🔈 Site announcement: Things that we think you should know

[Cobham-Saint]

So, I can count you as in?

[anal1]

Two questions, I’ve done a cursory search, well on one of them.

1. how come screen rotation gets enabled when I use this site? I only have this on for porn.

2. how do I get the ‘quick scroll’ activated? I open a thread and it says 1/1235, for example. Sometimes, by gently nudging this bit of the screen, I get the option to scroll to e.g. no. 1103. Most of the time I can’t. Cannot figure it out!

[Intiniki]

Is this when you are on your phone?

[anal1]

Correct.

[saintbletch]

Re point 2. @anal1, there was a bug in Chrome on Android (or maybe Apple too) that caused the symptoms you’re describing.

Are you on Chrome and Android?

If so can you check your version of Chome - you need to be on 68 point something for Google to have fixed the bug.

To check your version…

1. Start Chrome

2. touch/click menu icon to the right of the address bar - it may be a stack of three little lines or dots

3. touch/click Settings item in the menu that drops down after you do #2

4. touch/click the About Chrome item in the settings menu

[anal1]

Thanks Bletch. This is tedious, but I’ll go through it. I always used to access this site through chrome, then I was offered the opportunity to make it a bookmark, or whatever on my phone. Accepting that option seems to have associated this site with the native android browser, which I never normally used. This shortcut to sotinians looks and acts like an ‘app’.

So, when using this ‘app’, and accessing all the fabulous functionality, I can’t figure out why my phone goes into rotation or how to systematically access the page scroll thing. Fwiw, the screen rotation icon is not showing ‘enabled’, despite this site rolling round like a sailor.

I am strong and well survive this.

A1

[Fatso]

Just ban him, bletch. Clearly a trouble maker.

[saintbletch]

Lol.

OK, I’ll think about the rotation problem for a bit. Sounds odd*.

Making the link into an ‘app’ seems more like a Chrome feature to me than that of the native browser*. Or at least I’ve only seen Chrome do that so I’ll assume it’s Chrome.

Can you start Chrome independently of Sotonians and follow the instructions above to get the Chrome version number?

Also, are you on Android?

* geek code for “I don’t believe you”.

[Saint-CD]

I’m android and chrome on all my devices and I don’t have any problems. Sounds like it’s a phone setting ? CD

[Intiniki]

Ok. If you want to go to the latest bit of the thread click on the 2 numbers at bottom of screen and it asks you where you want to jump to bottom left. Click on there and you can type in the number.

Don’t know if that’s what will help?

[anal1]

Ta, interpreting ‘click’ as ‘short tap’, my banana fingers have finally understood!

[pap]

We don’t do that. Thanks to GDPR, we do have an option for users to be forgotten. This is your admin team rehearsing for the next request.

YouTube

[saintbletch]

Yeah, @Fatso had your number - troublemaker.

Glad it’s sorted. Thanks @Intiniki for the support work.

[Intiniki]

You are welcome. Obviously my 4 months in an IT call centre helped.

[saintbletch]

@Map-Of-Tasmania has requested that his account be disabled as he no longer wishes to post here.

Map asked me not to make a big deal of this and, as I couldn’t convince him to stay, I’ve reluctantly suspended his account. FYI he can no longer receive PMs - again at his request.

I hope one day he’ll be back and I’m sure other posters here would feel the same. We’re poorer for him moving on.

Bletch.

[Fatso]

Blimey, thats a bit out of the blue

[Smiler]

Whilst fully respecting everybody’s right to have their accounts disabled/deleted - wouldn’t it be simpler to just not log on anymore?

[pap]

Well yeah. That would be not making a big thing of it.

[WorzelScummage]

That’s really disappointing - he’s a great poster and adds a lot of knowledge and perspective to threads that others can’t seem to.

Sad times…