GTP X Bug Thread

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Hi,

Yesterday, in the news section, the style of the site switched to the mobile version. It changed back after a few page changes. Today I encountered the same problem, so I thought I should report it. It has never happened before in all the years I visit GTP.

OS: Windows 7
Browser: Firefox 3.6.3
Steps: Loaded bookmarked forum URL, went to News-section via main navigation and selected the second article (More GT5 Details: High/Low Beams, Dynamic Crowds, No BBQ Smell). Did it again just now after restarting the browser, now getting the right style :s. It seems to happen randomly :)

Edit: Just got it again while browsing the new pictures. The 'switch' button at the bottom also doesn't seem to work.
I took a look at the sourcecode of the page, and only mobile css files and references were 'mentioned' there.
 
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I'm wondering if the font woes are linked to Helvetica. I know the font isn't present on most XP installs.

Edit: And Firefox is apparently known to be a bit squiffy when it comes to displaying Helvetica without the font installed... That said, it all looks absolutely fine on the W7/FF laptop. Had to fidget with the XP/FF desktop though.
 
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I've noticed that threads with polls don't have any indication they have one, unlike before.

I've also noticed an overlap of the username and the new posts notification box.



The page numbers seem to cope OK, but the usernames bump into the box. (Screenshot taken on my XP laptop at 1024 x 768 resolution)
 
I got a bug on just the site itself. Everytime I go to the forums, it gives me the unpleasant mobile phone layout! Fixed it though.
 
Famine
I'm wondering if the font woes are linked to Helvetica.
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I'd say so. I don't have Helvetica on my computer (Windows 7 Ultimate), and so I suspected that Firefox was defaulting to its serif font in the situations where Helvetica was supposed to be used (ie newreply.php), which was Times New Roman. I tested this by changing Firefox's default serif font to something different, and surprise surprise, the font in the reply box changed accordingly.
 
I dunno if this is a feature of GTPX, but whenever I try to open a single post, like clicking on the post #, on the right, I just get sent to the top of the post, but I don't get a View Single Post window like I used to get in GTP IX. I'm using Firefox 3.6.3
 
Tom Servo
I dunno if this is a feature of GTPX, but whenever I try to open a single post, like clicking on the post #, on the right, I just get sent to the top of the post, but I don't get a View Single Post window like I used to get in GTP IX. I'm using Firefox 3.6.3
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I think it's a feature. Even if it isn't, don't you find it better?
 
Tom Servo
Not really. I used to link people to a specific post, now I link them to the thread.
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But you are still linking the single post as that will be displayed top in your web-browser, it's not like your only linking to the first post in the thread.
 
Tom Servo
Not really. I used to link people to a specific post, now I link them to the thread.
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In the address bar, change the showthread.php to showpost.php.
 
It's the same font, it just doesn't have the correct sizing applied to it because it's not displayed within the normal site template. It's a problem, but I was too far along in the design of GTPX to go back and change it after I discovered the issue.

Anyways, yes, I have long been annoyed with the single-post view, as it forced you to view posts completely out of context.
 
Here is a bug I haven't seen addressed: In the GT4 Tuner section, for example, under the Mad Finn's thread, it shows there have been 3592 replies but I can only see 3574 of them.

The number of pages shown as available is 80 but it only loads 79. Are there missing posts or not?

There are several other problems in this forum. Tourniquetfan is shown as having posted but his posts are not visible. Possibly a moderator came through and cleaned up but, if so, it should have been shown as deleted.

Thanks
 
Too Old
In the GT4 Tuner section, for example, under the Mad Finn's thread, it shows there have been 3592 replies but I can only see 3574 of them.
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I get the same thing and just to add more confusion, if you click the Replies link and add them all up you get a total of 3516. :confused:

Edit: Looks like the forum software only shows up to the first 175 members thus explaining the 76 (or 58) missing posts.
 
Maybe those other posts have been deleted by the moderators. Like they've said before, the posts are still there, we just can't see them. Maybe the software isn't working right in that aspect.
 
Yeah, there are a few technical reasons caused that discrepancy. I've refreshed all thread statistics so the count should be accurate now.
 
Hello,

I wanted to point out that the "News Page" design is buggy. It doesnt scale well with the fontsize. I do like to view websites on my TV or a bit farther away from my Desktop PC. Thus I have set the fontsize in my browser (aka Firefox 3.6.6 on win7 64bit or FF 3.6.6 64bit on my linux machine.) to 20. The resolution is 1920x1080.

Basically the news text now overlaps its small rectangle and the comments link is somewehere in between. I havent experienced this problem with other sites so I consider it a bug.


Its not a really big deal but it makes the website look a bit cheap coded.

with kind regards
 
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EcroFeG
Hello,

I wanted to point out that the "News Page" design is buggy. It doesnt scale well with the fontsize. I do like to view websites on my TV or a bit farther away from my Desktop PC. Thus I have set the fontsize in my browser (aka Firefox 3.6.6 on win7 64bit or FF 3.6.6 64bit on my linux machine.) to 20. The resolution is 1920x1080.

Basically the news text now overlaps its small rectangle and the comments link is somewehere in between. I havent experienced this problem with other sites so I consider it a bug.


Its not a really big deal but it makes the website look a bit cheap coded.

with kind regards
Kay
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Unfortunately, I can't recreate this issue in Windows 7 x64 or Ubuntu 10.04. Could you post a screenshot?
 
I managed to recreate it in XP SP3 with FF 3.6.6, by manually setting my Default Font/Size to 20 (or greater). By scaling through the fonts with Ctrl+/Ctrl-, there's no issue - the boxes scale with the text.
 
Jordan
Unfortunately, I can't recreate this issue in Windows 7 x64 or Ubuntu 10.04. Could you post a screenshot?
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yes of course, there you go:

http://img189.imageshack.us/i/unbenanntck.png/

@Famine

I usually have to adjust the size of other websites (mostly forums) using CTRL+/- because they probably have a fixed fontsize or something..

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I did some more testing because I am aware that this seems to be a bizarre problem. I was wrong, it does look all right on my archlinux xfce desktop environment using FF 3.6.6 x64. I guess I have mixed it up, sorry for not testing before nagging - it was just my bad memory.

But its still looking funny on my Win7professional x64. I adjusted my Desktop's size to be 125% instead of 100% because the menus are so tiny when I use my TV. But it has no impact on websites, I just tested GTPlanet with both settings and it looks the same.

I didnt change anything except for the fontsize(16 to 20) in my firefox. I dunno what else to tell... I have 3 addons running adblock, xmarks and greasemonkey. I have only 1 GM script for YouTube "AutoHD" and thats it.

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Now also tested on my laptop with WinXP SP3/FF3.6.6 and archlinux again, its the same. I also had another look on the site while using linux on my desktop and I noticed my font size there is set to 18, so the text doesnt overlap but its close... so same "problem" I guess.

I am not so familiar with html and css coding but maybe its just a matter of fixed or not fixed css styles or something...

Like I mentioned earlier, its displayed correctly on other websites, for example kotaku.com. Some "special" news there are also put in rectangles but they scale correctly with the fontsize I set in my browser.
 
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