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I'd find it useful if the forum name was in the URL of the thread.

For example (at random) ...
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-club-446/
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/bri.../2020547-tatl-avoiding-sunday-night-rule.html

Here, you strip the forum name:
https://forums.macrumors.com/
https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/ios-14.224/
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...hich-are-you-most-looking-forward-to.2243404/

When people are posting very similar questions relating to IOS 14 and MacOS 11, one has to concentrate to remember which topic the post is about.
 
I'm going to plop this here, because I don't think it needs its own thread (if management think otherwise, I can start one ...), hoping a few of the right folks see it.

Anyway ...

I'd love a settings/profile switch to disable the swear filter, you know, from my perspective. On by default for everyone, but for those of us who kind of like to see a little colorful language, we could take in the full beauty of a perfectly timed F-Bomb.
 
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In other forums, the "swear filter" isn't a real-time adjustment to posts as they're displayed but an adjustment to the post as it's saved. So there's no way to recover it, unless you use a routine to count the asterisks and make a best guess as to what was there :)
 
I think this system does it in real time, or maybe I was drunk ... let me test it ...

This ****ing site rocks!
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Yep, it stores the original, uncensored text. If I edit the post above, it's the full f___ word :) That makes sense as you might want to be able to tweak the word list, and apply new / remove old filters.
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Hahaha, also need a user based word list, because I do not want to see the word squirrel anymore ...
 
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Keep up the good work, @arn!

Regarding accessibility especially keyboard. I noticed it's mostly keyboard friendly which is nicely done.

Although there are certain areas that are keyboard focus trap or there is no focus state.

First, at the beginning of website, I would include "Skip to Content" (where they can skip from nav/header section straight to the first feed), "Skip to Search" (take them straight to search input field) , "Skip to Footer" (to bottom of webpage).

Try out their demo (see screenshot attach): https://www.harvard.edu It does excellent job in term of accessibility.

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Just noticing the unread Watched thread counter isn’t visible on the iPhone X screen. It’s just cut off to the right of the “Watched” text, requiring you to scroll across to reveal it every time.

I wonder if that could be fixed so there’s no need to scroll across, as it looks like there’s nothing to read there every time the page loads on the iPhone X (5.8” res phones only maybe?).
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I realize the new format is designed to consolidate information, rather than separate it, but I for one come mainly looking for hardware and software news, and as Apple has gone into competition with Netflix, there is an increasing frequency of AppleTV+ articles. It would be great if that could be either its own header on the top tab bar, or with Blogs going away, a section on the right either above or below Guides or Upcoming (but before Comments) or possibly a tab and a section. It would just be nice if those weren't part of the main news article feed. I like the content, but personally I see their studio development and content as quite separate from Macs, macOS, iOS and iDevices.

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For lack of better places to post it, I'm glad to see action was __finally__ taken on what was clearly a phishing/info scraper account (I've reported it multiple times, only to receive a "no action taken"). At this point, I'd almost lock / remove the threads that were started, as there's still users posting (and probably still scripts being run against the posts).
 
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For lack of better places to post it, I'm glad to see action was __finally__ taken on what was clearly a phishing/info scraper account (I've reported it multiple times, only to receive a "no action taken"). At this point, I'd almost lock / remove the threads that were started, as there's still users posting (and probably still scripts being run against the posts).
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I think it's most likely a spammer bot that is building up posts.

arn
 
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There was another incident recently, but I can't find it right now. Someone registered and said that their post on another forum was copied and posted here. They thought we were scraping other forums for content, but it was a bot/spammer that was copying other posts to make them seem like real accounts.
 
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arn said:
I think it's most likely a spammer bot that is building up posts.

arn
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I don't know if you saw, but the exact same question / response was cross posted to other sites as well. There's a whole class of scripts/bots that ask these sorts of questions, and use the responses for analytics, marketing, some aren't terribly malicious, but it's still good to purge them they're ID'ed. :)
 
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A technical support forum I sometimes use had new accounts copy pasting questions that were either asked on the same forum a few months ago, or copy/pasted from reddit. They also added a weird URL to each post (usually an intranet router one like https:// 192.168.0.1). I kept telling the admins of that forum that this was dodgy and that the URLs were no doubt a test to see if newbies could post links, but they didn't believe me and simply kept trying to answer the stupid questions the spammers had "asked".

Anyway, a few weeks later, those accounts then automated a huge number of spam posts. Hah.
 
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What happened to the areas tab on user profiles?

forums.macrumors.com

Post Count and PRSI?

If you really want to know how many PRSI posts one has, just look on the Area's tab of your profile page.
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Hey, I’ve seen you keep improving the forums... damn, you deserve to have more contributers.

This box to write replies on the Forums has been updated at least on desktop/iPadOS, not sure if its too on iOS. Hopefully you have fixed the error when you tap on this reply box and the iOS keyboard hides the box. I mentioned (and explained with graphics) here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/new-site-design-2020.2226003/page-6?post=28607125#post-28607125

Now, some feedback about the new notifications system. I’d like to report that the new system of read/unread notifications (with the blue dot) is not working properly. When I click on “mark [as] read“ it doesn’t un-mark them. The blue dot is still there.

English is not my main language so I do the best I can to explain what happens.
 
Populus said:
Hey, I’ve seen you keep improving the forums... damn, you deserve to have more contributers.

This box to write replies on the Forums has been updated at least on desktop/iPadOS, not sure if its too on iOS. Hopefully you have fixed the error when you tap on this reply box and the iOS keyboard hides the box. I mentioned (and explained with graphics) here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/new-site-design-2020.2226003/page-6?post=28607125#post-28607125

Now, some feedback about the new notifications system. I’d like to report that the new system of read/unread notifications (with the blue dot) is not working properly. When I click on “mark [as] read“ it doesn’t un-mark them. The blue dot is still there.

English is not my main language so I do the best I can to explain what happens.
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The read / unread state is too subtle right now. It changes the background color. I’ll make it more obvious.
 
I was hoping the new update would remove the text post bug where the forum tries to constantly change your words or capitalize letters or words that shouldn’t be capitalized. I have to turn off BB code in order not to have this problem. The wait continues.
 
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I was hoping the new update would remove the text post bug where the forum tries to constantly change your words or capitalize letters or words that shouldn’t be capitalized. I have to turn off BB code in order not to have this problem. The wait continues.
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Unfortunately editor changes are beyond the scope that we are able to fix.

This is the editor that they use: https://froala.com

Not sure if you can replicate the issue on their site. If so, you could report it to them and maybe it'll eventually downstream to us.
 
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It is now. If it's on, it's unread.
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Ok, I see it now. However, two issues:

1) All the notifications I’ve clicked to read the post where I’m mentioned/quoted/replied, later, they remain on, the blue spot is bright, all the notifications have this look, thus, all the notification remain as unread...

2) When I press “mark read” down in the bottom of the notification list, it makes all the notification to have the blue dot bright as well. This means it marks all the notifications as unread.

Hope to explain myself properly
 
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