Bugs and Suggestions

Re: Color Gradient Effects depending upon vote accrued

7-Jan-08 17:20

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
No. I don't think so.

That would mean too much of diversified colors. But I was just trying to bring out something like Windows Title bar. Thick to thin color (as it appears in Windows XP). Isn't it?

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Rajesh R Subramanian7-Jan-08 21:02

Rajesh R Subramanian

7-Jan-08 21:02

In my opinion, the present coloring scheme is good. Smile | :)

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Profile (Who's Who) Page and Controls On It

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar4-Jan-08 5:31

4-Jan-08 5:31

I have a few suggestions and concerns over the Profile (Who's Who) Page:

1) Suggestion: How about the Profile page having 'View Statistics' feature. The View Statistics can include members who have clicked and visited the page. Of course, if a non-logged in visitor has seen the page, this information would not be available.

2) Profile Visitor Count
3) A User Setting to dictate what information should be shown on the profile or the profile itself is publicly visible or not (like Blogger Profile Setting).

Wouldn't these have more control on the User Profiles?

Chris Maunder4-Jan-08 13:04

4-Jan-08 13:04

1) We can't go showing a list of everyone who has clicked on your profile. There's this thing called Privacy we think is important.

2) This should actually come for free with our new page tracking system. I'll check

3) Why? What would you want to have in your online profile that wasn't, well, viewable online?

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar5-Jan-08 1:37

5-Jan-08 1:37

Chris Maunder wrote:
3) Why? What would you want to have in your online profile that wasn't, well, viewable online?

Check out this profile for example (http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Profiles.aspx?mid=3978578[^]). It has email address. This should be actually disallowed or suppressed from being displayed since mailto: URLs are vulnerable to being preyed upon by spam robots.

Also, there was a 'Birth Day' column for some profiles. Isn't it? If a fully qualified mm/dd/yyyy format is being publicly displayed, that might be a security vulnerability since these days banks have DoB as one of the credential verification.

Next -- We need to have a step to thwart attempts by some Trolls putting junk info on profile and linking to thier rubbish websites.

Chris Maunder5-Jan-08 8:56

5-Jan-08 8:56

Your talking about something different then. If someone is unwise enough to make an email address public then they probably aren't going to also check the "make this private".

I still don't understand what the use of private information would be. It's not viewable. Why even have it?

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Paul Conrad5-Jan-08 10:23

Paul Conrad

5-Jan-08 10:23

Vasudevan Deepak K wrote:
If a fully qualified mm/dd/yyyy format is being publicly displayed, that might be a security vulnerability since these days banks have DoB as one of the credential verification

I simply do not put my d.o.b. in my profile.

"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon

Are message search restricted to New CodeProject only?

Rajesh R Subramanian6-Jan-08 6:11

Rajesh R Subramanian

6-Jan-08 6:11

Vasudevan Deepak K wrote:
Also, there was a 'Birth Day' column for some profiles. Isn't it? If a fully qualified mm/dd/yyyy format is being publicly displayed, that might be a security vulnerability since these days banks have DoB as one of the credential verification.

Come on VDK. How will anyone know your bank a/c no? With your DOB alone, do you think somebody could rob your bank a/c? If that still was possible, you always have an option not to provide the details that you think are private and confidential. There is no point in filling up your DOB and complaining about it.

I think you're running low on coffee.

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar4-Jan-08 5:09

Feature: CP and Community Credit Integration

4-Jan-08 5:09

Is Message (forum search) restricted only to the new CodeProject (post-upgrade)?

There seems to be some hiccup that search always matches no records when going before upgrade timestamp.

Scott Dorman4-Jan-08 4:12

Scott Dorman

4-Jan-08 4:12

This is a feature that I've asked about before[^], but maybe with the rewrite to ASP.NET and the number of CP members that are joining Community Credit now, it would be great to have some integration between the two sites. That would allow CP to automatically submit points for users whenever a forum message is posted or an article is submitted.

Community Credit has a set of web services that can be used to do this so there shouldn't be a major amount of work to be done on CP. I can help in any way needed as well since I have written an off-line utility to do this for me. (I parse the "Latest Comments" page to pull out the post information and then submit it to CC, keeping track of what messages I've already submitted.) It works very well and was just updated to handle the new CP site.

Scott.

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User 2710094-Jan-08 4:55

User 271009

4-Jan-08 4:55

Scott,

Great suggestion. I wish WordPress.com was integrated also.

Cheers, Karl

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modified 27-Feb-21 21:01pm.

Scott Dorman4-Jan-08 5:26

Scott Dorman

4-Jan-08 5:26

[[Shameless marketing plugs ahead]] Blush | :O

You should switch to Subtext[^] then. If you don't want to host your own blog, you can check out GeeksWithBlogs[^], which uses Subtext as the blogging engine.

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar4-Jan-08 5:12

4-Jan-08 5:12

Scott Dorman wrote:
Community Credit has a set of web services that can be used to do this so there shouldn't be a major amount of work to be done on CP. I can help in any way needed as well since I have written an off-line utility to do this for me. (I parse the "Latest Comments" page to pull out the post information and then submit it to CC, keeping track of what messages I've already submitted.) It works very well and was just updated to handle the new CP site.

Cool. Have you published it as an article? It would be of terrific use to many CP-CC members and particularly during this passionate period of fervent community participation.

Scott Dorman4-Jan-08 5:23

Scott Dorman

4-Jan-08 5:23

Interesting idea. I hadn't thought about this as an article, but I may have to rethink that.

Scott.

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Pete O'Hanlon4-Jan-08 10:58

Pete O'Hanlon

4-Jan-08 10:58

What a cracking idea. Now that I've joined Community Credit, I want the iToilet. Laugh | :laugh:

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Where is 'Suggest a Survey' Form?

Rajesh R Subramanian5-Jan-08 4:37

Rajesh R Subramanian

5-Jan-08 4:37

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Now that I've joined Community Credit, I want the iToilet.

Stand in the queue, my friend. Poke tongue | ;-P

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Signature Problem

_soap ^brain4-Jan-08 4:05

_soap ^brain

4-Jan-08 4:05

Hmm...it seems that it's possible to fit the lyrics to all Tool songs into my signature.[^] This is achieved not through changing it permanently the normal way, but by doing it in the 'New Message' page, where you can edit the signature 'on the fly'.
Am I correct in assuming that this is a bug?

By the way, sorry about the bad words in the lyrics. I'm obsessed with Tool. I was going to use The Communist Manifesto as an example, but it was just too long, and I got an error every time I tried. It would have been a lot funnier though. Poke tongue | ;-P

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar4-Jan-08 0:48

4-Jan-08 0:48

In every survey results page, there used be a link which used to load a page called 'Suggest a Survey' or email to webmaster (at) codeproject.com.

Where is that form in the newer version of CodeProject?

Elina Blank4-Jan-08 3:11

Elina Blank

4-Jan-08 3:11

It is currently on the "Survey List" page (Left navigation panel, or here [^]).

Will be added to the Survey results page as well (overlooked), thanks for pointing.

Sincerely,
Elina

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar4-Jan-08 5:03

4-Jan-08 5:03

Thank you. I was actually interested in the SurveyPage that gets linked from the list.aspx. Both the pages are required at the top level itself as

Other Surveys | Suggest a Survey right.

BTW, there are two more issues in the Suggest the Survey Page (http://www.codeproject.com/script/Common/Suggest.aspx?subject=Survey[^])

1) The page presents an awful horizontal scrollbar which is unwarranted.
2) The 'Your Name' textbox is displaying HTML like <font color> which forms part of my Display Name. Whilst prefilling the Your Name textboxes, the script ought to trim the HTML and get only the caption (a kind of .innerText). Isn't it?

Elina Blank4-Jan-08 6:25

Elina Blank

4-Jan-08 6:25

Vasudevan Deepak K wrote:
I was actually interested in the SurveyPage that gets linked from the list.aspx. Both the pages are required at the top level itself as

Other Surveys | Suggest a Survey right.

I am not sure, I completely understood that.
Is this about SurevyREsults page, and the "Other Surveys" is a link to SurveyList ?
What I thought, was adding a link to the VoteForm from the surveyResult page (if it is a current survey)

Vasudevan Deepak K wrote:
BTW, there are two more issues in the Suggest the Survey Page (http://www.codeproject.com/script/Common/Suggest.aspx?subject=Survey[^])

1) The page presents an awful horizontal scrollbar which is unwarranted.
2) The 'Your Name' textbox is displaying HTML like <font color> which forms part of my Display Name.

Added to Bug List

Sincerely,
Elina

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Chris Maunder7-Jan-08 2:56

7-Jan-08 2:56

Fixed

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Profile Image

Hans Ruck3-Jan-08 20:18

Hans Ruck

3-Jan-08 20:18

I cannot see my profile image: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Profiles.aspx?mid=27774[^].
I have updated it and refreshed the page immediately thereafter.

Re: Profile Image

Chris Maunder3-Jan-08 21:16