Bugs and Suggestions

Re: Could we eliminate...

4-Nov-15 6:02

I'd have to put that in the way too hard basket.

What would actually be really, really cool is if we could tag all ads with attributes, and you get to choose what you want to see and not want to see. +C# +SQL +MVC +Fluffy-kittens -Grumpy-Developers kind of thing.

That would rock.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Dan Neely5-Nov-15 3:57

Dan Neely

5-Nov-15 3:57

What you'd probably end up with is a bunch of people setting -Everything

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

Re: Could we eliminate...

Richard Deeming4-Nov-15 6:19

Richard Deeming

4-Nov-15 6:19

Obligatory XKCD[^]. Smile | :)

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

Logon Email change

Kschuler4-Nov-15 4:09

Kschuler

4-Nov-15 4:09

I changed my Logon Email under my Settings yesterday. Now I have a little red 1 up by my user name (notifications) and when I hover it says I need to confirm my email address. There isn't a place in settings to confirm my email address and I haven't received an email at either my old or new address to confirm it. I checked junk folders and spam filters and there isn't anything in there either. I can't vote any more because it says I have to confirm my email address. I'm sure there are other things I can't do as well, but I haven't tried much. Please tell me how to fix this.

modified 5-Nov-15 9:18am.

Reply box changed for the worse

jschell3-Nov-15 16:02

jschell

3-Nov-15 16:02

The reply box I used to see, perhaps last week and for years, spanned most of the browser window and provided text formatting buttons.

The reply box I am seeing to today, right now as I type this response:
1. The input box only spans about half the browser.
2. Doesn't have have the formatting buttons
3. Has an absolutely useless 'help' link to the right of the response button with a single line which links to a page about emoticons. As if there were not already millions of sites already that provide help about that.

Pete O'Hanlon3-Nov-15 21:57

Pete O'Hanlon

3-Nov-15 21:57

Highly bizarre - I'm seeing the correct Reply box here - the one you are used to seeing. What browser, version, OS are you using and what box is being shown (look at the bottom left, below the Advertise | Privacy | Mobile links - I see Web03).

Chris Maunder4-Nov-15 1:15

4-Nov-15 1:15

Can you email me (chris at codeproject) the results of this page[^].

cheers
Chris Maunder

Richard Deeming4-Nov-15 3:18

Richard Deeming

4-Nov-15 3:18

I think I'm seeing a very similar problem in Firefox 42 / Windows 10 - the emoticon list has been replaced with a single unclickable Cool | :cool:

emoticon, and a non-wrapping "Click here to view the range of emoticons available" message.

Screen-shot of the problem[^]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
CRC: 2592016875
Edge: False
Gecko: False
IE: False
Opera: False
Safari: False
Blink: False
WebKit: False
Browser: Default Browser
Platform Type: -blank-
Standard: True
Display Mode: Normal
Version string: -blank-
Version: 0
Platform: -blank-
Platform Version: -blank-
Has Editable Elements: False
Mobile Device: False
Small Mobile Device: False
Touch Device: False
Desktop: False
Tablet: False
Modern: False
Semi-Modern: False
Cookies OK?: True
Server: Web04

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

Chris Maunder4-Nov-15 7:03

4-Nov-15 7:03

Can you please try now?

cheers
Chris Maunder

Richard Deeming4-Nov-15 7:05

Richard Deeming

4-Nov-15 7:05

That's better! Big Grin | :-D

I was just about to change my user agent - replacing the final "42.0" with "41.0" looked like it would do the trick.

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

Chris Maunder4-Nov-15 7:19

4-Nov-15 7:19

The issue was our useragent detection was out of date and not flexible enough. We have backup parsing that generates a "it's probably X" and stores a placeholder record until we can update it, but a secondary problem was that once the new data was in place the old placeholder record for FireFox42 was not being purged from the cache.

Kicked, yelled at, restarted. All good.

cheers
Chris Maunder

jschell7-Nov-15 4:56

jschell

7-Nov-15 4:56

Still doing it right at the moment. Unlike the other respondent the emoticon does have a clickable link.

User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0
CRC 2197818125
Edge False
Gecko True
IE False
Opera False
Safari False
Blink False
WebKit False
Browser Firefox
Platform Type Desktop
Standard True
Display Mode Normal
Version string 0.0
Version 0
Platform Win7
Platform Version 6.1
Editable Elements False
Mobile Device False
Small Mobile Device False
Touch Device False
Desktop True
Tablet False
Modern False
Semi-Modern False
Cookies OK? True

Server Web02
Country
Location Denver, United States
Client IP address: 24.8.120.119 (compact form: 403208311)

My blog shows up as article

jschell16-Nov-15 12:25

jschell

16-Nov-15 12:25

At this point in time the problem no longer exists.

Sander Rossel3-Nov-15 10:48

3-Nov-15 10:48

Maths in IT #1: Basic set theory[^] was pulled from my blog, I had some trouble[^] with the formatting, but I got it fixed.
Just now I got another message that that same post was pulled from my blog (again with all the images missing), but that post disappeared.
And now my initial blog post is an actual article.

I'm not sure if it turned into an article before or after my blog was consumed for the second time...

I'd rather have it categorized as blog post as it's rather short for an article!

Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need.
Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra

Regards,
Sander

Sean Ewington3-Nov-15 10:50

Sean Ewington

3-Nov-15 10:50

Fixed.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Sander Rossel3-Nov-15 11:01

3-Nov-15 11:01

Thanks!

Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need.
Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra

Regards,
Sander

Chris Maunder3-Nov-15 10:54

3-Nov-15 10:54

Sorry - that was me debugging. I thought I'd added a second copy and must have removed the wrong one.

Sean to the rescue!

cheers
Chris Maunder

Sander Rossel3-Nov-15 11:01

3-Nov-15 11:01

That stressed me out! I was afraid I had to edit all those LaTeX formula's again! Laugh | :laugh:

Thanks for fixing it though Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need.
Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra

Regards,
Sander

User 95579245-Nov-15 3:22

User 9557924

5-Nov-15 3:22

It's interesting I had a similar problem with images in an imported blog post and now that post in under articles as well.

Sean Ewington5-Nov-15 3:28

Sean Ewington

5-Nov-15 3:28

I think I just switched it back to a blog entry? All good now?

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

User 95579245-Nov-15 3:32

User 9557924

5-Nov-15 3:32

Thanks, it's a blog post again.

It's kinda embarrassing to admit but until I learned this was due to a bug just now, I thought it was an article because of a promotion or upgrade Smile | :)

Sander Rossel5-Nov-15 12:05