More Fixes for Opera Mini Users

Opera Mini is the hardest browser I've ever had to code for. It sits right up there with Internet Explorer 6 and it in fact might be the king of "browsers that do weird for similarly strange reasons". This can readily be evidenced by the fact that if you visit the site using Opera Mini and you use any theme other than the Opera Mini Theme, all of the icons are converted into Chinese characters for no discernable reason I can think of. Hence why the Opera Mini Theme is devoid of icons (in case you ever wondered).

Anyway, for two months I've been trying to fix a bug in Opera Mini where clicking on any link doesn't actually do anything but refresh the page. It sounds underwhelming until you realize that some Opera Mini users couldn't go anywhere other than where they landed! Trying to figure out what makes a link do that when it works in every other browser was like trying to figure out why people still talk about Justin Bieber - tediously mind-numbing and agonizingly painful.

What I had to do was remove code from the site piece by piece until the links finally worked in Opera Mini. Each time I made a small change, I had to refresh Opera Mini on my phone which took a really long time to load (because that was the bug) so it took an equally long time to check the result. Turned out to be some small piece of Javascript that did some async calls that I guess, Opera Mini couldn't handle. I took it out for users of Opera Mini and the Opera Mini Theme so if you fall under either of those categories, not only should the links work, but the site pages should load much faster for you now! (sorry, the Bieber mystery remains unsolved)

There are still a few things that I recognize to be broken. Chief among them is the tag search form in the tags section. I'm going to fix that as soon as I figure out which browsers it's broken for (I know Opera Mini is one of them but I think there are others). If the tag search form doesn't work for you at all, let me know what browser you're using and whether you're on a mobile device or PC in the comments below!

Happy Friday!

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mailoony #1 Oct 22, 2014 11:00:33

Woah ! Thank you so much ! I'm using Opera Mini on my phone and this really helps . :)

gandangjane07 #2 Oct 15, 2014 04:00:16

Thank you for fixing it!!! ill been using opera mini~ and i always prefer the old theme but it good now! thanks~! I salute you for knowing where is wrong in javascript! Awesome!

canonship91 #3 Oct 13, 2014 12:00:24

Bieber mistery? Lol what did i miss? Hahaha

daggerisms #4 Oct 12, 2014 00:56:54

Bieber mystery...more like Bieber tragedy thank you, I'd take Jesse McCartney over him any day tbh

Touchstone #5 Oct 11, 2014 13:42:10

I was thinking...
See, u do all the things needed,to fix the every problem of this site, killing YOUR OWN PRECIOUS TIME n we just sit here n enjoy. Wow! N i thougt too, What if that someday u'l get tired n suddenly leave all these? :O i pray not to happen this ever! Like never!

Haeteuk_Luv #6 Oct 11, 2014 09:25:33

so that's why those chinese character showed up.. i mostly visit through opera mini from my phone.

thank you!! i don't understand chinese, so before i used to just go to my profile first.

and hve a great weekend for you too :)

-natsukim #7 Oct 11, 2014 00:41:07

thanks for your hard work, boss :D

viweivi #8 Oct 11, 2014 00:02:51

Thanks for your hard work.. :D

renprix #9 Oct 10, 2014 23:44:39

thanks for your hard work. I've been really wondering about that too. Well, maybe because opera mini works like the ancient browser. Lmao hihi

amusuk #10 Oct 10, 2014 22:21:43

Thank you for your hard work Boss! >.<

dream_keeper88 #11 Oct 10, 2014 20:42:55

LOL @the JB analogy. But thanks for giving it to us in layman's terms. It couldn't be any clearer than that.
Thanks :3

amanohashidate #12 Oct 10, 2014 20:34:28

I quit opera mini months ago. Chrome n other browser are much more friendlier. So your patience to remove one by one of every piece is... *speechless*
Thank you so much.

Um.. I've asked his on Aff helper acc wall a while ago n got no reply yet (they are oo busy or me too long taking break from aff) lol.
Can anyone enlighten me why fics in invitation only setting automatically set in unlisted mode as well? My earlier invit only fic was still listed on the tag section but the rest go to author's section.

Just wondering. ^^

adamkyung #13 Oct 10, 2014 20:26:26

Hey Nichiren~! ^^ i just wanna say that i have a problem on blog post. I cannot write in the blog box as it will refresh the page. I'm an Opera Mini user btw. I don't know if other user have the same problem as i am.

I think that's it hehe :3 thanks for reading my comment :)