IBobi

iPad editing issues have been reported to tech.

IBobi

You are opening FT pages and the "bottom" isn't loading? Can you take a screen shot or a video to illustrate? I will need to be able to reproduce this issue (we haven't seen it at all) if I am to tell my tech guys to fix it. Also please include your browser type, device type, and whether you're using the mobile skin or desktop mode. Thank you!

84fiero

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+1

There seems to be a hit-or-miss end result with whether and/or how bugs are addressed. The ad redirects haven't been fixed. It was an ordeal just to get the simple OP tag back to how people wanted it. There seems to be little interest in users' desires or needs. Yes there have been fixes to the initial rollout disaster - after members served as product testers for IB.

I'm sure that IB doesn't view these "enhancements" as having had a substantial negative effect, and perhaps from a pure statistics standpoint it hasn't...the site's massive content allows it to rest on its laurels for now. But as you noted, users supply all of the content for the site* plus the volunteer moderator workforce, and now are the defacto software testers, too. Yet this isn't the only game in town (I'm not referring to Milepoint/Insideflyer) for travel and points & miles information and discussion. IMHO the approach/attitude that IB is taking won't be good in the long run for the site. And while I love FT, am eternally grateful for what I've gained here, and want to see it succeed...if it eventually becomes a net negative experience I'll move on to something else.

(The above comments are all with regard to IB in a corporate sense, and not to be taken personally towards individual IB employee posters who I know are just doing their jobs as best they can, as directed by their bosses.)

*The vapid front page "articles" don't count as real content and even if they did, they would only be a tiny piece of the content pie.

ckendall

I have turned off Javascript and other than not being able to see videos or view the Wiki posts FT functions really well. But if I click on the wiki edit button I can see what's there, so it's no great loss. A little extra clicking and I can tolerate the site.

One thing I miss from the old days was the MyFlyertalk button at the bottom of the page that I would click when I was at the end of a thread.

Fredd

In fairness, after complaints by many including me, that has very recently been restored. Check it out.

EsherFlyer

@IBobi, you seem to be missing the point that the behaviour has changed. While you can argue that "My Threads" could mean "Threads I own because I started them" it used to have the meaning "Threads I am a part of because I have posted there". As mentioned up thread:

The suggestion to use My Posts is simply wrong. I don't want to see a list of my posts - I want to see a list of all threads I have posted to and see if anyone has posted after I last read it.

An excellent example came up today where by using the top-right Profile-drop / My Recent Posts an old thread that someone has just posted to but I haven't for a while didn't appear. Luckily, I have that above URL bookmarked so that I can use it periodically to see what the "official" links are now missing.

I still miss it every day, so please change it back unless you have a really good reason not to. At the moment it just seems to have got accidentally mangled in the upgrade.

IBobi

I have actually asked my tech guy to change this twice now, since the upgrade, at users' request. He has done so both times. There seems to be no consensus as to what this link should actually do, or even what it did before.

If you can whip up some consensus as to the exact behavior that these link should do, I can ask him one more time to try to make that happen. But I can't do it when one or two people ask for it, because inevitably one or two other people have said it's something different.

IBxAnders

"IBobi's tech guy" here. I have been trying to understand this report for a while now and now reading this I am even more confused. We actually want to change it - but every time we did, someone else reported it as wrong.

As far as functionality goes, there were ever 2 types of searches available - ever, and nothing has changed here. The two types of searches were "Give me all threads that I have created" and "Give me all threads in which I have posted"; respectively "My Threads" and "My Posts". At first I flipped them (the labels), because users were confused and thought posts were threads and vice versa, but someone reported that as a bug, so I switched it back. I am having a hard time figuring out if you're not happy about the labels or the functionality behind the labels; confusing bit being that the functionality behind the labels has not in any way changed. Believe me, we want to get this right, but just not understanding how.

EsherFlyer

Thanks ^.

I've been following this closely and not noticed anyone asking for anything other than what I (and others) asked for multiple times, although we may have confused you by asking for it in slightly different ways . I'll see if I can spot the other request, and if anyone can point to it then that'd help.

EsherFlyer

In the interests of trying to get this right rather than flame in any way, I think you're getting that wrong...

I turned the old "My Threads" into a "tile" bookmark on my cell phone so I could leap into it. The link I saved 2-3 years ago was:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/sear...er&mythreads=1

It still works, and it's behaviour is what you describe for "My Posts". It is a thing of beauty .

You can get the same desirable results with:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/sear...&userid=155019

And of course we have the new My Recent Posts link which gives a similar output to what I / we are requesting but imposes an arguably (by me ) crippling 90-day limit on self-contribution:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/sear...&searchdate=90

That "good" URL is structurally similar, but greatly different in terms of output, to the current (and possibly previous - I've never found it useful so can't comment on whether this has changed) My Posts links:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/sear...duser&u=155019

Pookynubbers

I love the site and the user's sharing amazing data - and willing to help. lately i've noticed that running it on safari Version 11.0.1 (mac 10.31) it is quite slow and causes my fans and CPU to bog down signficantly. it seems the work need to access the pages is quite lot. any tips?

serpens

Thank you for that discussion, EsherFlyer. That was clear and informative.

Lost

Had the same problem on Android. It seems to be related to video ads on the page.

I've alerted a mod to move this thread to the tech support forum.

scottpenderson

There are two things I can think of that may be causing problems. If you have infinite scroll turned on, you may find that the page slows to a crawl as it loads more and more pages. That feature can be disabled in the settings. I found that disabling infinite scroll freed up a lot of my computers resources.

Secondly, it may be an ad problem. Users are reporting that the new FT is sending a ton of server requests to support all the ads running on the page (See this post). There are some ways to solve this problem, but they involve browser addons that will stop advertisements from appearing.

Mwenenzi

After the Nov 15 software downgrade this is now not unusual.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/tech...g-reports.html