Forum Activity for @lornawebber

How to un-follow discussions for a user that leaves the Group

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@strumelia Yes, a user has left a group and is still getting notifications for updates to discussions she was following.

I had a vague idea that you could follow discussions even if not a member of a group and I thought it was undesirable at the time, but perhaps that's not right. I will check.

How to un-follow discussions for a user that leaves the Group

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My understanding is that a user can be following discussions in a Group of which they are not a member, and they will get update notifications for that discussion.

When a member leaves a group, it's usually because they don't want any more notifications from that particular group. Is there a way of automatically undoing all the discussion Follows for a member, when that member leaves the group?
updated by @lornawebber: 07/29/19 07:28:17AM

Mobile post editor problem

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Thank you very much Brian, for taking the time to explain and for offering an option.
I'll look into it.

Mobile post editor problem

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Brian, posting images is central to what we do on our site so I definitely can't remove that facility.
This didn't use to be a problem - I guess there must have been a change to the editor.

I've just tested embedding an image in a comment on my profile page, using my phone. It's really not easy to use the small-screen editor. Sometimes I can type directly into the grey box. Sometimes I have to click the book icon and tap the white comment box in order to get the phone keypad up. I embedded an image and it looked small enough in the white comment box. I notice that the Return button no longer returns to the comment box on the profile page, it only goes to the top of the page and you have to scroll down to find the comment box to click "post comment". Anyway, as soon as I posted my embedded image, it was enlarged to a huge size (probably the "original image" size of 1398 x 1835 pixels.) I have to go on my PC and edit the comment to reduce the image size by dragging in the corners.

Is it possible to default to the normal comment editor, instead of the small-screen editor, when on mobile devices? Is there an option for that?

Mobile post editor problem

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@brian thanks for the explanation - that's what I thought.
The problem I have is that embedded images don't seem to be re-sizable by dragging in the corners, when commenting on a mobile device. It may be a caching issue - the image appears to be reduced in size when a corner is dragged in, but it still shows in the large size when the comment is posted. I'll test a bit further including clearing caches, and let you know if it works or not.

Mobile post editor problem

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We have this too. I assume it is a new format comment editor for small screen devices. I seem to remember it was introduced last year but then reverted.
On my smart phone, I can type directly into the grey box and click the "post comment" button, or I can click on the book icon and type into the normal white comment box. I then have to return to the discussion/forum page using a blue return arrow at top left of the box, and then click "post comment".

That said, our users are experiencing problems embedding images into comments on small screen devices (phones and particularly iPads which many of our members are using). There is no option to select the image display size, and the image embeds at full size (huge). It is possible to select the image in the comment box and drag the corners in to re-size, but when posting the comment, it reverts to the massive size (original image size maybe?).

I was going to raise a support ticket for that but I'll wait and see the response to this forum post.

Banned Items - partial profile names

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Thanks so much Paul. That's excellent.

Banned Items - partial profile names

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Is there any chance of an enhancement to ban partial words? A lot of spammers seem to use random characters together with a particular identifying string.
It would be really helpful if we could ban, say %Ruips%

Banned Items - partial profile names

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Thanks for your response Paul. I was misled by the help text for the field, which reads as follows:
Profile or User Name: Enter words *or partial words* that cannot be used in a User Name, Profile Name or Profile URL.

Banned Items - partial profile names

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I am trying to ban user names containing a certain string. I have added this string to the banned items list under 'Profile or User names', but names are still being accepted with this string of characters.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this not working?

updated by @lornawebber: 06/12/19 02:31:20PM