My Sharona

1 hour ago, Dreadknux said:

I'm not sure if Google really penalises the dupe copy given it's on the same community/site in a different node?)

Google claims to not penalize duplicate content on a site but regardless, it can still hurt your SEO practices. The problem lies in the fact that IPS places a <link rel="canonical" ...../"  /> tag (which directs a search engine that this is the master copy) on both the page and the topic. You can easily see this by viewing the page source of both the page and topic. It should be line 171. You shouldn't have a canonical tag on both pages claiming to be the master.

I have reported this previously but never followed up on it by placing the topic in the Feedback sub.

Just to confirm, had the errors issue here. And it may have been the same time, depending upon time zones. The minutes match up.

Apologies if addressed already. Will there be an optional ability to turn this feature on (or off for that matter) within the ACP?

7 minutes ago, LemonGrenade said:

It's strange too cause it's actually coming from the @giphy.com email address.

Did you look at the header? email addresses can be spoofed on display.

Thank you for your consideration.

12 hours ago, WebCMS said:

Do not again for - is set to:

"[X] for the rest of the session"

I remember I changed some settings here recently but not sure which one.

Just for faeces and giggles, try setting it for 2 hours. 

Overview > Settings > Two Factor Authentication > Do Not Ask Again For

3 hours ago, Daniel F said:

That's correct, there's no such feature in the core

Understood. However, and it's not a big deal either way but, it just seems like it should be, considering every other function that is listed in the top moderation actions button, are present in the bottom, moderation actions button.

3 hours ago, Daniel F said:

So what you#re saying is:

You've created a topic which should be published in e.g. 2 weeks.

Then you have used the "Publish" link from the moderation menu to publish it and now you're seeing the unread replies indicator . 

Correct. 
 

3 hours ago, Daniel F said:

Just to be sure, there were NO posts when you clicked "publish" ? 

Yes... as you can not post to a thread that hasn't been published yet.

@Daniel F
I can send you a link if you want.

On 11/8/2023 at 10:29 AM, Daniel F said:

Are you still reproducing this with the recent version?

@Daniel F No, the issue remains. No last read cookie is loaded.

I can't be sure (I'm not sure this existed previously) but I think there is a slight difference now though. When going to a thread that has been published ahead of schedule by using the moderation actions function at the top of the thread, while still going to the first page of the thread, regardless, it will now insert the Unread Replies line. Which is somewhat helpful, as it will let you know where you left off but is not how it should work.

Additionally, there is still no Publish button within the Moderation Actions  button at the bottom of the thread.

Thanks for looking into this. Looking forward to hopefully getting it resolved.

Apologies for the delay here. PM sent.

I am on the Cloud and I have not upgraded yet but since the release, it seems like there is a lag in in the website(s) now. It kind of feels like we are on dial up. Posting a response, jumping to another page... any movement at all has a delay incorporated now. 

Apologies if this is not related. 

3 hours ago, Daniel F said:

Yes.

Okay, I will try and update one of the sites next week and let you know. Thank you for addressing this matter, much appreciated.

2 hours ago, Daniel F said:

Are you still reproducing this with the recent version?

I haven't upgraded to the latest release just yet. Is this supposedly fixed in 4.7.14?

37 minutes ago, TDBF said:

Cheers 👍

With the Xer Block, set it to show only on Mobile and your almost halfway home. At least until Xer gets its act together.

It is an X issue. 

If you look at the Block on Mobile, it should be showing up to date Xeets. Not totally sure why it doesn't work on desktop, but it doesn't

3 hours ago, Jim M said:

This is likely something local to your computer as I am not having an issue on or off our company VPN. I'd advise checking that you do not have any extensions/plugins installed on the browser, have networking devices like proxies or VPNs turned off, etc... Something seems to be routing weird for your device here.

I can verify the same happened to me on Chrome. I was tooling around viewing unread posts, backed out of my current place and got the 404 page. After a few, it returned to normal.

1 hour ago, The Old Man said:

Hi @Matt Looks like the way that IPS shows that error message to vistors (for queued content that is still currently unpublished) could be improved with a more friendly and meaningul error.

Being unpublished, visitors normally wouldn't see that message. They would have to have the specific url in order to get it.

20 hours ago, Rikki said:

I think personally I would dispute the idea of 'dead space' as a concept. You don't have to fill every pixel of a page with content, and doing so could actually have a negative effect by taking focus away from the actual content people are trying to find.

Facebook doesn't do it, Reddit doesn't do it, Instagram doesn't do it, so that should be a good indicator I think.

Thanks Rikki.

The blank sidebar area looks to me to be about 20%/25% of the displayed page. That just seems like an awful waste of space that might be better utilized. Blocks are optional, as is the sidebar. All I am saying is, it would be nice to have certain out-of-the-box options, to help make use of that space.

8 hours ago, Joel R said:

- You can reduce the # of posts that appear per page in a topic.  Really! Most admins rarely change this number (and why is 25 posts the magic number anyways??) but if you insist on symmetry, reduce the # of posts to match your sidebar length.  

You think users would want to click to a new page after 5 posts? I don't.
 

8 hours ago, Joel R said:

- Add relevant blocks for users that help with self-promotion or content discovery. In other words, utilize all of that emoty sidebar space! Add your guest sign in widget, newsletter sign up widget, Community Hive widget, popular content widget, our picks widget, recent comments widget, etc. to inspire and grab your user deeper into your ecosystem.  

Not every block works for all communities.
 

8 hours ago, Joel R said:

- If the Topic Summary is the only item of your sidebar, think about switching to the Compact View that layers the Topic Summary into the posts.  That will eliminate the sidebar completely and give you clean aesthetics.  

All this does is spread the dead, empty space around.
 

As stated in my OP, I love the sidebar. I am wanting to make better use of the dead space it creates. The sidebar is a fantastic idea, it just needs to have better utilization.

6 minutes ago, Charles said:

You might want to wait until v5 exists before giving feedback on it 😉 

Lol. If I'm understanding you correctly here, you and me... we're on the same page (I hope anyways).

On 10/17/2023 at 2:46 AM, Marc Stridgen said:

Feel free to send me the details via pm and I can then continue here. The account, and the item in question you use as an example please.

Thank you. I shall try to do so by the end of the week. 

On 10/17/2023 at 2:48 AM, Marc Stridgen said:

Im not sure where there would be progress on this one, as the last message from us was asking for examples of those items where they are happening in chrome. However if you are referring to webp, that is indeed still an issue at present

Thanks Marc. Indeed I meant the .webp condition. That is the portion of the conversation where those quotes came from. 

Any idea when this will be fixed? It is creating an enormous workaround for me. One I could live without to be honest.
 

As for the uploading issue, I have received no further reports at this point so do not consider it to be an issue.

I don't know if we have a dedicated area for suggestions to v5.x.x, so I'll just drop this here. If there is a better space for it, feel free to move this, there. Thanks.

I suppose being a builder by trade is why dead space bothers me so much. Whenever I see some, I want to fill it with something to make use of it, otherwise I consider it wasted. I like a degree of balance that creates a symmetry. When the thread sidebar was introduced, this created such a condition that I hope can be rectified with an out of the box installation.

Once you scroll down the page and get past "x" posts, all you are left with is dead space that is just begging to be filled with something. Of course, this is a uniform condition once you get past those "x" posts on the first page, until you get to the last page. 

One solution to this would be the ability to have a block become a "sticky" when placed in the sidebar position, that sticks once it comes into the viewport. Additionally, it might be wonderful to have the ability to have a block, that when placed in the sidebar, given the ability to adhere to the bottom of the page and when that comes into the viewport, it would then force the "sticky" block up, and out of the viewport.

It is probable that some might not utilize sidebar blocks in thread, so giving this ability to the topic summary, would make the out of the box installation, in this mode, better by default.

Please don't get me wrong here, I know I can disable the thread sidebar, but I love it so that is not the point of this posting. The point it to make use of the created dead space.

Thank you for your consideration.