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You should see “insert into content” below the thumbnail (see screenshot). If you don’t see that, please let me know which iPhone you have and what version of iOS you’re running, and I’ll look into it.
Clay, I tried doing this on my iPhone when I was PMing with Dragoneer_88, and not only didn’t the options appear, but I couldn’t submit the post at all. The submit button would not work until I removed the uploaded photo.
I have an iPhone 5S (I think), iOS 11.3.1. I haven’t upgraded the OS in a while because some of my coworkers reported that doing so caused them to not be able to access the email app the company is using. It is a company issued phone.
Can you please post (or email me) a screenshot that shows the part of the page where the “insert into content” link should be? Thanks!
You should see “insert into content” below the thumbnail (see screenshot). If you don’t see that, please let me know which iPhone you have and what version of iOS you’re running, and I’ll look into it.
Yesterday I updated the plugins that control several different aspects of the site. The updates contained a couple of minor bugs.
1) The image uploader for forum posts no longer worked, so I replaced it with a different (better) one. You will now see below the text input area an “Attachments” section. Click the “select file” button to choose an image from your computer. You will then see a thumbnail of the image, and to the right of it a few links, including “set file caption” and “insert into content.” If you click “insert into content” then your image will appear in the body of your post, just like before. If you don’t, the image will appear as a thumbnail at the bottom of your post, which when clicked will open the full-size image in a Lightbox.
2) When placing a Classified ad from the main Classifieds page (by clicking the “place ad” link), the ad subcategory drop-down menu is not showing up. I am working on this. However, in the meantime you can still create new ads by going to your user profile (“my account”) and selecting LISTINGS > CREATE. I should be able to get this issue resolved quickly, and I’ll post a note here when I do.
Thanks for your patience!
Where is my thread? Why isn’t it visible?
I’m assuming you’re talking about the Mercedes Lackey post? For some reason it was flagged as spam. I’m un-flagging it now. If that’s not the post you’re looking for, let me know.
EVERYONE: Adblocker has been causing a variety of problems for people lately when trying to use our site. If you are using Adblocker (or other ad-blocking software) and the site looks strange or isn’t behaving itself, please try whitelisting the Windstone site. If that doesn’t fix things, post here or PM me for assistance. I’m generally available 24/7 to help (unless I’m sleeping).
I see “Reptangle” under the “Community” tab (thanks for changing that description) but Melody’s Blog seems to have disappeared. Was this intentional?
Well John’s thought was to eliminate it since Melody rarely posts there, and does more posting on facebook. But I see that she did post something a couple weeks ago. I’ll add it to the menu for now.
John and I discussed what that “explore” tab should be called. We didn’t think “explore” was ideal, but weren’t able to think of the perfect term. So we are open to suggestions. I think “explore our community” is too long, though. It could simply say “community.” That’s not perfect, but I don’t think there is a perfect solution. That tab is essentially everything other than shopping, so it’s tricky.
Is the new layout a work in progress? I am not enamored of the “Explore” drop-down box rather than having categories across the top of the Forum page. Thank goodness for being able to right click on the “Back” arrow!
The new navigation is designed to make it easier for first-time visitors to the site (and others) to find the products they are looking for. We will be fine-tuning things in the coming days. If there are particular pages that you would like easier access to, just let me know and we will try to accommodate.
I found the problem. It was adblock. I thought I had tried disabling it here before, but I had actually disabled something else.
Glad you were able to sort it out. Let me know if you have any further trouble with that.
Clay, I ran into a new problem yesterday evening. I usually post using the “Text” tab, but I do the eBay posts from the “Visual” tab so I can upload the photo. Starting yesterday, clicking on the “Visual” tab has no effect – I can’t get it to switch. I tried rebooting my computer since that fixed the previous problem I had had, but it didn’t help. Firefox on Windows 10.
I haven’t been able to replicate this. When I view the site with Safari, Chrome, or Firefox, the text/visual tabs function like they always have. What browser are you using? And did you recently install any browser add-ons (i.e., extensions, plugins)?
Anyone else having this issue?
Clay,
I ran into a new problem yesterday evening. I usually post using the “Text” tab, but I do the eBay posts from the “Visual” tab so I can upload the photo. Starting yesterday, clicking on the “Visual” tab has no effect – I can’t get it to switch. I tried rebooting my computer since that fixed the previous problem I had had, but it didn’t help. Firefox on Windows 10.Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I’ll take a look.
Still trying to figure out how to do the # thing. LOL. I should hopefully have some up in a couple days.
When you add a caption to your photo, just add “#myhashtag” anywhere in the caption or after it, replacing “hashtag” with any word that’s relevant to your post, like #dragon or #paintyourown, and especially #windstonepyo. Enjoy, and let me know if you need help!
I want to check in with everyone about current website issues. I’ve been really swamped lately dealing with a variety of rather urgent site issues, and don’t see that changing until about the end of this week at the earliest. I’m trying to simultaneously work on the issues that have been posted here recently, but I know the response time has been slower than usual. We only have one part-time person to manage the website (that’s me), so I appreciate your patience.
As for the wonky site display that several people have reported: Sychia posted that disabling AdBlock, or whitelisting our site, resolved the issue, and that’s been confirmed by others. But at least one user is still having this problem (only on Firefox) despite disabling all add-ons. Is anyone else still experiencing this after turning off ad-blocking software? If so, please post here or PM me.
Forum signature length: several people have complained about long forum signatures taking up too much space, especially on mobile devices. The only solution to this is to shorten the maximum length, but I need to do some testing of this to see how changing the max length will affect existing signatures, etc. I hope to get to this within the next week.
If there are other issues that are urgent or semi-urgent, please post or remind me and I will get to them as soon as I can.
Lastly, I want to thank all of you for bringing issues to our attention (including the presence of spam in the forum and classifieds). We simply don’t have the resources to monitor all the sections of the site as closely as we would like, so it’s really helpful to get input from our community when problems arise.
