Bugs and Suggestions

Chris Maunder31-Mar-21 6:49

31-Mar-21 6:49

Just working on this now.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Patrice T1-Apr-21 23:02

1-Apr-21 23:02

Hi Chris,
Thanks for the hard work.
Should I change my articles tags ?
How to choose article category in new system ?

Patrice

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein

Chris Maunder2-Apr-21 2:51

2-Apr-21 2:51

Choose the tags that best reflect what your article is about. We're trying to make things far more intuitive and simple. The worst thing you can do is pick too many tags.

Just keep doing what you're doing. You've got it.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Patrice T2-Apr-21 10:15

2-Apr-21 10:15

Article : Integer Factorization: Dreaded List of Primes[^]
I try to change tags from 'C++, Objective-C, algorithm' to 'algorithm, C++', but when publishing, it come back to previous value.
Tried either typing and checking in droplists.

Patrice

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein

Patrice T3-Apr-21 5:34

3-Apr-21 5:34

Hi Chris,
I tried to change tags, but still not found how to choose the category of article.
I think it would be nice to have something to choose the category, something that replace the previous 3 droplists.
I see changes of category of some of my articles, so thank you, but I fear one have find another solution than requesting corrections.
1 rather simple solution is to use the first tag of an article as category.

Patrice

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein

Chris Maunder12-Apr-21 9:28

12-Apr-21 9:28

Hey Patrice

What category do you think is best for your article? Let's start with that and I can walk through what's happening with yours and hopefully get it organised better.

With regards to "how" to choose a category, it's based on the taxonomy priority of the tags. Take a look at the list of topics under Articles -> Browse Topics. The order of those topics determines how your article will be categories. For instance, if it has an AI and an IoT tag it'll be categorised as AI. If it has neither tag then we look at the tags your article has and work our way up the tag hierarchy to see if we can find one of those top level tags (eg C++ goes up to Programming Languages).

Does that help?

cheers
Chris Maunder

Patrice T12-Apr-21 10:03

12-Apr-21 10:03

Actual setting is ok for me.
Some of my articles have changed of category again (on their own) since this discussion was opened.

Patrice

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein

Greg Utas3-Apr-21 10:58

3-Apr-21 10:58

Are you trying to classify articles based solely on their tags? I would try to change the category for some of mine, but some just moved to another category without me doing anything. It seems this is still in flux, so I don't want to experiment with it yet.

Many of the new categories make sense. But most are now oriented to types of applications, or to specific platforms, frameworks, or technologies. Few relate to general concepts, to the point where I'd just toss all my articles into the C++ bucket. But that would miss the point. What's more important: an article's topic, or the fact that its code is in C++? Those things are orthogonal, and I'd argue that the C++ aspect is far less important in most cases. So I'd rather use these categories:

Design Patterns
Exceptions
Threads
Memory Management
Modularity
Operations
Debugging
Templates
Tools
Software Lifecycle

Only #2 and #3 now exist. Others used to, even as C++ subcategories. But I'd rather they were in, say, a top-level "System Design" category. If someone wants to filter based on language or something else, an article's other tags can serve that purpose. But if they want to browse lists of articles, an omnibus C++ category makes little sense to me.

The above list isn't complete. Based on other articles that I've seen or might even write, ~~Databases~~ [noticed it now], Messaging and State Machines would also be good candidates.

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modified 4-Apr-21 10:07am.

Chris Maunder5-Apr-21 11:26

5-Apr-21 11:26

Yes - still fine tuning, and the general langauges tags are now at the bottom so will be selected as the main category as a last resort (or where they are listed as the only tag)

With regards to these:

Modularity
Operations
Templates

I'm not sure. Modularity is more of a design pattern, or Design / Architecture topic. Operations? Do you mean operators and operator overloading? And Templates, do you mean template languages such as T4 or template applications?

The updated "Programming Topics" list will be:

Architecture
Design Patterns
Algorithms,
Compression,
Computational Geometry,
Debugging
Emulation,
Exceptions,
File,
Internet,
Localization,
Memory Management
Messaging
Parser,
Regular Expressions,
State Machine
Sorting,
Tools
Design / Graphics,
Printing,
String,
Threads,
Usability

(bold are the additions to be added)

cheers
Chris Maunder

Greg Utas5-Apr-21 12:21

5-Apr-21 12:21

Hey Chris, thanks for your reply. The updated list is definitely an improvement. To answer your questions:

Modularity: I'm OK with "Architecture" or "Design Patterns" for this.
Operations: Things like configuration, logging, and statistics. "Usability" works if I'm interpreting it correctly.
Templates: C++ templates or, in other languages, generics. I think this one should be added.

I'd suggest changing "Parser" to "Parsing" and merging "Sorting" into "Algorithms".

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Greg Utas7-Apr-21 3:03

7-Apr-21 3:03

Please post something when this is stable, with instructions on how to set an article's category or a description of how the system determines its category.

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Chris Maunder7-Apr-21 5:26

7-Apr-21 5:26

Yep - we're discussing this now

cheers
Chris Maunder

Greg Utas9-Apr-21 2:05

9-Apr-21 2:05

I've pretty much coerced my articles into the right categories by editing their tags. Here are a few things to tidy up.

In my list of articles[^], some categories aren't capitalized, and some don't have links:

And my only tip/trick (can't link to the list directly) is unclassified, even though it has a C++ (and other) tags.

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Chris Maunder9-Apr-21 8:40

9-Apr-21 8:40

I've fixed up the capitlaisation - that should start flowing through soon - but can you please email me a link to your tip so I can take a look?

cheers
Chris Maunder

Timed silence/bans

den2k8830-Mar-21 21:57

den2k88

30-Mar-21 21:57

Would it be possible to add a timed ban/silence function similar to the one available for groups on FB?

Let's say a member gets uppity but it's not enough to warrant a full ban, a week without the possibility of interacting except for lurking could help fix bad attitudes. Something like that could have even saved the Soapbox IMHO.

GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

Re: Timed silence/bans

Nelek31-Mar-21 0:02

Nelek

31-Mar-21 0:02

den2k88 wrote:
Would it be possible to add a timed ban/silence function similar to the one available for groups on FB?

Let's say a member gets uppity but it's not enough to warrant a full ban, a week without the possibility of interacting except for lurking could help fix bad attitudes.

Agree / second that

den2k88 wrote:
Something like that could have even saved the Soapbox IMHO.

Not so sure about this one Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

But could have been worth trying... why didn't you have this idea a couple of years ago? D'Oh! | :doh:

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Re: Timed silence/bans

den2k8831-Mar-21 1:12

den2k88

31-Mar-21 1:12

Nelek wrote:
why didn't you have this idea a couple of years ago?

Story of my life.

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Re: Timed silence/bans

Chris Maunder31-Mar-21 6:50

31-Mar-21 6:50

We already do in an informal, we-have-a-quite-talk-and-take-the-necessary-action kinda way.

But yes, it's a good idea.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Latest Updates broken

Klaus Luedenscheidt30-Mar-21 18:05

30-Mar-21 18:05

Since a few days the "Latest Update" page is broken. This morning it looks like this:

Kind Regards
Klaus

Chris Maunder31-Mar-21 6:50

31-Mar-21 6:50

Yep - just cleaning up data for the updated taxonomy. Almost there...

cheers
Chris Maunder

Klaus Luedenscheidt31-Mar-21 18:00

31-Mar-21 18:00

I follow your site since a decade or more and noticed that the latest update is broken frequently in the last time. Thank god the normal search works always Smile | :)

. I use the latest update on a regular base to see which new articles where posted.

Kind Regards
Klaus

Klaus Luedenscheidt6-Apr-21 18:17

6-Apr-21 18:17

Latest update is broken again. This time the sorting by date is broken. For example:

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Klaus

Chris Maunder7-Apr-21 10:29

7-Apr-21 10:29

I've stared and stared at this. Which bit is broken?

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Chris Maunder

Klaus Luedenscheidt7-Apr-21 18:17