Not a bug Quick Insert '+' button does not work on Android phone (Chrome)

[marquisite]

Affected version

XF 2.2

The new Quick Insert menu does not open on my Android-based phone. When clicking the QI '+' button, the button just disappears.

Browser: Samsung Internet Browser 11 (Chrome 75)
OS: Android 9

A couple of other XenForo users have flagged this issue in the Welcome to XF 2.2 HYS thread:

Is the Quick Insert button able to be disabled?

Clicking on it does nothing (android/chome)

I was wondering the same thing because the quick insert button doesn't work in mobile Chrome. A bug perhaps?

 

[Karelke]

Same here. The button doesn't do anything when I click on it.

Nokia 8.1 with Android 10 and Chrome browser.

 

[johnny82]

Idem, the button disappears and the keyboard does the same because the editor looses the focus.

Honor 10 - Android 9 - Chrome 83

 

[johnny82]

It seems like if I kinda swipe on the + button, it works

 

[Mendalla]

It seems like if I kinda swipe on the + button, it works

Same. Tap just makes it disappear, but a little swipe opens it.

 

[kick]

Samsung Internet 11.2.2.3

 

[marquisite]

Swiping right does seem to activate the QI menu, interesting. Another method that seems to (sometimes?) work is to:

1. Type one or two random characters
2. Erase those random characters
3. Tap QI '+' button

 

[Chromaniac]

Exact behavior as #7 on stable Chrome on Android.

 

[Neutral Singh]

Ditto

 

[Kevin]

I think it's worked one time for me on my phone, must've been a fluke.

On desktop it's an... interesting... UX design choice, on mobile it's something that's going to lead to user complaints & questions from our users to the point that it'll be easier to just disable it instead of dealing with it.

 

[beerForo]

I only knew you could swipe it open from this post. I tried to click on a phone and it dismissed it. It is not intuitive.

 

[Chromaniac]

right. i am not even sure if swiping is the designed behavior. now i think it is... i only have access to android devices so not sure how it behaves on ios browsers.

personally, i see a lot of value in the floating toolbar on desktops. while writing long posts, it let you access the major formatting components where your cursor is. on mobile, i am not so sure. though i guess floating toolbar made sense if xenforo editor had a (distraction free) fullscreen mode like CMS systems. that functionality does make sense considering we would have article threads in 2.2.

 

[Chris D]

We fixed it! By removing it.

Quick insert is no more.

Pay your respects here:

XF 2.2 - A few more things...

Today marks the day when the alpha stage of XenForo 2.2 comes to an end and we mark that occasion by unleashing the first public beta. Look out for an announcement on that shortly. Before that, however, we wanted to highlight a few more things that we've been working on over the last couple of...

xenforo.com

 

[Joe Link]

We fixed it! By removing it.

Quick insert is no more.

Pay your respects here:

XF 2.2 - A few more things...

Today marks the day when the alpha stage of XenForo 2.2 comes to an end and we mark that occasion by unleashing the first public beta. Look out for an announcement on that shortly. Before that, however, we wanted to highlight a few more things that we've been working on over the last couple of...

xenforo.com

@Chris D

You guys should remove this post, or at least edit to note the change. Many of us are just now digging into this new stuff as we're getting closer to a stable release. I spent a good 20 minutes trying to figure out why it's not working

 

[btmgreg]

Definitely agree. Don't advertise a HYS feature that no longer exists. Warnings about content changing doesn't apply to those who wish to ignore ;D