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Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Where is this term popular? I have never, ever heard this term before.

It's a US military term; I've never heard it outside of a military context, but it's super common within a military context.

It shows up a lot outside of military contexts when flat rate shipping is involved - it's usually CONUS-only.

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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These are the people who in real life say “Jan” instead of “January.”

I literally just had a PM tell me "we will talk about that 'tom'". It left me confused for a few seconds. Is it really that hard to use a couple more syllables?

“My name is not Tom”

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Excludes Hawaii, and Alaska (+ all other non state islands/territories)

Continental includes Alaska, as it's on the same continent, but contiguous does not.

So that would be CONUS instead of CONUS?

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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They really, really don't want you using old.reddit.com Doesn't reproduce for me btw. I also have the setting disabled that adds a period when typing a space twice, if that matters.

I use my phone as little as possible, I just realized the only 2 things I type into my mobile browser (currently safari) on a regular basis are new(s.ycombinator.com) and old(.reddit.com). Never put that together before, it's been like a decade. I wasn't able to reproduce the bug.

Try Narwhal for Reddit on iOS. It’s a very good experience.

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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They really, really don't want you using old.reddit.com Doesn't reproduce for me btw. I also have the setting disabled that adds a period when typing a space twice, if that matters.

Cease your investigations into this conspiracy theory immediately. We must not anger the new reddit designers

They have designers?

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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are you trolling? type it into the search bar and it does crash

They're not trolling. I typed it into the search bar. Safari didn't crash. Is the person who wrote the tweet trolling? Probably not either. But what type of iOS device do they have? Which version of iOS are they running? Which language and locale? Those things matter. Other things that apparently shouldn't matter might matter as well: other apps installed or running, notification configuration, how many tabs they hav…

It's not the user's job to figure out that it only happens in Florida on Tuesdays. They may not even be able to change all the relevant variables.

Apple developers should look at the stack trace that should either be sent automatically when it crashes (if privacy settings allow), or with a problem report sent from the device.

If this is a widespread issue, devs should have already gotten an automated alert.

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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"CONUS" is short for "CONtinental United States"

Where is this term popular? I have never, ever heard this term before.

It’s popular with people who work for the USG. United States Government.

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Is old.reddit.com very unstable for everyone else in safari or just me? On my past 3 iphones through multiple iOS versions I can't browse for more than 10 minutes without eventually hanging/crashing safari. It seems to happen most frequently after browsing posts with images

New Reddit it like that. Page randomly resets no matter what you’re doing. Dumps you back at the top and asks if you want to install the app. They are desperate about getting you to download their app.

To the point where it feels like they have pretty obviously intentionally gimped the mobile website to drive you to the app - which just makes me way less likely to install it. Page loads take absolutely forever, videos almost never work first try, their image galleries are essentially unusable... None of these are issues on desktop web (on the same network).
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