Centered scene breaks fixed.

[RejectReality]

Because it might get missed in the control panel update thread, anyone who had issues with the centered scene breaks vanishing on page 2+ should check, because it appears this bug has finally been stomped out.

 

[TheLobster]

It's a great thing that March has 31 days.

 

[IWroteThis]

I just checked my latest story and the problem persists.

 

[old_prof]

Same for me. Still broken.

 

[RejectReality]

I'm seeing centered scene breaks on multiple works from both of you past page 2. Try clearing your cache.

 

[old_prof]

I'm seeing centered scene breaks on multiple works from both of you past page 2. Try clearing your cache.

I still see it reliably on my test case: Can you to page 2 of Mistress Natasha? There should be a scene break three paragraphs in. (It's there if I refresh the page.)

 

[RejectReality]

I still see it reliably on my test case: Can you to page 2 of Mistress Natasha? There should be a scene break three paragraphs in. (It's there if I refresh the page.)

Yep. Checked in chrome, firefox, and Opera ( which I don't think I've ever viewed a Lit story with previously ) Started on page 1, clicked the link to page 2, and the scene break is there. No refreshes.

 

[SimonDoom]

I still see it reliably on my test case: Can you to page 2 of Mistress Natasha? There should be a scene break three paragraphs in. (It's there if I refresh the page.)

It's centered for me, too.

 

[TheLobster]

It's centered for me, too.

Same for me on Chrome on iPad.

@old_prof Ctrl/Cmd+F5 to fully reload the page and expunge old JS. It was a client side issue so you need to make sure you get the new client side code (because, you know, you can’t expect this site to use one of the myriad ways to bust browser caches…).

 

[RejectReality]

Yep. Checked in chrome, firefox, and Opera ( which I don't think I've ever viewed a Lit story with previously ) Started on page 1, clicked the link to page 2, and the scene break is there. No refreshes.

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ETA: Just checked on mobile, and I'm still seeing the bug there. Let me try dumping the cache...

No dice.

There may still be an issue on the mobile version of the pages. Tried viewing the page in landscape and portrait, because it sometimes makes a difference. No scene break either way without a refresh.

 

[sijopunk]

I still see it reliably on my test case: Can you to page 2 of Mistress Natasha? There should be a scene break three paragraphs in. (It's there if I refresh the page.)

I see no scene break on page 2 in both Chrome and Firefox in incognito mode on a Mac laptop (so no cached JS). When I refresh, I do. That's consistent (if I close the tab and reopen it, the same thing happens ... I don't see the scene break and I do when I refresh).

I also tried, in the same tab, going back to page 1 and then forward to page 2 using the page navigation, and got the same result as the first time (no scene break, refresh, scene break) (both browsers). That's not symptomatic of "cached JS" because it should stay fixed once it has the new code.

Good luck to Manu on fixing this one. Working on cross browser UI bugs would make an excellent criminal sentence for a non-capital felony.

 

[TheLobster]

Checked Chrome and Firefox on Windows and the bug is still there, contrary to what @RejectReality reported earlier.

I'm beginning to think we might be watching the first instance of staged feature rollout and we're in different buckets, but that would be... shocking, to say the least (not in a bad way, mind you).

 

[MrPixel]

I still see it reliably on my test case: Can you to page 2 of Mistress Natasha? There should be a scene break three paragraphs in. (It's there if I refresh the page.)

Separators were there for me on pages > 1 on first try, but then they weren't. Browser is MacOS Vivaldi (a Chrome branch). Did the same thing with DuckDuckGo. Trying Safari... still broken. SeaMonkey... centered text works, although there are other display bugs. Firefox - broken.

Tried one of my own again under Vivaldi... gawd... some there, some not. [Bangs head against keyboard.] One of my pre-retirement job functions was deployment QA and documenting issues for the development group. This is a nightmare. Intermittents and inconsistents are the absolute worst to chase down.

Bottom line? NOT FIXED, just broken in a stranger way.

 

[RejectReality]

Booted up Edge on desktop, and no need to refresh to get the scene break there either.

I've got the scene break in every browser on desktop, and none on mobile.

 

[old_prof]

Tried one of my own again under Vivaldi... gawd... some there, some not. [Bangs head against keyboard.] One of my pre-retirement job functions was deployment QA and documenting issues for the development group. This is a nightmare. Intermittents and inconsistents are the absolute worst to chase down.

I've always seem intermittent failures across a page. Any individual one is consistent, but I never saw a rationale why one would fail and would wouldn't.
I will give Manu credit that this bug is non-trivial to fix, but I suspect that it's a reflection of how convoluted the code base is at this point in time.

 

[yowser]

Certainly something is in effect. A story I'm reviewing now has breaks fixed as well as some wonky italic rendering straightened out.

 

[RejectReality]

No luck on Ipad in Safari either. Weird thing is, I can see the scene breaks on page 3+ of the story without a refresh, regardless of browser or device. Was this particular scene break a special problem, and all the others always worked?

 

[Bamagan]

Perhaps at this point we can entertain the idea that it's not a bug, but a feature. Designed to torment certain users.
Incidentally, it's still intermittent for me, using a chromium-based desktop browser (Brave) in private mode.

 

[MrPixel]

For me it was broken for every page > 1.

 

[SimonDoom]

I still see it reliably on my test case: Can you to page 2 of Mistress Natasha? There should be a scene break three paragraphs in. (It's there if I refresh the page.)

I double checked. The breaks are centered correctly throughout the entire story on both my desktop, using Edge, and on my Android-Samsung mobile phone.

 

[sijopunk]

I tried my same tests on Windows (incognito FF & Chrome), and see the same results as before (no scene break on page 2, refresh, scene break on page 2)

This is one of those bugs that you spend weeks looking for and it turns out to be an extra space somewhere.

 

[RejectReality]

On Old Prof's story, without a refresh on mobile, I get 0 scene breaks on Pg. 2, 3 on pg. 3, 1 on pag. 4, 0 on page 5, and 1 on page 6. ( Assuming I wasn't scrolling too fast and missed some. )

After refreshing page 2, I get the one scene break there in question, and everything else remains the same.

 

[old_prof]

I double checked. The breaks are centered correctly throughout the entire story on both my desktop, using Edge, and on my Android-Samsung mobile phone.

The breaks that show up have always been centered. The problem has always been that some of the breaks have disappeared until you refresh. But navigating away and back again makes them disappear once again.

There is one specific section break I have been using as my test (after the third paragraph on page 2 on Mistress Natasga). Are you saying you see that one now?

 

[SimonDoom]

The breaks that show up have always been centered. The problem has always been that some of the breaks have disappeared until you refresh. But navigating away and back again makes them disappear once again.

There is one specific section break I have been using as my test (after the third paragraph on page 2 on Mistress Natasga). Are you saying you see that one now?

OK. Are you referring to the place right before the paragraph that begins "When I come down to the restaurant . . . "? If so, there's no section break that appears there when I look at it.

 

[BeechLeaf]

The one RejectReality saw in #7, and gave a screenshot of: I also saw it in DuckDuckGo, straight off, no refresh needed.