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At the top of the page after attempting to update my article I am getting an error
"Too many attributes. There is a limit of 8."
What's up?
Here's the article link: GFX Forever: The Complete Guide to GFX for IoT[^]
I don't think I changed anything that could be considered an "attribute"?
Edit: I figured out what the error meant. Tags. It was talking about tags. Not sure what an attribute is. Still, you lowered the limit. I can tell because my article used to post.
The problem is for IoT, 8 tags is really low. If you target multiple frameworks - say two of them, that's at least three tags, and that's not including the audience tags and other core tags. By the time you're done you maybe have *one* general purpose slot you can use for a tag that's specific to what your project actually does. That seems ... less than good.
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 13-Jul-21 14:43pm.
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I've 'fixed' the error message to use 'tags' instead of 'attribute'. Attributes is what we call them in our code, probably to avoid confusion with HTML tags.
The limit on the number of tags was made for a number of reasons:
* We only display a limited number of tags anyways, so making sure that the author picks the best one is important
* Too many tags become noise. If you are finding that you are adding a bunch of tags that are very similar, then you probably should be using a higher-level tag that encompasses the tags.
Tags are used for classification of articles and adding too many risks having the article classed into the wrong bucket. Since most articles are reached from a Google search, if you have the terms in the article, you will still be found.
I am open to discussion on this, so if you have any thoughts about this I would be happy to here them.
In your case, the IOT tag will ensure the document is classified in the IOT bucket and appear on the front page in the right place.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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my issue is this: It's not unrealistic to target more than one IoT framework, so if you're targeting two, that's three tags. Add the audience stuff and that's at least two more. Add one more for the language you target. I understand the rationale, and I'm not really trying to argue, but it just seems like you almost get penalized for targeting multiple platforms unless you keep them out of the tags altogether. It's a choice between accurately tagging your supported platforms vs accurately tagging what your article actual does in terms of what topics it covers.
Do tags influence searches? I thought they would, which is the main reason i use them, not so much for display, except in terms of categorizing them for the front page. Maybe I'm using them wrong.
Real programmers use butterflies
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In looking at this article[^], I noticed that one of its tags is "Formating". 
So I went to the Tags master list[^] to fix its spelling. This is a common problem, or was until the change to handle tags automatically. Someone would add a misspelled tag to an article, which in turn added it to the master list. Other non-spellers would later add it to their articles, and so on. It makes articles on that topic harder to find and gives the site an unprofessional look.
On the Tags master list, you can edit a tag's name, merge it with another tag, or delete it. The problem in this case is that fixing the spelling of "Formating" doesn't work, because some twit had merged "Formatting" into "Formating", which now prevents it from being changed to its correct spelling. And this "stickiness" is what needs to be fixed.
modified 13-Jul-21 8:58am.
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Seems that formatting existed in the list as deleted. I renamed it as formatting_old but that didn't help either, still unable to rename the misspelled one.
I wonder if we can manage the synonyms 
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Yes, that's the problem. formatting was already merged into formating, so it can't be restored.
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Chris has gone in and fixed the tag.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Since CP's automated fetching of technical blog articles seems to be broken and my blog feed (Articles/BlogFeedList.aspx?amid=10718738) is no longer polled (I see a spinning wheel where I should see a button for manually pulling the feed), and the CP helpdesk does not provide help with this, I will simply delete my blog feed entry.
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We are currently investigating the issue. In the meantime, I'd be happy to manually poll your feed on the regular to check for new entries.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Found and fixed the problem.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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I talked with Matthew about this and we think it could have been a caching issue. However, we had another theory: Did you by chance hit the "more" link under any of the lists?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I did hit the "Load More" button under the Questions list, but I seem to recall that at least one of the items was duplicated before I did this. However, I could be wrong.
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Ah ha. That could be it then. The "More" button may have had paging issues due to the list of questions changing (add/remove) resulting in the same question being pulled down.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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My Wordpress Blog feed is no longer polled. It was last polled on 2021.2.4. The RSS feed is https://csharpdeveloper.wordpress.com/feed/
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I’ve forced an updated and you have articles waiting for review.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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I have found and fixed the issue.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Yes. Thank you Matthew! All seems to be well again!
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Thanks very much for your message. Unfortunately the only thing we are able to merge is articles, which is essentially swapping one author out for another. Do you have articles on your other account?
The only other thing we can I could help with is closing one account and moving say, an email from one account to another. If you would like help that, please email me at sean@codeproject.com.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Hi ,
it seems something strange occurs on my tip https://www.codeproject.com/Tips/5284754/A-way-to-compile-C-code-for-Python-in-Visual-Studi , in the list of my tips do not show name and language. And nobody read it, ok may it's not so interesting but I can find it only by url.
Thanks
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It looks like you haven't published it yet:
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It seems that the original tip you submitted was closed. What you are looking at is currently a draft. If you'd still like to share this tip, I would recommend making some improvements.
CodeProject is more about code sharing rather than tool sharing. So we would ask you to make some changes to the article to discuss more how the tool works (showing and describing examples of that code) rather than telling us what it does.
CodeProject articles have a certain layout to follow, so that users can learn the most from them. Each article attempts to answer the following questions: What problem does this solution solve? How does this help someone else? How does the code actually work? What is going on inside the code snippets?
Here is a submission from a first time author who did a terrific job, just to give you a basic overview of what a beginner article might looks like:
Avoiding InvokeRequired[^]
You can take a look at our article FAQ here:
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For tips on writing articles, please see this article:
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You can also see our submission guidelines here:
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Please let me know if you have further questions.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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