MGOBLOG 3.0 sticky for bugs

First of all, I still love mgoblog, and now that I'm getting used to it, I'm on a whole lot more than I was during the summer.  Wait.  That might have something to do with football season.  NVM.  Anyhoo, I would like to humbly suggest that the site add a "Home" button to the banner.  Sometimes I've been pirouetting through the board for a while, and I decide I ought to get serious and read the front page articles.  At the moment, the only way I can find to get back there is either to close the site and reopen it, or to click "back" a million times (this is an exaggeration).  A "Home" button would be awesome.  I promise I would use it faithfully.

Geez.  Forget I said anything.  I just discovered that the MGOBLOG on the left side IS the Home button.  I just had to accidentally run my mouse over it.  It's Christmas in September!  As you were.

Hi. I live in BHONMPD*ville. Population: me. 

* - Black Hole of No More Points Dispare

MGoPoints.....................

FYI, the point counter still doesn't seem to be working for my account. I thought somewhere I saw that it had been fixed, but that doesn't seem to be the case for me. Thanks.

Points are still dead. Deader than Cleese's parrot. Not resting: STONE DEAD.

Good: Seem to be logged in from iPhone now.

Bad: There is no way to post from an iPhone (at least with 12.0.1): The keyboard doesn't pop up when tapping in the field to type. This is unique to this site/software. So the goodness of finally being able to login is entirely wiped out by it being useless to be logged in.

i get notifications of new posts via an rss reader, after which i almost always go directly to the site.  i understand that rss readers are not a huge priority, as (if i understand correctly) they don't contribute to pageviews...and, by extension, ad revenue.  you want people to visit the site, right?

BUT, i realized that my podcast app also uses an rss feed.  so i didn't get the friday show in time to listen to it before saturday's game!

so.  rss feed.  pretty please?

Goddamit, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good toward fixing points and voting. Can't you go through the backdoor or something?

Suggestion -

I started a thread because I saw nothing in my MGoBoard search about why Ben Mason did not play more.  I don't know why it wasn't listed.  Also, the hierarchy of hits did not seem to list the most recent first. Perhaps if I paged down I would have eventually found it.

Add to your enhancement list better search tools to avoid bad threads like mine.  Also, perhaps add a requirement to search before creating a thread with a most recent first instead of best hit.

Getting logged out of my account automatically almost every time I load a new page using my iPhone and iPad this morning. Some new bug just popped up. 

Just checking in again to say: (i) still no way to vote, and (ii) still no change in points.  I know I'm not alone.

Archaic as it was, I really miss the old site.  Sure, it looked really dated, went down too often and had it's own bugs, but coming on here every day and having to look at features that I no longer have access to is extraordinarily frustrating.

Does the bye week mean an update from HUEL?

sure, i'll bring it up again.

the rss feed doesn't work.

These ads are cracking me up now. Now I'm getting ads related to Barbados - Colgate's "Keep Barbados Smiling" campaign; some rental car company in Barbados; a Caribbean mobile carrier; and some beach party called Bim Tipsy. For the record, I've never been to Barbados and pretty sure it's never come up in a search. Maybe because I travel for work frequently? 

Can the comment box be at the bottom of the page instead of the top, so we don't have to scroll to the top to make new posts in a thread?

When you check for someone's comments, I just noticed that it is "Recent Comments" only, looks to be the last 50. Any way we can get back all comments, with page numbers to scroll through? For some of the more prolific posters, posting history goes back barely a day. 

Points are...working?

Whoa!

Now getting the participation point for posting, but still can't vote. It's hard to play Siskel & Ebert with no thumbs. Wondering if non-voters can get banged and have it stick, though, so if anyone reads this, please contribute to science and give me the ol' J. Arthur Rank treatment...

Point System Isn't Really Fully Working

Now that points-for-posts has been restored (Hail!), what’s the over/under on the number of months or years before the crack programmers and website designers at Human Element have enabled the features that (1) permit voting on the original post, (2) show total up votes and total down votes, instead of the net amount of votes for each post, (3) properly indicate whether or not you’ve already voted on a post and (4) immediately show the changes in vote totals without having to refresh the page when you’re viewing MGoBlog on a desktop?

It’s still hit or miss as to whether you’ll know if you’ve already voted on a post.  If you see a blue-shaded thumbs-up emoji, you have no way of knowing if you’ve voted on it until you click on the emoji again.  If the vote total decreases, then that’s the only way for you to know that you’ve already given the post an up vote.  Then you have to click on the thumbs-up emoji again in order to restore the proper vote total.

Hello,

I still can't vote and I can't see if anyone else has voted. 

I believe the machine awarding post participation point has conked out again.

Errors trying to upload images..points broke again (3rd?  5th? time)....not a surprise to anyone unfortunately.

This web board software sucks ass and it's RIDICULOUS that you guys are messing around with this stuff when you could probably buy a forum for $100/month or something.  Message board drives traffic I don't understand why this isn't a higher priority.  Whoever is messing with your board code doesn't know what they're doing..or this Drupal stuff is absolute garbage.

I mean most of us would be willing to pay for a sub to a functional normal message board to offset the cost.

I still don't have the ability to vote like I did with the old site. I also don't have the ability to create posts. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal but it's annoying to see users who have been banned and then created new accounts with more functionality than I have. 

Do I need to make a new account? 

How do these spam posts last for 4 days?

There is a relevent post from a rivals website on the eve before The Game that I'm unable to post via mobile.  It would be helpful to copy and paste from mobile devices without using a function key, which isn't available on mobile devices....

....and my wife has yelled at me for being on my phone for so long while trying to figure this mess out.

Is there any way to avoid the drop downs after refreshing the site?

My cursor/pointer is at the top and as I drag the cursor down to click on threads the damn drop downs are in the friggin way and won't go away.  So annoying. 

Ok.  Thanks for listening.  I'll hang up and listen. 

Go Blue!

Ongoing problems with my profile under MGoBlog 3.0:

1) my points are still frozen at 459, despite several posts over these 3 months.

2) votes on posts, either net total or itemized up and down, are not visible.  No effective way to vote on posts as well.

3) given the above, are there browser issues for Safari users, either on iOS or MacOS, as opposed to Chrome or Firefox, i.e. are you Apple user-friendly?

4) can you add a component to your profile, allowing one to list their alma mater or relationship to the University of Michigan? 

Thanks for your ongoing efforts to maintain and improve the site!

Merry Xmas and Happy Holidays!

META: not sure if this is the best place and didn't want to send an email for this. But, is it possible, and not too much trouble, to add the basketball schedule under useful stuff tab? I think it would be good and appropriate addition, again if it's not too much trouble.

-steve

So here's an upgrade request that seems relatively simple (I know, nothing is simple!): Can the MGoBoard list be routinely updated and sorted by active posting activity, rather than by chronological order based on new posts?

This comes from a suggestion by Magnus in a recent post ("META Down Vote Button for Thread OP") as a way to self-police bad thread topics/OP's.  The idea being that popular threads would stay at the top of the list while less popular threads would eventually filter their way off the main page.  I think it would be fair to place new OP's at the top, so everyone would get a chance to see them.  After some amount of time, new posts could be evaluated, along with older posts, based on posting activity within each thread.  More posts on a given OP = higher placement on the list shown on the main page.

This change feels like a relatively easy DB query fed into a basic call to reorder the list whenever the page updates.  I suspect you're collecting enough metrics to make it work...  This could also be a way to relieve some pressure on getting an OP up/down vote ability re-enabled (I know the points module has been a particular headache).

The downside to this change may be that some popular OP's become HUGE, and never leave the top of the list, let alone the main page.  It would keep the topic front and center, and we might (probably would) constantly return to continue conversations (ie: arguments).  It's certainly a reasonable assumption that days old topics could be chronologically and situationally out of date, but ongoing arguments keep the OP on the front page.  And now that I've dropped that turd, I'll let you consider cleaning the punch bowl and rolling with the change...  (Maybe just force it off the front page after two days, or whatever?)

A change that would help readability in the comments sections would be the following (keep in mind, I have no idea where else these classes are used, so it may cause other issues to have them changed completely).

.views-element-container .child { margin-right: 0; }

.views-element-container .indented { padding-right: 0; }

These issues make the replies shrink from both sides, making the reading area smaller and smaller, unnecessarily so (no need to shrink from the right).

I like to use the Post Date - Newest first sorting feature during game threads, nice new feature that the old site didn't have. However once the thread gets too many posts, the feature seems to get overwhelmed and just dumps you into the middle or back at the beginning of the thread?