Forum - Bug reports and issues

[The Cosh]

Something I find mildly irritating is that when you use the quicksearch box, it only appears to search within the thread or subforum you are currently looking at rather than defaulting to the entire forum.

Well, it's either that or nobody's ever posted about "necrophiliac badger-baiting"

[VinceBot]

Its a little confusing isn't it? I would change it, but its probably more usful the way it is.

[Peter Wolf]

Inspired by the ghost story thread that has just been started i wanted to search for a thread that i started that was titled "spooky story".i know its there somewhere but a search using those two easily recognisable key words fails to produce any results because there were no matches but thats wrong because the thread was not deleted and should be in the archive.

This has happened quite frequently with other searches as well and as i am not a technophile with websites and search engines i dont know what the problem is but if a search engine cant find a thread that is here then there must be a problem .

Thanks in advance for any solution to this problem

[VinceBot]

Hey Peter, was wondering when this would come up.

SMF is notoriously poor for its searching, it uses a combination of indexes and methods, none of which produce all the results it should.

On some other forums we deployed a mod which utilises the Sphinx search engine to index posts, and it works exceptionally well. We've thought about deploying it on this forum but it requires testing and installation of the Sphinx Search daemon on both our external and test servers.

The installation will happen eventually as we're starting to deploy sphinx on new websites, but it'll be a while before it makes its debut on 2000ad.

[Mardroid]

I haven't read through all this thread, so apologies if this has been reported already.

I'm using IE8 on Windows Vista at the moment. On entering my text into the box when making a post, I find that, if I exceed the size of the window (cue scroll bar) the window will keep on scrolling up. As I type, the cursor remains in the same place, and I get a brief image of what I'm typing before it scrolls up again. This means I have to scroll down manually to check what I've written. The moment I type it scrolls up again.

I didn't have that problem with Firefox. Unfortunately that browser is playing up in other ways (not related to this site, by the way, it just gets verrrrrry sloooooow, on occasion) hence my reason for using IE.

[VinceBot]

Thanks Mardroid, nobodys been able to give us a good handle on what might be causing this issue or a straight diagnosis, but now we might stand a chance of tracking it down.

Can you do me a favour and go into Help > About in IE and tell me what version of the browser is says you're using?

[Mardroid]

Can you do me a favour and go into Help > About in IE and tell me what version of the browser is says you're using?

Sure. Here is what I see:

Version: 8.0.6001.18828
Cipher Strength: 256-bit
Product ID: 01402-997-7332157-00211

I'm sure you probably don't need the cipher strength and Product ID, but I thought it can't hurt to copy it all just to make sure.

[VinceBot]

Thanks, I'll look into the issue.

[VinceBot]

Issue

When typing long posts in Internet Explorer 8, the textarea content jumped around and moved position for no good reason.

Cause

A bunch of required CSS, and selection tracking JavaScript. Both needed, both yet to be "fixed" by SMF, even though its an IE8 issue.

Resolution

Added the "make IE8 render in IE7 compatibility mode" meta tag, forcing IE8 to render as IE7, avoiding the IE8 specific bug.

Code: [Select]

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />


[VinceBot]

Issue

Wrong timezone.

Cause

"Etc/GMT-1" in database "smf_settings" table

Resolution

Set to "Etc/BST", for automagic daylight savings time adjustment.

[Dandontdare]

On the Members page, the 'search for a member' and 'view all members' links (top right) are practically invisible as they dipslay as white-on-white. I thought the search function didn't exist anymore until I accidentally highlighted a big chunk of the page!

[VinceBot]

huh, I'd been looking for that myself.

It's now blue.

[Dandontdare]

wow, that's what I call efficient service!

[Pete Wells]

My 'View Unread Posts' button isn't working which is a shame as it's my button of choice!

[VinceBot]

In what way isn't it working? It's working for me.