Status of Updates and Fixes (New as of 12-23-2015)

Terry? Voting forum graph is misbehaving...

I've noticed that the date/time stamp for posts is off. I just posted and went back to check it and it says that I posted it 5hrs ago...

edited to add: Just checked this one and I see that it shows that I posted it 4hrs ago.

This message was edited Dec 30, 2015 11:11 AM

edited to add: ^^^ The edit shows a time that is one hour off of my time.

This message was edited Dec 30, 2015 11:12 AM

Hi JuneyBug,

That's a good comment. I hope DG addresses it. That raises the question of time zones. The time stamps should specify what time zone applies, if a "time of day" is specified. That isn't relevant when the time stamp merely states how long ago the message was posted like, for example, "one hour ago.".

I am in the Central Time Zone, myself, if that is ever relevant and, I notice it is relevant in the "message was edited" line at the bottom of this message. The time given there agrees with my time in the Central Standard Time. So, it should say Central Standard Time or CST in my "message was edited" line. It probably should say Eastern Standard Time EST in your message.

I notice that in Terry's top-of-thread message that she lists Date/Time Stamp as "fixed" and, as you have pointed out, that isn't completely true, and should be addressed.

ZM

This message was edited Dec 30, 2015 10:45 AM

This message was edited Dec 30, 2015 10:55 AM

This message was edited Dec 30, 2015 11:00 AM

I wonder if folks remember to go in and change their time zone when Daylight Savings Time begins and ends. I don't know any web site that can do that automatically for you.

Terry, on my phone, the words wra
p around at the end of the line, eve
n if it's in the middle of a word, inst
ead of only skipping to the next lin
e at a space. I'm on an iPhone 6, w
ith the latest iOS, which is probab
ly iOS9 or 10. As you can imagine
, it's incredibly difficult to read. I tri
ed to use the "find" function on my
browser to see if this question ha
d been asked, but since I'm force
d to read multiple pages, I can't u
se the browser search function to
see if my question has been ask
ed already in this thread or the pr
evious update/fixes thread.

I'm typing this the way it shows u
p on my phone, which is how I ge
nerally view DG. I'd like to get the
most of DG before the end of my
current membership, but I just ca
n't read it like this.

I sometimes forget to change the time on my member page when the time changes in Spring and Autumn. I noticed this autumn, right after we went back to standard time, the times all seemed off by an hour (when the posts were still showing times). That reminded me to go in and change back to Central Standard Time.

SSGardener: Can you turn your phone horizontally? I have an app for my newspaper and have to do that or I get the same cut off effect you are seeing with the phone vertical.

I didn't get a notice that more posts had been made on this thread, so I had to look it up. That is ridiculous and makes the site pretty unusable. I hope that gets fixed quickly.


I wouldn't have remembered to change my time when Daylight Savings Time began and ended, but that doesn't have anything to do with the Date/Time stamp on my posts.

June, we still have to click on the eye/watch at the top to make sure threads show up for us.

Terry, even though I comment on the threads I post in, they do not show up with new post unless I click on the watch thread.

I've had and mentioned the same issue...some of the theads show up but some don't. I thought there were no new posts but when I went to the thread there were.

If I hold my phone in portrait orientation it won't wrap righ, but if I rotate to landscape style it will wrap and break between words correctly.

I recently tried to post to a thread and it would not take. My posts kept disappearing over and over again.

The Group Blast feature of dmail is not working, sends out blank message

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Ughhh...

1) Terry, this thread didn't get automatically "watched," even though I commented on it. Can the techs turn this back on as the default option instead of having us "watch" each thread that we comment on?

2) It seems like others are also having the word-wrapping issue that I'm having, so it couldn't possibly be an issue with just *my* phone.

The wrapping issue is fixed when I rotate it to landscape format, but I don't read or type on landscape mode. I find it really tiring to read that way. It's not exactly "improved usability on mobile" if you're forced to read on landscape setting.

3) When you "skip to new," it actually skips to the last comment you read previously, not the newest comment. This is not a big issue (and sometimes helpful because you're reminded of the conversation), unless the last comment you read was at the bottom of the page, which means the "new" button doesn't actually take you to the new comment. You have to click on the "next" button to go to the top of the next page see the new comment. So confusing!

4) The "back to top" button on iPhone 6 Plus Safari is not showing up. I think it used to show up, but now it's a blank circle (square?). It still scrolls to the top when you click on it, though.

You should see "unwatch" if you are watching the thread. Like FB used to be eons ago....very confusing. I think all my threads are updating but I'm not sure. Some are but some may not be.

I have a little square that works to go back to top arrow is iffy. iPad safari.

On your homepage the forums may not show updates but if you click on the forum name it will take you to the forum. This way is much faster.

I'm finding my way around but I'm really surprised that much more testing wasn't done before this was put online...it makes DG look stupid..not a great way to get new subscribers or keep old.

I just noticed at the very top of this thread (and, apparently, other threads too) are 5 white boxes (top right). There's nothing to indicate what they're for so one-by-one I clicked on them. Most were for things like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest (which I don't use), but one was for Bookmarking.

What happened to our Bookmark icon? And for people that do use Facebook, etc., where are those icons?

I assume it's just a glitch that the techs are aware of, but I thought I should mention it.

Nutsaboutnature, the icons are missing on my laptop as well as my phone.

On my phone, they show up as white squares. On my laptop, there are colored squares inside white squares.

The up arrow is simply a snowy dot on my phone, has been for 2 days, haven't looked to see if other things are missing their markings for the spot they hold.. yeah the bookmark, quote, edits are half missing but working. Definitely something thats just going to take awhile to get fixed..

Ssgardener ~ glad to know the missing icons aren't only on my computer. I use a desktop so it's not just smaller devices.

As others have mentioned, I also prefer just the list of DG forums on the forums page. I can find updated forums by looking at the forums list and my personal list of watched forums and threads is on my home page.

For me the other forums and threads on the top of the forums page is just excess that I scroll right by.

The forums page is still loading slow for me too.

I do not find this an improvement for iphone or ipad. I have the same problem someone mentioned above. I have an iphone6 plus and it wraps the words in a very awkward and hard to read way. I also prefer to use my phone in portrait mode and have it locked in that mode. I can't see any improvement at all. In fact it is a step back. Rather than using my iphone I wait until I am at home and use my latop to check my threads and post. It requires many more clicks than in the past to post and the find threads you are following. I don't like all the extra stuff at the top. I am still concerned about the privacy of the threads. Can non subscribers read the member only threads??????

I don't think DG could have improved what we were accustomed to for so long. I don't believe the dragon would have survived much longer and given its best to us. None of the cellphones view the same places alike. I expect a bit more time for the changes to settle and become repaired- some of these issues happening now many of us have already seen in pAst years. I also have preferences in the devices I use, for many different reasons, and will be glad when the holidays are over for work to progress.

> I expect a bit more time for the changes to settle and become repaired-

Kittriana, I could not disagree more. It is ridiculous for a website of this size -- and a website that charges a fee! -- to use ALL of its members as its beta testers, instead of doing the beta testing behind the scenes to work out the kinks, and only then rolling out he changes.

This is an incredibly poorly done site update, no matter what kind of metric you use.

I visit other gardening websites on my phone and I've never had such issues viewing the pages on my phone.

And this is their second update in two years, and *the exact same thing happened* the last time, with a horrible initial update which literally took months to fix. How is this acceptable?

At the last poorly done update, we were told the techs were located in India. If that's the case, they haven't been on vacation at all. But no matter where the techs are located, the corrections should have been made *before* rolling them out to the masses.

We are talking about updating the website where I work. I am making note of all these issues to discuss with my tech gurus so the same thing doesn't happen to us. It's hard to believe there are this many problems with this update.

I went through the previous pages but didn't see any comments about an issue I have been having -has anyone else lost their "home" icon, at the top of the page next to "Guides and Information" when they are in a forum thread?
Terri

The Daves Garden logo itself is a Home link - has always been, by the way, Sometimes things are still there, but like ghost ink, you can't see them, chuckl. Yes, but now I have a little man who has a drop down bar with a lot more options on the top right screen. I expect the Home forums page will become new as well at anytime...

The Daves Garden logo itself is a Home link - has always been, by the way, Sometimes things are still there, but like ghost ink, you can't see them, chuckl. Yes, but now I have a little man who has a drop down bar with a lot more options on the top right screen. I expect the Home forums page will become new as well at anytime...

Sorry guys - I was out of town over New Year's and I'm catching up.

Here's what I've noted from the posts made since I last posted:

1. The icons at the top (the ones for social media and bookmarking) have gone AWOL and the up arrow is not working on iPhones.

2. The "Watch thread" function is not working properly, as it requires you to opt-in, instead of adding it to your list when you post to it.

3. Text-wrapping in portrait position on iPhone6 is not wrapping words properly. Any problems from Android or other iOS versions? ZM, did I see you post you're experiencing the same problem with an Android phone?)

4. Skip to new should take you to the first unread post, rather than the last read post.

5. Group blast messages are not working properly.

Anything else new (or just now spotted) that I should add to the list?

I feel I should point out that while there's absolutely nothing wrong with having people in India (or any other country) work on a website, our techs are in California, at Internet Brand's main headquarters. Not sure where that misinformation came from, but it wasn't true two years ago and it isn't true now :-).

When we make a post, and then go to top of thread to go back home, the home button is missing.

I don't think the Home link is missing for everyone. I haven't had any problems with a missing Home link, but I use a desktop pc.