Bugs and Suggestions

Re: Editing a BIG question.

16-Aug-23 22:18

OriginalGriff wrote:
If the "too long" message was changed to suggest relevant code fragments only that could kill two birds with one stone?

That presupposes that the user will read and understand the message, and not just post a link to download their 100KLoC project from a dodgy file hosting site instead. Smile | :)

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OriginalGriff16-Aug-23 22:30

OriginalGriff

16-Aug-23 22:30

Richard Deeming wrote:
That presupposes that the user ~~will~~ can read ~~and understand the message~~, and not just post a link to download their 100KLoC project from a dodgy file hosting site instead.

FTFY ...

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Weird behavior when editing/cleaning up a question

Andre Oosthuizen9-Aug-23 23:39

Re: Weird behavior when editing/cleaning up a question

9-Aug-23 23:39

The post in question is - Error verify data in database [^]

I tried to edit the question by removing additional pre tag elements and add language tag. When done and I select 'Update question', the text area element shows an error 'The content must be between 30 and 50000 characters' which of course it is.

I tried a few times, no luck. Did I miss something?

I did edit some other questions earlier on and they updated just fine...

modified 10-Aug-23 4:55am.

Richard Deeming10-Aug-23 0:00

Re: Weird behavior when editing/cleaning up a question

10-Aug-23 0:00

After removing the <pre> tags from the "what I have tried" section, the content ("what could cause this error?") is only 28 characters long.

Moving the code block to the "what I have tried" section allows you to post the update. Smile | :)

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Andre Oosthuizen10-Aug-23 0:40

Irrelevant or old Questions in Q&A

10-Aug-23 0:40

Obvious... Thanks Richard, I never thought of checking the count in the "What I have tried" block, just removed the pre tags.

Newsletter weirdness

Peter_in_27808-Aug-23 17:22

Peter_in_2780

8-Aug-23 17:22

I stopped receiving the daily and weekly newsletters (that I subscribed to eons ago) a few months or maybe a couple of years ago.
I put this down to my ISP's hyperactive and inaccurate spam blocking, not too concerned since I visit the site every day anyway.
However, the plot thickens...
This morning I received one of each, both apparently delayed by a few days.
This is the headers from one of them (my email redacted)

From - Wed Aug 09 08:01:03 2023
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Mozilla-Keys:                                                                                 
Return-Path: <mailout@maillist.codeproject.com>
Delivered-To: peter@myisp.com
Received: from exhprddir204 ([10.216.164.7])
	by claprdmst205 with LMTP
	id 4JztDR670mT7mAAAx7uDXw:P1
	(envelope-from <mailout@maillist.codeproject.com>)
	for <peter@myisp.com>; Wed, 09 Aug 2023 08:01:02 +1000
Received: from exhprdmxe37 ([10.216.164.7])
	by exhprddir204 with LMTP
	id 4JztDR670mT7mAAAx7uDXw
	(envelope-from <mailout@maillist.codeproject.com>)
	for <peter@myisp.com>; Wed, 09 Aug 2023 08:01:02 +1000
Received: from mail.maillist.codeproject.com ([76.74.234.204])
	 by exhprdmxe37 with esmtp
	(envelope-from <mailout@maillist.codeproject.com>)
	id 1qTUlA-000FgY-0V
	for peter@myisp.com;
	Wed, 09 Aug 2023 08:01:02 +1000
Received: from jobs01 (unknown [192.168.5.180])
	by mail.maillist.codeproject.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D2461009AF
	for <peter@myisp.com>; Sun,  6 Aug 2023 23:29:16 -0400 (EDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple;
	d=maillist.codeproject.com; s=mail; t=1691378956;
	bh=OwLyzbabHvpa4lBqDrsN4pV00NNf74M8Nsctw56Blig=;
	h=MIME-Version:From:To:Date:Subject:Content-Type:
	 Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id;
	b=QY3Dibwi1MqDJ+/bNz/HTp3vVmrc+rZSRjjNrxjkBJyHksTX5EZe39ffE6t/VEGt3
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	 jBRreFQ+HlaLGMoyssIDJGDLg8YfF29Mf0ewwCp0=
Feedback-ID: 1:10469:3214823
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: "CodeProject" <mailout@maillist.codeproject.com>
To: "Peter_in_2780" <peter@myisp.com>
Date: 7 Aug 2023 01:16:09 -0400
Subject: =?utf-8?B?8J+SviBXZWVrbHkgTmV3c2xldHRlciAoNyBBdWcgMjAyMyk=?=
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Message-Id: <20230807032916.3D2461009AF@mail.maillist.codeproject.com>
X-tce-ares-id: i{f82c3482-bd2e-4ffe-a48b-5f94dad9d1e3}1
X-tce-spam-action: no action
X-tce-spam-score: 0.0
X-tce-spam-report: Action: no action
X-Cm-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=CtR5MF0D c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=64d2bb1d cx=a_idp_nop a=cEx/TdIhgwUOmJAN5YTHpA==:117 a=cEx/TdIhgwUOmJAN5YTHpA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=cWVxcIv7WsQA:10 a=UttIx32zK-AA:10 a=d9HCk1EvQMgA:10 a=5KLPUuaC_9wA:10 a=Rr5kw0T3AAAA:8 a=lj6UE3zRAAAA:8 a=rBg2x4foAAAA:8 a=1IlZJK9HAAAA:8 a=_ue--oatAAAA:8 a=6VcuLrCU4Tj6pEmgEx0A:9 a=5dETS1ae_OGgO2u_:21 a=frz4AuCg-hUA:10 a=_W_S_7VecoQA:10 a=lqcHg5cX4UMA:10 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=jypW0SkP6SEA:10 a=UrJKDeosJEUA:10 a=LySvJz2-1AUA:10 a=zkR731ashDYA:10 a=1q-xnZUlyZYA:10 a=aiJIL1O15MwA:10 a=RVmHIydaz68A:10 a=gXT8Qi3lWLxqOUwXnsB4:22 a=IeRm9hI1ZCgmBbQ4fEU0:22 a=poXaRoVlC6wW9_mwW8W4:22 a=IRCzeXmfL_n-RDOdNtXb:22 a=l-Sr5d0KJDb4l6bgICYh:22 a=Z5ABNNGmrOfJ6cZ5bIyy:22 a=bWyr8ysk75zN3GCy5bjg:22
X-Cm-Envelope: MS4xfCGqn+GIuqGxaX7CdOPxVUuiKvmIhjSytsr+R7KjapTd6kXFk5WL5q6Bg9BijgB4WEEfjZ49rdNeWcmpAFZqucJMmkbU2FUd1Nq0rksbqosy/EPpVGGV iwlUuKPf+qU21apSqVrco4ZjdQx51BB6i/12RUnC+FVeu4Vb6LeC9bx/WyNGCb66UlF0ArZNJ72NtqIX51/MQJyBpvX+rasuwP4=
X-tce-route: accept

It appears there is something weird delaying it before it runs through my ISP to me.

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Re: Newsletter weirdness

Matthew Dennis9-Aug-23 6:45

Matthew Dennis

9-Aug-23 6:45

We are looking into this.
Thanks for the detailed report, it is most helpful.

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Re: Newsletter weirdness

Peter_in_27809-Aug-23 12:20

Peter_in_2780

9-Aug-23 12:20

I can send the other one too if that would be any help.

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Andre Oosthuizen8-Aug-23 0:35

8-Aug-23 0:35

This was probably asked or suggested before -

Is there any way we can sort the 'Unanswered' or the 'Active' questions by date, especially the 'Active' tab. I am quite involved in the Q&A forum and it does get very confusing when posts as old as 2011 etc pops up at the top.

I understand that if someone reacted to an old post it will pop to the top but most has not been touched at all. By habit, I will select a link not viewed by me before, wait for it to open in a new browser tab to then realize that I am looking at an ancient post.

Any ideas or am I just being facetious?

Dave Kreskowiak8-Aug-23 5:02

Dave Kreskowiak

8-Aug-23 5:02

They're "touched" when a spammer posts something to the old question, but the post is flagged as "awaiting moderation". You can't see posts waiting in the moderation queue, but the question it's attached to has been "touched" so it appears back at the top of the QA list.

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Nelek8-Aug-23 5:52

Nelek

8-Aug-23 5:52

I am not sure if it gets "touched" when the spam post gets in moderation, but it is touched for sure when the spam post gets nuked by us or rejected from moderation.

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Andre Oosthuizen8-Aug-23 8:35

8-Aug-23 8:35

Thanks Dave, it all makes sense now, appreciate.

Richard MacCutchan8-Aug-23 6:27

Richard MacCutchan

8-Aug-23 6:27

Andre Oosthuizen wrote:
Any ideas or am I just being facetious?

Neither, it happens to all of us. I think it happens when a spam post tries to answer (or add a comment to) the QA. Someone then kills the spam post but the QA entry still has the updated timestamp.

Andre Oosthuizen8-Aug-23 8:39

8-Aug-23 8:39

Thanks Richard, appreciate.

Chris Maunder9-Aug-23 9:53

Chris Maunder

9-Aug-23 9:53

I'm going to bump our old (sorry, very old now) bug about spam posts bumping the date.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Matthew Dennis15-Aug-23 8:15

Matthew Dennis

15-Aug-23 8:15

We've made a change so that when Answers are Deleted or Closed by Moderators or the Spam Filter, the Thread Last Updated gets recalculated using only the Available Answers.
This means that SPAM no longer will mess up the Q&A list with old Questions.

Matthew

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Andre Oosthuizen15-Aug-23 22:03

15-Aug-23 22:03

Thanks Matthew, just saw it in action! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Mess in the Linux forum

Richard Deeming6-Aug-23 23:13

6-Aug-23 23:13

Looks like six threads have had their root message removed, and the replies merged into one thread:

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Slacker0077-Aug-23 7:42

Slacker007

7-Aug-23 7:42

Yep, long standing bug. Many members on this site have reported this bug type before.

delete all child records and parent record where parent record ID == some id.

It must be more complicated than that; I just don't see why this can't be fixed in a relative short amount of time.

modified 7-Aug-23 15:33pm.

Slacker00713-Aug-23 22:52

Slacker007

13-Aug-23 22:52

This just occurred in the Lounge. Someone deleted the parent OP thread and now all it's child records are now part of Mike Hankey's "Free Shipping" thread.
This kind of bug and how long it has been active in Productions, blows my mind into a million pieces.

Richard Deeming13-Aug-23 22:59

13-Aug-23 22:59

Those two parent messages were trolling; they contained nothing more than "trrryyyy?????" and "!!!!!!".

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