RWO site issues, disruptions, suggestions, announcements

[liz]

I pretty much always use the desktop site. But until 10 secs ago it wasn't clear to me where this row of icons was. But in the process of writing this response, I have spotted them.

For anyone else semi-blind like me, they are immediately above the text box you are writing in if you are writing a response. The ""globe with a chain link" symbol just looks like a blue blob to me. Maybe that's because I'm on a small screen laptop.

[neilfws]

Maybe this short video will help if the text instructions are not clear.

How to post a URL from ABC News to RWO

[dejavoodoo44]

Maybe this short video will help if the text instructions are not clear.

How to post a URL from ABC News to RWO

Ta. I'll try that if I want to post something from the ABC site.

Although I had it in my head, that the problem may have been linking from the ABC app, rather than their standard site. I can't recall if I did the experiment, to confirm or deny? Could that have anything to do with it?

[neilfws]

Although I had it in my head, that the problem may have been linking from the ABC app, rather than their standard site. I can't recall if I did the experiment, to confirm or deny? Could that have anything to do with it?

I think the issue is just pasting a URL from ABC News, on any platform.

[dimelb]

I'm sorry about what has happened in the Academy uproar thread.
It has never behaved to me like this before. I was trying to put the heading from The Age so that others could read it.
I hope someone who knows more than I do (wouldn't be hard) can either unpack it or simply remove it.

[Aaron]

Very sorry, I just found out I have made the same mistake as dimelb has . Sorry, can moderator please delete my post 9#47 of the Academy Uproar Thread.

[liz]

The two latest incidents today were, I think, from Fairfax sites, rather than the ABC that we've been having problems with.

A solution is provided a few posts up by neilfws. I just tested it (in my private testing place) and it seems to work. Don't copy and paste the link straight into the test box. Instead click on the globey-looking icon at the top of the text box, and paste the url into the box it provides.

[Meg]

Sorry Liz but that doesn’t mean anything to me. Which may be firstly because I view and post on an iPad (with iOS) and secondly because I view and post to RWO on Tapatalk (for mobile format it is much better).

However even when I go to the website (on iPad) I don’t see any ‘globey’ looking icon.

[liz]

Immediately above this text box that I'm typing in there is a series of icons (eg bold, italics, size of font). They are grouped together into distinct groups. In the right hand group, the first icon is a blue blob with something at the bottom that neilfws describes as a chain. Hard to see with the size of it, but I'll accept it's a chain. It's immediately to the right of the emoticon icon (though that's in a grouping of its own). That's the icon for linking an article to the post you're creating.

[Meg]

I don’t see any of that on Tapatalk or by going to website on iPad. I wonder if those icons can be seen on a Mac? Perhaps the set-up you refer to only applies on a PC.

I won’t be the only RWO reader/poster using Apple devices.

[liz]

I don’t see any of that on Tapatalk or by going to website on iPad. I wonder if those icons can be seen on a Mac? Perhaps the set-up you refer to only applies on a PC.

I won’t be the only RWO reader/poster using Apple devices.

I don't think so. I can see them if I try to write a post on my iPhone.

[Meg]

I don't think so. I can see them if I try to write a post on my iPhone.

Posting on website?

[liz]

Yeah

[Thunder Shaker]

Post #269 in the Geelong match thread has a link that is screwing up the thread.

This is what the link should look like: ‘Great spirit’: Swans cling on against Cats to seal thrilling comeback

[Danzar]

Post #269 in the Geelong match thread has a link that is screwing up the thread.

This is what the link should look like: ‘Great spirit’: Swans cling on against Cats to seal thrilling comeback

Seems like that old bug that used to happen. I can't see how I can delete the post, will just have to leave it. You can still go to the next page so doesn't have too big an impact. Thanks for letting us know