General Issues

[Bizkitdoh]

As I’m sure others have noticed- A few avatars are showing up as uh, well, broken.

Inspired to update my own avatar- I made an attempt to upload a new one and it also kept coming out broken, at least in the ‘preview’. I’m not going to try and roll with it in fear of having a busted image myself. ^^;

Any clue as to what’s up? It started happening after a recent update, far as I can tell. Perhaps a file size change or…? Just something that’s been nagging at me because it doesn’t look all that great. lol

Random things I’ve tried: Changing from png to jpg, making sure it’s a perfect square (I always do this anyways), and even making it extra tiny. Like, 14 KB. Still nothing.

Update: Uploaded and actually saved the avatar. The preview showed me a broken image, so I’d not gone for it. I went for it after Kanon did, however, and it worked. So, tl;dr- Previews do not seem to work. At least not for me.

[Kanon]

Yeah mine broke, I’m literally posting here to see if the new one I added over it works.

[technololigy]

Yeah, I just posted about it right over here ^^

It’s a bug that was so weird that one of the Discourse developers (zogstrip) actually asked me for a backup of our forum, so he could try to figure out what was wrong. Apparently we’re not the only ones getting this either… the problem seems to be a database field not getting the right value, so it tries to load the avatar in a way that makes the site error out

[Bizkitdoh]

Ha! I don’t know how I missed that. Well, good to know it’s on a list of bugs somewhere~ Appreciate it!

[Kanon]

Haha whoops, I didn’t not change it for you, I just couldn’t be bothered.
I hope I was grossly negligent long enough to help!

[technololigy]

Absolutely, your old, broken avatar is in the backup!

[Bizkitdoh]

So, @Rabla’s forum fell apart.
Anything that could possibly alleviate the issue? xD

I’ll relay information~

[technololigy]

Press Shift+Ctrl+R (or Shift+F5 if that doesn’t work on Windows) to reload everything and bypass the cache, looks like a stylesheet failed to load, which is usually due to some temporary network hiccup.

[Bizkitdoh]

Rabla said no dice on either of those.

… Next step? ^^;

[technololigy]

Huh… check the Network panel in the Developer tools (View -> Developer -> Developer tools in Chrome, F12 in just about everything else) and do it again, the file that fails to load should be marked with red

[Rabla]

I came on to do that and apparently its working now =P

[technololigy]

o_O
Welp, my bet is a temporary network failure, hopefully not on our end, but we may never know

[Rabla]

I’ll complain to Biz if it ever happens again.

[Bizkitdoh]

Appreciate the assistance, Upp-nyan. You da bes. ^^

[Bonecuss]

Spoiler tagged images aren’t blurred while they’re loading - This could be an issue for people with slower internet speeds.

[technololigy]

This seems to be an issue with the Spoiler Alert plugin… please report it to the plugin developer in this Meta thread, they likely didn’t notice. I know I didn’t until you pointed it out…

[Bizkitdoh]

Found a very specific issue. Or just an oversight.

When you move a post into a new thread, you can create a staff board thread for it- However, you cannot move a post to a staff thread. Only create a new thread. Kinda funny.

[technololigy]

Sounds like a Discourse bug, probably worth reporting to them

[Pepe]

So I tried making a new topic and something funny happened:

It seems the text editor is blocking the field for inputting a title and category, and there’s a textbox above the “Create new Topic” whose purpose baffles me

[Bonecuss]

It’s apparently the tags box, which aspi thought upp disabled a while ago. Most of us have been aware of this for a while but nobody has bothered telling upp