Zotero forums update

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  • Gracile
    Thanks.

    I have no idea why, but I'm not receiving any email notifications. My prefs are: email and popup for everything except for "Notify me when people write on my wall." and "Notify me when people reply to my wall comments." which are set to popup only.
    Pretty sure this is working as intended. It's provided by an 'Unsubscribe' plugin that overrides other notifications (eg if you commented in a discussion, but don't want any more updates for that one). To subscribe to a particular discussion you can "Bookmark" it with the star.
    So the gear icon is only an "Unsubscribe" button ? It appears in absolutely all threads for me.
  • fcp
    Edit change might have gone through now. I don't think it was previously effective on all servers.
  • fcheslack
    edited September 12, 2016
    So the gear icon is only an "Unsubscribe" button ? It appears in absolutely all threads for me.
    Depends on what permissions you have on the thread. Unsubscribe is something every user has permission to do on every thread.
  • RintzeRintze
    Great, thanks, that fixes the edit issue for me.

    So now my main request is to fix the code and
    blockquote
    blocks in old posts (such as the first post of https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/62288/citeproc-js-bug). Editing the old post and clicking Preview shows that the blocks are correctly parsed, so it looks like the old posts need to be 'reparsed' somehow.

  • RintzeRintze
    So now my main request is to fix the code and blockquote blocks in old posts
    Looks like this got fixed. Thanks!
  • bwiernik
    edited September 20, 2016
    Minor bug:
    It looks like the web app icons that iOS and mac use (e.g., when saving a bookmark to the iOS home screen or in the recent pages list) got lost in the update.
    https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html

    "To specify an icon for the entire website (every page on the website), place an icon file in PNG format in the root document folder called apple-touch-icon.png"

    Edit: Or, rather the new forums site isn't inheriting the general Zotero.org icon like the old site did.
  • Gurdas_Sandhu
    I no longer see the 'Participated Discussions' option under the 'Discussion Filters' section in the left column. I can reach that list by going to my forums profile homepage, https://forums.zotero.org/profile/gurdas, and clicking on the 'Comments' option.
  • Gracile
    edited September 28, 2016
    Am I the only one who no longer receives the notifications by email? What's wrong? (cf. above: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/261917/#Comment_261917 )
  • adamsmith
    I get plenty of them -- since a couple of days ago they even have the post content (back).
  • fcheslack
    I no longer see the 'Participated Discussions' option
    This is back now.
    Am I the only one who no longer receives the notifications by email? What's wrong?
    As far as I know they're working, though the option to receive notifications for everything (all new discussions and comments) no longer exists.
  • RintzeRintze
    the option to receive notifications for everything (all new discussions and comments) no longer exists.
    (people interested in this can just subscribe to https://forums.zotero.org/ with an RSS reader)
  • DWL-SDCA
    I don't see the 'participated discussions' option. Are there controls / settings that I'm not finding?
  • fcheslack
    should be a 'Participated' as the first link on the left under 'Discussion Filters'
  • adamsmith
    (visible & working for me)
  • RintzeRintze
    edited September 28, 2016
    I don't see the 'participated discussions' option.
    Are you logged in at the top of the page? I didn't see it either, but it looked like I was logged into the forums but not into the Zotero website somehow (I could post, but the top of the page said "Log in"). Logging in again at the top worked for me.
  • DWL-SDCA
    Hmmm I had to log out and login again to see the discussion filters. Curious that I could post here with no problem and my posts were under my user name.

    Thank you, Rintze.
  • DWL-SDCA
    Hmmm, again. I just tried to use the bookmarklet from my iPad and I had to login yet another time. I came back here to the forums and I remain properly logged in.
  • Gracile
    As far as I know they're working, though the option to receive notifications for everything (all new discussions and comments) no longer exists.
    @fcheslack : I'm still not receiving any notifications. Puzzling…
  • Gracile
    Sorry @fcheslack or @Dan%20Stillman but I don't receive any notifications from the forums. Even when someone mentions me, e.g. in this thread. That's troublesome…!
  • RintzeRintze
    I often link to specific posts, and noticed that the links created when clicking on a post's timestamp now look like "https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/267235/#Comment_267235", which is a bit of a strange format, because it redundantly mentions the comment number ("267235") but doesn't include the discussion number at all.

    Is this customizable?

    (for reference, the old formats to link to specific posts were either http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/8041/clinical-orthopaedics-and-related-research/#Item_19 or https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/50104/keine-seitenzahl-bei-mohrsiebeck-in-fussnote/#Comment_227251)
  • dstillman
    It's strange, but it actually makes sense. Comments can be moved between discussions, so the discussion ID isn't necessarily stable. The path loads the right thread and page, and the fragment scrolls to the specified comment.
  • RintzeRintze
    @dstillman, ah, okay. I guess that makes sense.

    (the old URLs were more informative, though, since e.g. "8041/clinical-orthopaedics-and-related-research/" both gives an indication of the age of the thread (discussion number) and the thread topic (title slug); I guess we can still point to the entire thread)
  • Gracile
    @dstillman @fcheslack : not a big deal, but if I click on your username in order to view your "about" page, I can see (and that's all) how many unread messages there are in your zotero inbox or in the Moderation Queue. Screenshot here.

    Also, what's the purpose of https://forums.zotero.org/activity ?

    As for my problem with email notifications, is there a way to add another email address ?
  • fcheslack
    Thanks for reporting that, should be fixed.

    Activity is a vanilla forums feature we don't particularly want, but it's not easy to actually get rid of rather than hide. I believe it's basically intended to be used like facebook/twitter updates, and vanilla uses it from other modules for various reasons (presumably with some logic behind it, though what that is has not been clear to me).

    Email notifications should go to your primary email address (the copy vanilla uses is updated when your account is updated). I just figured out why you are having problems and no one else is though. Your email address was on our sending blacklist, probably because you marked one of the old spammy notifications as spam. I think you should be getting notifications now.
  • Gracile
    Victory! I've just received an email notification for your post (and a "Welcome to Zotero" to confirm my email address) ! Thank you so much for your investigation!
  • Gracile
    Is it possible to receive a notification for all new posts in any subscribed threads and not only for the first one? There used to be an option for this IIRC.
  • RintzeRintze
    edited September 18, 2017
    fcheslack: ... we tested the advanced editor and had some problems with it.
    That's a pity. In the absence of that, do you know if it's possible to enable paste-as-html (or paste-as-escaped-html)? (so that copied "roman italics bold" doesn't turn into plain "roman italics bold" when pasted into the edit window)

    Especially for requesting styles, it would help a lot if it would be easier or more obvious to add rich text formatting to forum posts.
  • RintzeRintze
    Another feature request for the forums: it would be awesome if the username autocomplete would prioritize, or be limited to, thread participants and/or people you mention often. Currently you have to work through all Zotero forum user names which is laborious and error prone.

    E.g. GitHub (https://github.com/blog/1004-mention-autocompletion) works like that and offers a much better experience.

    (another related issue, previously reported, is the fact that autocomplete doesn't work for user names with spaces, like "@Dan Stillman")
  • dstillman
    it would be awesome if the username autocomplete would prioritize, or be limited to, thread participants and/or people you mention often
    (Yes, I've asked @fcheslack for this too.)
  • RintzeRintze
    I just noticed something weird with the forum search. It appears that any search that contains a one or two-digit number by itself doesn't produce any results:

    https://forums.zotero.org/search?Search=firefox+57
    > no results

    https://forums.zotero.org/search?Search=office+64
    > no results

    https://forums.zotero.org/search?Search=office+64bit
    > hits

    https://forums.zotero.org/search?Search=office+365
    > hits

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