Bugs and Suggestions

Richard MacCutchan28-Jun-21 21:23

28-Jun-21 21:23

When your article was (rightly) deleted, any reputation points attaching to it were also deleted, hence the changes. I am not sure what you are so unhappy about, there is no point in leaving a non-article (i.e the one marked obsolete) cluttering up the site.

CodeErgoSum28-Jun-21 22:01

CodeErgoSum

28-Jun-21 22:01

Sorry Richard

I disagree 100% with your argumentation
(and honestly: sorry, seem you do not read carefully the message)

The article was bookmarked. The bookmarks stay (at least) on the browser. now any bookmark is a broken link. (Error 404 is never a good thing)
As I said: «If I had had the chance, my choice would have been to keep the old article and add a link to the new article» And the chance was not given to me. At all.
When you buy handkerchiefs then, do you ask to be refunded when you throw them away after using them? (why should I lost my points after an article was deleted?)
I wrote the article then is somehow I am the owner of that article (in the good and in the bad). Don't you think I have the right to participate in the decision to cancel it?
If I had been aware that deleting an article means losing the relative points. I would never have deleted it. (this is cluttering the site !!!!)

I write some messages and participated to others, what I observed is a large percentage of people participating in the "chat" just to get "reputation points". I think that is a big limitation of this site!

Cheers

Vincenzo

Richard Deeming28-Jun-21 22:12

Richard Deeming

28-Jun-21 22:12

The decision to remove your article was taken by one of the site admins, after discussion with you:
Re: Obsolete article? - Article Writing Discussion Boards[^]

Based on Sean's comment, you did have the chance to participate in that discussion. But the eventual decision on whether or not to leave a non-article published on this site rests with the site owners.

Your suggestion about redirecting links from the old article to the new article has some merit, and is worth discussing in this forum. I suggest you concentrate on that, rather than complaining about your non-article being removed.

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Richard MacCutchan28-Jun-21 22:28

28-Jun-21 22:28

CodeErgoSum wrote:
I disagree 100% with your argumentation

Well that is your free choice. But I doubt that the site is going to change the rules because one person disagrees with them.

CodeErgoSum wrote:
now any bookmark is a broken link. (Error 404 is never a good thing)

Well that holds true for any bookmark anywhere on the internet.

And if people wish to read your article it is easy enough to find, via the search facilitiy, or by going to your home page.

And out of all this we come back to the question: Why did you mark the article as obsolete rather than just updating it with whatever new information you wished to add? That would have resolved all your questions without any difficulty, and you would keep your reputation points.

CodeErgoSum29-Jun-21 5:47

CodeErgoSum

29-Jun-21 5:47

I Talked with the people of CodeProject: they wish to improve the voting system. Obviously, the site "is not going to change the rules because one person disagrees with them". But they are ready to have a positive confrontation and if the case...

«Well that holds true for any bookmark anywhere on the internet.»:
wrong.

«Well that holds true for any, not properly managed, bookmark anywhere on the internet.»:
That's correct!

«And if people wish to read your article it is easy enough to find, via the search facility, or by going to your home page.»
That could be a solution.
A "site centric" (ego-centric) solution.

I prefer a "custom centric" solution that makes easier the life of the user providing a direct link to the new article

«Why did you mark the article as obsolete rather than just updating it with whatever new information you wished to add? That would have resolved all your questions without any difficulty, and you would keep your reputation points.»
Why?
Just because Sean suggest to me to do that way.
Is that enough for you?

Let me finish saying that thinking more before speaking, this could have been the place where the community could have initiated a serious conversation that could possibly have led to some results

Richard MacCutchan29-Jun-21 6:54

"Ref counts" on the home page

29-Jun-21 6:54

CodeErgoSum wrote:
Let me finish saying that thinking more before speaking, this could have been the place where the community could have initiated a serious conversation that could possibly have led to some results

I did think; I was merely trying to explain why some things happened, and how they could be resolved.

Peter_in_278022-Jun-21 14:41

Peter_in_2780

22-Jun-21 14:41

In the "Discussions" block on the home page, threads are prefixed with a count. For a while it puzzled me that the counts often appeared too low, but I finally twigged that the displayed count is the number of direct responses to the original post (indent level one). [edit] .. or maybe something else again ... [/edit]
Maybe the total thread length might be a more useful number to display.
Not a biggie, in fact barely above the noise level...

Cheers,
Peter

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modified 22-Jun-21 20:53pm.

Re: "Ref counts" on the home page

Matthew Dennis23-Jun-21 10:11

Re: "Ref counts" on the home page

23-Jun-21 10:11

Both Chris and I have looked and didn't see a discrepancy. If you see it again, could you capture an image, or at least describe what you see and identify the message that is of concern.

Thanks

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

Matthew Dennis23-Jun-21 10:34

23-Jun-21 10:34

Actually, it appears to be a caching issue. I think I need to reduce the cache duration.

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

How do I add new tags?

honey the codewitch18-Jun-21 18:57

honey the codewitch

18-Jun-21 18:57

Hi. I've been trying to add ESP32, STM32 and ESP-IDF tags to submitted content, but they do not show up.

I've checked my reputation/privileges and it says I can add tags. After trying twice, here I am.

What am I missing? I simply go to the article I'm editing, to the tag heading, and as items in the comma delimited list I type ESP32, ESP-IDF and nothing happens when I submit. It's as though I never entered them.

So my question is, how do I add tags?

Real programmers use butterflies

Matthew Dennis21-Jun-21 4:30

21-Jun-21 4:30

You should be able to add new tags. I will look into this.

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

Matthew Dennis22-Jun-21 5:16

22-Jun-21 5:16

You should be able to create new tags now. That was a tricky little bug.

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

honey the codewitch22-Jun-21 5:36

honey the codewitch

22-Jun-21 5:36

Thank you. I'm going to go back and edit one of my big articles and I'll see if it sticks. Smile | :)

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honey the codewitch22-Jun-21 5:39

honey the codewitch

22-Jun-21 5:39

I tried it, and they didn't stick.

GFX Forever: The Complete Guide to GFX for IoT[^]

I tried to add ESP32 (an IoT SoC chip) and ESP-IDF (the ESP32 development framework/SDK) to my article and they didn't take.

Could it be cached? Unsure | :~

Real programmers use butterflies

Matthew Dennis22-Jun-21 7:10

22-Jun-21 7:10

It must be a problem with permissions now. I've got the creation and caching all sorted out, but as an Admin I have no problems with permissions. I'll dig back in.

In the meantime, I'll add the tags for you.

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

Matthew Dennis22-Jun-21 7:14

22-Jun-21 7:14

And of course, the tags didn't stick. It's going to be one of 'those' days.

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

Matthew Dennis22-Jun-21 8:44

C++ code formatting problems

22-Jun-21 8:44

I tracked it down. It seems that the ESP32 tag had been created in the past and then had been marked deleted. This caused a silent failure of the creation of the new tags. I added the other and then undeleted ESP32.

They are both showing on your article now but may get deleted again. I will be talking to Chris about tags shortly.

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

Espen Harlinn18-Jun-21 4:09

Espen Harlinn

18-Jun-21 4:09

I was hoping that someone would fix the C++ pretty printing code.
In an ideal world, I would like to just embed plain C++ code in an article or answer:

C++

<h1>include <stdlib.h></h1>

Currently; even pasting, and then choosing encode as HTML runs into problems:

C++

<h1>include <stdlib.h></h1>

Yesterday I tried embedding some code in a reply, The Lounge, and as all can see, this did not work all that well.

Best regards
Espen Harlinn

Espen Harlinn
Senior Architect - Ulriken Consulting AS

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Greg Utas18-Jun-21 4:52

Greg Utas

18-Jun-21 4:52

I think you're supposed to use <pre lang=c++>...</pre>.

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Espen Harlinn18-Jun-21 5:50

Espen Harlinn

18-Jun-21 5:50

I was using:

<pre lang="C++">
</pre>

Matthew Dennis18-Jun-21 5:11

18-Jun-21 5:11

Thanks for the report. This, and the 'fix' by @David-ONeil in his response, my help us understand a tricky issue.

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

Richard MacCutchan18-Jun-21 5:34