Bugs and Suggestions

Richard MacCutchan26-Oct-20 6:41

Richard MacCutchan

26-Oct-20 6:41

jeron1 wrote:
I wonder if they have such a feature here, not allowing posting for certain period on time?

Just change his password so he cannot login. He can still see the majority of content.

jeron126-Oct-20 7:03

jeron1

26-Oct-20 7:03

True, I was curious as to whether that had an automated means to do that, as opposed to a post-it note on the side of a monitor. Smile | :)

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Nelek26-Oct-20 7:48

26-Oct-20 7:48

In which way is implemented, I don't know, but there have been several users that have the privilege to get such a temporary ban due to going too far even for the soapbox (one of the main reasons of closing that forum)

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Message content hides reporting options

Greg Utas26-Oct-20 8:33

Greg Utas

26-Oct-20 8:33

Based on a few posts that I've read, I believe that some accounts have been temporarily suspended and that the capability exists.

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Richard Deeming26-Oct-20 1:55

Richard Deeming

26-Oct-20 1:55

Looking at this (spam / trolling) message: fifth[^]

The two "background-image" lines contain a long line of unbroken Base-64 data. This causes the table to expand a long way past the right-hand edge of the screen, which hides the reporting options.

Using the browser's developer tools to add a "max-width" to the message table cell brings them back into view.

However, this isn't particularly obvious, and probably shouldn't be necessary.

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Richard MacCutchan26-Oct-20 2:33

Richard MacCutchan

26-Oct-20 2:33

Horizontal scroll brings the back into view.

Chris Maunder26-Oct-20 4:28

26-Oct-20 4:28

We are in the process of rewriting the forums so these kinds of issues should be fixed (and a fresh batch of new issues added, of course!)

The general layout of these forums is from 2001. It's crazy. I was thinking about it this morning and how we used to use 1x1 pixels to provide spacing and shaping, and how rounded corners used to be really painful and ugly[^]. Flexbox is now available everywhere it matters and so it's past time we move on too.

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RedDk26-Oct-20 7:22

RedDk

26-Oct-20 7:22

... which brings up an interesting (tmm) funny programming point ... when does fair use kick in when copying and pasting a screen image in a forum like this one ... with regards to another devs' code?

Well, it's a haha to me anyway.

(no disrespect to RD intended)

Chris Maunder26-Oct-20 7:43

26-Oct-20 7:43

I would think standard "fair use" provisions apply always Wink | ;)

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Reputation counters

Nelek25-Oct-20 8:30

25-Oct-20 8:30

Some time ago I asked about users that had no type counters (author, authority, participant...) for the reputation in their profile.
The answer was that the system needs a bit of time until new users get the counters.

Today I have seen people without counters in the page 15 of the list (that means they are at least some hours in the system). They were in the middle of a lot of people with those same counters (before and after them).

The only difference is, they still had round 0 points, the rest of the users had some points (from 2 to 351).

I suppose no points = no counters, but that was not like that before.

Member IDs = 14974507, 14974506 and 14974505

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Re: Reputation counters

Matthew Dennis28-Oct-20 5:53

QA "View All Questions" returns NO complete list of all tag topics.

28-Oct-20 5:53

Sometime, usually during database maintenance, some Reputation Events get lost due to database errors.
If that happens, then there will be a group of events that fail to get recorded.

We are trying to figure out how to mitigate this problem.

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RedDk24-Oct-20 8:25

RedDk

24-Oct-20 8:25

I filtered once last week using "SQL" and now (and probably since then) "Show All Posts" or clearing the filter, the "+" filter label disappears but the return set is only "SQL" posts. Nothing is of "interest" specified in the right panel either.

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Re: QA "View All Questions" returns NO complete list of all tag topics.

RedDk24-Oct-20 10:13

RedDk

24-Oct-20 10:13

[EDIT]
Oh, ok. There WAS something in the right-hand panel filter. FF doesn't make typing visible in this control when the background is black and fonts are generally/manually set to lighter shades.

So it was me.

Didn't break anything, turns out!
[/EDIT]

Re: QA "View All Questions" returns NO complete list of all tag topics.

OriginalGriff24-Oct-20 20:49

OriginalGriff

24-Oct-20 20:49

It's a pernicious bug, that they have been working on for quite a while: the questions filter sometimes just sets itself to a random (or randomish) group of tags without any input from the user. It's proving complicated to track down ... Sigh | :sigh:

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Addition to my earlier post about the menus not working on my iPad.

Brisingr Aerowing23-Oct-20 12:48

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23-Oct-20 12:48

I found that if I press and hold on an item, the submenu will pop up.

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Orphaned responses in C# forum

OriginalGriff23-Oct-20 9:08

OriginalGriff

23-Oct-20 9:08

It look as though the two responses "Re: Kayan Yazi" are answers to "How to get an an answer to your question", but that's not the case - the original message was early marked as "closed" but has now disappeared completely, leaving the responses hanging in mid air.

Re: Orphaned responses in C# forum

Matthew Dennis28-Oct-20 5:39

Atsign notifications in QA

28-Oct-20 5:39

I did a clean up of Closed messages which unfortunately left some responses floating.
My bad.

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OriginalGriff22-Oct-20 22:36

OriginalGriff

22-Oct-20 22:36

I may well be imagining this, but didn't @ username codes used to work in QA answers?
I tried it here: Can I add an RSS feed from a medium publication?[^] but it didn't generate a link, so I assume it didn't send an email either?

(I've posted a request in Article Writing so it's covered, but I'm reasonably sure it used to work?)

Re: Atsign notifications in QA

Chris Maunder23-Oct-20 3:12

Auto linkify an URL broken?

23-Oct-20 3:12

No, it doesn't. Yet.

We'll be adding that, and a couple of other things that may help

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Nelek22-Oct-20 9:36

22-Oct-20 9:36

I wanted to report a spammer in the S&A Forum. When pasting the URL to the profile the script doesn't linkify it.

The "clock" appears, think, think, think... and the it pastes the plain URL without href and so on

EDIT: Not working there and not working here in the B&S forum.
Using FF 81.0.1

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Chris Maunder22-Oct-20 9:54

22-Oct-20 9:54

Depends on the URL. Sometimes our title grabbing spider gets blocked.

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Nelek22-Oct-20 10:01

22-Oct-20 10:01

Just a normal cp intern URL to a user profile

This one: https://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=14972545

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Matthew Dennis22-Oct-20 10:05

22-Oct-20 10:05

In FireFox 82.0
https://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/View.aspx?mid=14972545
It works.
Are you running any AdBlockers.
Does it happen when you use a Private Window?

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Chris Maunder22-Oct-20 10:15

22-Oct-20 10:15

It's a DNS issue due to our new servers. I've sent an email.

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Matthew Dennis23-Oct-20 5:37