Thread 2103

If you see broken things post them in here and I will get around to them as soon as I can!

I get this error frequently when I visit this board.

It seems to correct itself, but I cant seem to figure out what Im doing that makes it finally refresh properly

It has happend on other boards, and its the same error. It once came up with an additional line and a checkbox

Ok, I just changed my firefox settings and turned off this option

Tools>Options>Advanced >warn me when websites try to redirect

So now when I visit this board when Im logged in I dont get the error messages I posted above, & im free to browse the threads here. However, /j] disappears from the board menu at the top of the page, and when I click back on any public board it appears as though Ive signed out; I see captcha and the janitor panel is missing (its also gone on this board).

To remedy this, I just click on the bookmark I made https://sys.4chan.org/board/admin and I seem to automatically sign in again. Up flashes the msg "You are logged in as a janitor."

Im going to try swtiching to chrome and see if the problem persists there

>>2110
>However, /j] disappears from the board menu at the top of the page, and when I click back on any public board it appears as though Ive signed out; I see captcha and the janitor panel is missing (its also gone on this board).
Same here, seems to happen every time one visits /j/.

>However, /j] disappears from the board menu at the top of the page, and when I click back on any public board it appears as though Ive signed out; I see captcha and the janitor panel is missing (its also gone on this board).

it seems to do the same thing in chrome btw

When I visit https://sys.4chan.org//j/ I can see ban request/delete buttons for /j/ but when I visit https://sys.4chan.org/j/ I don't. Pic related.

Using ircle on a mac, and I'm having trouble accessing the IRC. Anyone have any step by steps?

>>2131
I would help, but I don't use or own a mac. E-mail moot, he has a mac. Maybe he could help.

If you post with a tripcode or name while logged in as a janitor, it will replace the name field with a simple "1"

Do not use an identity while logged at the moment since this can potentially be noticed by posters and betray your position.

>>2183
I got that same thing. I deleted the cookie for the name field and that seemed to fix it.

>>2183

Also while logged in as a mod.

>>2186

Clearing cookies did nothing for me.

>>2183
>>2186
>>2187
>>2189
Whoops! I fixed this just now so there we go.

>>2190
Thank you, based #god.

>>2190
Thank you!

>>2190
Thank you!

>>2190
T-thanks <3

>>2190
Domo señor!

Quick reply on /j/ seems to be faulty. When you press Submit, the window seems to freeze up and hang and not process the reply, however if you click [X] and refresh the page you'll see your post

>>2220
I should note it the 'sending' tab does appear when you press Submit, but it quickly reverts back to the Submit tab like nothing happend. Im using the most up-to-date version of firefox, but it was also happening on an out-dated version.

>>2220
Added this to the todo list.

nokosage doesn't work on the normal boards anymore. It even is mentioned in the FAQ section, so it must be a bug.

It just displays as a visible "sage" now.
As a person who regularly uses sage when replying, nokosage is an option I want to keep using.

/q/ thread as a reference: http://boards.4chan.org/q/res/442489

Inb4 this comment gets posted three times thanks to Sys being glitchy.

From a /q/ user:

>Pushing q to quick reply now adds a "q" to the first letter of the reply box

So, yeah, long story short: I tried to delete a few replies in /vr/ today and noticed they only vanish after a few minutes. Under normal circumstances they get deleted instantly. I removed a thread on /v/ later and it was pruned properly and without delay.
I made a few test posts on my assigned boards, which I all deleted but they are still being displayed. Trying to report these posts results into Sys telling you they don't exists anymore. Another janitor can confirm this. It all points to caching problems.

>>2346

Seconding this. I tried the same thing over on /m/ and the replies were taking a few minutes to be deleted as well. In fact, I had to complete sign out of being a janitor and reload the page (as if I was a normal user) before anything was shown as removed from the boards. (Tested on both Chrome and Firefox, if it helps)

>>2346
>>2348
I am occasionally having similar problems on /mu/,

>>2346

I had the same problem for a brief period today on /tv/.

>>2346
I've also had this problem on /out/.

I don't have janitor tools on /out/ but I do on my other assigned boards.

>>2346
I've also had this problem on /out/.

I don't have janitor tools on /out/ but I do on my other assigned boards.

>>2352
I also do not have janitor tools on /lgbt/, but on other boards is okay.

>>2352
I also do not have janitor tools on /lgbt/, but on other boards is okay.

>>2351
>>2355
You need to add those board codes to Settings, Janitor Boards [Select].

Request Ban doesn't work because the code for it doesn't exist:
Uncaught TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'openBanReqWindow'

>>2362
no events attached to these images or surrounding A element so no hovering image.

>>2221
>>2220
the code for QR on /j/ appears to be recycled from the regular website; it includes references to recaptcha and throws errors related to missing references/methods in the JS console.

Sometimes when I delete things the whole thread freaks out and doubles itself.
Has anyone else had this problem?

>>2377
Can confirm that. Could be related to the "(undefined)" error.

This is going to sound like SPECTACULAR nit-picking, but here goes: I was surprised to find that the janitor functions are largely intact on the mobile site. However, the ban request form will not accept any inputs, making ban requests impossible.

>>2382
Disable the Inline ban request panel option in settings. It opens a new tab instead that allows inputs.
Tested in Chrome mobile, not sure if it's the same in other browsers

>>2383
No good; that's the only way it'll get to the BR screen anyway, and once there it won't bring up the list of templates.

It's a Droid X running Android 2.3.4, not rooted and using the regular Android browser. It's a relatively old phone so I'm not necessarily surprised if it's not supported, I just like running through the reports queue while I'm at work.

FF 20 launches in April and will have the download attribute ... but it'll only work on same-origin requests. I've tested it and can confirm this.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Element/a

> In Firefox 20 this attribute is only honored for links to resources with the same-origin.

Their other docs on this state that " document.domain='4chan.org'; " in the page code will override this issue; if there's a security reason not to do this, the download button's effectively only useful to Chrome.

Perhaps a " ('download' in document.createElement('a')) && (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") == -1) " truth value could be attached to the code that renders the Download button until this is sorted out.

Threads past page 0 seem to disappear on /j/.
/j/'s always been broken and it's probably low-priority now but you will never have good discussion if you can't even find the thread you wanted to reply to.
The threads don't 404, they just "vanish". A simple bump brings them back. https://sys.4chan.org/j/res/2149#p2408

My BR window is going blank after I hit the submit button. None of said BRs are going through either.

>>2419
Me as well.

>>2409
Not sure what you're talking about.

>>2465
Try looking for >>2332 and >>2235 on the front page and /j/1.

>>2419
>>2420
Can you tell me what you see in your JavaScript console when this happens?

>>2467
Will look into it.

The parser for embedding YT URLs ignores timecodes in them (deadly when people are intentionally linking critical parts inside long clips).

This replacement code for the Media object's toggleYouTube function (inside extension.compiled.js) makes sure the parser grabs and passes them without altering expected embed/remove behavior:

toggleYouTube:function(a){var b,c,t;t='';timeYT=/((#)|(\&))t=(\d+m)?(\d+s)?/;"Remove"==a.textContent?(a.parentNode.removeChild(a.nextElementSibling),a.textContent="Embed"):(b=a.previousElementSibling.textContent.match(this.toggleYT))&&(b=b[1])?(t=timeYT.test(a.previousElementSibling.textContent)?a.previousElementSibling.textContent.match(timeYT)[0]:'',c=document.createElement("div"),c.className="media-embed",c.innerHTML='<iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/'+encodeURIComponent(b)+t+'" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0"></iframe>',a.parentNode.insertBefore(c,a.nextElementSibling),a.textContent="Remove"):a.textContent="Error"}

Ideally timeYT would be scoped to this.timeYT in the Media object's init function, this is just a proof of concept.

I really didn't want to clog up /j/ with yet another thread simply to ask this one thing so I thought I would ask here:

Is there any chance we could have the background of the reports queue page changed to something less bright? (Possibly Yotsuba B)
It just kills my eyes after a while and sometimes you're sitting there dealing with all the reports for quite some time.

I can't seem to delete stuff and I'm not sure my ban requests are going through.

Getting this error whenever I try to delete anything (though it does seem that the deletions are going through)

>>2531
basically this only most of mine aren't getting deleted.

>>2531

Okay, after double-checking it DOES seem as if it's deleted, but stuff still remains on the board. The reports, however, are cleared off.

Here are some low-priority things.

-thread expansion does not work on /j/

-quote preview and inline quote links do not work on /j/ if the targeted post is omitted from the index. they do work if the post is visible or if you're inside a thread.

-after changing a password at https://www.4chan.org/tmp/janitor/changepass.php, the page prompts you to log back in at /admin. for one thing, there's no need to--after changing my password I was still logged in on my boards. the link provided also sends you to /a/'s manager login, which is obviously only useful if you actually janitor /a/.

The buttons are frickin' tiny for fingertips and getting the right top/bottom button can be a challenge. The inline BR popup defaults to covering those buttons.

For some reason while the thumbnails show up fine in newer.php's thread preview, they less consistently show up in the actual page, regardless of the number of posts or images. This might be just bad luck.

Touching them opens them in a new window *and* triggers expansion.

The 'download' button opens the image in the same window (which it doesn't do on any desktop browser). Good job, WebKit.

>>2661

The preview doesn't show subjects, backlinks or replies, which means about half the time I'm having to opening the thread in a new window to gain context. Top/bottom scroll arrows would be nice too.

The bar with "Refresh" and "Settings" is necessary enough to me that it would be better fixed to the bottom of the screen (esp. on mobile).

Backlinks have # characters at the ends of them; don't know why.

Sort by board and by severity are missed ;_;

Overall a great redesign both from functionality and UX.

>>2663
er, it shows backlinks but they aren't functional. My bad.

>>2664
Doesn't clicking the post number give you an inline preview, and clicking the # symbol take you to the post, or something?

The janitor part of the inline extension is kind of acting up. The "janitor tools" box is constantly is fixed on ?/?/? instead of showing the number of reports.

When I open the report panel, I don't seem to be able to send ban requests, as in they don't appear to be going through. When I attempt to send them, it loads forever and infinity and the threads don't appear to be deleted.

Newer.php also just shows a 404 screen for me.

>>2677
I keep getting a "Something went wrong" error on newer. Can't seem to BR, delete or clear anything either in any mode.

>>2677
>>2678
Yeah, same problem here.

I've just been going to the standard old report screen and linking to the original threads and deleting directly if necessary.

However, BRs aren't deleting the threads if you do it that way, so you'll still have to manually delete. I'm not on IRC right now, but I assume someone is messin' around with things, making changes, etc.

>>2677
newer.php is now at https://reports.4chan.org/newer.php. All that other stuff is still borked, though.

Okay, since the devs have stepped up and fixed all the major issues we were having, here are a few janitor-related bug reports.

-On the new reports page, pressing R to reload the queue while hovering a thumbnail will cause the image to get stuck on the page.
-The janitor toolbox on /j/ is stuck at ?/?/?
-My toolbox reads 5 total reports even though there are none in the queue; another janitor mentioned having a similar problem

And a suggestion:
-Pressing R to reload the queue should clear the "Something went wrong," "Post does not exist," etc. error messaged from the header

>>2685
Sorry, disregard the first one. That has apparently stopped happening.

btw thanks for fixing things!

Ive noticed this for a while, but the reports ticker in the Tools bar never reaches zero now, It only counts down to 1.

And when its showing 2 reports, there is in fact only 1 report, when it shows 3 reports there are only 2 etc etc. I know its a small thing but I do love seeing 0 reports :D

>>2733
Yeah, I also have 4 phantom reports. It was 5 until yesterday.

In addition to those, if you keep clicking delete on the same report you did, you artificially lower your report count in the titlebar and can even go into having a negative report count.

https://images.4chan.org/j/src/1370384875243.png

I can't seem to delete from the reports page, instead, I get this error message.
What does it mean.

>>2734
These went down to 0 recently, but today, two different single reports have gotten stuck in the toolbox. One of them went away after a while, and one is still there.

I think this might happen when a mod does something to remove the report from their end. Both times I saw a stuck report today where after a mod dealt with report abuse by warning, banning, or whatever it is mods do, from their end.

This isn't really a "broken" thing, but the /soc/ rule template "Amazon Wishilst and begging threads are not allowed" misspells "wishlist."

When you click the "All" button to load all posts, the janitor controls do not appear on the newly loaded threads/posts

>>2755
I'm on Firefox 21.0 by the way.

Seems like when I click the ALL button just page 0 and 1 load....It was working fine earlier :(

>>2755
I'm having trouble with that too on Chromium.

I do not have the janitor buttons next to posts. I can still delete posts that have been reported however.

>>2769
Check out the admin section under settings, sometimes after clearing your browser the tools go away :)

>>2770
t-thank

It's working now

>>2772
Glad I could be of assistance my brother.

>>2750
>I think this might happen when a mod does something to remove the report from their end.
I'm now almost certain this is what causes it, since it just happened again.

Im pretty sure its nothing important, but my reports page ended up looking like this after hitting refresh. It went back to normal again with a seperate page refresh but I just thought Id make a note of it

>>2784
Looks like the JavaScript or JSON didn't load properly.

>>2790
Fun fact - it still functions normally when that happens.

With regards to phantom reports in the toolbox, this almost certainly happens when a mod clears all reports from a single IP.
The reports are cleared, but the number does not go down in the toolbox.

I don't think my ban requests are going through and I can't seem to be able to delete things from the report panel.

>>2806

Seconding this; I'm getting the same problem.

>>2806
Wait I think it might be working now.

Thumbnails aren't working on the reports page. The larger mouse-over image works fine, just this.

>>2814
There's a setting for that which you may have accidentally enabled with the T keybind. You can remap that to another key so it's not right next to R for refresh.

>>2815
Aw snap, thanks.

That's odd. Completely blank.

If I delete it, it stays.
If I try to view it, it's a 404.

2spooky4me

>>2830
I just had the same for a post on /hm/.

The last time this all messed with, it went back and forth for a while, but eventually the linkification of >>>/board/ links was changed so it only worked on strings that were actually valid: >>>/a/ would linkify but >>>/reddit/ wouldn't.

Now it's back to the way it was and >>>/anything/ will become a link, pointing nowhere.

Mouseover IDs on janitor/mod/manager capcodes are missing on page 0 of /j/, but not other pages.

So I'm not sure if the bug is that they're missing there, or that they're still on all the other pages.

>>2870
Sorry, to be clear, it's just the ID number that's gone from the tooltip box - janitor boards are still listed.

http://static.4chan.org/image/flags.png

There are two off-center flags, Switzerland and Nepal. They're 11x11 and 9x11, respectively, so they can't be correctly centered in the 16x11 flag space. To fix this, just give the .flag-ch class a width:11px and the .flag-np class a width:9px to override the .flag class default of width:16px.

The original Montenegro flag icon is 16x12 instead of 16x11 for some reason, so in the current sheet, it's been resized to 15x11. This makes it off-center. It looks better as a "squashed" 16x11, so I took the liberty of adding that to the sheet (it's the one with the gold border halfway down the second column).

If you're particularly attached to having it be 15x11, then the .flag-me class needs a width:15px added to it.

It looks like the Switzerland and Nepal flags were "centered" in the sheet instead of having their class widths adjusted. Since both flags are an odd number of pixels wide, they can't be centered in a 16px-wide space, and so they are both off-center by 1 pixel.

There's no way to properly center them without adjusting the width of those two flags' divs. If that's not gonna happen, okay -- just making sure.

I'll shut up about flags now.

Haha this may seem a bit pedantic but I've been thinking about this for a while lol, and I dont think its been mentioned here...but on the reports page may we possibly get reports flagged as "Commercial spam/advertising" to appear in a nice shade of blue, like they use to on the old reports page? Its more of an oversight than a broken thing but as well as looking nice it would alert me a bit faster to someone advertisng I think.

>>2988
I agree with this. There's already a "report-cat-3" class in the CSS that would give reports a background with this color, but it's not implemented.

>>2988
>>2989
Actually, on this subject, it looks like the spam report classification really isn't implemented at all. The blue number in the janitor toolbox doesn't go up when something is reported for spam—it's always 0.

Not all illegal reports are counting towards the red number in the toolbox. It looks like posts that appear from other boards due to getting 3+ illegal reports count, but a post getting a single illegal report on the boards I'm assigned to does not count.

/cgl/ janitor here. I believe I have found a bug. I opened my queue this morning and found that there are 800+ reports in it from numerous different boards, all of which I don't have permissions for since /cgl/ is my only board. I use my iphone to do my janitoring, if that makes any difference.

>>3080
Nevermind, looks like it's fixed! Sorry about that.

>>3080
New /jp/ janitor here, same thing is happening for me today, gonna mess with the settings and see if that fixes it.

Working as intended.

When the OP text is too long, it takes up the entire section of the catalog view and removes any capability of clicking the post to take you to the thread.

It's most noticeable on /vg/ where the OPs are particularly long.

>>3173

To clarify, this error happens when you use the in-browser "ctrl+f" search function which pulls the text up and removes the hyperlinked OP image.

>>3174
The catalog has a built in search that avoids this problem altogether. See top right hand corner of your image.

>>3175

I know the in-page search function works, I just wish the browser search didn't generate that problem. The former only returns threads as a result, whereas the latter allows you see the exact results and determine if the context is being used appropriately in terms of what exactly you're looking for.

>>3173 >>3174 >>3175 >>3176
If you're using my extension this is fixed as of today.

Moot, add this to the catalog style sheet and everyone gets what they need without messing up your layout:

div.thread:hover{overflow:auto;}

The numbers in the toolbox don't match those in the report queue, not too much of an issue but it is a nuisance.

A few hours ago I BRed a thread from the front page of /tv/. After the BR went through, I checked the reports and noticed there was also a report of the same thread. But now the report is stuck and will not clear, despite the thread being gone and the delete/clear buttons on the report page appearing to work. Other reports are still appearing and clearing appropriately except for the stuck one.

Pic related.

>>3494
Yeah there was one on /v/ too, Ive brought it to the admins attention though ive seen it happen before...but two happening on the same day is a bit unusual maybe.

>>3495
It's happening for me as well.

>>3102
Nice to see this still works.

>>3608
That's not a glitch that's a function. Welcome to the future of janitoring bby.

Test.

Clicking refresh in the reports page multiple times gives this error - Something went wrong (SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data)

>>4836
Doing any action multiple times in a row floods the servers with requests and will result in that message. Just take it easy with the keybind mashing.

Reply alignment's broken for me for some reason.

MAKE IT STOP

>>4847
This is happening to me too. I tiered it on Firefox, Chrome and Pale Moon on different computers and it shows broken on all of them. Internet Explorer seems fine though.

Seems like certain odd characters really dislike the report queue. I'm using Opera and have the paged zoomed out slightly, but zoom level doesn't appear to change the relative position.

The exact name as text is: "go౦ԁ sHit!hCANCER7oU".

>>4931
heh

RIP KJJ.

Report order seems to be messed up.

>>5018
The count doesn't change when mods mass-clear a user's reports.

[s4s] is apparently having a problem where threads are not expiring, and new threads cannot be clicked on until someone replies to them from the pages.

>>>/qa/354598

I believe the thread >>>/jp/14476599 was moved from /a/ into /jp/ around ten minutes ago, but the link is not valid. The thread is visible on both the front page and the catalog, but cannot be clicked on.

The title of the thread is "Kantai Collection" (and has no OP text) and can be found in the catalog.

Faded images from being spoilered bleed through bars on the report page, on chrome anyway.

Not broke but just a couple of quick questions. I mentioned them on IRC, but just in case they were missed:
Are we going to have the Ban Request Template for Pol Outside of /Pol again? Especially as we get closer to the elections more Politic topics are leaking onto other boards they don't usually do.

Also not as important but can we eventually get the Ban Template for /2-Yaoi actually get corrected to /2-Off Topic (Yaoi) like on the other boards. I don't know if this is just a quick fix, but don't worry about it if it's more trouble than its worth.

Not actually anything 4chan can fix, but is Rizon kill? I can't connect to the channel.

>>5683
no it's good. Have you changed your password yet?

>>5683
Rizon's pretty shit, so it goes down regularly. Usually only one server goes down so about a quarter of the users get booted randomly.

>>5683
>>5684
>>5685

error i havent seen before

>>5690
from what i've heard, https doesn't work on the is.xxx.org domain. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>5691
not with that attitude

>>5690
i'm also getting periodic caching issues.

>>5694
This is somehow way more amusing since your image is bringing up a 404 error for me.

>>5694
https://i.4cdn.org/j/yq7znql16f/1478310616270.png

/j/ has special eyes

Was wondering if we could get a Ban Template for Duplicate Threads. Maily for the people who start threads without checking the catalog, first which I don't consider spamming. Maybe with like the Quality of Posts, it could just be a "Warn" offense. Thanks!

I can't open any images on /j/. The OP of this thread, https://is.4chan.org/j/1359627936383.jpg, links me to a 404.

>>5867
https://i.4cdn.org/j/yq7znql16f/1359627936383.jpg

Basically take "https://i.4cdn.org/j/yq7znql16f/" and then add the image you want to view to the end.

/j/ is weird

So apparently since4pass doesn't work when I'm logged in as a janitor.

>>6300
Cuz being a Janitor isn't the same as having a 4chan pass. Gotta pay for that clover, friend.

>>6308
I think he means it wont display his pass that he has purchased while he is logged in.

>>6309
This is indeed what I mean. Trying since4pass on this thread.

>>6323
since4pass doesn't work in /j/ since the names/capcodes here are special, but you're right. it doesn't work for janitors who have bought a pass and try to use it when logged in to their janny creds.

Just a little peev I have but I hate how if a thread is 404'd by staff, or if it falls off on /b/, /bant/, or /f/, that it disappears from your Thread Watcher after you refresh it twice. Quite often it refreshes twice automatically before you have a chance to see which thread 404'd. I like to check on third party archives for any other replies, but I forget which thread it was in and have to search for keywords from it that I remember.

>>6467
If we 404 a thread it probably means that for whatever reason we didn't want users to see it.

>>6468
I can understand that, since I rarely post in threads that get 404'd, but I do post on /f/ once in a while which frustrates me.

>>2103 (OP)
welp

Tiny bug report for the reports queue:
(I'm not sure if this extends to all archived posts or just archived illegal posts)

The cleared queue will display the cleared 3-or-more illegal reports from all boards. The ban request button is still displayed on these posts, even if they're archived. Clicking the ban request button on an archived illegal post will inform you that the post doesn't exist anymore.

>>2103 (OP)
Pretty minor, but threads little/no OP text and no replies can have the bottom ad banner overlap OP's image in some window sizes.

>>6732
>not having adblock
???

>>6737
Plz support 4chins by turning off adblock. Nobody will pay to have their product on our favorite cantoneese underwaterwater basket weaving forum, so it's already hard for newmoot to keep the site afloat. At least give them their .01 cents per page view.

>>6738
https://www.4chan.org/donate

>If you are deleting or ban requesting threads, you must be present in the IRC channel!
We Discord now though.

>>6739
how long has that been up anyway?

>>6754
Miracles are real, and dreams do come true.

>>6766
Have a weird glitch where there's a report in my que with no content.

The report leads to post >>>/tv/104156499 (which shows at 404 for me)
The "BR" button gives the error "that post has already been cleared".
The report stays there even after hitting "Refresh".
Report shows as "1" report on the "Janitor Tools".

Tried logging out of the site, relaunching browser, clearing cache, cookies, active logins, forms, and offline website data it's still there.

I'm using Firefox Quantum 62.2.2 (64-bit) on desktop.

Thread Watcher isn't turning italic anymore when you get a (You). Been like this since the domain switch.

Firefox broken for anyone else? I can log onto /j/ and go into the report queue but on the boards themselves my janitor tools don't pop up. Janitor settings aren't even in the settings menu on normal boards.

I completely cleared all cookies and cache in FF with CCleaner but the janitor machine still roke

>>6927
it's from the 4channel domain most likely, you should have gotten instructions by e-mail on how to fix it

Why does this happen, I like living on the edge but this is too much

I've been noticing that my settings (Janitor and general) are being reset very frequently. This was happening prior to the https switchover, and continues to happen now as well. I lose my thread watcher, inline quote links, and a variety of other settings randomly when I refresh a page, change pages, etc. Janitor settings seem to stick a little better. The issue persists across different browsers. At least one other Janitor was experiencing the same issue, but we haven't been able to figure it out. Is this a known bug or am I an idiot?

>>7320
You're noot alone with that one.
Happens to me too, sometimes I can go days with the settings saved, others, it resets almost every hour. Started maybe 2 or 3 weeks back.

>>7320
Going to update this to note that even if I bookmark pages with my 4chan settings URL, the settings don't work when loaded via the bookmark. I have to go into settings and manually update everything again. It's sporadic, but I have to do it at least 4-5 times a day.

I was able to reproduce the issue reliably, though theres likely multiple other issues as well.

enable thread watcher on catalogue page
move the thread watcher anywhere but the default location
the catalogue forces itself to drop down navigation and removes the thread watcher, all settings get reset.

For me following settings keep getting unticked couple of times per day, sometimes even hourly:

Auto-update by default
Show all boards
Don't spoiler images
Linkify URLs
Use icon buttons
Reduce auto-update delay

Previously it also unticked Always use HTTPS, but since that's now the default it stays ticked.

>>7334
Very glad to hear I'm not losing my mind
>>7335
This is exactly what I'm experiencing.

What browser(s) is everyone using? I think it may be a cross-platform issue but it might be good info to provide. I'm on (Chromium) Edge 80.0.361.109, this has persisted across several recent updates.

Reeee catalog for /j/ when?

>>7336
I don't believe it to be a cross-platform issue since I use firefox 74.0

the way the location of the thread watcher window is stored between pages and refreshes is what strikes me as the most likely culprit, but whether that location data is simply causing an error that rebuilds from the default or causing an overflow I'm not sure without seeing the code

>>7336
Latest Chrome Beta 81 and Firefox 74. I get the same issue with both browsers that I described in >>7335

I think I figured out what causes the refresh of Janitor and other User-Preference Settings.
Whenever a particular version of any board's catalog is visited with the mobile version of the board navigator (see pic related), it will refresh all the settings for whatever reason.
Generally, this version of the board navigator should ONLY appear whenever the user agent is set to a mobile browser, however, for whatever reason, sometimes, it may occasionally appear on desktop browsers as well.

>>7342
I've seen it pop up quite a few times on my end, never really put two and two together in regards to the settings refreshing.

>>7342
I don't use mobile, as I described above this board selector will happen when you move the thread watcher on the catalogue page.

>>7344
It doesn't matter if you're using mobile or not, for whatever reason it'll pop up on desktop at random. I still can't pinpoint exactly why or how it happens, it feels arbitrary.

>>7344
As it turns out, you are right. Moving around the Janitor Tools IS what causes the board selector to turn into the mobile/dropdown version, at least on desktop. Not only that, but clicking the refresh button on the Janitor Tools also causes it to move slightly, therefore also triggering the dropdown board navigator. If it refreshes/expands, it might also cause it to move slightly. I believe the exact same things I mentioned with the Janitor Tools also applies to the Thread Watcher as well. All my tests are consistent with triggering this. I still don't know why the dropdown navigator causes a complete refresh of user settings though, it might have something to do with the catalog and thread/board settings being completely different.

>>7346
More tests, while being logged out of the system (ie not having access to the janitor settings), moving from the default board navigator to the drop down navigator temporarily loads up the default settings before loading up the user's preferred settings. I think it doesn't know what to do with the extra janitor settings to it just sticks with the default settings.