Thank you for your continued feedback thus far to help improve our Community. Please find below a list of things weāre working on:
Changes and Improvements
Weāve fix several issues for the new Kudos Leaderboard, specifically:
Signed-out/Anonymous users can now see the board normally, instead of being directed to a 404 page.
Users within the Leaderboard Hidden group can now see the board normally, instead of being directed to a 404 page (please note that members of said group wonāt see your profiles in the board).
We were informed that this was a bug on Discourseās side, thank you very much to @Russ_Thomas and @sara.leslie for spotting it out!
Auto TOC categories: any topic created within specified category(s) AND has headings markdowns will automatically generate a TOC.
Auto TOC tags: any topic created AND is assigned with specific tag(s) AND has headings markdowns will automatically generate a TOC (see video below).
Weād like to hear your thoughts and opinions on these two features and help us decide which one (or both) to implement as well as suggestions for new functionalities to it. Weāve created a poll below for you to vote on.
What weāre working on
Weāre looking into TT Normsās alternative to avoid display/rendering issues for Headings & elsewhere.
Weāre working with Discourse to resolve the visual glitch where the OPās avatarās āglow ringā would shifts slightly off-center.
Weāre looking into what caused @bionel to hit the āmaximum daily reactionsā ceiling.
Weāre looking into the duplicated input id that is present within our search banner.
Thanks & Have a nice weekend! (and donāt forget to vote on which new TOC setting that youād like to see implemented below )
Katalon Community Team
Which Discourse Table of Content (TOC) new setting are you more interested in?
The rigidity Iām seeing slowly increasing is breaking the free and open feedback communication Iām accustomed to. And itās not just about me, new or even average users must be appalled at the level of gatekeeping this forum is fostering.
but if i scroll a bit so the header will apear, the page grows larger than screen size.
kudos leaderboard shoul not be shown there in mobile mode, as any other gadget except search, but under the hamburger menu only
@Russ_Thomas if that helps, i am not able to see the video you uploaded, from my mobile.
it shows as 27 secs, i click play, jumps straight to the end.
lazy to go upstairs to try from my desktopā¦ too much effort from my side to debug this inconsistent platform
maybe just let katalon team to fix it.
usually they ask for videos to help users.
so the platform should provide proper support for such, for at least common video encodins and containers and streams.
i will never bother to try to convert a propper mp4 video or whatever works those days, into a gif, simply because this platform is broken
otherwise i can simply use third party video sharing hosts as i always did since the dial-up era
I look back with fondness to the halcyon days of December 2021. You know, when everything was easy, the site and categories were easily managed (by volunteers mostly) and everything just worked.
Thank you for your feedback. To be transparent- the community was on a VERY old version of the platform prior to last month. Now its on the most recent version and hosted in the cloud. The platform vendor will help resolve the issues we locate- our team just has to open tickets. The vendor (Discourse) is pushing bug fixes and new releases pretty frequently, every environment has its own customizations which may be impacted by the version releases. We will do our best to escalate and address.
Sorry for the frustration- hopefully it will become a bit easier soon. I hear you when some features are buggy, it slows and stops engagement and is annoying. LOL donāt get me started on Rage Clicking.
I participate in other Discourse forums, too ā without these issues. Theyāre not giving you good service, as evidenced by the various reports from industry pros.
Donāt let them off the hook ā theyāre releasing unsound, unready software which for YOU guys is mission critical, customer-facing product.
ok, we understand that, and we are here to provide you bullets. fineā¦
however, does anybody in upstream or in your team testing those āfixesā before beying released? i seriously doubtā¦
The āYou were logged out bugā is not specific to the Katalon forum ā itās happening elsewhere to other Discourse installations, too.
Iāve also discovered a track they (Discourse devs) can follow:
The bug does NOT occur when selecting a post from the main listing(s).
The bug ONLY occurs when choosing a post from the user avatar dropdown (see my gif above).
Can you help me to video record your screen while reproducing your log out issue with the browser dev console open? Iāll send it to Discourse so they can take a look at it more thoroughly.
Itād be great if you could try to reproduce the issue in Incognito/Private mode and confirm to see if it persists.
And lastly, we also need some information as below:
The browser youāre using and its version.
Any browser extension used and a list of all the extension installed
Itās a lot that weāre asking you to do this but please bear with us during this convenience and weāll resolve it as quickly as possible!
Wow. This bug is extraordinary. I posted my previous then decided to try to make the bug reappear. I launched the gif above in a separate tab, trying to think how I might force the bug to reappear. I couldnāt think of anything so I switched back to this tab and
You were logged out
So I repeated the same steps, this time with the browser console open:
So, all I could do was Ctrl + F5, which made the site believe I was logged out (the login appeared at the top of the forum page). I didnāt believe that was true so I relaunched the site from a bookmark and here I am, supposedly logged out but actually logged in without ever logging in again. Something is royally screwed up with Discourse ā like I said, Katalon is not the only site with this issue.
Prediction: Discourse will suggest Iām the only person with the issue. Maybe. But this aint my first rodeo, as the saying goes. I deal with logins across multiple VPNs all day, everyday, all across the planet. Only Discourse āsuddenlyā has this issue.
To address that (reasonable) response, I logged in using Chrome latest. I almost never use Chrome. As a result, it has very few plugins. Using the same steps I listed aboveā¦
Of-course you are not able to logout because you are logged out but ā¦ you are not .
Now try to see if you are able to login, since you may be logged in or not.
Chicken and egg problem
Weāve fix several issues for the new Kudos Leaderboard, specifically:
)See out previous Feedback Friday roundup below:
