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honey the codewitch22hrs 53mins ago

22hrs 53mins ago

Update: Also my article says approved by editor or trusted author when i navigate to it, but it's actually pending approval (shouldn't need to wait for that in my case) and it's not published.

Ever since this morning some of my comments are getting marked as spam and when I tried to update my article it told me it would have to go through the approval process. Given my rep points this shouldn't be happening, and has never happened to me before.

Can someone look into this? Thanks.

Site layout is normal for me now though. Progress!

Update: Site layout is borked again. Oops!

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

modified 22hrs ago.

Re: What happened to my rep privileges?

Matthew Dennis19hrs 55mins ago

Matthew Dennis

19hrs 55mins ago

We had some backend server issues this morning, which hopefully have been resolved.

"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."

Re: What happened to my rep privileges?

honey the codewitch19hrs 49mins ago

honey the codewitch

19hrs 49mins ago

Thank you!

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

Home page layout broken?

Richard Deeming2-Oct-23 22:19

Richard Deeming

2-Oct-23 22:19

Is it just me, or has the home page layout gone for a Burton again?

Edit: And now it's back to normal.

Edit: And now back to messed up. Not sure if it's a dodgy ad; a dodgy article title; a dodgy question title; or something else.

NB: All ad-blocking is disabled for CodeProject, so I have no idea where the "resource is blocked by OpaqueResponseBlocking" messages are coming from.

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

modified 23hrs ago.

Re: Home page layout broken?

honey the codewitch3-Oct-23 0:39

honey the codewitch

3-Oct-23 0:39

Still broken for me.

Update: Was fixed. Now broken again.

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

modified 23hrs ago.

Re: Home page layout broken?

Nelek3-Oct-23 0:40

Nelek

3-Oct-23 0:40

(opens the door inviting you message to get in) Smile | :)

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Re: Home page layout broken?

GKP199223hrs 28mins ago

GKP1992

23hrs 28mins ago

It's not just you, it appears to really be broken.

Re: Home page layout broken?

Nelek23hrs 26mins ago

Nelek

23hrs 26mins ago

Yeah... for me too, but only "home", the rest of the site looks fine for me... (maybe cached pages?)

M.D.V.

Re: Home page layout broken?

Peter_in_278023hrs 8mins ago

Peter_in_2780

23hrs 8mins ago

Smells to me like a CSS/JS caching issue.
ctrl-F5 fixed it for me a couple of hours ago.

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Re: Home page layout broken?

Matthew Dennis19hrs 56mins ago

Matthew Dennis

19hrs 56mins ago

We had some backend server issues this morning, which hopefully have been resolved.

"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."

Article rating bar graph, fyi

0x01AA30-Sep-23 3:00

0x01AA

30-Sep-23 3:00

Only for your information: I think to remember the bar graph was showing the distribution of votes ...

... but is not doing it right now.

Most probably same issue in Q/A.

Add a warning to postings of Quick Answer solutions regarding AI answers

Graeme_Grant27-Sep-23 14:18

Graeme_Grant

27-Sep-23 14:18

To help try and curb posting of ChatGPT and other AI quick answers/articles/tips/etc, can a warning something like this be added to the editor input:

for convenience, here is a link to their policy[^]

Graeme

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Does the source code syntax highlighter support highlighting a subset of lines?

Nish Nishant27-Sep-23 10:07

Nish Nishant

27-Sep-23 10:07

Hey Chris / other CP staff,

I was wondering if there was a way to highlight a few lines from a source code block? A few WordPress plugins support it and it's quite handy when you want to call out modifications. The current alternative is to use line-numbers and then call that out (example : see lines 7 to 9).

Nish Nishant

Re: Does the source code syntax highlighter support highlighting a subset of lines?

Nish Nishant29-Sep-23 3:06

Nish Nishant

29-Sep-23 3:06

Looks like there's a workaround for this, and it's one I had used 10+ years ago. Also, I did work on the original syntax coloring code 20-ish years ago, not sure if the current version has any remnants from those days though. The workaround is to use <span class='highlight'> inside the <pre> block.

Example

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Sup?");
    }
}

Nish Nishant

Re: Does the source code syntax highlighter support highlighting a subset of lines?

Sean Ewington29-Sep-23 4:55

Sean Ewington

29-Sep-23 4:55

Hi Nish,

It's lovely to see you active on the site.

Every time I use <span class="hightlight"> in <pre> an article, it doesn't work. But if you let me know what part of your code you'd like highlighted in an article, I'd be happy to try again to see if this is still the case.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Re: Does the source code syntax highlighter support highlighting a subset of lines?

Nish Nishant29-Sep-23 4:59

Nish Nishant

29-Sep-23 4:59

Thanks Sean. Yeah, after a bit of a break, I've resumed posting some content here.

I did get it working. The trick is to be minimalistic in using it. Just highlight a few specific lines. If there are line-breaks in between, that seems to mess it up.

Nish Nishant

Re: Does the source code syntax highlighter support highlighting a subset of lines?

Sean Ewington29-Sep-23 8:06

Sean Ewington

29-Sep-23 8:06

Thank you for the secret sauce! I will remember it for the future.

Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject

Are .webp images finally accepted for publications? What about SVG?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov25-Sep-23 11:40

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

25-Sep-23 11:40

Not only .webp files have a much better quality/size ratio, but they put to shame all those JPEGs, GIFs, and PNGs a long time ago, and .webp is de-facto Web standard.
In addition to that, they support animation, and I have good plans for that.

I remember that SVG raised the safety problem, but this problem is quite solvable.

So, what's the current status?

Thank you.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Unable to remove some irrelevant tag

Member 420181321-Sep-23 1:35

Member 4201813

21-Sep-23 1:35

I've tried to change tags for my article, Reverse-engineering Linear PRNG with Exploratory Seeding[^].

Initially they were: C++, Dev, Intermediate, random and I've added one more, RNG. After submitting the updated version for review, I've noticed that some other tag, Objective-C, has also been added. So I reopened the article editor and removed that tag simply by wiping it from the text box. After submitting this updated version, I've noticed that removed tag remained unchanged.

Note that in this later update nothing has been changed except this tag.

Signature corrupted

pkfox20-Sep-23 21:12

pkfox

20-Sep-23 21:12

Hi guys if you look at My post you will see my signature has some extra text at the beginning - it's only on that particular post

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Re: Signature corrupted

Nelek21-Sep-23 5:42

Nelek

21-Sep-23 5:42

I am not the only one who get weird things...
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QA "active" questions

Richard Deeming14-Sep-23 21:45

Richard Deeming

14-Sep-23 21:45

Usually the only reason an old question jumps back to the top of the "active" list is if a spammer or code-dumper has posted something that isn't a solution as a new solution.

But for the past few days, the active list has been filled with old questions, because a CodeProject editor has been making fairly minor edits to them.

That's making it harder to see what questions are truly "active", and which ones are being targeted by spammers.

Is there any way to make these minor edits not drag the question back to the top of the list? If not, I think it's probably not worth editing questions that are more than a couple of weeks old unless there's a major problem with them. Smile | :)

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- Homer

Re: QA "active" questions

Richard MacCutchan14-Sep-23 22:57

Richard MacCutchan

14-Sep-23 22:57

I agree, and having looked at some of the edits I cannot see any good reason for why they have been done. Minor spelling or grammatical errors that do not detract from the clarity of the question really do not need changing.

[Edit]
An example of changes that are hardly necessary:

Quote:
so can any one have the plugins/source code/ideas kindly share to me. That will helpful to me. Thanks in Advance.

Changed to:

Quote:
Can any one who has the plugins/source code/ideas kindly share them to me. That will be helpful to me. Thanks in advance!

[/Edit]

modified 20-Sep-23 10:13am.

Re: QA "active" questions

Nelek15-Sep-23 5:38

Nelek

15-Sep-23 5:38

On top of that, if the questions were old enough to be away of the 1st results page and not in the "unanswered" list... then looks a bit weird

Maybe some words with the editor?

M.D.V.

Re: QA "active" questions

OriginalGriff16-Sep-23 18:51

OriginalGriff

16-Sep-23 18:51

It would also help if a "solution" going to moderation didn't bring it to the top of the stack until it was approved - if it's rejected then the question hasn't changed and it shouldn't be advanced.

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