New toys: Jump to first new post & Convert URL

[1992casey]

Two new Yuku toys were pushed last night.

• Jump to first new post: Click on the baseball icon (http://images.yuku.com/image/gif/c622524975c135fd10f1f93290e4fd9978cc3d4.gif) next to a thread title, and you'll be taken to the first new post in a thread.
• Convert URL: The WYSIWYG post editor will now automatically make URLs clickable. Make sure the Convert URLs option is checked under the box where you write your post. (It should be checked by default.) Uncheck the box in cases where you deem that an URL shouldn't be clickable.

  Of course, it's still nice if you like to add text to your links. Mods may do that occasionally via an edit if members aren't comfortable doing this in a situation where a text link would be helpful.
   

There might be a handful of other additions, but since there's been no official announcement, we'll have to stumble upon them.

[Team Canada]

Jumping to unread = teh awesome. I've been waiting for Yuku to get that.

[Godspeed]

Is anyone else having an issue with this regarding larger threads? It'll try to jump a link that apparently doesn't exist, so I get a blank page. This typically occurs on older threads, so I'm assuming it has something to do with post moderations/deletions that occur after my last visit.

[1992casey]

It's been documented that hidden posts seem to break page numbering and also cause reply numbers to be different for mods/admins vs. members. Do your issues resemble anything in this bug: Incorrect reply and page counts? If so, and you think you can add any information, certainly feel free to jump into the discussion.

 

From all accounts I've seen, the "jump to first new post" icon works fine when going to the first unread message in a previously read thread.

 

However, some members, myself included, have had issues where clicking on the new post icon next to a previously unread thread sends them to reply #1 rather than the lead. This issue is listed as a separate bug. I filed this one: In completely unread thread, "jump to first new post" icon jumps you to first reply, although I know there's another thread around with more extensive discussion.

 

Yuku staff member Chris W962 and I have PMed a lot about the new post icon in previously unread threads. A fair number of members are experiencing it, and it's a tough one to pin down. It appears to be profile and forum-related. (That's forum-related, not board-related.) That is, I only experience the issue in some forums on Brewerfan. And I only experience it under my 1992casey profile--and not at all under several of the test profiles I played around with.

[1992casey]

Here's a bug related to the Convert URL option.

 

As members have probably noticed, when the Convert URL option is checked, long links will be truncated. However, upon editing a lead post, the destination of the link will also become truncated. (In other words, the link breaks. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif) This only is an issue in the first post of a thread, and it only becomes an issue when editing.

 

Moral of the story: if you edit the lead post of a thread, be prepared to fix any links that were created with the Convert URL option. Links with text would be unaffected.

[Godspeed]

Casey --- thanks for your help. My issue is occurring when I click on the new post icon for previously read threads, typically longer ones. For testing purposes, here is where I get sent to when clicking on the Vent Thread. I don't know what you or other people would necessarily see when clicking on that link, but all I see is an empty topic on page# 102.

It's not the end of the world obviously, just a minor nuisance.

[TSack27]

GYPE - you're not alone, I experience the same thing you are describing.

[pitchleague]

I have noticed that clicking the baseball logo will sometimes bring me to the first unread message and sometimes not. Especially if it is (the horror!) perhaps a few days in between visits to the site. So, even when I click the baseball, I still have to scroll up to make sure I didn't miss any.

[1992casey]

The Convert URLs feature has been hit and miss the past few days--mostly miss. Breaking entirely was a "side effect" of an attempt to fix a bug.

 

This is allegedly fixed pending a push that should (hopefully) be occurring soon.