Issues related to 24 October 2022 upgrade
Oct 25, 2022, 1:50 am
#16
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I'm in the UK and starting today each time I visit this site or open a new topic I now have to verify I'm human by picking out pictures of lions from cats or other similar tests to prove I'm somehow not a robot. .
Is this really necessary?
Is this really necessary?
Oct 25, 2022, 3:28 am
#18
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Lincolnshire, UK
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Are you sure you want to send a form again? - Is it me?
Had to log in yesterday - and now when I go to FT, I get a temporary page saying that that FT need to check the security of my connection.
And whenever I view a thread, and then click back in the browser to return to the forum, it asks if I want to send the form again.
Cleared my caches and re-booted. All browsers, on Mac.
And whenever I view a thread, and then click back in the browser to return to the forum, it asks if I want to send the form again.
Cleared my caches and re-booted. All browsers, on Mac.
Oct 25, 2022, 3:49 am
#19
Join Date: Oct 2015
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Had to log in yesterday - and now when I go to FT, I get a temporary page saying that that FT need to check the security of my connection.
And whenever I view a thread, and then click back in the browser to return to the forum, it asks if I want to send the form again.
And whenever I view a thread, and then click back in the browser to return to the forum, it asks if I want to send the form again.
The "fun facts" about internet security that are displayed while my connection is being checked are also really irritating and completely unnecessary.
Oct 25, 2022, 4:37 am
#20
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Same here on android and chrome, getting fairly annoying with all of the secure connection checks.
Oct 25, 2022, 6:15 am
#22
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Can one or both of these be changed? There's very little distinction between them from either a color and/or contrast perspective:
This is really poor UI design. Since these are supposed to be different, make them different - different color, different highlighting, different content.
Another example where having multiple icons in a column makes it hard to distinguish a read forum from an unread forum:
Maybe have _nothing_ on the read forum icon? Maybe turning its background white or buff?
Maybe going back to unbolding of the read fora?
David
This is really poor UI design. Since these are supposed to be different, make them different - different color, different highlighting, different content.
Another example where having multiple icons in a column makes it hard to distinguish a read forum from an unread forum:
Maybe have _nothing_ on the read forum icon? Maybe turning its background white or buff?
Maybe going back to unbolding of the read fora?
David
Oct 25, 2022, 8:07 am
#24
Join Date: Feb 2022
Location: LAX
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Posts: 1,535
On the topic of the forum icon, the new ones I would say are a strict downgrade from the previous ones. They are more generic so they lack flavor, and they really do look more dated than the past globe icons, while also being less relevant to Flyertalk. As mentioned, they are also harder to distinguish.
Oct 25, 2022, 8:10 am
#25
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The new ones look goofy, like they were drawn by someone's kindergartener 
Oct 25, 2022, 9:45 am
#26
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In the name of all that is holy, the priority should be to stop the annoying backwards auto scroll when using the mobile site.
what is going on with IB??
what is going on with IB??
Oct 25, 2022, 10:23 am
#27
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I too am getting the security messages on each page.
And now I cannot upload pictures. Really small pictures. Can they maybe back out the "upgrade" ? Or at least think about it if these issues cannot be fixed.
BTW this is both Chrome and Edge on Windows.
And now I cannot upload pictures. Really small pictures. Can they maybe back out the "upgrade" ? Or at least think about it if these issues cannot be fixed.
BTW this is both Chrome and Edge on Windows.
Last edited by stimpy; Oct 25, 2022 at 10:35 am
Oct 25, 2022, 11:24 am
#28
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“Performance & security by Cloudflare”. That’s what it says and I can’t but given the mess with having to identity lions and horse countless times and the site hanging up anyway. Can’t even flip back and forth between desktop and mobile views without this “performance” outcome.
From my vantage point, the problems seemed to have started from something that started to roll on Thursday October 20th. What went live on October 20th with Cloudfare use by FT that wasn’t live on October 19th? In the course of the days since, the site has become less easily usable for some. It does seem to me to be more hostile to iOS device than non-iOS devices, but it’s messed up either way.
Perhaps FT should open up a thread to have people privately post a list of Ray IDs where the posts are masked except to FT/IB admins and the members’ own posts in the thread?
given the mess with having to identity lions and horse countless times and the site hanging up anyway. Can’t even flip back and forth between desktop and mobile views without this “performance” outcome.From my vantage point, the problems seemed to have started from something that started to roll on Thursday October 20th. What went live on October 20th with Cloudfare use by FT that wasn’t live on October 19th? In the course of the days since, the site has become less easily usable for some. It does seem to me to be more hostile to iOS device than non-iOS devices, but it’s messed up either way.
Perhaps FT should open up a thread to have people privately post a list of Ray IDs where the posts are masked except to FT/IB admins and the members’ own posts in the thread?
Oct 25, 2022, 11:28 am
#29
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“Performance & security by Cloudflare”. That’s what it says and I can’t but given the mess with having to identity lions and horse countless times and the site hanging up anyway. Can’t even flip back and forth between desktop and mobile views without this “performance” outcome.
given the mess with having to identity lions and horse countless times and the site hanging up anyway. Can’t even flip back and forth between desktop and mobile views without this “performance” outcome.
Oct 25, 2022, 11:31 am
#30
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BTW from the Manage Attachments window, when I try to upload a small jpg file, it comes back with "Upload of file failed". No explanation why.