TWA884

Click on the "Go Advanced" button; the post will display and you will be able to edit it.
+1

WHBM

I just can't type anything in the Quick Reply box at the bottom of any post. Type in there but nothing appears It also has all the format buttons greyed out except the font colour one. To put this in had to quote a post and delete what was being quoted.

MS Edge; I'm guessing it's browser-dependent.

jrl767

works fine on Safari (iPhone); didn’t have any issues w Chrome on a laptop yesterday

moondog

It still doesn't work for me on Windows/Chrome.

As an aside, crowd-sourced QA has its advantages (e.g. saving internal resources and getting millions of data points), especially if you are a government entity that doesn't have reputational risk. This is how things work in Shanghai (e.g. new health code app doesn't work, find out from 5 million people, fix),

But, when I worked in the Silicon Valley, internal QA was pretty important. You see, Yahoo had competitors; the Shanghai government doesn't.

DELee

So are you saying that IB has no internal QA and/or that IB/FT has no competitors?

David

moondog

I honestly can't comment about IB QA, but-the Shanghai government can get away with anything it wants, and releasing unfinished products is honestly okay for them
-Microsft would get roasted if it didn't test its products before releasing them

aww3583

For about 3 days, the layout/formatting on iOS Safari is almost unreadable. The ads get priority on 1/3rd the page.

Previously, the text (thread titles) spanned across the entire screen. Ad space was limited to reasonable amounts.

plunet

I can assure you that Microsoft does regularly get roasted for releasing defective and buggy software. I regularly provide them feedback personally for $dayjob

The mantra these days used by software developers is to be as modular as possible keeping functions as discrete as possible, and then release small updates impacting a minimum number of modules often, so you avoid big updates that have lots of complex interdepencies and will typically have more opportunities for bugs because it's hard to cover every test scenario that your customers will subject the software to in their day to day lives.

So typically what big software outfits do where they can these days is to try to limit the blast radius of new releases by deploying new software in update rings. First internally to employees, then people who agree to beta testing, and then 1% of public users and slowly increasing to 2%, 5%, 10% all whilst keeping an eye on tickets and social media, and thereafter usually letting rip. The fun bit of this is that you don't know if you're in an early release update ring or not, and whether you're giving up your productivity to beta test software for Microsoft and others.

The forum software used by IB and is not so modern and is more monolithic in its nature, it's governed by the maker of the software, and because of this the updates are probably bigger, more complex, it's difficult to roll out incrementally, and has more chance of having unintended consequences. And I'm not making excuses for IB but testing all eventualities in these scenarios is genuinely hard, although I am sure they could improve their capabilities in this area, especially with transparency so those who can find this forum can proactively respond to the issues they discover.

jrl767

from zero knowledge of the industry or the domain, I also suspect that FT is only a small part of IB’s portfolio, so likely doesn’t sit too high on the priority ladder when it comes to fixes, updates, and the like

jrl767

more like half, when you consider that the right side is essentially fenced off … this is what I referred to in Post 26 upthread

I thought about clicking the “Like” link, but didn’t want anyone to think I actually like the situation

moondog

This is a separate issue IBJoel but about half of the time I click the "like" button, it gets recorded as <USER UNDEFINED> instead of "you".

aww3583

Yep. I’d say it’s 1/2 this morning.

Delboy65

I noticed issues with android phone (using Chrome app) of not automatically scrolling to next or previous page
Thought was me, but when continued today I found this thread..
Seems I can either view 1st or last pages only


That is as far as i can scroll down unless on last page

SJCFlyerLG

Quick reply is still not working on Chrome.

And I still can't see posted tweets on any browser.

dinoscool3

Assume this is also due to the update, using the desktop on mobile now results in weird formatting. The page only uses about have the screen, and I can no longer one tap to go to MyFlyertalk (a big reason why I don't use mobile skin). This is iPhoneXR. Has worked fine up until the 11th (and in-fact when the page initial loads, it loads the true desktop version for a split second taking up the whole screen then "corrects" itself to this weird mobile version.)




EDIT: And another fun one I spotted today on Desktop, the Quick Reply now has a clone of FlyerTalk inside of it: