A thread to list and discuss the minor updates and bug fixes to Drone Scene that don’t warrant a thread of their own.
Minor bug fix rolled out today.
@Flitwick-David reported that the links in the co-ordinates and what3words link in the info balloon on the map were no longer working.
They are now 
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Hotfix patch applied today for the bug that @D0c.Col and @Kirky reported whereby location marker pins won’t stay open if they have large amounts of text in them.
They stay open now and will offer a “…more info?” link inside the popup balloon.
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Hotfix applied this morning for Safari browsers.
When changing the basemap or turning layers on and off they weren’t being saved against your profile:
Which meant that next time you visited Drone Scene it couldn’t display the last layer-selections that you’d made.
Sorry Safari users, fixed now.
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@PingSpike - Minor formatting bug in listing of the “Where to fly your drone” category.
Not sure if you know?
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Yes, it looks like the code for the listing is using:
listing = title + region
When it should just be title, as it already had been appended with region 
Discourse knows nothing about regions. That is only a value within DS.
Once posted by DS to Discourse the topic title is the only thing that Discourse can see … and, within each topic, the title is correct.
A lot of Discourse updates were made on Saturday … and probably relates.
Indeed - that “duplication” end of the “title” in the #where-to-fly-your-drone-in-the-uk listing isn’t even clickable.
Even in default home page format … (I use “Latest”) …
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Probably a Moiré … 
Yes, it is not inside the anchor element.
<span class="link-top-line">
<a href="/t/bucklers-forest-fire-tower-added-to-everything-else-in-south-east/58925/1" role="heading" aria-level="2" class="title raw-link raw-topic-link" data-topic-id="58925">Bucklers Forest Fire Tower - Added to Everything Else in South East</a>
South East </span>
This last line shouldn’t have ‘South East’ after the anchor and before the closing span.
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That’ll be Discourse.
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Also confirming it’s a Discourse bug are really old posts across from DS that display the duplication … and nothing has happened (DS-wise) with those posts in ages.
Only #where-to-fly-your-drone-in-the-uk posts … perhaps related to the long category name.
It’s above my paygrade to change category titles. 
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I know. I looked back to 2020, and saw the same.
That said, if the underlying code has changed, Dave, even in a recent update - then it will apply the same formatting to all posts … irrespective of date.
P.S. just pointing it out in case Rich is unaware.
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Precisely. And there were a shit load of updates to Discourse on Saturday.
The Discourse data for those posts is totally unchanged … since in ages.
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Thanks for the heads up Chris @clinkadink - I hadn’t actually noticed it myself.
As Dave suggests, it’s a Discourse problem that came in with the updates at the weekend. Or more specifically, it’s a bug in the “Locations” plugin that we use on the forum, which was also updated during the downtime on Saturday.
The plugin author is aware of the issue, seems a few people have reported it to them, but sadly no planned fix date has been provided as yet 
@clinkadink @milkmanchris this display / formatting issue has now been resolved
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A couple of months ago @amitlathia posted a feature request:
The ability to search the Drone Scene map by point-of-interest name went live today.
Eg:
Hope it helps!
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Couple of minor updates rolled to Drone Scene today.
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Updated the /about page for National Trust
– It was still referencing the old “open access” and “closed access” map layers that we updated and replaced last month
– Added a reminder that while National Trust don’t permit TOAL, it is still legal to fly over their land
– More at: https://dronescene.co.uk/about#NationalTrust -
Moved the
The Drone and Model Aircraft Codelink to its own section on the /about page
– It was just a link straight to CAA web site
– There’s now a little preamble, and a link to CAA from there
– More at: https://dronescene.co.uk/about#DroneCode -
Removed the Date of Birth requirement from all user profiles
– Requested by @Bazandsara and @gaz
– We used to ask for your DOB on your profile before you could become a member
— (Because you need to be 18 or over to become a member of GADC)
– We have now replaced the DOB requirement with a simple tick box which asks you to confirm you are 18 or over
– We have deleted the entireDate Of Birthcolumn from the database
— Thereby also permanently deleting any of your associated personal information
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Oh, no birthday card this year then?
I lied about my birthday anyway 