Anybody else seeing this in Firefox?

[Déjà Bru]

Periodically, but persistently, various forum icons will not appear in my Firefox, replaced by their textual descriptions. Today, it looks like below.

Observations:

1) It appears fine in Microsoft Edge, and

2) This is the only web site in Firefox that is giving me an issue.

Therefore, I conclude that it could be the interaction of this forum's software specific to Firefox alone.

[koohead]

I actually see your 2nd screenshot in Edge as well. Never seen it as bad as your first screenshot though. 87.0.664.60 is my Edge build.
Interestingly enough, it is always the "you have 1 post(s) in this thread" icon that is messed up for me.

[RchW]

That's happening on Chrome as I post.

Edit

It happened this morning too

[Déjà Bru]

Thanks, guys. It's good to know that it's not just me, nor is it Firefox.

This forum website seems to have its share of periodic issues. I wonder why. I wonder also whether the folks that maintain it even notice these things. By this, I don't mean forum moderators. I mean system administrators.

By the way, allow me to share another peeve. This one is about how these forums appear on a smartphone.

This is what I see when I come here on my phone:



It's a bit better when I rotate the phone, but still rather ridiculous-looking:



When I follow a big link, I get this which is basically the web page crammed into a view that fits the phone. Zooming in to see it properly and to use the links will cause much of the screen to be hidden, requiring much scrolling back and forth:



Whereas another forum website that I go to manages to transform this view on a PC screen:



to this on a smartphone; cumbersome, of course, in requiring multiple finger swipes to scroll down but at least legible and serviceable:



Well, maybe the sale of the company to Com2uS will bring in the necessary financial support to maintain and improve these forums.

[Déjà Bru]

One other thing that I should mention is this persistent issue with doubling the paragraph spacing which apparently is also Firefox-centric.


Here, I will demonstrate. Notice the paragraph spacing in this message box.





Adequately spaced, don't you think? But no.


Watch what happens when I post it. So, before I post now, with every post I must do a preview and edit out the extra paragraph breaks:





It happens on every post in these forums for me, using Firefox. I inquired awhile back and it seems it's only Firefox that does this.

[Art Deco]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

One other thing that I should mention is this persistent issue with doubling the paragraph spacing which apparently is also Firefox-centric.


Here, I will demonstrate. Notice the paragraph spacing in this message box.


Attachment 748532


Adequately spaced, don't you think? But no.


Watch what happens when I post it. So, before I post now, with every post I must do a preview and edit out the extra paragraph breaks:


Attachment 748534


It happens on every post in these forums for me, using Firefox. I inquired awhile back and it seems it's only Firefox that does this.

The way to avoid double-spacing in your posts is to do shift+enter instead of just enter. It's a pain in the neck, but I use Firefox as well. I usually just go back and edit my post.

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Art Deco

The way to avoid double-spacing in your posts is to do shift+enter instead of just enter. It's a pain in the neck, but I use Firefox as well. I usually just go back and edit my post.

Yep, now I am in the habit of previewing every post in which I have separated paragraphs to remove the additional break(s).

Such as this one, because I thought to call forum administrators' attention once again to how this website looks on a phone. Which I would think would be an insurmountable issue were it not for the other forum that I show above. They seem to be able to present their forums rather well for both desktop and phone viewing.

[bwburke94]

VBulletin 3 is a pain to deal with, but moving over would cause two decades of old links to break.

[Déjà Bru]

Guys, can't something be done about this? It takes a few seconds to devolve into this situation; in the meantime, it's like trying to hit a moving target.