Bugs and Suggestions

Re: Spurious pre tag when entering code

phil.o29-Mar-20 12:47

phil.o

29-Mar-20 12:47

On pasting, normally you should see a frame where you can select between a few options:

The second option is the one which allows to automatically encode characters that could cause display issues.

"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."

Re: Spurious pre tag when entering code

Richard MacCutchan29-Mar-20 21:22

Richard MacCutchan

29-Mar-20 21:22

phil.o wrote:
Inside the pre tag, make sure to html escape <, > and & characters with their respective html-escape sequence <, > and &.

That is not necessary, since the whole point of the <pre> (and <code>) tag sequences is to ignore special characters that occur inside them.

Re: Spurious pre tag when entering code

phil.o29-Mar-20 22:16

phil.o

29-Mar-20 22:16

No, sorry. If you want to write something bold or italic inside the pre tag, you can, using <b> or <i> for example. Therefore the whole point of the pre tag is not to ignore specials characters; there is a small subset of html tags which can be used inside pre tags.

"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."

Re: Spurious pre tag when entering code

Richard MacCutchan29-Mar-20 22:56

Richard MacCutchan

29-Mar-20 22:56

You are correct, I forgot about the special cases.

Re: Spurious pre tag when entering code

Chris Maunder29-Mar-20 14:26

Chris Maunder

29-Mar-20 14:26

C++

#include <iostream>

void myfn(int **date, size_t len)
{
   for(size_t i = 0; i < len; ++i)
       *data[i] = 1 * 2;

   // blah blah blah
   // for(size_t i = 0; i < len; ++
}

I can't see to replicate the issue.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Comments in blog's moderation

phil.o28-Mar-20 21:09

phil.o

28-Mar-20 21:09

Contrary to articles and tricks, it is impossible to leave a comment on a moderated blog entry.
There is a blog entry with a typo in the title itself; I flagged with a format issue, but cannot explain why to the author.

"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."

Re: Comments in blog's moderation

Nelek28-Mar-20 22:13

Nelek

28-Mar-20 22:13

Problem is not new and they already know it, but I suppose that either it got down in the priority list or it is nastier than it looks and couldn't be solved yet.

M.D.V.

If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Search user

Nelek26-Mar-20 22:27

Nelek

26-Mar-20 22:27

I have been notified about a message that I supposed got deleted by the user himself, because there is nothing to find. I have the email notification so I know it is spam, but I can't find the user. I suppose he has got no other messages yet, so he can't be found searching by [Author: "24/7docs"]

Is there a way to directly search a user profile? I don't want to go to the "who is who" and navigate over thousands of pages to try to find him. I suppose he is relative new as most spammers, but is not the same to go through all newcomers of the day than to search for a specific one that might be one or two weeks old.

If no direct "user search" I think it could be a nice functionality for the S&A group.
Example: search for "*keto*", for "*baba*", for "*support*"... the usual suspects.

EDIT: Possible alternative: Link to the user profile in the notification? It already gives the link to reply to the concrete message. It could give the possibility to visit the profile of the author.

M.D.V.

modified 27-Mar-20 4:44am.

Re: Search user

Richard MacCutchan26-Mar-20 23:39

Richard MacCutchan

26-Mar-20 23:39

If you have the member's name from the email notification, you should be able to create the URL to their home page. For example I just added your name to https://www.codeproject.com/Members/ to get to your homepage: Nelek - Professional Profile[^].

Re: Search user

Nelek27-Mar-20 1:06

Nelek

27-Mar-20 1:06

Sorry but no...
It doesn't work as you expect. The URL is to be completed with the "@" Nick (the summon one) and it doesn't necessarily is the same as the one being displayed. I mean to get to you, we need:
https://www.codeproject.com/Members/Richard-MacCutchan - Richard MacCutchan - Professional Profile[^]
Trying:
https://www.codeproject.com/Members/Richard%20MacCutchan doesn't find you: CodeProject[^]

Displayed Username is or was "24/7docs", directly adding it:
24 - Professional Profile[^]
Not matching. The user "24" is older than me, and no evidence of a change of nick.

Encoding the "/" manually:
trying "24%2F7Docs" brings me to the user "24" above
and
trying "24/7docs" brings me to "Unable to load the requested member's information."

M.D.V.

modified 27-Mar-20 7:42am.

Re: Search user

phil.o27-Mar-20 1:36

phil.o

27-Mar-20 1:36

This doesn't work like that unfortunately. For example, my nick shortcut is User-890501 (I tried to change this several times but never succeeded).

"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."

Re: Search user

Chris Maunder27-Mar-20 4:58

Chris Maunder

27-Mar-20 4:58

We removed the ability to search for specific users because (a) it was being abused, and (b) it was a big load on the servers to do partial text matches in SQL (obviously there are way better ways to do this but since we decided to not do it in the first place we didn't proceed with the better way)

cheers
Chris Maunder

Re: Search user

Nelek27-Mar-20 7:20

Nelek

27-Mar-20 7:20

Ok.

M.D.V.

Re: Search user

Matthew Dennis27-Mar-20 5:07

Matthew Dennis

27-Mar-20 5:07

No to worry. The account was closed, so nothing to search for.

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

Re: Search user

Nelek27-Mar-20 7:21

Nelek

27-Mar-20 7:21

Thanks for the information

M.D.V.

Notify author of new post on article's discussion board

Greg Utas23-Mar-20 11:46

Greg Utas

23-Mar-20 11:46

Is this broken or on the to-do list? I can't believe it's never come up.

Anyway, the author should be notified when someone starts a new thread on the article's discussion board. You get notified of replies, the same as elsewhere, but not the initial post.

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Re: Notify author of new post on article's discussion board

Chris Maunder23-Mar-20 12:01

Chris Maunder

23-Mar-20 12:01

All articles should provide notifications. If not, go to the article and check the 'Email Alerts' popup at the top of the forum and ensure you have some options selected.

Overnight one of our cache servers seems to have suffered a mishap. We're working on it now but no ETA at the moment. This is definitely impacting things a little.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Re: Notify author of new post on article's discussion board

Greg Utas23-Mar-20 12:24

Greg Utas

23-Mar-20 12:24

Thanks!

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Comments disappeared

phil.o22-Mar-20 10:30

phil.o

22-Mar-20 10:30

I have a couple of comments which just don't appear anymore. I wonder whether it is just a display issue, or if someone somehow managed to delete them.
https://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/View.aspx?cmt=1040339[^]
https://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/View.aspx?cmt=1040366[^]

"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."

Re: Comments disappeared

Nelek22-Mar-20 10:46

Nelek

22-Mar-20 10:46

Normally deleted / nuked items are visible for protectors, but I can't see anything.

M.D.V.

Quick Answers Filter

phil.o22-Mar-20 10:21

phil.o

22-Mar-20 10:21

I just made an answer to a QA question. Right after posting it, I click on the "All Questions" widget, which brings me back to the questions page, but also sets the filter to a bunch of tags, all of them related to VB (the question was tagged C#).
Then I clean the filter, click "Update", which brings me to the Lounge Big Grin | :-D

When I go back to QA, this time the filter has been automatically set to anything c# relative. Second cleaning of the filter, update => this time it's ok, I stay on the QA forum and the filter has been cleared.
Weird Smile | :)

"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."

Is this by design?

Nelek20-Mar-20 8:40

Nelek

20-Mar-20 8:40

If a message gets closed due to spam... and you edit one of the direct answers, you can still see the content of the closed message.

Is that desired so?

M.D.V.

Re: Is this by design?

Greg Utas20-Mar-20 9:36

Greg Utas

20-Mar-20 9:36

How else could you find the phone numbers for Delhi escort services?

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Re: Is this by design?

Wendelius20-Mar-20 9:53

Wendelius

20-Mar-20 9:53

Not funny, not funny at all.

Re: Is this by design?

User 1106097920-Mar-20 10:13

User 11060979

20-Mar-20 10:13

I think the question is more, why one should have the possibility to edit an answer... Either block/delete, but sorry _not edit_, not even by an admin.

It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question

modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.

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