I Need Some Input
Submitted by JtC on Sat, 06/30/2018 - 12:59pm
I've been optimizing the site code and architecture the last few days, you should see a noticeable improvement in the time it takes to load the pages.
My question is: this morning I received an email from a member stating that after a recent FireFox automatic update the text on the site is displayed in bold. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Have you seen any other anomalies that have popped up over the last few days?
Have you seen any gold coins laying around anywhere lately, because if you have, they're mine. I swear, I misplaced them and can't figure out where they are.
Thanks.
Comments
I'm not finished...
more tweaks to come. I'm optimizing the front-end first, than the back-end.
Seen those coins yet?
Yesterday bold was the case
today all seems to be normal. Thanks for all the work! I hope folks are chipping in.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Yes, everything except the text boxes.
Writing comments, etc, still comes across normal, but the posts show up in bold.
Hope that helps.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
So...
the text in the text editor is normal, but all posts are bold, including all comments and essays?
I'm not seeing it on my end that's why I ask. But I don't allow automatic FireFox updates, I wait for a while for the bugs to be ironed out. Did you notice the change in the text before or after the FF update?
After the Firefox update, so I assume it's on my end.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
No, probaly not your end...
as folks are saying it's only on this site. I'm pretty I sure what the problem is, I'll address it as time allows.
Fixed now.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Looks good
Re: those gold coins, I found 1/2 a silver and sent it on the way snail mail.
Best I can do for now, hope it helps.
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Found a couple doubloons with your name on them
Sent them out with that letter carrier who frequents my box. Only new thing I noticed is the little up arrow dot thingy is smaller and faster. Thanks for all you do!
Hi JtC
Regarding the bold type — I have mentioned this before, but this site displays in all bold type on my iPad and iPhone (which are the only devices I have available most of the time). Everything is in bold, and applying bold formatting has no effect. This has been ever since I “upgraded” to iOS 11 a few months ago. This is not a setting on my devices. It is only on c99 that I get all bold text. A few others who use iOS devices said they had the same issue.
The site does seem to be loading a bit faster this morning. I have to play around a little more to see what’s different. Thank you!
Yep. iOS update bolded things for me as well.
Been in bold mold
for many moons. This site only.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Yes here.
All text is bold after Firefox update yesterday.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Ditto here. n/m
Just FYI: Not seeing any changes. No bold.
Running Firefox 60.0.2 (64 bit) under macOS Sierra (version 10.12)
Thanks for your efforts.
Now running Firefox 61.0. Still no problems. n/t
I’ve been seeing the site in bold on my IPad in Safari in
boldface for months now. As I type this the text appears normal. But when I post it, it will appear in boldface.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
No anomalies. No new bolding.
I have no anomalies or new bolding of fonts to report.
I am running Firefox 60.0.2 on Linux (Ubuntu Studio 18.04 with "Linuxium" kernel modifications supporting the Intel "Atom" Bay Trail multicore processor).
Thank you for all you do for us!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Running Firefox on Ubuntu Studio as well
And the fonts, etc. are all good.
I did notice bolding in the past on a different platform. Don't remember which one.
I too say a big bold Thank you!
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
All normal here
I run Firefox on Mac OS, always latest stable version; everything is up-to-date. No issues whatsoever.
I also use Safari on iOS; all latest versions. This is on an iPad and also an iPhone. No issues at all.
Here's What it Looks Like on my End, JtC
I use Google Chrome almost exclusively, but I also checked the site in Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
When it comes to technology, I'm a Luddite compared to many others on caucus99perecent. So, anything you do to improve this website is greatly appreciated. Many thanks.
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
By the Way, I Don't Know Anything About Macs
I just have a regular pc laptop about 3 years old. It works for me!
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
Sorry, Spoke Too Soon
I hadn't used Firefox in months. So, I just updated it and now, all essay titles and text appears in bold.
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
I run Firefox too
and after the Firefox update yesterday, the comment text is showing bold. But it really does not bother me at all. No matter what happens, thank you for all you do, JtC.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Now it is back to normal
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
All posts have been coming bold
for quite some time, I'm using Chrome.
But as for the past few days, nothing different.
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
comment text is in bold
started yesterday
using Firefox.
I am always using Firefox accessing this site
now on a brand new used Acer little laptop with a German version of Windows 10 and a German keyboard. (Drives me nuts) I just used it for the first time last week. All looks normal, no bold or other irregularities. Today it loaded much faster than the days before.
No gold coins around unfortunately. I play lotto now, if I win, you get 99 percent of it.
https://www.euronews.com/live
comment titles show up in blue nt
https://www.euronews.com/live
format
As I type in the comment box all is regular. Once saved and posted it changes to bold letters. I'm using Firefox browser.
Thanks for all the feedback folks...
I installed the latest FireFox and you were right, that hurt my eyes!
I adjusted the font weight, is it better now? Still too dark? Too light?
Oh, and about those gold coins, just joking. Heh, I wish I had some to lose.
Looks great now! Muchas gracias!
Tastes Great, Less Filling!
caucus99percent now has a "softer" look and looks better than before. Thanks for making the change. Hope it wasn't too much of a hassle.
As for those gold coins...
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
Arrrrgh, me hearty...
not a hassle once me knows what the problem be. I had it swingin' from the yardarm once it showed the whites of it's eyes. Now give ol' Johnny Boy a swig of that rum!
arrrgh
[video:https://youtu.be/f55CqLc6IR0]
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Wow, yeah, the update got rid of the bold on the Iphone
Much better!
Thanks, brother.
Always have at least a few pages open on both my computer and phone. The phone had always been more difficult to read, with everything bolded (and additionally you lose any of the bold for emphasis that writers use).
Just opened a new page on the phone and it was like the computer. Then reloaded an older page and it came back without the bold.
Looks great!
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
fixed now
No problems, but I have a question
Why are some bolded texts bolded and others yellow? Or is there a different icon for making it yellow?
My recent tweets have been weird. One moment they are regular ones and then it's in a block quote. Anyone else have this problem? Just started today. Plus the reply tweet doesn't show the original one.
iPad with safari. I hated what the last setting update did to mine so haven't updated to 11 yet.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
Can you point me...
to the yellow text that you speak of?
I have no control of the text in tweets.
It's yellow in both JnH's comments where he bolded text
I see this in the EBs too when Joe uses bold. I've seen this off and on for a year or so. It's not a problem, I'm just curious about it. My bolding is always black.
Tweets have been hit and miss for some reason. I didn't think that the problem was on this end. Guess I was wondering if anyone else noticed that.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
Oh that, OK, I can explain...
That's not bolding, that's an alternative to the underline tag, click the "U" underline icon or use the underline tag and that's what you'll get. I kind of like it as it stands out more, but I can change it back to the standard underline if folks are adverse to it.
Oh no, I vote to keep the yellow highlight
It’s much easier to read than underlined text.
No don't change it back
I don't mind the yellow I was curious if it was my browser or some other coding. Thanks for explaining this to me. And thank you for your work keeping the blue blog running.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
Snoopy, the yellow highlight is
formatted using the *underline* formatting. Instead of underline, it applies a yellow highlight. I’ve been using that in place of bold (which didn’t do antything) for months now.
I love the new lighter look! It’s almost funny, after finally adjusting to the bold, now it seems so airy and light, it’s a bit disconcerting. But yes, much better! Thank you JtC!
yellow highlighting
If I'm understanding you correctly, this is due to a difference in compound employments:
Add bold to italics, and you'll get this. Nice, black, italic text.
Add bold to underlined, and you'll get this instead: bold text under yellow highlighting.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
JTC Whatever you did today worked!
Text of essays now appears in Normal text font. Essays titles are in bold as expected.
Firefox 61.0
on laptop Win 10 rel 1803
I did find a gold nugget in the OT today. But one of my voices told me "It's mine. It's my Precious."
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Thanks for the heads up...
about this issue, CoE, your email set me on the hunt.
I adjusted the font weight, which didn't seem to be an issue until just lately. I suspect as browsers evolve they read HTML differently than they used to, yay technological advancement, right?
In my opinion they really screwed FireFox up when the platform was changed starting back with version 57, many of my favorite extensions no longer work and aren't going to be updated. The bastids.
That was quick turn around
Thanks as always JtC. Have a great weekend and fun holiday!
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Firefox gravely wounded after version 57
I agree. Before the huge Firefox 57 change, I had a browser that was under my control, doing what I wanted. Hell, mine even looked like what I wanted - I made it look like the old Netscape browser. I could do hundreds of tricks with it and the many extensions offered. Now, it's pretty much no different than anything else. No soul.
It's fast, yes. That's about it. I'd trade the (slight) speed increase for the old usability any day. Even if they went back - which they will never do - I doubt the developers of the hundreds of extensions would return to the fold. Fool me once......
I saw the numbers a little while ago re browser usage. It's not good:
Mozilla was on the right track, but threw the baby out with the bathwater when they did the changes starting with version 57. Sad.
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the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
omg! cured!
Everything's been in Bold
on here since January, after a Firefox "update" back then.
Posts, Comments, everything.
Now cured! Hallelujah!!
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
I had no idea...
or I would have fixed it earlier. A couple of members had mentioned it a while back but I couldn't replicate it so I couldn't track down the problem. After Citizen Of Earth emailed me this morning and mention that it happened after a FireFox update and I was able to confirm this with other users in this essay, then I was able to update FF myself to see the problem and then rectify it.
Folks need to let me know if things go awry, with so many different device configurations out there things don't always display on my setup as they do on yours. Bottom line is, If I can replicate the problem then chances are pretty good that it can be fixed.
Today is the first time
...in nearly a year that the site has not been in all bold on both of my Macs.
I continued to mark up bold type for emphasis on the theory that most everyone else was seeing regular text.
Populations don’t like wars. They have to be lied into it.
That means we can be “truthed” into peace. — Julian Assange
There is a noticable improvement in the speed
...of the page loading, by the way. Good job.
Populations don’t like wars. They have to be lied into it.
That means we can be “truthed” into peace. — Julian Assange
After the firefox update,
After the firefox update, things were bold all around.
But now, things are normal, so that's great.
No bolding problems ever
Lenovo Laptop/Intel i3/win7/Firefox...now 61.0
Compensated Spokes Model for Big Poor.
Well done!
Now, because of my poor eyesight, I kinda miss the bold.
Thanks JtC. You've confirmed I'm not crazy. At least on this issue.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
ditto, now, can we go fishing?
Fishing? I love fishing!
me too, brother; as does the JtC, and he derseves an
escape. We can all do that here where the wind is cool.
Hi JtC....
Running Mac Mini desktop with Chrome and Sierra osx. Turned off FF quite awhile back.
Didn't realize the text/type was heavier until the autorefresh kicked in then suddenly a lighter text/font. Easier on the eyes. Quick loading.
I use theBold and Underline and always get the yellow highlighter. I like it that way.
You deserve all the gold doubloons we can send you. A little from a lot of us, would be a great help I'll bet.
We all seem to have the same need: win a lotto; adopt a rich uncle or be adopted; a kinder gentler government.
Thanks for everything.
You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again you did not know. ~ William Wiberforce
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Worthless gold coins from 1904
These aren't really coins, they are some kind of jewelry, like a fob. They are yours if ya want, JtC. Cash is not flowing this far down the trickle, and I already sold all my capital "assets". It's an heirloom with no heirs, I can't sell it. But gold! Good old-fashioned California goldrush gold, about three quarters of a troy ounce I think. Maybe you can sell it, or melt it for something new. It is not shiny yellow, that's the camera.
Front
Back
F. A. G.
McNeill Club
May 1904
Franklin Albert Griffin was the infamous grandpa I never met. I am thinking the McNeill Club was the precursor to SF Gay Mens Chorus, but what do I know? There's no one alive to ask.
McNeill Club Collection, 1921-1940
https://www.sfgmc.org/
Genetics or coincidence, my brother grew up to be a gay rights activist in San Francisco.
Biography of Hon. Franklin A. Griffin
... and three years later was The Preparedness Day bombing, the perpetrators never ever brought to justice. Instead, the union labor organizers Tom Mooney and Warren Billings went to prison. The long arc of my short family history sucks, it's like a yoke around my neck. just yank it
History is dead, long live history.
Thank you very much...
but no, heirs or not, that belongs with you, but I do very much appreciate the offer.
If it's around 3/4 troy ounce it's worth around $900.00 or so figuring current spot for gold. You should have it melted down. Even though I'd love to have it I wouldn't feel right having it gifted to me.
Thanks, eyo.
You, Sir,
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
JtC: I have a desktop MacMini and use Firefox.
No problems what-so-ever in loading and reading site content. No gold coins either, unfortunately.
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.