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QA layout issues (votebar and infoboxes)

16-Mar-10 15:09

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Kristian Sixhøj16-Mar-10 8:51

Kristian Sixhøj

16-Mar-10 8:51

When there are few tags to a question in QA, the 'votebar' and the three info boxes are placed fine. But when there's several tags, the info boxes and the votebar gets moved apart, making it look a bit 'ugly'. Smile | :)

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/7544/qalayout.jpg[^]

This happens on Firefox 3.6 by the way.

Also, the info boxes and the votebar are placed waaay too much to the left - sometimes they are almost literally leaning against the question.
They seem to get placed right next to the question text, instead of being placed in the very right side where they were placed before. Is this on purpose?

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Re: QA layout issues (votebar and infoboxes)

Sandeep Mewara16-Mar-10 9:04

Re: QA layout issues (votebar and infoboxes)

16-Mar-10 9:04

I already reported it earlier and is being tracked here:
http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/3403029/Q-A-Section-Whitespace-above-questions.aspx[^]

Kristian Sixhøj16-Mar-10 9:05

Kristian Sixhøj

16-Mar-10 9:05

Oh, my apologies then. Smile | :)

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Re: QA layout issues (votebar and infoboxes)

Chris Maunder16-Mar-10 16:00

16-Mar-10 16:00

How's it now?

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Quick Answer Limit

Avi Berger16-Mar-10 8:16

Avi Berger

16-Mar-10 8:16

Have you considered imposing a limit on the number of answers by the same person to the same quick question? Or perhaps a diversion to a page that suggests editing the question / existing answer rather than adding a new answer?

Some of these questions develop into dialogs that don't really fit this format. One question I've seen has acquired 60 quick answers, mostly split between 2 people.

I have no objections to the dialogs, it just doesn't work with the way Quick answers are set up.

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Sandeep Mewara16-Mar-10 8:27

16-Mar-10 8:27

I read one of the suggestions already in progress for something like this:
http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/3395399/Re-Quick-Answers-problem.aspx[^]

Once something like this is implemented, hopefully we won't face such issues. Though CP can still put some kind of check as suggested by you as might be someone still uses the same mode as now to discuss out!

Luc Pattyn16-Mar-10 8:33

16-Mar-10 8:33

Avi Berger wrote:
Some of these questions develop into dialogs that don't really fit this format.

It is the other way around, the format provided does not fit well with the dialogs and discussions that often emerge naturally. The format needs to be improved, i.e. brought closer to what it is in the programming forums.

Smile | :)

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Avi Berger16-Mar-10 15:04

Avi Berger

16-Mar-10 15:04

I won't disagree with you. I like the programming forums. Quick answers isn't yet fitting its use.

My other thought was some moderator function for quick questions that didn't fit the mold - perhaps to move it to a forum thread or to change it to a "developer dialog" that would fix the messages in order rather than letting them bounce around by rating.

From the link another person provided, it sounds like the design is headed to the format that Stack Overflow uses.

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Chris Maunder16-Mar-10 13:40

16-Mar-10 13:40

As others have said: we need to rework it a little.

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General Programming

Pete O'Hanlon16-Mar-10 5:38

Pete O'Hanlon

16-Mar-10 5:38

When I click Article > General Programming > Uncategorised Quick Answers, I'm taken to this[^] page where I get a status 403. Is this section really meant to be in General Programming?

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Re: General Programming

Chris Maunder16-Mar-10 6:14

16-Mar-10 6:14

Try now?

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Re: General Programming

Pete O'Hanlon16-Mar-10 9:52

Pete O'Hanlon

16-Mar-10 9:52

Much better thanks.

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Re: General Programming

Sandeep Mewara16-Mar-10 6:17

16-Mar-10 6:17

I don't get any error on clicking the link that you had posted. Question & Answer section open up with Unanswered tab selected.

FAQs

Luc Pattyn16-Mar-10 5:06

16-Mar-10 5:06

The new FAQs are awesome. Unfortunately they are very hard to find. Here is where they are hidden on most CP pages:

left pane, Articles, General Reading (click that!), CodeProject FAQs

And then there is a Help menu with a "General FAQ".

Suggestion: add an entry in the Help menu, maybe call it "More FAQs"

Smile | :)

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Abhinav S16-Mar-10 5:21

Abhinav S

16-Mar-10 5:21

Luc Pattyn wrote:
The new FAQs are awesome. Unfortunately they are very hard to find.

Hard to find? I did not even know they existed.
Thanks for pointing out they existed.

They are indeed well written - I wanted to vote for them but apparently we cannot.

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Luc Pattyn16-Mar-10 5:24

16-Mar-10 5:24

They were discussed in the Lounge several days ago, I didn't find them then.
And now they are mentioned in the newsletter, with a link, that's what triggered this.

Smile | :)

Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]

I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that.

Sandeep Mewara16-Mar-10 5:29

16-Mar-10 5:29

I too was unaware of so many FAQ's! Thanks for pointing it out...

Luc Pattyn wrote:
Suggestion: add an entry in the Help menu, maybe call it "More FAQs"

I second this... it's really difficult to know otherwise.

Chris Maunder16-Mar-10 5:29

16-Mar-10 5:29

We've *just* posted them. I'm updating links around the site to make it easy to find them.

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Luc Pattyn16-Mar-10 5:32

16-Mar-10 5:32

yep, and they got praised already!

Smile | :)

Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]

I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that.

Chris Maunder16-Mar-10 5:35

16-Mar-10 5:35

Just apologising for running late on getting links up. Frown | :(

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Luc Pattyn16-Mar-10 5:39

16-Mar-10 5:39

No problem.

Smile | :)

Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]

I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that.

Dan Neely16-Mar-10 6:01

Dan Neely

16-Mar-10 6:01

That's almost as hard to find as my post[^] from a few days ago complaining about not being able to find them at all. D'Oh! | :doh:

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2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18

Luc Pattyn16-Mar-10 6:03