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Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by atribecalledqst »

dbatten wrote: post #33

True story: One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. I was trying to log back in from the Windows lock screen. Typed my password, got it wrong. Typed it again, got it wrong. Eventually got locked out of my account, despite being extremely careful to type my password correctly. Went to IT and had them unlock my account... Went back to my PC and tried to log in again. Typed my password very carefully, letter…

You can get into a similar state on MacOS by pressing a key multiple times in a row (option I think). It just quietly disables a large number of keys. I figured it out by accident one day because I assigned the key as my "push to talk" on Discord. That was a fun hour trying to figure out what had happened.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by dEnigma »

Intermernet wrote: post #34
dbatten wrote: post #33

True story: One day, Windows wouldn't let me type the letter p. I was trying to log back in from the Windows lock screen. Typed my password, got it wrong. Typed it again, got it wrong. Eventually got locked out of my account, despite being extremely careful to type my password correctly. Went to IT and had them unlock my account... Went back to my PC and tried to log in again. Typed my password very carefully, letter…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOP_(code)

Okay, I've never thought of NOP as "no 'P'", so this caught me completely by surprise and made me laugh out loud.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by smoldesu »

Steltek wrote: post #30
smcl wrote: post #22

These hotkeys in websites are an utter curse. So many times I've started typing in Jira, then something weird happened that caused my keystrokes to be interpreted by the page instead of entered into a comment box ... then the ticket gets reopened, unassigned, etc.

(I feel like we jumped topics from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28597895 ) JIRA's Search is far worse than the regular JIRA hotkeys. The Enter key will incorrectly tab-complete JQL just before executing the search. Meanwhile, the Tab key doesn't tab-complete and instead focuses the Search button (which lets you execute the uncorrupted JQL). You have to actively train yourself out of how everything else works…

> Every ticket tracking system sucks. Trello was the closest thing to joy.

Absolutely this. I grew up working on an FRC team that used Trello, and I think we got more done as high-schoolers than most modern Agile teams could.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by mjevans »

pjc50 wrote: post #35
smcl wrote: post #22

These hotkeys in websites are an utter curse. So many times I've started typing in Jira, then something weird happened that caused my keystrokes to be interpreted by the page instead of entered into a comment box ... then the ticket gets reopened, unassigned, etc.

So many times I've started typing in bash, and then realised that my focus has been on a website instead, which starts doing some ridiculous stuff in response. There's no way to discover hotkey functionality otherwise, of course, because "thou shalt not discover" is a modern UX guideline.

Underlined hotkeys for menu context and for thought to be hot-path actions dedicated keyboard combinations outside of the menus.

Aside from auto-complete searchbars, I think UI functionality peeked in the mid to late 1990s.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by jdofaz »

bombcar wrote: post #17
znpy wrote: post #3

I cannot help but wonder, why does this person still spends their time on tumblr if they dislike it so much? Just move somewhere else.

A dying social media platform can be as good as a new one - the incentive for spammers et Al doesn’t exist and neither do many trolls (no audience) so the remaining group can be a good cross-section.

For me google+ was like that for a while towards the end, but eventually there was a resurgence of trolls posting hate speech that drove me away.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by asdfasgasdgasdg »

I wonder if it's a bad interaction between one of this person's extensions and Tumblr. Presumably if this were a problem for everyone, new blot posts would have cratered and Tumblr's SRE would have been notified and any recent releases would have been rolled back. So I would assume this issue affects only a small fraction of users. Could be wrong but I guess we will see.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

alfonsodev wrote: post #9

> So you are typing "Don't" and the ResetCursorPosition() function gets called and you look at the textbox and now it says "on'tD" I had this bug trying to implement a text editor using Draft.js but not sure it was for the same reason. I guess tumblr devs tried to implement a text editor and at the same time have some vim like shortcuts(jkl). This makes you appreciate how less can be more.

Why not just let a text area do its job? Why do you need a special "text editor"?

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by SilasX »

awiesenhofer wrote: post #11
alfonsodev wrote: post #9

> So you are typing "Don't" and the ResetCursorPosition() function gets called and you look at the textbox and now it says "on'tD" I had this bug trying to implement a text editor using Draft.js but not sure it was for the same reason. I guess tumblr devs tried to implement a text editor and at the same time have some vim like shortcuts(jkl). This makes you appreciate how less can be more.

That's what that was! I experienced this behavior for years writing posts or comments on facebooks mobile site, helped me a lot to wean myself of that one.

Yes! I had something like that and it was so frustrating I wrote a post (on FB, sigh) about it, looks like it was August 10.

I had written a comment with multiple paragraphs (which I guess they don't expect people to do, or test for) and I wanted to add something to the next-to-last paragraph, and when I tried to type "matters" it would keep locking me in autocomplete tagging for friends name "Matthew", and as soon as I dismissed the cursor would leap to the end of the comment. If I tried to click back, the cursor kept jumping to the end!

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