Bugs & Quirks

Yeah I am. In fact i realized that was it when I accidently went into desktop site mode.

Also thanks. I found the menu button. :slight_smile:

Thanks for noticing this. I‘ll fix the look on mobile phones later today, along with some other problems!

Hi - not sure if this is posted elsewhere, searching on ‘Unapproved’ didn’t come up with anything:

I’m using Chrome. When I use the search feature, and search for Text, all the tags for my search results are missing and replaced with a orange “Unapproved” tag.

If I perform the same exact search using an existing tag, it works fine and all my search results show tags.

For example: Search for 'Uniform" in text: all results have “Unapproved” tags. Search for “Uniform” with tags, and all stories have tags in search results.

Also - it appears the searches by “Tag” and “Text” are mutually exclusive. Depending on the tag (such as ‘uniform’) - it might be nice to be able to text search limited by a tag, or have more sorting options for search results.

Hope this is useful!

@Guest

Thanks, that’s not supposed to happen and slipped by me due to another last minute change.

I’ll fix that later today. Thanks for reporting!

@Guest

I’ve fixed the search results. Thanks again for reporting!

Specific to the forum - I want to stop being a guest and make an account but there doesn’t seem to be any way to do that? What do I do?

@Guest

You have to make sure you’re logged on on the main page. Then use the “Community” link on the main page. That start an email verification process by the forum software and once you’ve responded to that, you should have a valid forum account.

If you’re not logged on automatically for some reason, just use the “Community” link again.

If that doesn’t work for you, please give me details about what your steps are and which browser you’re using.

@Guest

sorry for answering a bit late to your bug report.

I’ve just tried to reproduce what you’ve described and realized that the bug only appears on mobile devices. On those, the “paginator” (that’s how this widget is called) behaves very strangely.

I’ve checked if I’m doing something wrong, but the parameters are correct (in fact, there’s not much to be changed). It seems the bug is in the underlying component we’re using. Other than hoping a later release will fix (or already has fixed) that, there’s not much I can do about it. Unfortunately, updating the component is not possible right now due to some other incompatibilities.

But since the widget can still be used with the arrow buttons, I hope you can live with it as it is for the time being.

I’ve missed that issue before.

As it should work, “Text” and “Tag” search should be “anded”, i.e. any story must fit both the text you entered as well as the list of tags. When I tested it, it worked fine.

If you have an example where this doesn’t work, please give me the details what you’ve entered.

I was able to register an account on mobile but I still can’t log in to it on a computer (using Google Chrome), every time I click log in it just automatically logs me in as a guest with no option to enter my email and password even though I’m already logged in to my account on the main site.

That’s very strange. There’s no pop-up when you click on the link? There never was?

Could you please try to delete all cookies (either all or just the one for the domain gayspiralstories.com) and try again? Could you give me your account name (as a PM if you don’t want to write it publicly)?

BTW, how does the site’s menu look when you use your desktop browser?

Like this:

or like this:

Unless you can see the “User” submenu, the login in the forum doesn’t work!

I’ve just tried to reproduce what you’ve described and realized that the bug only appears on mobile devices. On those, the “paginator” (that’s how this widget is called) behaves very strangely.

Turns out, that’s not quite accurate. I just hit the same bug in a desktop browser (Firefox 56; I’m a holdout) just by making the window narrow enough.

I’m currently on page 4 of the “What’s New” listing. I have the browser snapped to half of my screen width, and with the full 948px canvas width the paginator functions properly. If I open Firefox’s sidebar (which reduces the available canvas width to 742px), the paginator breaks to [«|1|2|3|…|233|»]. Close the sidebar, back to normal. Open, breaks. Don’t even have to reload the page.

So, the issue isn’t mobile-vs-desktop, it’s something in the responsive CSS that’s breaking for narrow page widths. The problem will just show up a lot more on mobile, because of the smaller screen area typically found on those devices.

This rule in bootstrap.min.css:

@media (max-width: 767px) {
 .pagination li:nth-child(5),.pagination li:nth-child(6),
 .pagination li:nth-child(7),.pagination li:nth-child(8),
 .pagination li:nth-child(9),.pagination li:nth-child(10),
 .pagination li:nth-child(11) {
  display: none;
 }
/* etc... */
}

Will force the paginator blocks after the first four (the left arrow plus 1, 2, 3) hidden whenever the screen width is below 768px. That’s likely not what was intended, and most definitely not what we’d want.

Simply disabling that rule fixes the paginator. With the caveat that it can end up wrapping to two lines, on screens small enough that the paginator is wider than the screen. But… that’s still preferable to just breaking, IMHO.

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@NYPup2Train
Thanks for that analysis!

I’m gonna update the bootstrap css, maybe that’ll resolve the issue. If not, I’ll fix it manually.

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I didn’t do a custom build of BootStrap (because I didn’t want to spend time figuring that out), so you’ll either have to make that change and do that, or write a css rule somewhere else that overrides that rule.

Also, I’m pretty sure (but can’t check the code right now) that I did write a custom GSP tag generator override for the pagination. The bugs probably got introduced because I was specifically trying to ensure that the pagination controls are always on one line.

As @NYPup2Train says, line wrapping is definitely preferable to breaking :slight_smile: apologies for introducing the bug :frowning:

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Would it be possible to configure your DNS so that going to https://gayspiralstories.com works? I believe it used to as my browser has that picked up as a frequently visited site… but when I click said link, nothing loads unless I edit the URL to https://www.gayspiralstories.com/ …which for some reason my browser does not want to recognize as a frequently visited site.

Thanks in advance for any tweaking that might be possible!

The problem is that I have to use one single domain name for the site, not two separate ones, because that was confusing the login procedure for the forum.

I decided to use www.gayspiralstories.com and put a redirect from the old gayspiralstories.com to www.gayspiralstories.com, so if anyone is accessing gayspiralstories.com he will be forwarded to the correct address.

Unfortunately, the redirect doesn‘t work with https at this moment. That‘s why https://gayspiralstories.com is just dead right now.

This is a bit unfortunate, but I have to try to balance everything, hosting costs, the amount and time i put into configuring stuff, programming new fearures and so on. So even though I agree that it‘s less than optimal, I‘m afraid that it probably won‘t change anytime soon.

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That’s odd, because the security certificate for www.gayspiralstories.com is good for the entire domain gayspiralstories.com, so you shouldn’t have any security issues redirecting from https://gayspiralstories.com/

If you don’t mind being pumped for details (and if you do that’s completely fine, I’m perfectly happy being told to butt out and let it drop), what exactly are the issues preventing https://gayspiralstories.com/ from redirecting/pointing-to the correct URL? Would there be additional hosting costs involved in setting up a soft-redirect page?

(Or even manual-link page, like the original NCMC site at http://eroticgayhypnosis.com/ncmc/ has. Unfortunately, that link points to Pin Up Казино в Казахстане - Официальный сайт Casino Пин Ап which is no longer valid.)

The problem is not the certificate, but the way the redirect is implemented.

Since the site is currently running directly on Grails without any Apache or other container, I cannot configure the redirect on the site itself. So I used a simple, but limited alternative.

The better solution would be to use an Apache server for the whole site of course. Much more flexible, too. But also time consuming, since that’s not really my daily business…

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