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Magnifying Glass for Pictures Broken

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Currently, whenever I click on a picture, it obscures the rest of the page and I am unable to return to where I was reading. The escape key, refresh, and going to the previous page and back do not work. Sometimes there’s an x in the upper right corner that I can click, but most of the time it is not there. I suppose an easy solution would be to have the escape key close out of that popup, as of now it is the most aggravating feature on the site.

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Don’t click on the picture. Problem solved.

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TV’s Frink said:

Don’t click on the picture. Problem solved.

Ignoring the problem doesn’t solve the problem (plus sometimes I click on it by accident, immediately regretting it).

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Handman said:

TV’s Frink said:

Don’t click on the picture. Problem solved.

Ignoring the problem doesn’t solve the problem (plus sometimes I click on it by accident, immediately regretting it).

I agree with the second part of this post.

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just got hit by this issue.

cross.svg in upper right didn’t load
also noticed that the arrow-up-right.svg next to the image URL below the picture also did not load

Opening google chromes developer tools, and looking at the console shows these errors:
Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED cross.svg
Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED arrow-up-right.svg

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Further complaint about this whole picture thing. see this:

the zoom icon obscures the image. Do we really need a gaudy overlay telling us we can click on the image?

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I agree. I will never be able to watch that movie (?) again without thinking that the hammer is actually his pen.

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dahmage said:

Further complaint about this whole picture thing. see this:

the zoom icon obscures the image. Do we really need a gaudy overlay telling us we can click on the image?

Looks like it’s actually tastefully censoring it.

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I could make the icon background a mosaic reminiscent of Japanese porn.

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MTFBWY…A

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Jay said:

I could make the icon background a mosaic reminiscent of Japanese porn.

Thanks for the reminder that we are at your mercy.

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Jay said:

I could make the icon background a mosaic reminiscent of Japanese porn.

HansiG sock confirmed.

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Is that on desktop or mobile? I almost always visit on mobile and I don’t see any such thing on the image.

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Possessed said:

Is that on desktop or mobile? I almost always visit on mobile and I don’t see any such thing on the image.

Desktop only. Mobile doesn’t have the magnifying glass

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Which makes one wonder why it’s needed on desktop.

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Seriously though, I don’t think I’ve ever used the feature. And even if I had, I’m on another forum where you just click anywhere on the image to zoom and it works just fine.

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dahmage said:

Further complaint about this whole picture thing. see this:

Now that I know what this said, reported.

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If it’s a choice of one or the other, I choose the new version.