Just bugs / missing functionality reports - no griping

Another thread stuck.

While we are waiting for a fix, I find looking away from the screen until it stops jumping helps. You can see it in your peripheral vision enough to know when finally it settles.

Looking at the screen, or trying to scroll while it's still twitching, is not fun.

FWIW: The homepage timestamps issue has been fixed for me. But if I go to my bookamarked discussions, still there with times like

13-03-25 %k:55 dulpit

Which isn't great, is it? If I go into a specific forum/topic, same issue:

13-03-25 %k:01 Eod100

It seems to be fixed on just the homepage like you said, but nowhere else:

https://www.boards.ie/discussions including: https://www.boards.ie/discussions/bookmarked https://www.boards.ie/discussions/mine

https://www.boards.ie/categories

(FWIW: Posting links is a PITA on desktop and mobile, especially with this WYSIWYG editor)

Another broken thread. Looks like a new fix brought back an old bug. https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058222496/solar-for-beginners-ask-your-questions-here/p75

Asian spam is back and Temu spam is not as bad but still there Mike. As asked before is the jumping near an end? It's been 5 months since it started. The threads stuck issue is still there as well, I posted examples earlier.

American Football/Basketball and Airsoft threads infected with Temu spam now.

For those who want just plain URL instead of formatted/clickable, see if it helps

Enter (aka "new line") or space after posted link/URL produces this for me

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058199223/just-bugs-missing-functionality-reports-no-griping#latest

however, SHIFT+Enter before and/or after posted URL give me just plain text
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058199223/just-bugs-missing-functionality-reports-no-griping#latest

FF, Win desk

Edit: HA ha, after posting the comment first URL got converted to plain text as well :D

and i get these popping after each URL pasted

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123270146/#Comment_123270146

@smuggler.ie Thanks for sharing. <Shift+Enter>, creates a new line in the paragraph. Where just return creates a hard line break!

Another handy one is <ctrl+shift+V> ~ Paste as plain text | Which will strip out any hyperlinks from the copied content!

More referring to these type of links from copied content:-

CTRL+V produces this:-

Here are the first of the humour and jokes links

April Fools Day Pranks – This list of April Fools Pranks actually got 401,000 page views over 3 days back in 2010

30 Things to Make you Smile

The Accountant Joke

But Ctrl+shift+V produces this:-

Here are the first of the humour and jokes links
April Fools Day Pranks – This list of April Fools Pranks actually got 401,000 page views over 3 days back in 2010

30 Things to Make you Smile

The Accountant Joke

Page used to pull content! ~ Putting the paste content in quotes stripped out headers.

Disclaimer: Random picked page to use, not promoting the site.

@Quantum Erasure It was @smuggler.ie that originally raised it, I was just explaining why it works!

As for mobile, got this reddit result from a search: -

I've never seen an app with "soft return" on mobile, although Excel and OfficeSuite have workarounds in for soft returns in spreadsheets.

Having said that, if you're on Android, and use the built-in Gboard for your keyboard, here's what I've done:

On your computer, create a soft return in some app that syncs with your phone

On your phone, highlight & copy that soft return

In your Gboard, tap Setting (the gear icon), then go to Dictionary > Personal Dictionary > All Languages (or whatever language you want)

Tap the "+" in the upper right corner

In the "type a word" field, PASTE that soft return you copied

In the "optional shortcut" field, type a shortcut for this "word" you're adding to your dictionary (I start all my shortcuts with "rr", so mine is "rrreturn".

Back out of the dictionary

Now, I can type "rrreturn" in any app my phone, and I get a soft return.

If copy and pasting a newline character directly works, you can create an iOS shortcut using the iOS feature, e.g. assign (ret) -> \n

Just a note a soft return works to keep you in a quoted text as well!

Edit: - Just wondering how the heck are you suppose to copy a soft return in the first place? Tried the \n on gboard but doesn't work!

Have you tried to copy the section of text and then paste it in between prepared quotes

———————————————————————————
"copied text" - from notepad
———————————————————————————
"

copy the section of text

"
———————————————————————————
^^^ this one from this post itself. This is somewhat

EDIT: actually quotes have nothing to do with it, just that i might use for quote purpose. Any text or even single letter character copied from the page and posted back produces x3 new lines

@Boards.ie: Mike what is the current situation with a plan to move to a different platform?

Its very clear vanilla isn't working and the bugs are actually outpacing the fixes so the site is getting worse and worse.

Surely it's time now for a transition to "plan b" as it were, even if that involves building a community driven platform alongside and transitioning once ready