Bugs and Suggestions

Messages always say 'new'

3-Sep-17 4:04

If you start an article, and set the section to "Printing", the "Subsection" dropdown shows a couple of oddities: [^]

No biggie - but they should be removed if possible.

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jschell1-Sep-17 12:23

jschell

1-Sep-17 12:23

When I click into a sub group all of the messages always have 'new' besides them.

So for example in 'General Programming'/'Regular Expression' the most recent post was May 7.
I considered answering that post the first time I saw it which was months ago. So I read it then and probably several of the responses (presumably what I didn't comment on it further.)

And I have clicked on it a couple of times since. Every time, far as I can recall, it had the new on it.

But even today it still has the 'new' text besides it (highlighted in yellow.)

Be nice if the 'new' actually meant something.

I am using Firefox although I think I saw the same behavior with Internet Explorer in the past.

Re: Messages always say 'new'

jschell16-Sep-17 6:11

jschell

16-Sep-17 6:11

Today it appears that it is now working.

Source file not downloading

Manoj Kumar Miriyala1-Sep-17 0:13

Manoj Kumar Miriyala

1-Sep-17 0:13

Source file in this article was not able to download !How can i get that source file ? How To Send and Receive SMS using GSM Modem[^]

Re: Source file not downloading

Richard Deeming1-Sep-17 2:07

Richard Deeming

1-Sep-17 2:07

Clicking on the zip file in the "Browse Code" tree provides a working download: SMS.zip[^]

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Alert box for Cancel edit not working - brain failure on my part.

OriginalGriff31-Aug-17 22:30

Re: Alert box for Cancel edit not working - brain failure on my part.

31-Aug-17 22:30

If I edit a forum message, and press the "Cancel" button, I get the "OK / Cancel" alert, but neither button cancels the edit - the only ways out are to commit the changes or close the page.

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[update]
Ignore this: it looks like it fails, but it doesn't - it only happens if I right click "Edit" and select "open in a new tab". So obviously, it has no "Back" page to go to... D'Oh! | :doh:

[/update]

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Nelek31-Aug-17 22:45

Re: Alert box for Cancel edit not working - brain failure on my part.

31-Aug-17 22:45

Here

I think you need it Poke tongue | ;-P

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OriginalGriff31-Aug-17 22:57

Re: Alert box for Cancel edit not working - brain failure on my part.

31-Aug-17 22:57

Can you email me an intravenous drip, please?

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Richard Deeming1-Sep-17 2:12

Richard Deeming

1-Sep-17 2:12

Does "Cancel" cancel the edit, or cancel the cancelling of the edit? Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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OriginalGriff1-Sep-17 2:21

Problems with pasting links?

1-Sep-17 2:21

Yeah, it's confusing, isn't it? Laugh | :laugh:

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Nelek31-Aug-17 20:43

31-Aug-17 20:43

the typical conversion to clickety when posting a link has failed in several messages of mine today. I had to build the link manually.

Not a big deal, just wondering if only on my end or something is going on.

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OriginalGriff31-Aug-17 21:44

31-Aug-17 21:44

I don't seem to have a problem:
Dennis Leary Lifes Gonna Suck - YouTube[^]
Stack Overflow - Where Developers Learn, Share, & Build Careers[^]
CodeProject - For those who code[^]
All working fine.
Where were you trying to link to? And what browser? I'm on Chrome Version 60.0.3112.113 (Official Build) (64-bit) under Win10 and don;t seem to have a problem.

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Nelek31-Aug-17 22:43

31-Aug-17 22:43

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYs3t8Rzkxo
https://stackoverflow.com/
https://www.codeproject.com/

Copied from your message.
FireFox ESR 52.2.0 (32-Bit) here
Got updated today... probably something in our Group Policies is messing things up. I don't get the popup to choose "paste as is, quote and so on"

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Chris Maunder5-Sep-17 14:48

Chris Maunder

5-Sep-17 14:48

Are you able to use a different browser, or maybe one at home?

cheers
Chris Maunder

Nelek7-Sep-17 23:28

Can someone give the spam detector a swift kick?

7-Sep-17 23:28

at home is not a problem at all.

We have FireFox ESR 52.2.0 (32-Bit) at work.

I don't get links and I don't get the paste pop-up for "quote / paste as is /..." and so on.

I have been able to use it before the update, so I guess it is not on your side but in mine with the group policies, I think they have deactivated something.

Thanks for asking anyways Smile | :)

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OriginalGriff31-Aug-17 20:28

31-Aug-17 20:28

It's letting a lot of stuff into QA that is obvious spam - for example:
Just how does alpha plus male enhancement job?[^]
Exactly what makes varitonil so reliable?[^]

With the "Follow" system putting these on the front page by default, we will need to dump them to moderation ASAP really.

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Q&A Improvement

W∴ Balboos, GHB31-Aug-17 1:09

W∴ Balboos, GHB

31-Aug-17 1:09

Build into the Q&A posting a mechanism to compare the question with the 'what I have tried'. If the code is posted in the question and then reposted in 'what I have tried', a foul looking beast appears when they try to submit it, reminding them perhaps, that coding isn't for everyone, and then redirecting them to a random social networking site (or stackoverflow). Similar treatment for just reposting the same text message in both places.

A good place for some HTML audio, perhaps, rather than one of those meme thingies.

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Slacker00731-Aug-17 10:46

Slacker007

31-Aug-17 10:46

W∴ Balboos wrote:
reminding them perhaps, that coding isn't for everyone,

W∴ Balboos wrote:
redirecting them to a random social networking site (or stackoverflow).

OriginalGriff31-Aug-17 20:32

31-Aug-17 20:32

Send 'em here[^]? Laugh | :laugh:

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W∴ Balboos, GHB1-Sep-17 0:34

W∴ Balboos, GHB

1-Sep-17 0:34

And that's the kind of post that causes me to proudly connect to CP (most days).

P.S.: Glad you made good use of the 'new' (dare I say my?) icons, already, posted elsewhere.

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OriginalGriff1-Sep-17 0:39

1-Sep-17 0:39

I wanted to get some use out of 'em before Micheal Martin wore 'em out... Laugh | :laugh:

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