Question of boundaries

March 12, 2010 12:35 AM

The mobile load is pretty heavy. I have to go through five different loads to make a comment. We used to be able to post without reviewing first. What happened to primary responsibility?
posted by parmanparman to Feature Requests at 12:35 AM (37 comments total)

Testing a comment.
posted by cj_ at 1:17 AM on March 12, 2010

That was one page load man. No forced preview.. are you talking about composing a new post? Is this something people actually do on their phone?!

I'm guessing there's just no custom style for that because it's sort of not something you'd expect anyone to do.
posted by cj_ at 1:18 AM on March 12, 2010

One page for me too.
posted by bigmusic at 1:37 AM on March 12, 2010

parmanparman: “What happened to primary responsibility?”

They took a load off, parmy,
An' they put the load right on YOU
posted by koeselitz at 1:39 AM on March 12, 2010 [5 favorites]

I agree.

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Sent from my iPod
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 2:41 AM on March 12, 2010

One click comment from my Droid.
posted by octothorpe at 3:41 AM on March 12, 2010

One click from the iPhone.
posted by DWRoelands at 4:35 AM on March 12, 2010

YOU MUST HAVE THIS __ MANY PAGELOADS TO RIDE THIS THREAD.
posted by ardgedee at 4:44 AM on March 12, 2010

What's primary responsibility?
posted by OmieWise at 5:04 AM on March 12, 2010

It's "don't interfere with the internal development of planets", right?
posted by yhbc at 5:19 AM on March 12, 2010 [4 favorites]

Sucks on a blackberry. Maybe that's what he's talking about.
posted by Mid at 5:29 AM on March 12, 2010

But that was only one click on my blackberry. What sucks is that when you type in the comment box, the text scrolls to the right forever, which makes editing hard.
posted by Mid at 5:30 AM on March 12, 2010 [1 favorite]

Hi from my iPod touch, with just one click, no forced preview.
posted by rtha at 5:41 AM on March 12, 2010

What?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 5:57 AM on March 12, 2010 [1 favorite]

"I have to go through five different loads to make a comment."

I think this is a you thing, not a them thing. You'll have to share more information if you want help figuring out what it is, though.
posted by majick at 6:05 AM on March 12, 2010

Parmanparman - are you using Opera Mini? I had lots of hard-to-replicate weirdness when I use Opera Mini to post.
posted by Jofus at 6:21 AM on March 12, 2010

parmanparman: "I have to go through five different loads to make a comment. We used to be able to post without reviewing first."

I think what parmanparman is asking for is a "comment" textarea on the home page. Type "This is a terrible post" and hit "Post Comment" and it'll get added to a random thread. See? One page load.
posted by Plutor at 6:26 AM on March 12, 2010 [1 favorite]

What happened to boundaries? This is so weird.
posted by chinston at 6:49 AM on March 12, 2010

I have to go through five different loads to make a comment.

Try one of those extra large front-loaders that take a couple of pounds of quarters and is the size of a small car.
posted by Rhomboid at 7:30 AM on March 12, 2010

I would assume parmanparman is trying to post again but he's waiting for five different pages to load.
posted by pwally at 8:01 AM on March 12, 2010 [2 favorites]

Why are you guys talking about smartphones and blackberries? This dude is obviously struggling over there with a rustic wheelbarrow and a fucking stick in the mud just to make a comment and all you can do is natter on about your first world smartphone problems. Sheesh.
posted by carsonb at 8:35 AM on March 12, 2010 [3 favorites]

Step 1. Are you sure you want to make a comment? [Y/N]
Step 2. Are you REALLY sure you want to make a comment? [Y/N]
Step 3. Please double tap and rotate your phone to unlock commenting.
Step 4. You have entered a comment that you would like posted. Continue? [Y/N]
Step 5. Your comment will be posted after clicking ok. [OK].

I don't see the problem here.
posted by blue_beetle at 8:56 AM on March 12, 2010 [1 favorite]

But that was only one click on my blackberry. What sucks is that when you type in the comment box, the text scrolls to the right forever, which makes editing hard.

Which blackberry and browser are you using? I don't have that problem on my Curve, running BB's browser.
posted by zarq at 9:16 AM on March 12, 2010

Also, i had no difficulty posting an FPP to MeTa this morning.
posted by zarq at 9:17 AM on March 12, 2010

parmanparman: "I have to go through five different loads to make a comment. We used to be able to post without reviewing first."

I think what parmanparman is asking for is a "comment" textarea on the home page. Type "This is a terrible post" and hit "Post Comment" and it'll get added to a random thread. See? One page load.

Pffffff.

Just write a script to do it like the rest of us.
posted by grobstein at 9:19 AM on March 12, 2010

This is a terrible post

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Posted by PostCrapper v3.3 (unregistered)
posted by rusty at 11:35 AM on March 12, 2010 [2 favorites]

Which blackberry and browser are you using? I don't have that problem on my Curve, running BB's browser.

It's the regular browser that came with my Bold. I think the version is 4.6.0. Fourcheesemac favorited my comments, which I take to mean that he/she has same problem (or maybe just that my comment was awesome).
posted by Mid at 11:41 AM on March 12, 2010

This comment from a BlackBerry running Opera Mini because I still don't like the default browser.
posted by quin at 11:55 AM on March 12, 2010

Yeah, that seemed to work ok, although there was some weirdness with the display in the text box, but the preview worked perfectly and I only had to hit the button once.
posted by quin at 11:56 AM on March 12, 2010

This dude is obviously struggling over there with a rustic wheelbarrow and a fucking stick in the mud just to make a comment

Oh my god, carsonb, please stop—I do not want to have to explain to the guy fixing my roof why I am laughing out loud like a crazy lady, alone inside the house. It's bad enough that he knows I'm glued to a damn computer for some reason.
posted by theredpen at 11:58 AM on March 12, 2010

i have a curve with opera mini. I am on a PC now, but on my BB this morning i had to go through six loads to get to Metafilter. I realized the pages are actually reloading automatically (somehow!) and have posted a thread to an Opera Mini forum in hopes of solving the problem.
posted by parmanparman at 12:03 PM on March 12, 2010

I do not want to have to explain to the guy fixing my roof why I am laughing out loud like a crazy lady, alone inside the house.

I think I saw that movie in a hotel room once.
posted by mendel at 8:12 PM on March 12, 2010

hey I am up here fixing this dang roof while the owner is inside laughing like a crazy lady for some reason but I can post this comment no prob from my iPhone with only like one load
posted by chinston at 9:23 PM on March 12, 2010 [3 favorites]

you just like saying "load."
posted by Mid at 9:47 PM on March 12, 2010

One click from my Nexus One.
posted by mrbill at 10:58 PM on March 12, 2010

Please don't forget the part around the ancient skylight, chinston (but wait until I finish my shower, kthx).
posted by theredpen at 9:06 AM on March 13, 2010

Aluminum unibody MacBook here.

Everything seems fine.
posted by The Deej at 4:50 PM on March 13, 2010