New line issue. get multiple characters (Android)

Heedtheadvice

What I did:

Answanswer to posts ( er, here is a good example as it happened!!) Starts with duplication of entered text!

DDoh !

What Should happen:

Answer no duplication

What happened:

Answer See above entry!

Why it matters:

Answer very annoying

Device/Browser:

Answer Android phone using Firefox mobile.

PennysIntoPounds

What I did:

TrTrued To write Ta @ someone's username and it came out as Ta @beabean

This happens constantly

I'm leaving the forum's auto formatting in the above as I tried to write this too

What Should happen:

IIt Shouldn't insert extra letters or capitals where they weren't put

AAs above

(forum overwrote the 'What happened' title when I backspaced despite it only should have gone back one line- so the double spacing issue we raised in the main thread is not just that issue but seems like the coding doesn't recognise its own double spacing? Regardless it should only have deleted one letter, not the whole line)

Why it matters:

People are likely to not notice they're not tagging effectively, it is time consuming to constantly correct, and makes the site seem unprofessional

Device/Browser:

AnAndroid (Forum formatting) and chrome

MSE_Stephen

Sorry @PennysIntoPounds, I'm having difficulty understanding your post. Could you go into more detail.

@masonic, I think a part of the problem you mention is due to us having members with certain usernames.

That there is a user with the name 'mse' is confusing the system when you type mse_stephen.
That username, and some similar legacy usernames, would probably be better removed as they could confuse our members anyway. So we'll work towards doing that with our members and it'll help with at least that issue. Thread split

PennysIntoPounds

Hi @msmse_stephen

@mse_Stephen when I @ someone the forum repeats the first couple of letters of their name like above

PennysIntoPounds

Just to add, when writing a reply to someone's thread, it also does that annoying adding in repeated letters thing most but not all of the time

(Just writing straight into text box without any symbols or pasting from elsewhere etc)

Sorry for not highlighting that before

MSE_Stephen

@PennysIntoPounds @Heedtheadvice - I've merged these threads.

Our provider has been unable to replicate this issue..

Could you please provide more details about the specific Android devices and browsers where this issue is occurring? 

PennysIntoPounds

Hi @MSE_Stephen its doing it on Samsung galaxy android with ie browser

eskbanker

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81880349#Comment_81880349

"ie" as in ye olde long-since-unsupported Internet Explorer?

PennysIntoPounds

Please stop snarkily responding to my posts @eskbanker. I'm sorry everyone isn't as clever as you, I'm trying my best

@mmse

@MSE_Stephen asked what browsers it wasn't working on, I had previously said chrome, I added IE as that was what I thought I was currently on

However I was mistaken and having just looked it up I came here to correct to- the main one I use is the Samsung Browser which all the faults I've reported are occurring in, I've just looked up the detail and apparently it's Samsung browser 29 if that means anything to the server team

eskbanker

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81880402#Comment_81880402

Not aware of any snarky responses - I was just surprised to see reference to an old outdated browser, and obviously a quick and easy resolution to problems when using that would be to stick to modern ones instead! Clearly the more accurate information that can be supplied to the forum team the better, so that they have improved prospects of being able to reproduce, identify and ultimately fix technical issues, so hopefully your correction will avoid a wild goose chase…