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Did we pass?

Sprocket J Cogswell (talk)00:53, 14 October 2012

No. I edited my sig, and it doesn't show up on recent changes or the post's history, only on the page history, and even there it says comment text edited. At least I've discovered a way to get the original sig back (in the lqt style page history), but it's not obvious and I don't think you can get the wiki source.

-- Nx / talk00:55, 14 October 2012

Oh, well... I'm not bothered. While I'm still getting a pulsing circle while typing this, the whole LQT experience seems to be proceeding at an acceptable pace, much more lively than before.

Sprocket J Cogswell (talk)00:59, 14 October 2012

Well, we now know the solution to the circle problem, hopefully it'll be fixed soon.

-- Nx / talk00:59, 14 October 2012

Aargh. Refreshing the page in ancient firefox on antique fedora causes the most recent thread to disappear. That's another one of the reasons I've been avoiding talk pages with LQT.

Carry on, you're far better equipped to deal with this than most of us, I suspect.

Sprocket J Cogswell (talk)01:03, 14 October 2012

That's not just your computer; pre-update, I had that problem too.

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.01:04, 14 October 2012
 

Oh, THAT bug. It's actually not caused by your browser, it's caused by LQT being stupid. You see, when you add a comment, a thread gets bumped, which means its last modified timestamp is updated. But when you click on a link in recent changes, that link has a timestamp in it, and it only displays threads before that timestamp. But the thread you were trying to get to now has a newer timestamp, so it disappears. In your case, the url you refreshed probably contained a timestamp (the offset= part), and when you refreshed, the thread disappeared because I bumped it.

-- Nx / talk01:07, 14 October 2012
 
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That's probably what's happening. It builds all the little more menus in javascript, one by one, which might be a bit taxing. Try disabling javascript, and you'll see how horrible it looks without it.

-- Nx / talk01:09, 14 October 2012

enh. Tried that just now, and the only thing I noticed was a loss of easily-readable indentation. At any rate, all of this is stuff I can live with, so kindly do not base any of your triage on my complaints. Thanks for what you do here!

Sprocket J Cogswell (talk)01:15, 14 October 2012
 
 

... but that's not happening now. Big old head-scratch here.

Sprocket J Cogswell (talk)01:06, 14 October 2012