Last edit by: JDiver
Some ways to reverse new features
1) Disabling infinite scroll:
2) Restore previous post editing options:
NOTE: For ease of both members posting and Technical Support, this thread has been split into two threads for 2018; one exclusively for MOBILE devices, the other for DESKTOP devices. You can find them here:
2018 FT Nov 2017 Upgrade for DESKTOP Devices BUG REPORTS (link), and
2018 FT Nov 2017 Upgrade for MOBILE Devices BUG REPORTS
1) Disabling infinite scroll:
- Go to My FlyerTalk Control Panel
- Edit options
- Disable Infinite Scroll
- Edit options
2) Restore previous post editing options:
- Go to My FlyerTalk Control Panel
- Settings and Options
- Miscellaneous Options
- Message Editor Interface and select Standard Editor -- extra formatting controls (you may see odd behavior in this unsupported editor)
- Miscellaneous Options
- Settings and Options
NOTE: For ease of both members posting and Technical Support, this thread has been split into two threads for 2018; one exclusively for MOBILE devices, the other for DESKTOP devices. You can find them here:
2018 FT Nov 2017 Upgrade for DESKTOP Devices BUG REPORTS (link), and
2018 FT Nov 2017 Upgrade for MOBILE Devices BUG REPORTS
ARCHIVE: FT 15 Nov 2017 Upgrade Tech Thread - 2017 BUG REPORTS
#691
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#692
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I want to add to the many voices:
1) The update offers nothing by way of improvements that I can see.
2) When infinite scroll is turned on, it's very difficult to find the wiki if there is one, without going all the way back to the top.
3) Is there anybody with a sense of aesthetics or design working on this? It somehow got even more ugly.
4) When I try to highlight sometime in the text box, my screen jumps to the bottom of the page. So I can't highlight and edit text, I have to delete and re-write.
1) The update offers nothing by way of improvements that I can see.
2) When infinite scroll is turned on, it's very difficult to find the wiki if there is one, without going all the way back to the top.
3) Is there anybody with a sense of aesthetics or design working on this? It somehow got even more ugly.
4) When I try to highlight sometime in the text box, my screen jumps to the bottom of the page. So I can't highlight and edit text, I have to delete and re-write.
Last edited by jdrtravel; Nov 19, 2017 at 10:42 am
#693
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It's for this reason that my ad blocker will remain turned on. I tried visiting the site with an i5 laptop running Win 10 and Chrome and without ad blocking the cooling fans were running full speed. Not good.
#694
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Well personally I’d like to thank IB. As a result I now spend less time on ft and have instead picked up a book again. The jittery use of the webpage on my iPad is too much nuisance vs. content.
#695
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They'll just delete it like they have done with the others, probably like this post will be, soon. They've got the same attitude as the Fark.com admins during one of their infamous format changes. "We'll get over it."
Being hostile to your membership is not conducive to people willing to contribute content. Unfortunately, like Fark, the membership here is big enough that inertia will carry them past this hiccup.
And I say this as someone who runs a long-standing message board, myself.
Being hostile to your membership is not conducive to people willing to contribute content. Unfortunately, like Fark, the membership here is big enough that inertia will carry them past this hiccup.
And I say this as someone who runs a long-standing message board, myself.
Sorry you feel that way. I have a pile of active tickets from what's been reported. Bugs are functions that are not working as designed. That's not the same thing as a complaint about something that is working as designed, and someone just doesn't like it. We are at this time not addressing those, as they are not bug reports, which is what has explicitly been requested here.
I strongly suggest that you wait and see what the site looks and acts like after we're done smoothing out the bugs; if there are things you don't like then, please use the Suggestion Box forum
Thanks
Paul
I strongly suggest that you wait and see what the site looks and acts like after we're done smoothing out the bugs; if there are things you don't like then, please use the Suggestion Box forum
Thanks
Paul
#696
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I want to add to the many voices:
1) The update offers nothing by way of improvements that I can see.
2) When infinite scroll is turned on, it's very difficult to find the wiki if there is one, without going all the way back to the top.
3) Is there anybody with a sense of aesthetics or design working on this? It somehow got even more ugly.
4) When I try to highlight sometime in the text box, my screen jumps to the bottom of the page. So I can highlight and edit text, I have to delete and re-write.
1) The update offers nothing by way of improvements that I can see.
2) When infinite scroll is turned on, it's very difficult to find the wiki if there is one, without going all the way back to the top.
3) Is there anybody with a sense of aesthetics or design working on this? It somehow got even more ugly.
4) When I try to highlight sometime in the text box, my screen jumps to the bottom of the page. So I can highlight and edit text, I have to delete and re-write.
I share all OP's comments. New update frustrates me in too many ways to list here! Clean it up please. Make sure it is ready for prime time before you throw it out there for us to help debug!
#698
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PS, there's still no buttons for pages/reply unless you are LOGGED IN. Some of us browse the site without being logged in you know. There is also NO way to turn off the endless scroll crap when not logged in.
#699
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I've stopped using mobile because on my iphone the pages jump about within a thread and I can't figure out where I am. So my use is curtailed for sure.
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#701
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I look back with fondness on my first 10 years or so of FT membership. Times have changed.
#702
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Unusable here on mobile too with random jumping. Very annoying as I like to read FT when on the go.
#703
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Ad banner still there following left to right as I read.
Unreadable.
Unreadable.
#704
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IIRC prior to November 15 I could click on "My FlyerTalk" at the bottom of the page. Now I either have to scroll back up to the top, or else manipulate the "Forum Jump" up to the very top.
I don't know if this is a bug or a feature, but I miss being able simply to click on "My FlyerTalk" at the bottom after reading a post.
I don't know if this is a bug or a feature, but I miss being able simply to click on "My FlyerTalk" at the bottom after reading a post.
Last edited by Fredd; Nov 19, 2017 at 2:04 pm
#705
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I've tried for several days, and with other IB forum upgrades that have done this latest "upgrade", and I still can't quite figure out what is causing the massive CPU and RAM spike. Even with infinite scrolling off, and script blockers and the various trackers and bots blocked, but with and WITHOU ad-blocking enabled, I still get fans and CPU spiking in Chrome. Haven't tried yet enough with Safari, but will try further when I have time. Indeed, certainly spending LESS time on the site than historically.