Posts in the Bugs Category.
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January 21
Reader View works differently on different subsites
The discussion in this Meta about reader-friendly Mefi pages had a side discussion about reader view and how it's not very consistent across sites. I suspect that Matter (an iOS read-it-later app) uses reader view and I've noticed a discrepancy: posts from Mefi Blue are saved with both the post and the comments, but posts from AskMefi only have the original question, no comments. I haven't tried it on other subsites yet, nor do I know how this works with other read-it-later apps, so if others can chime it that'd be great!
January 16
On a MetaFilter that can be actually read when sending links to friends
I have a friend who teaches autistic children. I want to send her Zumbador's post on autism that can easily read. On a phone. Which is not the case when it comes up with yellow text on a dark blue background to an outsider. This raises all sorts of questions for me. Let me list them [more within] in an off the top of my head order. [more inside]
November 21, 2022
Bug warning: MeFi Mail issues
Heads up: Sending MefiMail might silently break.
When it doesn’t work, the message is not sent, and it doesn’t show up in your Sent Mail folder. [more inside]
July 12, 2022
Is there some trick to making "X new" work?
It will often happen that a post will say "N comments (X new)" for me, when "X" is wildly inaccurate. Sometimes there are 0 new when it tells me there are some, and other times there are some new but not as many as it says. Is there something within my control to improve how well this works? [more inside]
June 27, 2022
What happened to text copy on iPad?
Sometime in about the last week, the ability to copy text, say, from a comment or a post, has been lost on my iPad. If I try to copy text, I am confronted with only the choice to copy an image—an image that appears to be the blue background. I am no longer able to select or copy text in either Safari or Chrome on iOS (iPad in my case).
I have tested several other sites and this frustrating deficit seems to be limited to metafilter.
Have somehow, after years of participation with iPad somehow lost my way?
December 26, 2021
Line breaks within list items don't work as expected
Pony request: better handling of HTML lists (ordered and unordered) in posts and comments. [more inside]
July 30, 2021
IRL alerts aren't working
Granted with the pandemic, there have been many fewer IRL events, but given IRL alerts aren't currently working, shouldn't that be noted on the IRL page? Right now, anyone who checked out the IRL page would think they were working. [more inside]
July 20, 2021
Touch My Pony (iOS)
Is there anything that can be done about being locked out of editing a draft post after changing tabs or exiting the editing box on iOS Safari? [more inside]
May 13, 2021
It's not easy being short
One of these links is not like the others.
One of these links doesn't belong.
Can you tell which link is not like the other
by the time I finish this song? [more inside]
One of these links doesn't belong.
Can you tell which link is not like the other
by the time I finish this song? [more inside]
April 18, 2021
Google Assistant Comment Ignorer
Google Assistant screen reader skips to the About Metafilter section at the bottom of a thread, after reading the text of the original post. [more inside]