded. No ETA though. Sorry pushed the code with the video controls disabled. They are back on. has a lot of interesting improved edit features. |
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Posted: 5/18/2015 3:06:18 PM EDT
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Alright Goatboy you have proved your "Wizard level" computer skills and the videos in fact load at impressive speed. This now brings along the question will the fix you just put in place not allow for the "video title page" still image that was on each video before clicking to play? Not a complaint more of a question of capability as you often have to give up something to get something. The code grabs the still image from youtube directly. |
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Posted: 5/18/2015 7:13:54 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/18/2015 7:57:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The code grabs the still image from youtube directly. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Alright Goatboy you have proved your "Wizard level" computer skills and the videos in fact load at impressive speed. This now brings along the question will the fix you just put in place not allow for the "video title page" still image that was on each video before clicking to play? Not a complaint more of a question of capability as you often have to give up something to get something. Load times are incredible now compared to what they were. Thanks for fixing that. We hope you can find a work-around to the missing titles though. It sucks not having them in the song threads. We're missing the "Jump To Quoted Post" button too, if you could restore that, please. |
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Posted: 5/18/2015 7:57:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wow! you aren't exaggerating at all! Try loading this music thread..... http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1749202_Friday_night_off_the_wall_music__or_anything_goes_.html&page=6&anc=53627435#i53627435 Amazingly faster! Thanks!   |
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Posted: 5/19/2015 7:29:50 AM EDT
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Thanks for changing the images, GB, haven't had a chance to check it out yet but I will.
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... We're missing the "Jump To Quoted Post" button too, if you could restore that, please. I just caught that when I was trying to catch up in a long thread this morning. It was a little thing but I'd gotten spoiled by it. Hope it can be brought back. |
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Posted: 5/20/2015 12:03:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The code grabs the still image from youtube directly. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Alright Goatboy you have proved your "Wizard level" computer skills and the videos in fact load at impressive speed. This now brings along the question will the fix you just put in place not allow for the "video title page" still image that was on each video before clicking to play? Not a complaint more of a question of capability as you often have to give up something to get something. The code grabs the still image from youtube directly. Is there any way to have the title displayed over top of the video like it was before? I love how quickly it loads, but I find that I'm wasting as much time by clicking on videos that I wouldn't have otherwise just because I want to see what it is. If there was a title still it would be way better. |
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Posted: 5/20/2015 10:51:56 AM EDT
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Is there any way to have the title displayed over top of the video like it was before? I love how quickly it loads, but I find that I'm wasting as much time by clicking on videos that I wouldn't have otherwise just because I want to see what it is. If there was a title still it would be way better. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Alright Goatboy you have proved your "Wizard level" computer skills and the videos in fact load at impressive speed. This now brings along the question will the fix you just put in place not allow for the "video title page" still image that was on each video before clicking to play? Not a complaint more of a question of capability as you often have to give up something to get something. The code grabs the still image from youtube directly. Is there any way to have the title displayed over top of the video like it was before? I love how quickly it loads, but I find that I'm wasting as much time by clicking on videos that I wouldn't have otherwise just because I want to see what it is. If there was a title still it would be way better. I'll get the arrow back on, that was on me. As for the video title, I'll see what I can do. |
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Posted: 5/31/2015 11:11:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Please make image sizes in threads a user setting.. If you really want to help my screen display things though... prohibit the mile long text strings (or urls) from expanding the browser window. Force them to wrap. +1, this is annoying....  |
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Posted: 7/3/2015 11:12:12 AM EDT
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I agree, it's awful. |
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Posted: 7/4/2015 7:43:27 PM EDT
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I really hate to bring this up again... But after browsing the site for a whole month not being able to see many of the posted images - just because I browse via SSL - really fucking sucks
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Posted: 7/4/2015 7:46:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I really hate to bring this up again... But after browsing the site for a whole month not being able to see many of the posted images - just because I browse via SSL - really fucking sucks Still missing the video titles too. |
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Posted: 7/4/2015 10:51:07 PM EDT
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Still missing the video titles too.
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I really hate to bring this up again... But after browsing the site for a whole month not being able to see many of the posted images - just because I browse via SSL - really fucking sucks Still missing the video titles too.
Yea its a minor annoyance but videos are working for me on andriod now at least. |
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Posted: 7/15/2015 12:05:05 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Still missing the video titles too. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I really hate to bring this up again... But after browsing the site for a whole month not being able to see many of the posted images - just because I browse via SSL - really fucking sucks Still missing the video titles too. I really can not stand the lack of video titles. Even the crappy Vbulletin forums I belong to have the video titles. |
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Posted: 7/16/2015 12:47:19 PM EDT
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Please make image sizes in threads a user setting.. If you really want to help my screen display things though... prohibit the mile long text strings (or urls) from expanding the browser window. Force them to wrap. +1, this is annoying.... http://i62.tinypic.com/13ye5o6.jpg IT's not even that, i just shrink the page magnification down to resolve that. I mean the uninterrupted URL's, or picture image addresses that get posted or quoted that extend one single post a mile wide while shrinking all the others to microscopic width. |
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Posted: 7/16/2015 11:06:21 PM EDT
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Check out this thread and tell me it wouldn't be 2489268905 times better if the video name was displayed on the video. It's really, really frustrating and these are my favorite threads.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1768419_Your_favorite_sad_songs_.html |
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Posted: 7/16/2015 11:57:43 PM EDT
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I'll work on adding video titles in tomorrow. The http/https image issue will be addressed in the new upgrade down the road. The super long text spam will wrap as well.
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Posted: 7/17/2015 9:17:19 AM EDT
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How soon are you going to upgrade the editor? It is annoying as hell.
Please also bring back the ability to resize images, within the editor.
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Posted: 7/23/2015 10:59:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'll work on adding video titles in tomorrow. THANK YOU! Looks like you got it worked out. |
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Posted: 7/24/2015 12:13:19 AM EDT
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I got held up a bit, but it's all good now. Glad you noticed.
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Posted: 7/24/2015 10:52:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I got held up a bit, but it's all good now. Glad you noticed. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!  |
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Posted: 7/24/2015 11:32:28 AM EDT
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Really appreciate that.
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