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4-Apr-20 6:53

Looks like Rep History is broken again.

Patrice

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Greg Utas4-Apr-20 7:15

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4-Apr-20 7:15

If by this you mean the graph that appears when you click on your user profile, followed by the Reputation tab, I just tried it and it worked. Maybe the hamsters were napping when you tried it.

Patrice T4-Apr-20 7:32

4-Apr-20 7:32

No.
on top right of page, ypu see your member name, on left is your actual Rep Score.
Click on Rep Score, the page that appear is Reputation History.

Patrice

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Greg Utas4-Apr-20 7:33

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4-Apr-20 7:33

Oh that. Yes, I've noticed that it's very flaky.

User 110609794-Apr-20 7:23

User 11060979

4-Apr-20 7:23

For me it works like usual.
a.) Login
b.) Rep History not available
c.) Wait 1h.... and more
d.) Rep History available

It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question

modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.

Greg Utas4-Apr-20 7:28

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4-Apr-20 7:28

You mean it's sort of like Schrodinger's cat?

Just tried and it works again

Patrice T4-Apr-20 7:37

4-Apr-20 7:37

I have tried 10 times in last 12 hours, none have worked.
And the eleventh time (now), it works.

Patrice

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OriginalGriff4-Apr-20 19:46

OriginalGriff

4-Apr-20 19:46

As your interaction with the site increases, the amount of data that has to be processed increases as well. At some point, the fetch-and-process time exceeds the timeout period, and the graph doesn't display - this is likely also influenced by website / DB server farm load, so the number of users playing with the site probably affects this as well. I suspect there is a cutoff point beyond which it gets increasingly flaky.

It hasn't worked for me for years! Laugh | :laugh:

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Patrice T4-Apr-20 20:24

4-Apr-20 20:24

I speak about this page: Latest Reputation Events[^] which list last 20 events related to reputation.

Patrice

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OriginalGriff4-Apr-20 21:17

OriginalGriff

4-Apr-20 21:17

Yep: hasn't worked for me in years!
Think about it: it presumably retrieves all events and then pagifies them - so the amount of event data it fetches increases as you do more.
If my cat logs in it works fine, every time.

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Patrice T4-Apr-20 21:34

4-Apr-20 21:34

Last 2 times I complained for same thing, there was some bugs.

Patrice

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Greg Utas5-Apr-20 1:09

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5-Apr-20 1:09

OriginalGriff wrote:
If my cat logs in it works fine, every time.

You should have told your cat to log in under his own account when he was doing all that CP work.

Spurious pre tag when entering code

Wendelius5-Apr-20 2:54

Wendelius

5-Apr-20 2:54

OriginalGriff wrote:
Think about it: it presumably retrieves all events and then pagifies them

This is exactly why I've suggested that the query would limit to one week/month by default.

Question not posted

ZurdoDev31-Mar-20 1:10

ZurdoDev

31-Mar-20 1:10

Not sure there is anything you can do about this; however, I posted a question in QA yesterday and it never showed up.

There is a possibility an error happened and I didn't notice it. I was very busy at the time but I'm 96% sure it was posted.

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Re: Question not posted

User 1106097931-Mar-20 1:44

User 11060979

31-Mar-20 1:44

Your profile shows: Q&A Questions 0
So I think your question disappeared in the nirvana.

It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question

modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.

Re: Question not posted

Richard MacCutchan31-Mar-20 2:31

Richard MacCutchan

31-Mar-20 2:31

This occasionally happens with QA Solutions also. If you don't notice it then once you move off the page it's gone.

k505429-Mar-20 10:07

k5054

29-Mar-20 10:07

I'm seeing a spurious <pre> tag being inserted into C++ code:

Have I done something wrong, or is this a bug?

Keep Calm and Carry On

phil.o29-Mar-20 11:00

29-Mar-20 11:00

This works exactly as intended Smile | :)

pre tag allows to display the text as a code block, preserving indentation, using monospace font, and optionally providing basic syntax coloring if the lang attribute is set.

Inside the pre tag, make sure to html escape <, > and & characters with their respective html-escape sequence <, > and &.

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k505429-Mar-20 12:15

k5054

29-Mar-20 12:15

Quote:
This works exactly as intended Smile |

Does it? It seems odd that it would generate a <pre> tag gratuitously following a blank line. Still as you say:

phil.o wrote:
Inside the pre tag, make sure to html escape <, > and & characters with their respective html-escape sequence <, > and &.

which I hadn't done. I've cleaned up the reply in the C++ forum that was triggered this for me, so that's all good now. But it does seem irksome that we need to replace various chars in our program text with HTML entities. I was kinda/sorta under the impression that the <pre> element was supposed to allow pasting of code verbatim, without having to further modify for HTML display.

Maybe, though, you could explain this weirdness:

Note that if I start a #include on a line inside a <pre> tag, it tries to turn it into a <h1> tag, but it seems to have worked fine for you. I run into this often, and the workarounds seem to be to either insert a space at the beginning of line, or use the HTML entity #. I'm using Chrome under Linux, if that makes any difference, so maybe it's something on the browser side that's causing this?

Keep Calm and Carry On

phil.o29-Mar-20 12:47

29-Mar-20 12:47

On pasting, normally you should see a frame where you can select between a few options:

The second option is the one which allows to automatically encode characters that could cause display issues.

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Richard MacCutchan29-Mar-20 21:22

Richard MacCutchan

29-Mar-20 21:22

phil.o wrote:
Inside the pre tag, make sure to html escape <, > and & characters with their respective html-escape sequence <, > and &.

That is not necessary, since the whole point of the <pre> (and <code>) tag sequences is to ignore special characters that occur inside them.

phil.o29-Mar-20 22:16

29-Mar-20 22:16

No, sorry. If you want to write something bold or italic inside the pre tag, you can, using <b> or <i> for example. Therefore the whole point of the pre tag is not to ignore specials characters; there is a small subset of html tags which can be used inside pre tags.

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Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."

Richard MacCutchan29-Mar-20 22:56

Richard MacCutchan

29-Mar-20 22:56

You are correct, I forgot about the special cases.

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Chris Maunder29-Mar-20 14:26

Chris Maunder

29-Mar-20 14:26

C++

#include <iostream>

void myfn(int **date, size_t len)
{
   for(size_t i = 0; i < len; ++i)
       *data[i] = 1 * 2;

   // blah blah blah
   // for(size_t i = 0; i < len; ++
}

I can't see to replicate the issue.

cheers
Chris Maunder

phil.o28-Mar-20 21:09