@darix is the expert and cannot reproduce on different devices, so I won’t call it solid.
I am always happy to help, but here I don’t see how it would help if i report it upstream. They will likely have questions that I cannot answer as I am not operating this discourse instance. I could only drop the message there without a stable reproduction, and then?
As written above, the key expert cannot reproduce but some users can, so it would imho help if @darix could reproduce first.
Anyway, this bug is not critical by any means, but if you still want me to report it upstream i will do. If somebody of the other users that can reproduce this already has an account at the discourse discourse, however, I would be thankful if they could drop it there and I don’t have to get another account for another website, I already have too many.
Btw, are you able to reproduce? It’s just one click away …
It’s something you would not normally stumble upon. I’m here since almost the very beginning, and only after @cedric pointed me (us) there a couple of messages above I saw the issue.
But yes, I struggle to understand how only few people can reproduce, but on so many fundamentally different os and browsers.
Btw, @darix, since you tested on ios as well, which browser did you use and what are your language settings? My iphone (company managed) has a german language setting, which might be the only difference i still could imagine causing this type of issue …
OK, now I also checked on Windows, 3 different browsers, all up to date: chrome, firefox and edge. All of them are showing “⦔ instead of “…” at the end of the description of the “Meta” category on the categories overview page. How can that be?
If I am interpreting the inspector the right way (I am not a web developer), the text does not come in an extra json file but directly in the html file, but maybe json encoded inside a div tag which is inside a “<discourse-assets-json>” tag.
If I save the contents of the response from there, and grep for “suggestions,” in a bash terminal, I can see the “…” (ellipsis) instead of the garbled characters. File tells me the following about the file: “categories: HTML document, Unicode text, UTF-8 text, with very long lines (47355)”.
Firefox thinks the same:
So it seems that the transition from the encoded data to the dom seems to fail somehow. Any idea where to go from here?
Only in the case of the company laptop (windows) there’s a man in the middle proxy. One of the firefoxes I tried on linux has ublock origin, the other does not. Nothing lan-wide, and I also tried with different phones (android and ios) on the mobile network, also no difference.
My discourse was set to “english (us)”, but switching to german did not change the behavior.
The one that bothers me most is that we observe different results on the iphone, as i would have expected that there’s everything restrictive enough to not display websites in a different way on different devices.
@darix, we can pause or stop this at any point in time. It’s holiday season and you might have other duties. It’s not a mission critical thing. It’s my personal curiosity that makes me investigate this further. What I mean is: Do this at your pace, whatever it is, I am here to try out more ideas if there are any, whenever they come in.
Happy holidays! And thanks for the great work you do for/with this gem on the internet. Of course, the same to all admins, moderators and otherwise involved people.
Did the forum software change in the last 30 minutes or so? The last time I opened the site, everything was as I have been used to for years. Now, there is something like a panel on the left with Topics, My Posts, Invite, More, then Categories. If I have fumble-fingered something and turned this on, I do not see any way to turn it off.
Personally, I like it. Makes better use of the screen space on a non-mobile device. Menus are clean (though I will probably customize them a bit), tags are exposed, as are messages.
