ATS Glitch Report

Here is a glitch I've noticed recently on ATS.

Periodically, when typing a post, the cursor will move behind the last letter or letters typed. No matter what I try, nothing can get rid of the characters in front of the cursor. And, the cursor remains behind the next character typed also. From that point forward in a post you have to remember the character you are typing is actually in front of the cursor, not behind it like normal. I've only noticed this phenomenon in the last two months, and it only happens on ATS.

For the record, I run a Lenovo i7 ThinkPad laptop (essentially new), running Win 10 (fully updated) and use FF as a browser (also up to date). Not running any add-ins on the browser, nor any ad-blockers. Just FYI.

It's a very strange glitch, not like one I've ever seen before. It doesn't happen all the time, and it seems to be related to editing text within a post (not 'edit'ing a post, just editing text within a post). Once the glitch starts, nothing will make it go away. You can't select the text in front of the cursor to delete, and you can't even move the pointer past where the text appears. It's like the text isn't there, but it is.

Again, this apparent glitch is unique to ATS. It doesn't cripple ATS when it occurs, but it makes completing the post almost too distracting to do.

Note: If I post a (incomplete) post after this glitch starts and then return to it with 'edit', the glitch goes away. So does it too on a new post.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

That is strange. What happens if you write the text on another program and paste it on ATS?

Does FF have hardware acceleration activated?

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Having an issue myself on a galaxy tablet 7.
But no issue with the cursor.

The usual question is..

Did you:
:Refresh the device
: clear cache&cookies

Try that unless you already did.

By chance, does it slow down... by that I mean. If you hit a letter and it takes a second to place it. I'll type sometimes and it will buffer and will start to put the letters up when I'm finished typing..l as if a ghost is typing.

Edit: notice the buffing.... never mind its not letting my screen shots on my end with the buffing a and not showing member avatars.

originally posted by: Bigburgh
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Having an issue myself on a galaxy tablet 7.pic]eg60e9b301.jpg[/pic
But no issue with the cursor.

The usual question is..

Did you:
:Refresh the device
: clear cache&cookies

Try that unless you already did.

By chance, does it slow down... by that I mean. If you hit a letter and it takes a second to place it. I'll type sometimes and it will buffer and will start to put the letters up when I'm finished typing..l as if a ghost is typing.

Same issue occasionally on android past 2-3 weeks.

Actions described by Biggy above always resolved the issue.

a reply to: Nunyabizisit

Yes, but specifically my fresh out of the box galaxy s7 tablet that runs on Android.

See: I'm back on an older Galaxy S2 now. and no slow keyboard response.

originally posted by: ArMaP
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

That is strange. What happens if you write the text on another program and paste it on ATS?

No issue then. It only occurs when typing text in the ATS post window. Pasted text from another source is not affected.

Here's another weird part of this; if you try to select the text in the ATS post window (after the weirdness begins) to C&P it into say Word, you can't select the text in front of the cursor, so it won't go away. No amount of DEL or backspacing will get rid of it. At first I thought I'd just C&P the text out, edit it, and post it back...but the text out in front of the cursor remains in the ATS window, so in order to get rid of that you have to post it, then go back with the 'edit' feature. Then you can delete it. It's really weird!

Does FF have hardware acceleration activated?

Negative.

originally posted by: Bigburgh
a reply to: Nunyabizisit

Yes, but specifically my fresh out of the box galaxy s7 tablet that runs on Android.

See: I'm back on an older Galaxy S2 now.

and no slow keyboard response.

I understand.

Device I am using is also pretty old.

I suspect memory leak in recently updated client.

Probably a single library is cause.

Rules prevent me from investigating, so just posting here.

Power cycle alone appear to clear the issue for a few days, even for a device on ATS nearly 24/7 right now.

On this device anyway.

a reply to: Bigburgh

No slowing down. And, it doesn't happen all the time, just periodically. I am not able to get the glitch to reliably repeat so I can't really observe a trend, it just seems random.

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: Bigburgh

No slowing down. And, it doesn't happen all the time, just periodically. I am not able to get the glitch to reliably repeat, it just seems random.

Same.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Ok, let me ask someone real quick.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Ok, my sister littleburgh knows exactly what is going on as here device is doing it too. It started doing after a recent update and the fix is something you have to do in your settings.

Hang tight... But Go To your Keyboard Settings

I'll get her on here shortly

Sorry, she's busy on a "world series of" about Moderator stuff but will be by.
Go to your Keyboard settings.


Keep getting these every 10 mins.
I'll start a thead.
Anybody know why.

a reply to: Bigburgh

That almost looks like some parts are being blocked.

Could be a fidgety mouse microswitch 👁️

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Hi, I'm LittleBurgh. My android tablet started doing similar things after a recent update. Not on ATS because I rarely post here. My keyboard settings were all changed by the update. I had to fix the keyboard in Settings and also had to change my settings under Languages & Input to fix the cursor & random punctuation. Problem is, if it's only doing it here, you might be having a communication issue with ATS. That is likely on their end. You might have to write to Support to see if you need a patch. Good luck!

originally posted by: Bigburgh
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Hi, I'm LittleBurgh. My android tablet started doing similar things after a recent update. Not on ATS because I rarely post here. My keyboard settings were all changed by the update. I had to fix the keyboard in Settings and also had to change my settings under Languages & Input to fix the cursor & random punctuation. Problem is, if it's only doing it here, you might be having a communication issue with ATS. That is likely on their end. You might have to write to Support to see if you need a patch. Good luck!

Thank you BurghSis.

I suspect related to recent update here.

I'm sure ATS Admin will be by soon to assist.

originally posted by: ArMaP
a reply to: Bigburgh

That almost looks like some parts are being blocked.

No idea as I just changed my password just now.... again. And received this



Started around 7pm yesterday EST


Edit: littleburgh tried logging in via FB so she could help FCD, and could not log in. Then went directly to the sign in page here and she couldn't do it there either. She then got a notice saying she was logged in, so she clicked it and again it would let her access to ATS.

Feels like everything is getting the old DDOS😢😢😢

I have occasionally had a similar thing happen like what was brought up in the OP. It was not just on ATS when I had it happen. It was frustrating, but when I closed the browser and ran Ccleaner it would disappear. I think it had something to do with a windows update or something.

This is a desktop Dell computer,

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

I had this too, both on desktop and mobile.

Sometimes the cursor will lock on in front of the last three digits. For me it would delete every former character once I type a new one. Like using "insert" key but in reverse.

Sometimes there's a golden bar around my comment box, instead of a white one, I figured it's because I am so awesome or some nefarious stuff, probably the latter.