small bugs, requests + TY notes, mostly for HyToFry / techys

[CrystyB]

hmm, i guess that would have been been better off posted in here...

[CrystyB]

tnx for rerouting the '???' smilie!!

And i didn't know i was made a forum leader! ("Only forum leaders (Minotaur, Ariadnean Moderator, CrystyB)" appears when editing - and imo it should be TOPIC leaders )

[CrystyB]

((small bug)) Active Users thingy doesn't update if i delete a post!!

[mole]

Like the post count, it only tells you how many posts were made, not how many stuck around.

And you haven't considered the repercusssions of changing that. Do you want the count to update on the day the (ex-) post was made, or the day it was deleted? What if a mod deletes a thread - do we alter everyone's post count accordingly?

Oh yeah, and we should get bonus posts if a thread we posted gets copied (eg. moved to a different forum while it stays locked in the old one)!



[This message has been edited by mole (edited 04-04-2003 06:23 AM).]

[CrystyB]

hmm strange. I used to think deleting individual posts updates my postcount, while deleting a whole thread will not change anything for the posters to it...

[CrystyB]

a small request: could there be a page w/ ALL the announcements currently in effect? And one with all that were ever present?

[Vinny]

woa. this thread blew my mind. Have nver read it before.

Holy Shjit, Crysty!

[VinnyQ]

Woa. What the fduck is this at the bottem of the page?

quote:

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Filter For: Starter: ______ Topic: ________

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oh wow, cooooooooooooool!

[HyToFry]

[CrystyB]

right... i forgot to mention free / available / readable / etc...

Vin, check it out here...

[CrystyB]

whenever a topic gets moved, could it get a note sticked on top of it (under its name or something - ow, almost forgot to mention, IN it, appears only when you read its contents) like "This has appeared here out of the blue - the blue background of OffTopic i mean" or something similar?

[This message has been edited by CrystyB (edited 06-18-2003 01:19 AM).]

[mikeamok]

i was about to post a whole new thread, when i saw this one and thought, "yes, this is a very small request."
could alt text things be added for the new-posts/no-new-posts light bulb and folder images, so one can see what's new with images turned off?

[CrystyB]

Could the auto-refreshing "Thanks for posting your message, %s! We are now sending you back automatically to this topic. Please wait two seconds.\n\nClick here if you do not want to wait any longer (or if your browser does not automatically forward you)." page have a second link, towards the FORUM instead of towards the thread?

[CrystyB]

k so back to the topic of announcements: can the date of the announcement be made visible in the forum index page? I think today was the fifth time i checked to see if i had read that stupid GLP one...

[HyToFry]

I'll work on these today.

[HyToFry]

Well that failed. I forgot a semicolon.

It won't work for edits, nor for ISE posts... but it's better than nothing dammit.

[Lepton]

I noticed and was impressed.
You need to keep Antrax in hatU to drive you towards doing stuff for us.

[HyToFry]

Okay, the announcments are done.

[CrystyB]

Why won't it work for edits? (just curious)

Plus you didn't mention anything about deletes. Is it the same or you just forgot about those?

[HyToFry]

edit and delete are the same routeine. Post is a different routeine. I was too lazy to update the edit routeine. Deal with it.

[This message has been edited by HyToFry (edited 07-24-2003 11:15 AM).]

[CrystyB]

Ok but how about leaving it for three seconds? By the time i realise "Wait. i don't need to go through the thread anymore" the redirect already waives me Bye-Bye!

[CrystyB]

also, when posting new, one might want to enter his just-created topic, and not the forum...

[CrystyB]

resurrects thread... fwiw, it was on page 5 - searched for it, and then looked in the forum for the date of last post...

[CrystyB]

Tinsy little tiny bug: last post hover shows the full URL of images in the post. And also replaces invisible text with "invisible", which kind of gives it away...

GLPics issue: i've been having this previously, but it went away without me doing anything. When i try to upload files to my GLPics account, the file shows up, only it is "0.00 B" in size.

[CrystyB]

Annoyingly, GLPics refuses to upload a file for me. It stops either immediately (producing the 0.00 file i mentioned above), or after 32.0 KB. I've just given up on "trying again", and would like to know how (if) i can FTP into my account...

What i cannot understand is what's wrong. I have uploaded larger files (700 - 800 KB), and anyway, the first time i tried this particular file it got to 152 / 234 KB. What can i do in this situation?!?

[Neo]

How much space are you using?
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[CrystyB]

No, space is not the issue. I use only 5.26 MB, so i still have 4.73 MB available... The idea is that for some strange reason the connection between my 'puter and the glpics server is consistently cut in the middle of that upload. (And before you ask, I don't use a firewall...)

[Samadhi]

It's been doing that off and on for months, if not almost a year. I think it's related to the actual space allocated on the server instead of the hypothetical space available on your account.

[CrystyB]

Thanks. Done some thinking, and i think i found a way to link "through" it to some other sites that might host pics for me (at some time in the future)...

Consequently, i freed up some room and managed to upload.

[CB]

The Search function has a glitch. Not that i was expecting it to be flawless...

When i search the VG forum for "Chess4", i get four results (two signups and two games, one of either of those actually being called "Chess^4". I think it's very nice to have the caret ignored. ). BUT when i search for "Chess", i get 45 hits, and none of those is the 5641 thread ("Chess4 - The Game [DETH WINS!!!!!!]"). Any idea why?

[mith]

You need to do "Chess*". Otherwise it only matches whole words (after ignoring ^, apparently, I didn't know that ).

[CB]

Ah, i see... Thanks for the tip. So does this mean i can now post a "small request" for the text on the search page to be slightly changed, such that the last statement ("Use * as a wildcard for partial matches") become "Use * as a wildcard for partial matches, since the search will otherwise only find whole words"?

[Antrax]

I think it's implied that people know English and would make the leap from "there exists a special option for partial matches" to "if I don't use it, I won't get partial matches".
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[CrystyB]

Wow, this is still on the first page?!?

The two links at the start of http://www.greylabyrinth.com/puzzles/puzzle.php?puzzle_id=194 are missing the "/puzzles/" part of their URL.
While i'm at these, the link at http://www.greylabyrinth.com/puzzles/puzzle.php?puzzle_id=puzzle101 is the "old-style" http://www.greylabyrinth.com/puzzle049.htm, and the link from its solution is a weird http://greylab/puzzle049.htm...

[Jack_Ian]

[url=http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Garland,%20Judy/Garland,%20Judy%20(Wizard%20of%20Oz,%20The)_02.jpg]Dorothy[/url] does not work.

Presumably because of the brackets, since Dorothy does create a link (albeit a false one).

Fortunately using %28 and %29 as replacements (i.e. Dorothy) is a workaround, but it's still a bug in URL parsing for links.

[CrystyB]

Bump! + When will we be able to search for a thread title (only the title!) again?

[Samadhi]

Soon. Sooooooon. *waves hand* Soooooooooon.

So, how you been?
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[CrystyB]

Hi Sam. I'm lucky enough for the moment to be able to (amongst other things) get a little bit more involved with the GL. Thanks for asking.

By the way, i was just curious, it was not a demanding request.

[MatthewV]

We already had our feature implanted for 2006. You must wait for 2007 to come around.

[Jack_Ian]

It is not possible to search by author if the username is fewer than 3 characters.

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