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text missing from left margin

Devor

Fiery Keeper of the Hat
Moderator
What browser are you using? On a phone or a computer?

My first thought is that it sounds like part of your phone screen may be having a display problem. Do the spots look like the site's background or something else?
 

Devor

Fiery Keeper of the Hat
Moderator
Ohh shoot, I just saw it happen to me. The spot looked like maybe three characters of text wasn't displayed, it moved with the scrollbar, and I even went in on the edit of the post to make sure the text was originally typed.

I have no idea what would cause that. :sorry:
 

Devor

Fiery Keeper of the Hat
Moderator
No, wait, I know what it is.

For some reason it's displaying the leftside swipe arrow that you would see on a phone. I saw it when I highlighted the text. So it's mixing up the phone/non-phone settings. It has to go back to the hosting software and is probably about an update gone wrong or something, although I have no specific information on that.
 

Heliotrope

Staff
Article Team
What browser are you using? On a phone or a computer?

My first thought is that it sounds like part of your phone screen may be having a display problem. Do the spots look like the site's background or something else?

I thought that, but it doesn't happen on any other site. I visited other forums I'm on and they don't have the missing text.
 

Heliotrope

Staff
Article Team
No, wait, I know what it is.

For some reason it's displaying the leftside swipe arrow that you would see on a phone. I saw it when I highlighted the text. So it's mixing up the phone/non-phone settings. It has to go back to the hosting software and is probably about an update gone wrong or something, although I have no specific information on that.

Yay! I'm glad you saw it too :) So I'm not crazy?
 

Devor

Fiery Keeper of the Hat
Moderator
Yay! I'm glad you saw it too :) So I'm not crazy?

You're not crazy. It was only the one thread though and it stopped for me, but I assume it's one of those things that'll come and go.

I'm sure Black Dragon will look into it soon.
 

Devor

Fiery Keeper of the Hat
Moderator
It's been very intermittent, although it has happened this morning. I'll screenshot it if it happens again.
 

Devor

Fiery Keeper of the Hat
Moderator
I'm in Chrome on a PC. What Heliotrope posted is exactly what I see. It only shows up once in a while. It's clearly some kind of swipe-left / click left arrow - it's unmistakable if you highlight the area around the text.
 

Black Dragon

Staff
Administrator
When did you first encounter this? If I can pinpoint when the problem started, I can see if it coincided with a software update.
 

Black Dragon

Staff
Administrator
Hmm... I don't see any updates from that time. I'm having a hard time getting to the bottom of this, and I'm unable to recreate the problem. I'll keep investigating.
 

Heliotrope

Staff
Article Team
I just logged in using Chrome and it was fine. No issues at all. But Devor said he did see it using Chrome, so who knows?
 
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