XenForo bug report thread

[Vulpes Abnocto]

I'm going to lock this topic.
I've already noted everything that was reported here, but it's too hard to keep track of everything if it's all in the same topic.

From now when you find a bug, please post a new topic for it. Don't forget to use the "NEW" tag so we immediately see it's a bug report

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This thread is for reporting any bug or annoyance that you find
or to ask for help in post formatting while we all get used to XenForo.

We are quite aware that some of the old IPB bells and whistles are gone.
Some of them will be brought back later, and some will be gone forever.
We ask that you do not gripe about this. Nobody is precisely 'happy' about it.

While this forum software change was forced by an unpleasant occurrence,
it isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Keep looking around, try out the features and options of XenForo, and we'll all learn the quirks of it together.

 

[Arras]

The Contact Us and Top buttons at the very bottom of every page are the same color as the background on most browsers including Firefox 18 and Internet Explorer 10. It does work properly if I set Internet Explorer to Compatibility view, though. Same goes for the Terms and Rules; almost invisible as well.

 

[tj_cool]

Was not really a bug, but you should now be able to hide the console tabs ("NDS", "Wii" etc) from the navigation bar.
Might be useful for people with smaller screen resolutions, or simply if you want to ignore certain consoles

 

[Arras]

Actually about those Contact Us and Top buttons: Once they have been clicked, they change color to become visible. There's no space between them though, so it shows "Contact UsHomeTop" now.

Edit: Are Former Staff supposed to show up in the Online Staff box? Another World is listed in there.

 

[Rydian]

How would the tabs be hidden? I'm not seeing any sort of x or option in the dropdown. User preferences?

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

How would the tabs be hidden? I'm not seeing any sort of x or option in the dropdown. User preferences?

Probably by the "Customize this page" button next to your name on the portal.

 

[Just Another Gamer]

I don't know if its a bug or not but names that are long like mine wrap around instead of the word being fully on the second line.

 

[nryn99]

Where 's the option for disabling the temp sending me mails about Post here funny pictures thread?

 

[shoyrumaster11]

So I tried to go to DS Programming for newbies and, the 1st page is really glitched and the table of content's doesn't work properly. The GBATemp header appears at the bottom of the screen and the body of every message on the first page goes from being readable to becoming a buggy mess!

(I may really need this to be fixed because I plan on using NFlib in my NDS projects but, how can I use it if the tutorial on the page I mentioned is really buggy and glitchy?)

 

[jjjewel]

Some parts of my posts went missing when you changed to Xenforo.

Ex. My first post in this thread.
http://gbatemp.net/threads/completed-love-plus-english-translation-patch.272861/

There used to be a long post after the spoiler tag, but not anymore in this new board. And some parts of other posts have some text missing too.

(Not a big deal, though. I only randomly checked my old posts and found something I wrote went missing, so I think I should report here. )

 

[RchUncleSkeleton]

I know a couple people already mentioned this but I am also getting the search bar covering the User CP, Alerts and Message area using both Firefox (PC) and Android Internet Browser (HTC Inspire). Haven't tried Chrome at all and IE8 doesn't show any of the Navigation bars or links (I never use IE but I was just using it to test gbatemp).

Spoiler: Firefox

Spoiler: IE8

Spoiler: Android

Also editing text on the android browser doesn't give me a flashing cursor to see where I am placing text, which makes it hard to fix typo's etc.

 

[tj_cool]

For anyone with the search covering the username etc:

Go to your settings, under options will be a setting "Hide Section Tabs".
Select a few of those and save. That'll hide the tabs from the bar on the top leaving more room for the userbar.

The problem is simply the lack of space, so doing the above should work.

 

[Etheboss]

Thanx tj_cool, that helps a lot, but overlap still occurs when i am in a forum with 3-4 or more sub forums, for example the wii forum:
In my case, i can only see the first 4 subforums, after the the searchbar overlaps it again.
I guess the forum does not auto adjust this if you have a small screen, what seems to be happening in my case, when i am on my laptop, which has a 14 inch screen.

 

[Janthran]

I just checked and you can't even log in on IE7

 

[Arras]

Sometimes threads become really messed up for a short time. I'll take a screenshot when it happens again, but it seems to fix itself after a while. It happened to http://gbatemp.net/threads/installing-isos-on-ps3-internal-drive-4-30-rogero.337078/ and http://gbatemp.net/threads/swapnote-trivia-quest.336499/, but now both look normal again.

 

[Actinopterygian Melospiza]

My name got changed from Actinopterygian Melospiza to just Actinopterygian, I'm assuming this has to do with a limit on how long your name can be or something.

I don't really care that much about having my old user name, but if you guys are just going to change it can I at least get to chose what it gets changed to? I liked Actinopterygian Melospiza, but I don't care for just Actinopterygian. I'm not trying to be a douche but I just don't really like that my name got changed with no input from me and with no notification from any staff as to why it was changed and if anything could be done about it.

 

[Rydian]

My name got changed from Actinopterygian Melospiza to just Actinopterygian, I'm assuming this has to do with a limit on how long your name can be or something.

I don't really care that much about having my old user name, but if you guys are just going to change it can I at least get to chose what it gets changed to? I liked Actinopterygian Melospiza, but I don't care for just Actinopterygian. I'm not trying to be a douche but I just don't really like that my name got changed with no input from me and with no notification from any staff as to why it was changed and if anything could be done about it.

Seeing as other people got individual letters trimmed off the end of their name, I'm pretty sure it was a technical limit and no human actually did it on purpose.

Supervisors do name changes in situations like this, contact one of them and see if they'll help you.

 

[Actinopterygian Melospiza]

Seeing as other people got individual letters trimmed off the end of their name, I'm pretty sure it was a technical limit and no human actually did it on purpose.

Supervisors do name changes in situations like this, contact one of them and see if they'll help you.

Oh weird...I guess it was just a coincidence that it got cut off right after the first word, I had assumed that there was a limit somewhere between 15 and 25 characters and that someone had just dropped the second word to make it fit the requirement without the second word being cut off. I don't spend a whole lot of time here so I didn't notice anyone with cut off names.

Anyway, thanks for the help, I'll contact a supervisor post-haste.

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

Oh weird...I guess it was just a coincidence that it got cut off right after the first word, I had assumed that there was a limit somewhere between 15 and 25 characters and that someone had just dropped the second word to make it fit the requirement without the second word being cut off. I don't spend a whole lot of time here so I didn't notice anyone with cut off names.

Anyway, thanks for the help, I'll contact a supervisor post-haste.

I'll have that fixed in moments.
(actually, p1ngpong will have it fixed. Jackass stealing my thunder)

Yeah, your name was the perfect length to be cut off automatically.

 

[Actinopterygian Melospiza]

I'll have that fixed in moments.

Yeah, your name was the perfect length to be cut off automatically.

Thanks, that was fast. You changed it before I could even find out how to send a freakin' PM. Gosh darn you XenForo!

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

...You changed it before I could even find out how to send a freakin' PM. Gosh darn you XenForo!

We're all having to un-learn and then re-learn what we knew before. It's tough on everybody...might even be tougher on old farts like me. (but I had a few days to practice before the forum was back up)
Did you get the PMs figured out?