Portal Refresh Bug Report and Feature Request

I see another problem - when you try to open xda-developers in secure http, web doesn't work properly.

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Widget is really inconsistent!

first time I visited the portal, I wasn't logged into the widget.
I went to the forum logged out, logged back in again.
Widget now looks ok on the main page of the portal, but when I click on an article on the portal, I am logged out of the widget on the article page again.

Going to XDA TV, heyyy, widget is logged in again.
Going back home, heyyy, im loggged out again!

This needs a fix guys.

I am using Chrome 16 on W7/64b

PS: Even though the Widget says I am not logged in, at the bottom where the comments are it says "Welcome. You are logged in to your XDA Forum account."
Sooo.......

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XDA FORUMS LOG IN <<<< That LOG IN should really be a link to the login page....

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<<<<< socialBar.png is just that....a PNG, nothing else. Nothing can be clicked.

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I agree with the #respond tag. It's there, but it does not do anything.....

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The Difficulty rating with the stars and the litttle beside it, should really link to a pop-up or something,not take you to a new page, completely away from the page. Aaaarghhhhh

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On article pages, why do you guys still use te oldskool orange Image border????
That's what we used 10 years ago on HTML pages.

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Background should not be white, it should be the same as the forum, to ease my eyes.

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The MORE INFO bit at the bottom doesn't look good on my oldskool 1027*768 resolution. See attachment.
The brown footer doesn;t continue and the text just keeps going and going and going....
PS: The RSS feed link should really open in a new window.

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Liked al the lines in my post? Yeah didn't thinks so. Well, that's just how the portal looks as well.....waaaaayyyy too much lines.
I kinda looks like the site was made out of oldskool tables from the old days.

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Wel. that's it, hope I've helped, thanks for the great site and Happy New Year!

Some suggestions/bugs from me:

• The Facebook Like button is always 52px wide, which is a problem in languages like German, where the text is "Gefällt mir" and thus gets cut off
• The top stories module doesn't always have the correct links
• Remove the borders around images in posts. Unneccessary clutter, I think
• Make the padding in posts content just 1px smaller on each side, 9px, so you can insert excatly 600px wide images in posts. Right now it's 598px wide

That's it for now.

More:

Tag view (example) is a bit messed up (sidebar is pushed down, metadata on posts is old format).

the_scotsman said:

On IE9, I also get this gap on the right above the ad:

http://i.imgur.com/LypIE.jpg (a little too big to display here)

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Same here

Firefox 8.0

Widget doesn't work like other people have reported

Using Chrome 16.0.912.63 on Windows 8

Tried Logging in & Out & clearing cache, Anyone have any ideas? I quite like the design of the portal just wish I could use it!

The login textbox on comments when you want to comment and you aren't login are working but redirect to an exception page on http://xdaforums.com/login.php?do=login

Could not find phrase 'invalid_redirect_url_x'.

svetius said:

Please report any bugs here. Mention what browser, browser version, and OS you are using, and also provide steps to recreate the problem.

Also, tell us how to improve the Portal. What new features do you want to see?

Thanks in advance.

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Obviously this is being reported, but the Portal Widget isn't recognizing that I'm logged in no matter what I do.

HP TouchPad on webOS:
Stock webOS Browser
WebOS 3.0.4

And HP Touchpad on CM7:
Stock Android Browser
CM7 Alpha 3.5, Android 2.3.7.

Features Requests:
Nothing atm

Livven said:

[*]The Facebook Like button is always 52px wide, which is a problem in languages like German, where the text is "Gefällt mir" and thus gets cut off

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Now that the buttons are "fixed", it gets cut off in my language, Dutch, too.
It's suppose to say "Vind ik leuk", but all I see is "Vind il"

I say "fixed", because the Twitter/G+/FB buttons are really buggy.

When you load the portal, first you will see the static PNG, then the clickable buttons will load.
Everytime you mouseover them, they get refreshed, making the buttons disappear/re-appear and making the layout "jump" up and down.

Chrome16/W7

still with new news stories, some of the "comments" links are /#respond and some /#comments even after discussing earlier.
I NOTICE A FIX WAS DONE, but the ones that are /#respond go to the page and jump-down to related posts, with comments immediately below at the bottom of your view, so it does kinda work, you see it and you're there, on a netbook or small resolution monitor it would cut-off the comments half way. but when done with the /#comments takes you to the page and jumps down properly to the comments section at the top of your view.

and its not the author either, some by Livven are correct and some not,

in order they appear on page...
10 Predictions for 2012 HP Touchpad Can Now Run Arch Linux -/#respond
Some Fun: Google Failed To Deliver Android-Controlled Lightbulbs -/#respond
Looking Back At 2011 -/#comments
EL01 Update For Verizon Galaxy Tab 10.1 LTE Will Add TouchWiz -/#respond
CyanogenMod 7 For Samsung Epic 4G Becomes Official -/#respond
Enable GSM Phone Calls on Your HTC Jetstream - /#respond
LG To Unveil First Intel-Based Android Smartphone At CES, Launch In March -/#comments

Another find:
on the feature story's page, there is a gap in the google/facebook/tweet buttons

Congrats for rolling up sleeves and doing a redesign on the portal.

Don't know exactly if this is the place for critique on the new design as well.

Contrast is a quite an issue on this new portal.
Having all white and just doing a grey border won't do wonders to readability.
Also I am quite certain I am not the only one who thinks it's a bit harder on the eye to (quickly) catch the areas of interest upon page load.
This was ironed out on the last design of the portal and different areas were clearly separated by different colors.
If I'm not mistaking, the area where the article was presented as a summary, on the first page, was a bit wider or at least larger.
Buttons for read more also have a similar background in lightness and just having a border isn't enough to quickly see it.

So at this current stage I have two propositions:

1. Please don't change the design of the forum. It has none of the current issues listed above for the portal.
2. If more feel the same like me on the issues presented, I would like to offer "my sword" for aiding in ironing out the issues of the current portal and aid in making information being presented in a more optimised and user friendlier form.
3. If no offence will be taken, I would like to take a wild guess that the design was done by someone who is more leaned towards web development or that wanted to do the design relying on as much basic css as possible without the use of too much or too large images.

search on portal must not be fully workingI was searching for this post from couple weeks ago
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/mod-for-ics-makes-square-folders/
I searched for:
ICS folders
ICS folder
square folder
ect... didnt find this page till i used forum search. portal search was useless.

1. Keep page numbers like in the old portal, it's easier to navigate.

2. The banner on the top tells me you care more about ads then what the portal is becouse the 2/3 of the header is an ad.
If you have to have ads put it in a unobstrusive place like the left side of the webpage

The Widget is completely gone now, true??

Chrome on windows 7
I know I've been using the thanks button a lot lately but it seems to be worn out
The other buttons look newer somehow(less pixelated?)
Not sure if this is the right place to post.
Many thanks.

Until two days ago everything was nice (despite the Forums Widget on the Portal not working@Chrome16). However, since yesterday the whole Portal is ****ed up.

Thats how it looks like atm:

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=843207&stc=1&d=1325762199

It's the same on Chrome16 and Firefox 9.0.1. I'm running Windows7.

Kyraa said:

Until two days ago everything was nice (despite the Forums Widget on the Portal not working@Chrome16). However, since yesterday the whole Portal is ****ed up.

Thats how it looks like atm:

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=843207&stc=1&d=1325762199

It's the same on Chrome16 and Firefox 9.0.1. I'm running Windows7.

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Same here. I think they are working on it, seems like CSS is missing.