Bugs and Suggestions

22-Jan-23 16:52

That ragged alignment has been fixed but... the fix is in a branch of the code that has a full port to Bootstrap, along with a complete rewrite of the forum UI. It's a big, big change internally and it's been sitting there while a million other things get in the way. It's probably too big a change a this point, so what I will probably end up doing is back-porting the changes to the current codebase and, once and for all, fix that thing that's been annoying the daylights out of me.

FWIW I do test in multiple browsers and on multiple operating systems (Try Safari sometime - that'll truly make you tear out your hair). And then mobile. And tablets. And older browsers, because not all browsers were auto-updating (looking at you IE). It goes on and on and on and it has to work on every single one. And this is why I started the move to bootstrap: a solid framework that's well tested beats a homegrown solution that's grown through 20 years of browser evolution. The tradeoff is, however, size, as well as chasing the frameworks as they change. A huge part of the stall in dev was that while I was working on the port, Bootstrap moved from v4 to v5, which was a huge, huge breaking change. I'm pretty sure it'll happen again.

Once browsers started moving to WebKit I really thought this intensely painful time of browser incompatibility, but then Google very quickly forked to Blink, FireFox continues to use Gecko, Safari uses Chrome but has different default settings, and on it goes still.

It's the thing about standards: there are so many to choose from.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Re: Zoom

Nelek23-Jan-23 3:36

Ordering of the Article moderation queue.

23-Jan-23 3:36

Chris Maunder wrote:
It's the thing about standards: there are so many to choose from.

Sorry... I had to: xkcd: Standards[^]

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OriginalGriff18-Jan-23 23:11

18-Jan-23 23:11

Would it be a good idea to order the articles awaiting moderation by age, so the oldest one is top of the list?

Today, we had one new member post some 60-odd spam articles, and because we only get 15 at a time in the queue it wasn't until they had all been vote closed (or deleted - I dumped loads of 'em once the member was kicked) that the article that had been sitting there unmoderated for 11 hours could be seen.
Surely, we should be moderating older material first?

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Richard MacCutchan18-Jan-23 23:56

Richard MacCutchan

18-Jan-23 23:56

Would it be better if new members were prevented from posting articles until they had earned some minimum number of votes?

OriginalGriff19-Jan-23 0:28

19-Jan-23 0:28

That seems a bit of a "sledgehammer approach" - it seems politer just to moderate older articles first as they have been waiting longest anyway.

Richard MacCutchan19-Jan-23 0:46

Richard MacCutchan

19-Jan-23 0:46

Maybe, but it would prevent situations like the one we saw this morning.

Richard Deeming19-Jan-23 1:22

Richard Deeming

19-Jan-23 1:22

Perhaps they should be restricted so they can't post a second article until their first one has been approved? Or at least have a sensible limit on the number of unapproved articles they can have in the queue at one time.

One for @chris-maunder to consider at least. Smile | :)

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Nelek19-Jan-23 11:32

19-Jan-23 11:32

That's a good idea, I like it Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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Chris Maunder23-Jan-23 2:41

23-Jan-23 2:41

We have posting limits. I'll have to dig in and see why the limiter didn't kick in

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Chris Maunder

Chris Maunder23-Jan-23 5:57

23-Jan-23 5:57

Hey Paul - off the top of your head do you remember if those articles were all from the same member or from multiple spammers?

cheers
Chris Maunder

OriginalGriff23-Jan-23 6:18

I'm not getting my Insider News emails

23-Jan-23 6:18

Same member:

Quote:
Today, we had one new member post some 60-odd spam articles

matblue2517-Jan-23 12:52

17-Jan-23 12:52

About a month ago, I stopped getting my daily Insider News emails. How do I get them turned back on? When I go to sign up, it says that I'm already subscribed. They are NOT going to a spam folder or anything. As far as I can tell, they're not getting sent.
Hard to believe I'm begging to get spam but I really like the Insider News. Smile | :)

Nelek17-Jan-23 12:56

17-Jan-23 12:56

In the meanwhile... The Insider News[^] Poke tongue | ;-P

M.D.V.

Chris Maunder23-Jan-23 2:50

23-Jan-23 2:50

Is this still an issue? Your account looks OK from here, but we can dig in further if there is still an issue.

cheers
Chris Maunder

matblue257-Feb-23 9:38

7-Feb-23 9:38

Chris,
Yes, this is still an issue. Still not getting the daily Insider News. Would it help if I changed to a different email address?

Mark T.

Sean Ewington8-Feb-23 5:40

Sean Ewington

8-Feb-23 5:40

Hi Mark,

It might. For now I've sent you an email confirmation request and tried one other thing. Please let me know if you receive the confirmation request. If you do, and you accept it, and don't get your Insider tomorrow, changing your email would probably work.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

matblue258-Feb-23 8:19

8-Feb-23 8:19

I got the confirmation request and responded and it worked. Hopefully, I'll get Insider News tomorrow.

matblue258-Mar-23 5:52

8-Mar-23 5:52

Hey - I got my first Daily Insider newsletter daily since a few months ago. What did you do to fix it?

Sean Ewington8-Mar-23 6:17

Sean Ewington

8-Mar-23 6:17

The team made some recent updates to the newsletter system. I'm guessing in the process they also fixed some things.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

matblue2512-Jun-24 10:15

12-Jun-24 10:15

FWIW, I started this thread a year and a half ago. In March of 2023, I got a few emails then they stopped again. I tried all kinds of things, including changing my email several times but I finally gave up. Now, suddenly, I started getting the emails again last week (June 7, 2024). I didn't change anything recently except to log on again after 9 months absence.

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Nelek10-Jan-23 11:13

10-Jan-23 11:13

Quote:
article removed

Shouldn't it better be removed totally of the list instead of leaving the empty option?

Additionally... I am just curious about what can trigger it. A spam nuke? An owner deletion once the article was selected? The hamsters being fed after midnight?

Edit:
You can even vote for it... that would be a nice prank if the winner is a deleted entry (already in position #4).

M.D.V.

modified 10-Jan-23 17:21pm.

OriginalGriff11-Jan-23 6:51

11-Jan-23 6:51

Nope, it was one of mine - since it had already won a 2nd prize in November's competition, Sean and I felt it shouldn't be in December's as well and he removed it as best he could: Sean, an oddity. - Article Writing Discussion Boards[^]

Nelek12-Jan-23 5:46

12-Jan-23 5:46

Then it should not be posible to vote for it.

M.D.V.

OriginalGriff12-Jan-23 6:09

12-Jan-23 6:09

I'd agree - but since it was a glitch in the system that got it in the contest to start with, there isn't a lot of point raising a bug report and fixing it! Laugh | :laugh:

Nelek12-Jan-23 6:47